Spoils of War - playable?

This deck did pretty well for me:

Deck Name: !Brujah Undue Influence
Author: Brandon Haas
Description: Bleed for 2+ at 2+ stealth and gain pool and blood? OK.


Crypt (13 cards; Capacity min=1 max=8 avg=3.85)
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5x Anarch Convert 1 Caitiff:ANY
1x Evangeline 4 cel pot pre !Brujah:2
1x Frederick the Weak 2 pre !Brujah:2
1x Hugo 4 pre vic POT !Brujah:2
3x Jacko 8 obt CEL POT PRE !Brujah:2
1x Julian Sanders 6 pot CEL PRE !Brujah:2
1x Rigby, Crusade Vanguard 5 aus pot CEL PRE !Brujah:2

Library (68 cards)
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Master (16)
1x Anarch Railroad
1x Anarch Troublemaker
1x Club Illusion
1x Direct Intervention
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Dummy Corporation
1x Gang Territory
1x Libertas
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Perfectionist
2x Twilight Camp
2x Villein
2x Wash

Event (1)
1x Narrow Minds

Action (19)
4x Esprit de Corps
15x Undue Influence

Equipment (1)
1x Heart of Nizchetus

Action Modifier (23)
4x Aire of Elation
1x Leverage
10x Power of One
8x Spoils of War

Combo (8)
8x Force of Personality

Created with Secret Library v0.9.4b. (Oct 31, 2013 05:52:05)

brandonsantacruz wrote:

This deck did pretty well for me:

Deck Name: !Brujah Undue Influence
Author: Brandon Haas
Description: Bleed for 2+ at 2+ stealth and gain pool and blood? OK.

I would switch one Jacko for one Gideon Fontaine (or some other small pre-dude, like diana vick, a minion with dominate might make your predator hesitant to bleed recklessly into you).
And yay! for leverage

looks very solid and is kind of deck that can make spoils of war actually good card. In such construction I would play more of them to make them really count.

VEKN design team's stated goal for this card is to bolster !Brujah bruise bleed decks. So far all we have seen is a bolster of sneak bleed with s:ce as the combat. Let's see some decks that really use this card to make !Brujah bruise bleed a viable combatty threat.

Weenie Rush/Dogs of War decks could easily get a bolster from it.
The card is meant to reward forward actions that are not blocked, which will help rush and bruise-bleed.

I suspect this card is meant to be a general help for the !Brujah, since they can't have any Prince-tech which is some of the most powerful tech in the game.

Spoils of War has an interesting non-restriction: A minion can play it many times per turn. Freak Drive + Spoils of War anyone?

For a smaller minion rush deck, which would be much more reliable, I would use Increased Strength + Thrown Gate + Spoils of War. S:CE? No problem, I still get blood and pool. You could do Haven Uncovered and/or Frontal Assault (double down on pool gain).

Spoils of War is totally playable.