Giovanni teach the Chain of Command to !Venture

Deck Name: Giovanni teach the Chain of Command to !Venture
Created By: Johannes
Description: Played this at the german championships with a distinctive lack of success, but I think it has potential. There are some immediate changes I have in mind, see below.

Crypt: (14 cards, Min: 26, Max: 38, Avg: 8,07)

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2 Baldesar Rossellini aus for nec DOM POT8 Giovanni
2 Benedict Giovanni cel dom FOR nec POT6 Giovanni
1 Blackhorse Tanner AUS DOM FOR 7 Ventrue Antitribu
1 Edward Neally aus DOM FOR pre7 Ventrue Antitribu
4 Ignazio Giovanni obf DOM FOR NEC POT9 Giovanni
1 Joseph O`Grady aus cel DOM FOR7 Ventrue Antitribu
2 Lady Constancia AUS DOM FOR NEC POT10 Giovanni
1 Owain Evans cel pre AUS DOM FOR8 Ventrue Antitribu

Library: (90 cards)

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Master (19 cards)
1 Anarch Troublemaker
1 Dis Pater
5 Effective Management
1 Giant`s Blood
5 Liquidation
2 Redeem the Lost Soul /* pure gold. most of the time 4 pool gain */
2 Vessel /* not really useful, lose them */
2 Wider View

Action (26 cards)
5 Chain of Command
1 Chair of Hades /* mildly useful, maybe better another far mastery */
1 Far Mastery /* not used in this tournament, but of course need it */
9 Govern the Unaligned /* need more. at least 12. was constantly looking for one */
4 Possession /* maybe one less, doesn´t have stealth which is bad */
1 Restoration /* can be replaced by govern if more blood gain master */
5 Sudario Refraction /* maybe one less */

Action Modifier (34 cards)
2 Bonding
6 Call of the Hungry Dead
1 Conditioning
5 Daring the Dawn
4 Foreshadowing Destruction
11 Freak Drive
1 Kiss of Ra, The
4 Seduction

Reaction (6 cards)
4 Deflection
1 Delaying Tactics
1 On the Qui Vive

Combat (4 cards)
4 Spiritual Intervention /* Maybe less. Often clogging my hand, but against any sort of combat useful (were saving me in R3 against CEL gun)

Ally (1 cards)
1 Carlton Van Wyk (Hunter) /* very useful, even if only for contesting */

This deck was last saved at 09:59:49 on 14.12.2011

Of course the point of the deck is to Chain of Command for zero, bring out one guy, bleed for lots with daring the dawn which puts him to the ash heap. Then play possession or redeem the lost soul on him.

Looking at all the Auspex in the crypt Revelations might be worth it ..

Kushiel wrote:

Any particular reason you're using such big Giovanni? I know that CoC targets younger vampires, but since all the younger guys really need is DOM/for and there are plenty of those guys with capacity less than 8, it seems like it might be more efficient to stick to the two 8-cap Giovanni.

Which two 8 caps? I can see only Baldesar Rossellini and the stinker as inferior necromancy and fortitude so he cant even play possession and not freak after being blocked.

But on that note it might sense to drop the Freak Drive angle, go with much smaller Giovanni and just have more of them.