bginner's deck: Giovanni Shamblers

The deck is one of several I am building to offer beginners -- people who have at least seen a demo but are still fairly new to the game.

CRYPT (12)

1x Don Michael Antonio Giovanni
2x Gualtiero Giovanni
3x Rafaela Giovanni
1x Primo Giovanni
2x Thomasso Ghiberti
2x Lia Milliner
1x Cristobal Ghiberti


LIBRARY (72)

Master (14)
4x The Path of Bone
3x Life in the City (trifle)
2x Fame
1x The Barrens
1x Dis Pater
1x Giant's Blood
1x Powerbase: Cape Verde
1x Swiss Cut

Ally (16)
11x Shambling Hordes
3x Procurer
1x Gregory Winter
1x Tye Cooper

Action (5)
5x Scouting Mission

Action Modifier (9)
5x Bonding
4x Call of the Hungry Dead

Action Modifier / Reaction (5)
5x Spectral Divination

Reaction (7)
4x Wake with Evening's Freshness
3x Deflection

Combat (16)
4x Fake Out
4x Trap
2x Dead Hand
2x Dead-End Alley
2x Pulled Fangs
1x Glancing Blow
1x Target Hand

I would make a few minor changes:
-2 dead hand
-2 Dead-end Alley
-1 target hand

+2 Lucky Blow
+2 Boxed-in
+1 Redirection

You want your zombies to be able to fight and your Giovanni to have the choice to fight or back out. Aside from that, there are some rares you may or may not want to put into a beginner deck. I guess that depends on how many copies you have to spare.

Edit: Graverobbing would be a good addition.

I'd add at least a couple of seductions... common card and great sinergy with call of the hungry dead... other than that seems fine

and change all scouting missions to governs

I'd recommend Acquired Ventrue Assets in addition or in exchange for some of your masters. If you've got Sudario Refractions use them, they can be very useful and you can play with fewer bleed cards. I'd probably take out a few combat cards as well.

Molloy wrote:

The deck is one of several I am building to offer beginners -- people who have at least seen a demo but are still fairly new to the game.

To give away, or to lend out?