Reckless Gangrel Barons

Yo, Happy New Year!

How does it oust?
Reckless Agitation.

How does it survive?
Reckless Agitations.

Average turn?
Fee Stake, untap, Reckless Agitation. Stealth. S:CE. Restoration.

Why !Gangrel/Gangrel?
... because they are resilient in combat, have access to stealth, and can multiact to recoup blood loss from reckless agitation. The deck has no pool gain/bloat besides ousting. Villeins, dolls, etc don't look good here since all aforementioned cards come with a hefty cost attached.

Thoughts appreciated.

Crypt:
1 Beckett 7 FOR PRO cel
2 Danielle Diron 7 PRO for 1 vote
2 Mowgli 5 FOR PRO cel
1 Spider 6 PRO cel for
1 Antonino 6 FOR pro
2 Harry Reese 6 FOR PRO cel
1 Maria Stone 5 FOR cel pro
2 Anarch Convert 1

Total: 65 cards

Political Action (11 cards)
10 Reckless Agitation
1 Patsy

Action (20 cards)
8 Restoration
6 Go Anarch
1 Fee Stake: Corte
1 Fee Stake: Los Angeles
1 Fee Stake: Perth
3 Fee Stake: Seattle

Action Modifier (18 cards)
6 Freak Drive
6 Forced March
6 Earth Control

Combat (8 cards)
8 Form of Mist

Master (8 cards)
1 Anarch Railroad
1 Anarch Free Press, The
1 Giant's Blood
1 Hospital Food
2 Coven, The
1 Blood Turnip
1 Powerbase: Los Angeles

how do you oust when it's 1v1?

i've found anarch salon to be pretty good at refilling blood across your board. even a simple anarch convert can call it.

seems very risky to play this without any pool gain. 3 vampires will cost you on average 18 pool. the 18 blood on them is enough to call 9 reckless ags. but then only 3x conditioning kills you. every oust you get means your predator has to play 2 more dominate cards. i don't agree with this strategy, but it's your choice.

I think haze is correct. I know you said no blood dolls but I think the 1 or 2 pool you gain from having 1 or 2 in the deck could throw off the dominate bleed numbers haze is talking about. It might give you that one extra turn to oust your next prey and gain 6 pool. That's worth a MPA to me. Still it is quite risky.

For 1v1, maybe you could add 2 camera phone. Simply for something more than bleeds for 1.

Reckless Agitation x10 as your only ousting power in a deck that is going to try to rely on speed speed and speed. I think delaying tactics will not just slow you down, it will kill you.

I do think it is worth a try. I think I would add 2 blood doll and 2 camera phone. You probably don't need to take anything out for them. But if I did take out out cards, I would start with 1 restoration and 1 blood turnip. (blood Turnip: very fun and all with the whole anarch thing, but I think you have quite a bit of blood gain already.)

If you want to go full forward, you should prepare your deck to run like hell ...

First, I don't think that Danielle Diron suits your purpose: 7 pool for a vampire that cannot become a baron. Célèste, Dr. Allan and/or Janey could replace her.

As for the votes, one or two Delaying Tactics (or Dark Influence) would kill you, so you might want to change 3 Reckless Agitation into 4 or 5 KRC.

Plus, you need some kind of vote push. Loki's Gift would be my first choice, and maybe you change all of your Restorations into Loki's Gift (especially when you specialise to Gangrel antitribu, you could add 1 or 2 Hungry Coyote to benefit double from your blood-stealing and vote-gaining hunt). Even a City Gangrel Connection could be taken into consideration. 2 Cryptic Rider should be added, too.

I don't like Go Anarch. Anarch Convert, Twilight Camp and Seattle Committee save your actions for the needed ousts.
Of course, if possible, you should change 2 of your Fee Stake: Seattle into Fee Stake: New York and Fee Stake: Boston.

+2 Freak Drive, -2 Forced March. Maybe -2 Form of Mist, +2/+4 Earth Meld.

As for the masters: You need crypt acceleration, so e.g. +2 Info Highway, +2/+4 Dreams, +1/+2 Powerbase: Montreal.
Take out Blood Turnip and Anarch Free Press. You don't want to fight. Even Powerbase: Los Angeles might go.
2 Blood Dolls, as mentioned, should be in your deck.

And add bleed push: the mentioned Camera Phones, plus Tasha Morgan und J.S. Simmons, maybe even a Codex of the Edenic Groundkeepers (so +1/+2 Heidelberg Castle would be a nice catch).


Good luck! And, please, tell us about your experiences with your deck! B-)

Great suggestions. I think the concept is worth a try but I also think it has a better chance with the cards suggested, especially the dolls, and acceleration (cause speed kills). Hungry Coyote wouldn't work on anarchs though. About converts, they're OK but they do slow the deck down considerably. I like Go Anarch because it is essentially a free action and doubles as untap with PB: LA. Don't get me wrong, convert is prolly among the most reliable and common ways of going anarch but I still enjoy mixing it up from time to time.

About Dorion, she has 1 vote out of the box and gains blood on empty. She'll live without the baron title. I'll mix the votes up though and will add a couple of bleed boosters while I'm at it.

Want at least one Vessel for Danielle.

I'm amazed that Loki's Gift wasn't the first card to go in.

Reckless Agitation is not a defense. You may keep your predator from bringing out an additional minion if you hit early enough and hard enough. On the other hand, I'd just be inclined to transfer normally and give you the choice of having an even worse predator.

Free States Rant is a defense and a way to table control in general.

Given that getting into combat gives you nothing, except a way to cycle Form of Mist, lose Blood Turnip.

Put in all of the standard antivote plays - Fear of Mekhet, New Management. Might as well go with the vote lock module of The Parthenon and Powerbase: Rome. Barring playing in an unusual metagame, need at least one Archon Investigation (also an antivote play, when ICMs get frisky).

I'd run Perfectionist before Restoration, especially when Loki's Gift competes with Restoration.