Baba Yaga Wall

Hey I would like to build a Baba Yaga Wall deck but I'm having trouble with deck space.

Baba Yaga 11cap ANI AUS FOR OBF POT THAU
Once each turn: untaps on recruit/employ
once each round: burn a blood for Aggr hand strikes
+1 strength
+1 bleed

Strategy:
Use Zillah's Valley turn 1 or 2 so you get Baba Yaga out in the field before a dementation/presence/dominate weenie bleeder get's too much damage in. Depending on how much damage those first round did bring out the 8 cap.

On a 5 player table block everything from your prey, grandprey and predator. Make a deal with your crosstable to attack your predator.

In combat use Bats and Crows to strike from long on the first round and press for a second round in which you hit for 2 aggravated + crows.

Get free untaps after intercept combat with pack alpha.
Block, employ ret, maneuver to long, strike and press.
Prevent ranged Aggr with RWTP/Undead Pers.

Start bleeding when your predator and prey are torpored so there is no blood left to burn and Smiling Jack will Kill.
Make shure the kills are in the correct order.

Issues:
Strategy depends on smiling Jack, but only 1 in deck.
Majesty (NSA trio, but only one, maybe 3?)
If I don't get crypt acceleration in time I will be open for 2 turns and have 8 dead draws in my deck.
Not enough wakes (Cramped deck space)
Cramped deck because of 2 card combos: Pack Alpha + retainer and Bats + Crows
Is Raptor too costly to be beneficial? Is the discard random?
Pool Gain?
Also,
Storyline Rewards 2015
Official release: February 21, 2015
Legal for Tournament Play: March 23, 2015
Does this mean I can play Baba Yaga at any tournament?

Crypt (Capacity min=1 max=8 avg=5.42; 12 cards)
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1x New Blood
5x Baba Yaga 11 ANI AUS FOR OBF POT THAU Nosferatu:5
1x Darlene Killian 2 ani spi Ahrimane:5
1x Malcolm 2 ani Gangrel:5
3x Mordechai Ben-Nun 8 ANI AUS FOR NEC Harbinger of Skulls:5
1x Walker Grimes 1 ani Caitiff:5

Library (90 cards)
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Master (23 cards)
1x Barrens, The
1x Elder Library
1x Failsafe
2x Guardian Angel
1x Powerbase: Montreal
1x Rack, The
1x Smiling Jack, The Anarch
2x Vessel
4x Wash
1x Wider View
8x Zillah's Valley

Event (1 cards)
1x NSA Trio

Action (7 cards)
1x Army of Rats
3x Deep Song
1x Muricia's Call
2x Tier of Souls

Retainer (8 cards)
1x Murder of Crows
4x Raptor
3x Raven Spy

Reaction (14 cards)
2x Cats' Guidance
6x Eagle's Sight
6x Sense the Savage Way

Combat (37 cards)
9x Aid from Bats
3x Canine Horde
7x Carrion Crows
8x Pack Alpha
3x Rolling with the Punches
4x Taste of Vitae
3x Undead Persistence

Imho too many masters and too many combat. If you want reliability, drop to 75 cards. With Pack Alpha you can build up your combat capacity easily, saving slots taken by transient combat. Also, 1-2 Owls are needed to save your transient combat cards against S:CE.

I would drop acceleration in favor of blocking. You should be able to stop your predator as soon as you show up. Your acceleration cards become dead mid-to-late game, while reliable flow of intercept/wakes is always useful.

Generally agree with kombainas.
I would drop all zillah's valley, put some auspex weenies in the crypt and more auspex cards (where are telepathic misdirection/ my enemy's enemy?).
Also you need at least one pentex subversion in a deck like this.
Raptors are generally not so good if not played in a big number of copies. Better to switch them all to raven spies. And discard from raptor is not random.
I would drop Muricia's Call and Tier of souls.
Why Undead Persistence? Better more rollings with the punches.
Enkil Cog would be great in here.

kombainas wrote:

Imho too many masters and too many combat. If you want reliability, drop to 75 cards. With Pack Alpha you can build up your combat capacity easily, saving slots taken by transient combat. Also, 1-2 Owls are needed to save your transient combat cards against S:CE.

Done, I dropped to 77, changed transient combat for permanent combat (Bats => zip gun + hawg, carrion => murder) I considered sniper but I don't feel comfortable with the 2 pool cost.
I have 4 actions left: Equip Hawg, Muricia employ intercept, Army of Rats and a regular Employ. All other actions Baba takes will be hunts/bleeds.

alek wrote:

Generally agree with kombainas.
I would drop all zillah's valley, put some auspex weenies in the crypt and more auspex cards (where are telepathic misdirection/ my enemy's enemy?).

I will attempt a deal with my grandpredator. There is no bounce because the goal is to bleed all vampires dry owned by: Pred, prey, grandprey. Then play Smiling Jack and let them all take accumulating pool damage.

alek wrote:

Also you need at least one pentex subversion in a deck like this.

Done, but I'm not shure if my deck can handle the cost and contestation upkeep.

alek wrote:

I would drop Muricia's Call and Tier of souls.
Why Undead Persistence? Better more rollings with the punches.
Enkil Cog would be great in here.

Done, but I will stick with one murcia's call because it's a search and allows me to get what I need at that point in the game (combat or intercept).

What do you think about adding metro underground to this deck?

New decklist
Crypt (Capacity min=1 max=11 12 cards)
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1x New Blood
1x Andre LeRoux 3 aus Toreador:5
5x Baba Yaga 11 ANI AUS FOR OBF POT THAU Nosferatu:5
1x Darlene Killian 2 ani spi Ahrimane:5
1x Gwen Brand 3 aus chi Ravnos:5
1x Malcolm 2 ani Gangrel:5
1x Veejay Vinod 3 AUS Nagaraja:6
1x Walker Grimes 1 ani Caitiff:5

Library (77 cards)
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Master (14 cards) (7 trifle)
1x Failsafe
2x Guardian Angel
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Powerbase: Montreal
1x Rack, The
2x Smiling Jack, The Anarch
2x Vessel
4x Wash

Event (2 cards)
2x NSA Trio

Action (2 cards)
1x Army of Rats
1x Muricia's Call

Equipment (2 cards)
2x Hawg

Retainer (12 cards)
5x Murder of Crows
2x Owl Companion
5x Raven Spy

Action Modifier (1 cards)
1x Enkil Cog

Reaction (18 cards)
2x Cats' Guidance
6x Eagle's Sight
2x Eyes of Argus
2x Read the Winds
6x Sense the Savage Way

Combat (26 cards)
3x Canine Horde
10x Pack Alpha
6x Rolling with the Punches
5x Taste of Vitae
2x Zip Gun

Library (79 cards)
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Master (16 cards)
1x Elder Library
1x Failsafe
1x Fragment of the Book of Nod
2x Guardian Angel
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Powerbase: Montreal
1x Rack, The
2x Smiling Jack, The Anarch
2x Vessel
4x Wash

Event (2 cards)
2x NSA Trio

Action (2 cards)
1x Army of Rats
1x Muricia's Call

Equipment (2 cards)
2x Hawg

Retainer (14 cards)
5x Murder of Crows
2x Owl Companion
7x Raven Spy

Action Modifier (1 cards)
1x Enkil Cog

Reaction (18 cards)
2x Cats' Guidance
5x Eagle's Sight
3x Eyes of Argus
2x Read the Winds
6x Sense the Savage Way

Combat (24 cards)
2x Canine Horde
10x Pack Alpha
6x Rolling with the Punches
4x Taste of Vitae
2x Thrown Sewer Lid

New library:
Added fragment and eldar library because I felt the deck got stuck on occasion.
More Raven spy, having intercept is crucial.
New found knowledge about guns and maneuvers made me substitute zip gun for thrown sewer lid.