AUS dem bleed

Deck Name: AUS dem bleed
Author: Brandon Haas
Description: Full throttle stealth bleed deck. Has the ability of dementation decks to bleed anywhere, plus you can mess with their game with scrying of secrets and patterns in the choas..


Crypt (14 cards; Capacity min=1 max=7 avg=4.64)
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4x Anarch Convert 1 Caitiff:ANY
1x Colonel, The 5 cel dem obf AUS !Malkavian:3
1x Dolphin Black 6 AUS DEM OBF !Malkavian:2
1x General Perfidio Díos 5 dem obf AUS !Malkavian:3
1x Idalia, Prophet of Guadalajara 4 dem AUS !Malkavian:2
1x Kite 7 obf pre AUS DEM !Malkavian:2
1x Korah 7 ani AUS DEM OBF !Malkavian:2
1x Philip van Vermeer IV 7 dom pro AUS DEM OBF Malkavian:2
1x Quentin King III ADV 7 cel pre AUS DEM OBF Malkavian:3
1x Quentin King III 7 obf pre AUS DEM Malkavian:3
1x Tony 6 dom obf AUS DEM Malkavian:3

Library (75 cards)
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Master (13)
2x Agent of Power
4x Anarch Revolt
1x Anarch Troublemaker
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
2x Vessel
2x Wash

Event (1)
1x Scourge of the Enochians

Action (22)
2x Dive into Madness
20x Kindred Spirits

Action Modifier (29)
2x Cloak the Gathering
6x Confusion
1x Elder Impersonation
7x Eyes of Chaos
2x Faceless Night
2x Lost in Crowds
2x Memory Rift
4x Mind Tricks
1x Patterns in the Chaos
2x Scrying of Secrets

Reaction (4)
4x Telepathic Misdirection

Combo (6)
2x Deny
1x Random Patterns
2x Swallowed by the Night
1x Touch of Clarity

Created with Secret Library v0.9.4d. (Jul 3, 2016 12:01:43)

So, I'm intrigued by three things:

1) Is the AUS that important to you? It seems like you could make the crypt slightly smaller, by going for some aus/dem/obf 4 caps, for example. I get Telepathic Misdirection, obviously - but since you don't have any wakes, you have to leave someone untapped. Random Patterns doesn't seem to be doing much for you, given you're deploying a lot of Obfuscate.

brandonsantacruz wrote:

4x Anarch Convert 1 Caitiff:ANY
4x Anarch Revolt
2x Memory Rift

2) How is this package working out for you? It looks interesting, although I fear that:
a) Anarch Revolt isn't doing as much for you as much as other master cards might be, given you can't really defend it in any meaningful way
b) Anarch Convert may be slowing you down slightly, if you're planning to go "Full throttle", in that you might be getting a vampire out a turn later than you could otherwise, by blocking your uncontrolled region (albeit temporarily).

Is this something specific to your metagame? Some thematic fluff you like?

brandonsantacruz wrote:

2x Agent of Power

What's the hope here? To get an extra level of DEM for a slight bleed boost? (It won't let you play Telepathic Misdirection, because it burns during your discard phase.)

The basic idea was to bleed using scrying the secrets and patterns in the chaos. Not a really strong deck, mainly streamlined to bleed and occasionally bounce. Random patterns could go, sure.

I just feel like you could make this deck a lot better if you just ditched the auspex and anarch stuff completely and go for dem/obf which would allow you to use much cheaper vampires, thus probably saving more pool than those couple bounces will. Or if you are going to keep the current crypt, then shrink down on the number of actions as I can see your hand clogging with actions at the current ratios and how big your crypt is.