That Wizard Bit Me!

Prior to the deck, as requested...

1.How do you intend to oust?
Bleeds for one-two, surprising levels of combat from an Ally.

2.How do you intend to keep from being ousted?
Deflection, Unmasking.

3.What do you want your ready region to look like (ie, how many guys are you planning on getting out)?
Usually Antonio, one helper, as many Nephandus as possible. They survive a lot, lot better than in the non-Leech version, so you don't need as many.

4.What do you want your average turn to look like?
Varies a lot. You tend to keep to yourself until you hit critical mass of 3+ Nephandus, then you start pushing.

5.What's your metagame like? How do your opponents play?
We don't have much cross table interaction, but we do have a lot of Tier 1 decks appearing. On any given table, at least one deck will be ANI horribleness, and one will be KS Sleeze. I've stopped playing this deck primarily because everyone knows esactly what's in it now, and some slight meta'ing against it has occured, which coloured any game review I could do.

6.What problems have you observed with the deck in play?
It really, really doesn't like Torn Signpost, or Carrion Crows.

Deck Name: That Wizard Bit Me!
Author: Dave Knowles // Shockwave @ #vtes
Description: Leech your Predator, Bleed your Prey. Make it clear being Leeched is preferable to a round of combat with a Nephandus. Anything but dedicated combat, don't be scared to Leech them, they won't block it after they lose a minion to it instead.

Crypt (Capacity min=3 max=5 avg=4.42; 12 cards)
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5x Antonio d'Erlette 5 dom for pot THA !Tremere:4
2x Earl 4 dom for pot Ventrue:3
2x Esoara 5 aus for pot DOM !Tremere:4
1x Katherine Stoddard 4 dom for !Ventrue:3
1x Keith Moody 3 DOM !Tremere:4
1x Ulrike Rothbart 3 dom for !Ventrue:4

Library (82 cards)
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Master (13 cards)
3x Blood Doll
1x Channel 10
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
2x Fame
1x Information Highway
1x Major Boon
1x Powerbase: Barranquilla
1x University Hunting Ground
1x Wall Street Night, Financial Newspaper

Event (4 cards)
1x Slow Withering, The
2x Unmasking, The
1x Veil of Darkness

Action (17 cards)
2x Bum's Rush
4x Computer Hacking
2x Harass
9x Leech

Ally (9 cards)
1x Carlton Van Wyk (Hunter)
1x Gregory Winter
6x Nephandus (Mage)
1x Ossian

Action Modifier (6 cards)
3x Conditioning
3x Empowering the Puppet King

Reaction (12 cards)
8x Deflection
4x On the Qui Vive

Combat (21 cards)
3x Armor of Vitality
4x Disarm
5x Glancing Blow
6x Target Vitals
3x Trap

That deck looks good and fun to play.

As you play Traps you could add one or two Molotov Cocktails to finish one vamp off. Or go the other path of playing two or three Graverobbing to take advantage of the Disarms.

I tried Molotov's, but found myself wishing they were Disarm. One, I can use them potentially in Round 1, two, they're often more useful to the Vampires themselves as well.

Graverobbing keeps making it in & out of the deck on a frighteningly regular basis. The main issue is that the Vampires don't tend to succeed at actions, and with the Nephandus having a built in burn ability anyway, it's not usually a problem.

Shockwave wrote:

Graverobbing keeps making it in & out of the deck on a frighteningly regular basis. The main issue is that the Vampires don't tend to succeed at actions, and with the Nephandus having a built in burn ability anyway, it's not usually a problem.

I thought especially because of the Nephandus' special Graverobbing is strong. First you tap blocking minions with the Neph's action just to rob the target while all are tapped. Am I too optimistic?

I would have taken that approach and gone after the torpor vampire with a Nephandus or two (particularly if Nephandus put them into torpor) and if you put the vampire there with a Nephandus... I get the feeling they will let you Graverob...

Or of course you go for option B: you can let me graverob them, or I'll kill (insert vampire/minion here).