Black Hand Assamites w/Retain the Quick Blood

Lech wrote:

You use 4 seraphs total and some burn option seraph tools, cool. But seraph's second isn't burn option and seraph and looks like the seraphs are influenced out second/third so it's very likely dead card on your hand. You can't count on prayer KM/WV to draw your seraphs, too.

Kaymakli Nightmares is potentially useful. As you say, early on, you can get a new crypt or hose others with large capacity vampires. Late game, you can keep using Reunion Kamut, pop Wider View, and recoup your blood with the KN. Mostly an experiment now.

Art of Memory is great card in right deck, this one lack stealth and play big minions with no ability to gain pool to influence out a lot of them (you use 2 maybe 3) so it's likely to be useless.

It's actually a pretty darn good card. I have had more in various incarnations of the deck. There are 8x stealth/block deny cards in the deck so the actions do get pushed through regularly enough for it to trigger. More often, people decline to block because they aren't interested in fighting against Assamites.

In combat, you aren't big threat.

Certainly not trump combat like but good enough to be respected.

Overall, why not euro brujah ?

This is an excellent question. Main reason: They're not Assamites. Secondary reason: Dominate is a crutch.

Retain the Quick Blood is not a bad card. When I draw it early enough, I can easily save 4-5 blood during a game. If a vampire spends blood and ends up in torpor, then they gain RtQB blood during untap and can be rescued.

The Tattoo Signals and Watchtower are very good with Seraph's Second being also useful. As you say, why bother with Guarded Rubrics if you can't use it first turn? Well, if I had one, it would be in here. But, I play with enough equipment as it is. Blood Tears is good, but it can be burned or stolen. RtQB can't. Yes, I have .44 Magnums, but those are just good. Abbots are also a nice free action that Sabbat has over EuroBrujah.

Perhaps I need to put more Disguised Weapons in there and get Ivory Bow and Kali's Fang into the mix. Nizzam's aggravated hand damage also differentiates this deck. There are lots of weenies. Blood Awakening is very good.

Looks good Jeff. Perhaps you can bring the deck home where it belongs.

Jeff wrote:

Blood Tears is good, but it can be burned or stolen. RtQB can't.

it is nearly impossible to burn/steal Blood Tears.