Don't Touch My Pool or Block Shalmath!

Deck Name: Don't Touch My Pool or Block Shalmath!
Author: Anton Dudko
Description:
Some experiment with Shalmath.
One - two untaps during your turn for setup, or bleed, or some deprive blood actions. Untap during other's turn for blocking or making a Touch of Pain.

Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=4 max=10 avg=8.67)
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1x Abdelsobek 5 for nec obf pre ser Follower of Set:5
1x Annazir 9 DAI OBF POT PRE Baali:5
3x Dmitra Ilyanova 9 obf CEL FOR POT PRE Brujah:5
1x Keller Thiel 4 aus dem Malkavian:5
5x Shalmath 10 POT PRE TEM True Brujah:6
1x Shemti 9 vic OBF POT PRE SER Follower of Set:5

Library (85 cards)
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Master (19)
1x Carver's Meat Packing and Storage
1x Fortschritt Library
1x Giant's Blood
1x Information Highway
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Perfectionist
1x Retribution
1x Tabriz Assembly
5x Villein
2x Wash
1x Wider View
3x Zillah's Valley

Event (4)
1x Fueled by Heart's Blood
1x Hunger Moon
1x Rise of the Nephtali
1x Thirst

Action (8)
1x Aranthebes, The Immortal
1x Clotho's Gift
1x Frozen Object
2x Horseshoes
2x Kiss of Lachesis
1x Preternatural Strength

Political Action (10)
2x Banishment
7x Free States Rant
1x Reckless Agitation

Equipment (4)
1x AK-47
1x Aaron's Feeding Razor
1x Ivory Bow
1x Sport Bike

Ally (2)
1x Mylan Horseed (Goblin)
1x Neighborhood Watch Commander (Hunter)

Retainer (1)
1x Mr. Winthrop

Action Modifier (26)
1x Awe
3x Bewitching Oration
10x Domain of Evernight
1x Enkil Cog
6x Iron Glare
1x Tangle Atropos' Hand
4x Voter Captivation

Reaction (3)
3x Touch of Pain

Combat (8)
8x Outside the Hourglass

Created with Secret Library v0.9.3. (Nov 30, 2011 09:12:50)


The deck really green. There are also a lot of tricks for surprising your rivals.
It is rather slow and not aggressive. But I think it's an advantage and weakness at a same time. Anyway, maybe you like an idea and you would like to participate in some discussion.

I'm guessing Summon Histories are not an option? Because if they were you could play Ankara Citadel, 4x Lost In Translation and 4x Rewind Time for some survivability.

Did I understood right?
You offer me to put some mega-ultra-rare cards to my deck (waste slots), then during a game I should hope that SH will appear after Ankara Citadel will be in my ash heap, then succeed this action under 1 stealth only for potential economy of 8 bloods (4 LiT, 4 RT - waste slots again)?

In this deck defense is blood damage.
But there may be some slots for pair Lost in Translation and Rewind Time.

Hi Anton,

these are my suggestions:
Since you have quite many master cards and will multi-act, you will probably have more than one master on hand during your master phase. So I would make the deck 90 cards.

What I would remove is:
1x Carver's Meat Packing and Storage (unless you encounter many weenie decks)
1x Fortschritt Library - will slim down events
1x Fueled by Heart's Blood - not really necessary to eat vampires
1x Thirst
1x Aaron's Feeding Razor - too slow, easier to refill w Dmitra or voter cap
1x Kiss of Lachesis - switch for Entrancement

Addding these:
1x Wider View - really need your key vamps
1x Clothos Gift - you can also use the inferiour
1x Alastor - could definatly be worth it
1x AK-47
1x Entrancement
1x Bewitching Oration
2x Voter Captivation
1x Enkil Cog
2x Development - Shalmath can give you the card you need

Cheers
Robert

Thanx Robert.
It's strange that you took out 2 Gehenna cards but kept Rise of Nephtali.
The mechanic based on Developments with Shalmath demands more than two Developments for stabilization of getting those cards. 2 Developments means that your two action cards would be in out of play region for a long long time, and they may be very important cards you need.
Everything else are worth of thinking )

I have some questions. Maybe I does not understand the deck at all.

* Why AK-47 and not Assault Rifle ? To hose some prevention cards ?
* No way to enter combat at all while you have plenty combat permanent ? Isn't it a little risky to invest 5 pool in a weapon and discovering that your opponent stop blocking ?
* What do you do if your prey play 12+ redirections ?
* 5 library cards and two vampires to punish your predator ? It does not seem too vindicative, especially without intercept. What do you do to avoid Appius Claudius Corvus for example from bleeding you dry ?