Lady in Black is Dancing with Me

Beasts from the East! I wanted to use g4 TZI and make something a bit different compared to the all-popular-TZI-g2-war-ghoul-deck.

I thought of adding Cyscek here as well but later decided to tweak down the crypt size average. Get ghouls on both attack and defence and execute rushes with stealth. Combat section could be S:CEs or left totally off. I still like the fact that Lady has inherit press when playing those crows...

Reaction section with five bounces is there to ensure the deck is not the bleed sink.

Please let me know what u think! Is there too much fluf-cards? Anything i could use?

I have another TZI bleed-rush deck with Deep Song + Changeling coming...


Here you have it! Lady in Black

Crypt:

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4 x Lady Zara Slatikov 8 VIC OBF AUS ANI
2 x Laika 7 AUS ANI vic obf chi
Duality 6 VIC AUS ani
2 x Ana Rita Montana 5 VIC obf dom aus
Guedado 4 vic obf aus
Ilias cel Frumos 3 vic aus
Droescher One-eye 3 vic ani


Library: 81

Master (15, 2 trifle)
2 x Grooming the protege
2 x Dreams of the sphinx
3 x Jake washington
Library hunting ground
Wider view
Mob connections
Fame
Villein
Blood doll
Vessel
Charisma

Action mods (20)
8 x Changeling
2 x Plasmic form
3 x Veil the legions
4 x Cloak the gathering
Forgotten labyrinth
Lost in crowds
Faceless night

Action (1)
Abbot

Ally (14)
5 x Asanbonsam ghoul
5 x War ghoul
3 x Underbridge stray
Vagabond mystic

Retainer (2)
Corpse balloon
Mr. winthrop

Equipment (4)
2 x Living manse
Ivory bow
Super bowl

Combat: (11)
3 x Chiropteran marauder
3 x Carrion crows
5 x Trap

Reaction (12)
4 x Eyes of argus
4 x Telepathic misdirection
2 x OTQV
My enemy's enemy
Enchanced senses

Event (2)
The unmasking
Dragonbound

This all seems very toolboxy. If you are going to use obfuscate with your Tzim, I'd do more of it and make it more stealth bleedy with a solid defensive combat package. Big vampires and War Ghouls makes for an often fragile deck, especially if one gets stolen.

Edit: I don't know if you've heard of the Aim and Chain style stealth bleed deck, but it involves having intercept locations to allow your grand prey to block your bounced bleeds (do I have that right?). Use Meld with the Land at inferior to untap your grand prey and it works even better!

Good points, Brandon. There is a toolboxy twist here but i was hoping to keep my ghouls from being stolen. For that i have intercept + untapped war ghoul can expend herself by burning a location.

I browsed all the g4 TZIs and this is the best combination i got atm. The deck could definitely use some more superior obfuscate but i hope to get Lady Zara almost always in play.

Aim & Chain sounds fun and i firstly considered playing S:CEs in this deck. Unfortunantly, it still leaves acting minion tapped.

brandonsantacruz wrote:

Edit: I don't know if you've heard of the Aim and Chain style stealth bleed deck,

I think that this must be a local colloquialism, as the only Aim and Chain I've ever seen discussed is Anka's deck , which has no stealth and no intercept locations.

I think you instead mean "short-leash bleed", discussed and popularized by Ben Peal since 2004.

Adonai wrote:

brandonsantacruz wrote:

Edit: I don't know if you've heard of the Aim and Chain style stealth bleed deck,

I think that this must be a local colloquialism, as the only Aim and Chain I've ever seen discussed is Anka's deck , which has no stealth and no intercept locations.

I think you instead mean "short-leash bleed", discussed and popularized by Ben Peal since 2004.

That makes more sense, I think you are right. I've never seen it played, but this seems like a good clan to do it with.

Edit: It looks like Ben was playing it back in '99, if not before:

www.thelasombra.com/decks/twd.htm#dragoncon99