Tzimisce Vote/Attrition

Deck Name: Tzimisce Vote/Attrition
Author: Brandon Haas
Description:


Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=5 max=10 avg=8.92)
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4x John Paleologus 9 pot ANI AUS CEL VIC Tzimisce:3
1x Radu Bistri 8 ani pre vic AUS DOM Tzimisce:4
1x Szechenyi Jolán, Mother of Horrors 9 cel for pro ANI AUS VIC Tzimisce:3
4x Terrifisto 10 cel obt ANI AUS FOR VIC Tzimisce:4
1x Velya, The Flayer 9 for ANI AUS PRE VIC Tzimisce:3
1x Yuri Kerezenski 5 aus for vic ANI Tzimisce:4

Library (90 cards)
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Master (19)
1x Black Forest Base
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Fear of Mekhet
1x Giant's Blood
1x Golconda: Inner Peace
1x Information Highway
2x Papillon
1x Perfectionist
1x Powerbase: Madrid
1x Rumor Mill, Tabloid Newspaper, The
2x Vampiric Disease
5x Villein
1x Wider View

Action (5)
1x Abbot
2x Dark Mirror of the Mind
1x Eternal Vigilance
1x Inquisition

Political Action (11)
1x Ancient Influence
2x Banishment
1x Conservative Agitation
4x Deploy the Hand
2x Kine Resources Contested
1x Political Stranglehold

Ally (1)
1x Mylan Horseed (Goblin)

Action Modifier (14)
6x Changeling
2x Crocodile's Tongue
4x Freak Drive
2x Telepathic Vote Counting

Reaction (18)
3x Cats' Guidance
2x Eagle's Sight
1x Enhanced Senses
5x Eyes of Argus
1x Guard Dogs
2x On the Qui Vive
2x Precognition
1x Quicken Sight
1x Spirit's Touch

Combat (18)
2x Armor of Vitality
4x Breath of the Dragon
4x Carrion Crows
8x Chiropteran Marauder

Combo (4)
4x Plasmic Form

Created with Secret Library v0.9.3. (Jan 3, 2012 21:30:04)

How do you intend to oust?
Not in a hurry. This deck will oust by grinding my opponents down and winning the end game with votes and small bleeds. Has potent combat to dunk weakened minions, possibly burn them. John is in there to ping away with his special ability.

How do you survive?
Bloat (Villein, Dark Mirror of the Mind, Black Forest Base, Political Stranglehold, Wider View, Ancient Influence, Dreams)

What do you want your ready region to look like?
Preferably Terrifisto and John, the others are sidekicks.

What would your average turn look like?
Bloat of some kind (master or vote) + some damaging effect (Vampiric Disease, Deploy the Hand, etc)

What problems have you observed with this deck?
I haven't played it, but from using the card drawing simulator it seems like card flow could be a problem. Heavy stealth or weenie bleeders would pose a problem since I am dedicated to blocking threatening actions.

Note: I think I may have found the cornercase scenerio where Inquisition is worth playing! I may not have a lot of votes, but I can strip some votes and cause damage at the same time.

No Sha-Ennu?

Compared to John or Terrifisto, I figure it would be worth it to spend an extra pool or two for an additional 2 votes (Archbishop has 2; Regent has 4) and +2 bleed. Alternatively, you can swap out Szechenyi Jolán for Sha-Ennu.

Probably because of Papillon, still i would go sha-enu and the g. hall.

Lech wrote:

Probably because of Papillon, still i would go sha-enu and the g. hall.

Yeah, I saw 2 copies of Papillon but just that. If it wasn't for Papillon, I'd be tempted to focus more on Velya than the Archbishops.

Truth be told, unless you really want to play with their specials, I think a slightly stronger deck would focus on Sha-Ennu and Velya, with John and Terrifisto as back-up instead. But it's also cool if you want to try using the Archbishops a bit more.

Sha-Enu is pretty strong, so I would at least take out the mother of horrors and put in one copy.

What I was trying for was the synergy of damage between Terrifisto, Deploy the Hand, Vampiric Disease, Fear of Mekhet (which is also useful in burning voters), Croc's Tongue and maybe Inquisition and Rumor Mill (lend intercept, oops that cost you a blood). Once you get Papillon into play, it can give blood to any titled vampire I control. This makes Papillon pretty good even if I reduced the number of archbishops slightly.

John is good as a way to do unpreventable non-bleed damage to my prey. With Papillon, he could be 1 damage/turn. I think that I had originally thought of including Antediluvian Awakening and Anarch Revolt to maximize on this sort of damage, but it didn't make the cut (and I forgot). I could see going down to 2-3x John, 0 Mother of Horrors and 2-3x Sha-Enu, something like that.

I can't believe I'm going to say this... If any deck could justify using one, Cardinal Sin: Insubordination.

It is worth it alone for hearing, 'What does that do?' each time it hits a table and seems to fit the deck theme of removing blood from the table, the odd times it can be played.