Assamite Preconstructed Starter Doubled

Challenge:
Combine and reduce 2 Lords of the Night Assamite starter decks into the best single deck available.

See also: www.thelasombra.com/dbc/dbc.htm
Please explain why/how you make your decisions....

ARDB starter file attached.



Deck Name : Assamite Preconstructed Starter Doubled
Author : L. Scott Johnson
Description :

Crypt [24 vampires] Capacity min: 3 max: 10 average: 6.5

4x	Dmitri Borodin	(10)			Assamite	(g4)
4x	Thucimia	(10)		1 vote	Assamite	(g4)
4x	Kashan	(7)		1 vote	Assamite	(g4)
4x	Layla bint-Nadr	(5)			Assamite	(g4)
4x	Bertrand d'Anjou	(4)			Assamite	(g4)
4x	Evan Rogers	(3)			Assamite	(g4)

Library [154 cards]

Action [30]
8x Clandestine Contract
4x Flurry of Action
2x Haqim's Law: Leadership
2x Khabar: Glory
6x Loss
2x Songs of the Distant Vitae
2x Truth of Blood
4x Web of Knives Recruit

Action Modifier [6]
4x Deed the Heart's Desire
2x Mask of a Thousand Faces

Action Modifier/Combat [10]
4x Resist Earth's Grasp
6x Swallowed by the Night

Action Modifier/Reaction [8]
6x Blood Awakening
2x Provision of the Silsila

Combat [50]
2x Baal's Bloody Talons
6x Gemini's Mirror
4x Khabar: Honor, The
8x Pursuit
8x Scorpion's Touch
8x Selective Silence
2x Shadow Feint
6x Taste of Death
6x Weighted Walking Stick

Equipment [4]
4x Garrote

Event [2]
2x Dragonbound

Master [20]
2x Frontal Assault
2x Haqim's Law: Judgment
2x Market Square
4x Path of Blood, The
2x Quietus
2x Tajdid
2x Underworld Hunting Ground
4x Vessel

Political Action [2]
2x Free States Rant

Reaction [22]
6x Black Sunrise
4x Foul Blood
2x Lost in Translation
4x Nest of Eagles
6x Rooftop Shadow

Just bleed.

I cut out just about everything which didn't provide a bleed bonus. Bleed has hard as you can as often as you can and smack your opponent with sticks if they manage to block. 60 card library. 18 cards requiring Quietus cost blood so I kept all the Paths. Thucimia is the best vampire in the starter with bleed/cycle bonus. None of the three small caps have QUI so they get 1 copy each. Block only when necessary. Dual purpose cards (Swallowed by the Night, Resist Earth's Grasp and Blood Awakening are key. Flurry at inferior as often as you need to.

4x Thucimia
1x Dmitri Borodin
4x Kashan
1x Layla bint-Nadr
1x Bertrand d'Anjou
1x Evan Rogers

4x Path of Blood, The
2x Quietus
1x Market Square
1x Tajdid

6x Loss
4x Flurry of Action
2x Haqim's Law: Leadership
2x Khabar: Glory
2x Truth of Blood

4x Deed the Heart's Desire

6x Black Sunrise
4x Nest of Eagles
2x Foul Blood
2x Lost in Translation

4x Pursuit
4x Weighted Walking Stick

6x Blood Awakening
4x Resist Earth's Grasp
4x Swallowed by the Night

@ JEFF KUTA

I would do the same but add 10 reaction cards (The Black Sunrises and Nest of Eagles). Do I dilute the deck too much, or is it a meta or personal play style preference?

Almost all the reactions made the cut, including a couple Foul Blood for kicks. I don't use ARDB for deckbuilding. I also organize my decks by the most common order of cards being played during a turn, with the exception of non-minion card Events which I put right after Masters since I consider them the same when working out ratios.

I would probably ditch the foul bloods for 2 more pursuits, and tajdid, market square, and one path of blood for hunting ground and 2 vessels. Otherwise looks good though.

Jeff wrote:

Almost all the reactions made the cut, including a couple Foul Blood for kicks. I don't use ARDB for deckbuilding. I also organize my decks by the most common order of cards being played during a turn, with the exception of non-minion card Events which I put right after Masters since I consider them the same when working out ratios.

I can't believe I missed them in the deck list. I blame being up all night on medicinal steroids and two-year-old twin boys running about. I probably just have some bad special text (like -1 intercept when scanning web text).

Carry on!