The Devil's Advocate(s)

This is an older deck concept of mine that I recently revisited and updated quite heavily, compressing it down from 90 cards to 75. Originally it was more fully a vote deck, but this version I tried to make more of a hybrid between bleed and vote since I can't really be sure I will be able to pass my votes anyway. Originally I had some villeins there also, but those usually just resulted in my guys running out of blood so I took them out, relying on tend the flocks, kaymakli fragment, and ousts mainly for pool gain. Kaymakli Nightmares can be used to get a huge amount of pool after building blood down with tend the flocks and fragment.

I have been pondering though if the deck would be better if I would shrink it down further, taking out the caps, mutes, and most of the votes, turning it to more straight forward stealth bleed, just leaving some votes in for tables where the built-in voting abilities of my vampires would be enough to get them through. But I suppose the condemnations work as vote defense also since they might let me to shut down a vote deck.


Crypt:
3x The Horde
3x Arishat
2x Xeper, Sultan of Lepers
4x Annazir

Library: 75

Master: 19 (6 trifle)
2x Information Highway
1x Kaymakli Nightmares
2x Ruins of Charizel
8x Tend the Flock
1x The Coven
3x Wash
2x Wider View

Action: 10
4x Condemnation: Mute
1x Contagion
5x Legal Manipulations

Action Modifier: 29
3x Elder Impersonation
5x Faceless Night
4x I Am Legion
4x Lost in Crowds
4x Sense the Sin
3x Spying Mission
3x Swallowed by the Night
3x True Love's Face

Ally: 1
1x Veneficti

Combat: 4
4x Majesty

Equipment: 1
1x Kaymakli Fragment

Event: 1
1x The Bitter and Sweet Story

Political Action: 10
7x Kine Resources Contested
3x Reckless Agitation

EDIT: after a bit of considering, took out the caps and replaced with 3x Wash and 1x The Bitter and Sweet Story (the latter which should have been there to begin with but I just forgot it).

Interesting deck! I've seen a couple of versions of this before. I made some changes that I thought might help.

Crypt:
3x The Horde
3x Arishat
2x Xeper, Sultan of Lepers
4x Annazir

Library: 80
*I brought the deck up to 80 to show you other options, you can bring it down to 75 easily enough by playing with the ratios.


Master: 19 (5 trifle)
2x Dream of the Sphinx
1x Pentex Subversion
1x Ruins of Charizel
1x Path of Evil Revelations*
8x Tend the Flock
1x Secure Haven
3x Wash
2x Wider View

* I would try this card, its free, can be played with no requirement (turn 1) I think you will find it remarkable how long its not burned from the table.

Action: 10
4x Condemnation: Mute
1x Contagion
5x Legal Manipulations
1x Unleash Hell's Fury*

* You said you don't own one, Aranthebes is good too.

Action Modifier: 29
3x Elder Impersonation
5x Faceless Night
4x I Am Legion
4x Lost in Crowds
4x Sense the Sin
3x Spying Mission
3x Swallowed by the Night
3x True Love's Face
2x Psychomachia*
2x Perfect Paragon*

*Two other type of stealth cards with multi use.


Ally: 1
1x Veneficti

Combat: 4
4x Majesty

Equipment: 1
1x Kaymakli Fragment

Event: 1
1x The Bitter and Sweet Story*

*Uncoiling would be better I think.

Political Action: 12
5x Kine Resources Contested
3x Reckless Agitation
2x Kin Against My World*

( You have a lot of different types of actions, this might work.)

I like the deck. Seems aggressive enough. My concerns are more about defense.

I would put 1x Archon Investigation in this deck because once players figure out you're neither bleeding nor bouncing, that could cause problems.

I'd also see about squeezing 2-4 Anarch Converts into the crypt, mainly to adjust ratios slightly.

If you do go that route, considering adding 2-4 Anarch Revolts as well. Again, lack of defense means you need stronger offense.

Also...
-1 Info
+1 Dreams

I like the Kaymakli Nightmares tech. Keep it in there.

After some test games, I noticed that the deck is still way too big as I had 30+ cards left still after a sweep. So here is more tuned version trimmed down to 60 cards.

Crypt:
3x The Horde
3x Arishat
2x Xeper, Sultan of Lepers
4x Annazir

Library: 60

Master: 15
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Ruins of Charizel
6x Tend the Flock
1x The Barrens
1x The Coven
3x Wash
1x Wider View

Action: 9
3x Condemnation: Mute
1x Contagion
5x Legal Manipulations

Action Modifier: 23
3x Elder Impersonation
4x Faceless Night
4x I Am Legion
4x Lost in Crowds
3x Sense the Sin
2x Spying Mission
3x True Love's Face

Ally: 1
1x Veneficti

Combat: 3
3x Majesty

Event: 1
1x The Bitter and Sweet Story

Political Action: 8
2x Conservative Agitation
3x Kine Resources Contested
3x Reckless Agitation

It is not solely vote deck Ankha, there is quite heavy bleed in it too. In addition to the 8 political actions, there is also 5 legal manipulations, 3 sense the sin, and 3 true loves face, as well as Veneficti and Contagion for further pool damage. So I can use the right tools for the job, like if my prey has lots of bounce, I can vote him off the table, if he instead has lots of votes, I bleed instead. As you said yourself, there are no villeins, which gives my minions plenty of blood to pay for the cards so I can afford to play several blood costing cards for maximized payload.

You are right about the dreams though, I think I will switch wider view to third dreams, and perhaps barrens to fourth, since dreams in starting hand lets me get Annazir out on turn two in most cases (as long as I get at least 3 transfers on turn 1). Powerbase Montreal is an interesting idea in a deck with no way to defend it, but I suppose my pool damage is high enough that I don't care if someone gets couple extra pool from it. So I think I will switch the barrens to montreal and wider view to third dreams.