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Dasein wrote:

Is there a reason you've gone pulled fangs over Disarms? Shoulder Drop is probably a better choice than fangs also, since it means they can't press out against the Grapple.

Pulled Fangs makes it possible to do up to 3 pool damage with a "rescue from torpor" action. It's one of the greatest joys of playing a combat deck.

Klaital wrote:

Ashur wrote:

How do you handle hit-back? Aggro-poke?

Taste of Vitae handles most hitback, agg poke is bit annoying but don't see too much of that, in that case will just take them down with me.

Glancing blow can deal with agg poke and is easy enough to cycle. Sometimes you won't have the blood to survive until the press step, anyway.

brandonsantacruz wrote:

Klaital wrote:

Ashur wrote:

How do you handle hit-back? Aggro-poke?

Taste of Vitae handles most hitback, agg poke is bit annoying but don't see too much of that, in that case will just take them down with me.

Glancing blow can deal with agg poke and is easy enough to cycle. Sometimes you won't have the blood to survive until the press step, anyway.

I would probably use Sideslip over that if I would put prevent here, since I am mainly rushing with the CEL POT guys anyway.

I'd replace Blur with Flash, also add a Yawp Court which is great against voting.

Frontal assault is nice but with 12 rumble it seems too much, possinly replace them with 2 Dreams of the Sphinx? Which would let you optimize your hand better.

Skip Street cred, it's really not worth it, replace with something else, possibly more potence strikes such as mighty grapple or even a burning wrath or two to be able to burn vampires without diablerie.

Dragon Bound has issues, I either play 2 or none at all, early on you don't want it, but it eats your handsize, specially for potence combat, so I put 2 in so I can discard the one you get early on.

Consider changing your blood doll setup, mix with villein, 3-3 usually does the trick pretty much.

Consider adding 1 Beast and/or 1 Theo bell for perma rushes, they don't need to deal a considerable amount of damage and makes for an easier deck flow.

/Ivan

Klaital wrote:

Dasein wrote:

I'd swap the blurs for pursuits, its a better card and costs less. Street Cred never worked for me One of those cards that looks great, but doesn't turn out to be useful in practice. Change one either Gang Territory or Frontal Assault into a Dreams of the Sphinx, no combat deck should be without one. Is there a reason you've gone pulled fangs over Disarms? Shoulder Drop is probably a better choice than fangs also, since it means they can't press out against the Grapple.

Disarm is bit pointless when I hit them for 6+ a round so they are going to torpor anyway. Pulled Fangs means they STAY down.

Disarm is WAY too powerful not to include 1-2. It's just a mistake not to include some.


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Klaital wrote:

5x Blood Doll

Grooming the Protege is better for this deck. Lack of reactive pool defense means you're nuking your predator. You need the acceleration in order to have enough rushes per turn to go forward as well.