Harrod the Horrible

Deck Name: Flight of the Albatrosses
Author: Brandon Haas
Description: Big cap !Nos are tired of being the laughing stock of VTES and have commandeered a motorcycle dealership. Heads up!

Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=8 max=11 avg=9.5)
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1x Amadeo 8 ani aus pre OBF POT Nosferatu:2
1x Casino Reeds 9 cel dem ANI OBF POT Nosferatu:3
1x Cock Robin 10 aus for ANI OBF POT Nosferatu:3
1x Ellison Humboldt 9 pro ANI OBF POT PRE Nosferatu:3
4x Harrod 11 aus pre ANI CEL OBF POT Nosferatu:2
2x Khalid 9 tha ANI AUS OBF POT Nosferatu:3
1x Kurt Densch 8 ani aus cel OBF POT Nosferatu:3
1x Tammy Walenski 8 nec tha ANI OBF POT Nosferatu:3

Library (90 cards)
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Master (17)
1x Direct Intervention
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Giant's Blood
1x Golconda: Inner Peace
1x Information Highway
1x Labyrinth, The
1x Lilith's Blessing
1x Perfectionist
2x Sudden Reversal
6x Villein
1x Warsaw Station

Event (2)
1x Scourge of the Enochians
1x Urban Jungle

Action (7)
4x Abactor
2x Nose of the Hound
1x Patagia: Flaps Allowing Limited Flight

Political Action (9)
3x Alastor
1x Ancient Influence
1x Imperator
1x Nosferatu Justicar
1x Political Stranglehold
1x Reins of Power
1x Scourge

Equipment (4)
1x AK-47
1x Bowl of Convergence
2x Helicopter

Action Modifier (6)
2x Bribes
4x Old Friends

Reaction (23)
2x Cats' Guidance
2x Guard Dogs
1x Instinctive Reaction
6x Lost in Translation
2x My Enemy's Enemy
4x On the Qui Vive
6x Sense the Savage Way

Combat (16)
1x Canine Horde
4x Flesh Bond
3x High Ground
6x Stunt Cycle
2x Taste of Vitae

Combo (6)
6x Swallowed by the Night

Created with Secret Library v0.9.3. (Oct 9, 2012 18:59:05)

How do you oust?
Bleeds of 1-4, depending on the bleeder and whether you use Old Friends or not. Can also do damage with Reins. Rush people into submission.

How do you survive?
Block and crush people with motorcycles. Bounce when necessary. Villein back a bunch of blood and call votes to gain pool.

What should your average turn look like?
Call a vote (Alastor for a Helicopter if you have't already) and rush/bleed/tool up depending on the cards you get. Rushing is a lower priority. With 12 wakes you will still need to leave a guy untapped much of the time. Abactor is there to help refill your nearly empty guys after playing Villein.

How many vampires do you expect to get in play?
2-3, preferably 3.

What's your meta like?
Hard to judge. All over the place except for combat, generally.

Cock Robin is certainly significantly better than Harrod in the deck.

6 Lost in translation ? That's silly. Put 1-2 of them, complete with other wake or 2nd trad.

No Carrion Crow ? No Banishment ? No Deep Song ? None of thoses card would be mandatory, but all would be good additions to the deck.

Ohlmann wrote:

Cock Robin is certainly significantly better than Harrod in the deck.

6 Lost in translation ? That's silly. Put 1-2 of them, complete with other wake or 2nd trad.

No Carrion Crow ? No Banishment ? No Deep Song ? None of thoses card would be mandatory, but all would be good additions to the deck.

I should have clarified this at the beginning:
I made this deck to try and flesh out what we were talking about in the "Make Big Caps Better" thread. Can Villein and Lost in Translation make even "bad" vampires decent? To do that I need to run LiT in significant quantities to play it at least twice in a game (assuming I get to play at least 1/3 of the deck).

There's only so much room in the deck. I would prefer to go to 80 cards, but the master selection is pretty fixed, even spread somewhat thin (would like some Zillah's in there). The combat package has to be limited to 20 or fewer cards, so Stunt Cycle performs to functions: to smash my enemies and keep my dudes alive (pot: prevent 1, POT: prevent 2). The 2x Taste could maybe be something else (i.e. crows to kill Carlton), just depends on how you want to play it. Gaining blood back on big caps that should be nearly empty was my primary thought when I designed it.

Last night I made a couple of tweaks to round out the deck:
-1 info highway
-1 auspex
+1 dreams
+1 villein

Well, I do disagree in Lost In Translation improving big cap that can already defend their master well enough (via blocking in this case). Good blocking is just better than bad-ish redirection, which is better than nothing.

The combat package by itself is not bad, even if I prefer Sewer lid to Stunt Cycle ; it's just that Carrion is one of the most powerful combat card anyhow.

I use earthshock in decks with minimum combat, with potence. Maybe with preternatural strenght, if I have the space. Or, just simply a few heroic mights, if possible.