Tenacious Sisters

Here is a deck I have played only a few times, mostly for fun. I haven't played it in a long time but I like it. I posted the deck on the newsgroup some time ago and thought I would revisit it now. I am wondering about what to do with three's a crowd vs. shoulder drop! Three's a crowd is so good, but I like the shoulder drop for the no press out and the hard to prevent damage (and no blood cost).

1.How do you intend to oust?

Put the beatdown on minions, bleed alot for one, then bleed with the walk of Caine.

2.How do you intend to keep from being ousted?

Put the beat down on your pred, villien/minion tap to get a few pool back, oust for six. (I thought this would be my biggest problem but it has done OK surviving when I've played it) Also, see question 6.

3.What do you want your ready region to look like (ie, how many guys are you planning on getting out)?

(Sister, Obi Wan was wise to hide her from me.) 4, 5, 6 or more Sisters!

4.What do you want your average turn to look like?

Bleed for one, bleed for one, get blocked or rush to send a vamp to torpor. ( I know wishful thinking!)

5.What's your metagame like? How do your opponents play?

Not a lot of combat usually. My opponents are generally pretty good, which is why I pretty much am not!

6.What problems have you observed with the deck in play?

Pool recursion, run out of steam because of pool (not combat), hunting sometimes slows me down.




Deck Name: Tenacious Sisters v1.1
Created By: TorranceCircle
Description:


Crypt: (20 cards, Min: 16, Max: 16, Avg: 4)
20 Hermana Hambrienta Mayor for pot san 4 Blood Brother

Library: (90 cards)

Master (13 cards)
7 Agent of Power
2 Hungry Coyote, The
4 Villein

Action (10 cards)
4 Redistribution
2 Oppugnant Night
2 Ambush
2 Bum`s Rush

Action Modifier (10 cards)
7 Walk of Caine
3 Shell Game

Combat (57 cards)
5 Brother`s Blood
9 Immortal Grapple
6 Octopod
5 Shoulder Drop
9 Torn Signpost
9 Trap
9 Undying Tenacity
5 Three's a Crowd

Okay, Andy, a few suggestions:

Lilith's Blessing is far better than the Coyote in this deck, mainly because Agent of Power is a Master: Discipline card and combos great with Villein/AoP and Redistribution. Replace both Coyote's for them, that should assuage your hunting problems a bit.

Fame should be in here, you know, for that "How do you intend to oust?" answer.

Slake the Thirst is too good with Redistribution and Coagulated Entity, which all of your non-Oppugnant rushes should be, just pack some Tastes and Sanguine Instructs for permanent superiors to make the best use of them. First few turns should be devoted to set up until you have 3-4 sisters out anyway.

These suggestions will require redistribution to the deck but the changes will make it more robust once you find workable ratios.

I don't think Villein is really good with this small vampires, tribute to the master would likely be much better. Redistributions would probably be better as Unwholesome Bonds, and yeah ambush and bums rush should be coagulated entity. I would probably trim a couple walks, 7 is bit of an overkill. Brother's Blood should be any random fortitude prevent card, traps would probably be better as mighty grapples. I don't really thinkg Shoulder Drop is neseccary either, would replace those with potence skill cards instead to get more out of those signposts.Some Taste of Vitaes and Slake the Thirsts would also not hurt.

Overall though, I think this deck concept would work much better with the Chicago Circle than hermanas, while its nice to have 20 guys in the crypt that you can all bring out in theory, in practice you have so little pool gain you probably can't afford more than 4 at most anyway.

Step #1: Add in the BB Pimp-Daddy... Angelo. Angelo does Unwholesome Bonds for free little sistas.

Step #2: Redistribution is actually quite good.

Step #3: I'd be tempted to throw in some more Shell Games, just because you want to get some of those key hunts or key Redistributions off and with AoP & Angelo you can get some serious dirty shennanigans going.

Step #4: Tribute to the Master. Bye bye Villein... hello Tribute. 1 pool from each minion, you probably didn't pay much for them if you've got Angelo bringing out the girls... it should work quite well.

Step #5: After you lay down a bit of smack-down... you can probably get Freak Drive at inferior off.