Let's Get Physical: Cel/Fort/Pot Weenie Deck

Disclaimer - I haven't played VTES in a few years and I was never very good at building decks. So be gentle.

Deck Name: Let's Get Physical 1.0
Author: Christian Alipounarian
Description:
Revisiting a (failed) attempt to make a weenie Cel/For/Pot deck.

Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=1 max=4 avg=2.33)
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1x Dre, Leader of the Cold Dawn 3 cel pot Brujah:1
1x Giuliano Vincenzi 2 for Gangrel:1
1x Hasina Kesi 1 pot Caitiff:1
1x Jacob Bragg 3 cel pot !Brujah:2
1x Jimmy Dunn 4 for CEL POT Pander:2
1x Kanya Akhtar 2 cel Assamite:2
1x KoKo 2 pot Nosferatu:1
1x March Halcyon 1 for Pander:2
1x Paul DiCarlo, The Alpha 2 pot Giovanni:2
1x Rufina Soledad 2 for Ventrue:1
1x Sarah Brando 3 CEL !Brujah:2
1x Tom 3 for pot san Blood Brother:2

Library (90 cards)
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Master (18)
1x Archon Investigation
2x Celerity
2x Effective Management
2x Fame
1x Fear of Mekhet
2x Fortitude
2x Potence
2x Tension in the Ranks
4x Tribute to the Master

Event (1)
1x NRA PAC

Action (9)
8x Bum's Rush
1x Rampage

Equipment (10)
4x Camera Phone
1x Drum of Xipe Totec
1x Hand of Conrad
4x Leather Jacket

Action Modifier (3)
3x Freak Drive

Combat (49)
4x Blur
3x Disarm
2x Fast Hands
6x Flash
5x Immortal Grapple
3x Increased Strength
3x Sideslip
6x Skin of Steel
2x Thrown Sewer Lid
5x Torn Signpost
4x Trap
2x Undead Persistence
4x Weighted Walking Stick

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How do you intend to oust?

Build up and equip weenies as quickly as possible, followed by incapacitating prey's vampires. Usual master tech to help combat decks oust (Fame, Tension, etc)

How do you intend to keep from being ousted?

Deck is entirely forward-moving except for the occasional back-rush for a particularly dangerous predator minion. So I'm hoping to maintain a healthy pool by the minimal costs required of weenies coupled with a few Tributes.

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

As many as possible; they're weenies after all.

What do you want your average turn to look like?

Equipping, untapping (from leather jacket or freak drive), rushing.

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

Varied. Some people play with fatties and one plays an entire deck of nothing but IC members (he's who the Fear of Mekhet is for). Combat decks happen, but when they do, they tend to be vicious, as well as varied (sometimes celgun, sometimes potence). Voting decks are uncommon so I didn't bother trying to defend against them. No one uses Ashur Tablets, or much in the way of Events. No Laibon or Imbued and I don't think anyone has an Anarch deck (though personally I've always wanted to play one).

What problems have you observed with the deck in play?

Ousting. Because I don't have a bleed discpline, I can't bleed for more than two. I also had poor card flow in the sense that I would often get jammed up with cards I couldn't play because many of the vampires only bave one discipline. The first version of the deck tried using master tech to discard (Barrens, Sphinx); this version, I'm trying to expand the disciplines each vampire uses instead with discipline masters, Hand, and Drum.

I would start by pointing out that you only need one of those three disciplines to kill people in combat. Of those, my choice would be potence. Splash in some dominate (can be found with Giovanni, Lasombra, or misc. vampires) and now you have bounce and ousting power.

As it is, the deck appears to tool up and rush, but isn't that great at either. Make it more streamlined and I think it has potential.

Yea, tool up rush works better with midcaps. Weenies want to hit hard, and even i, someone very reliant on fortitude, can say you shouldnt worry about weenies doing anything but offense.

Cel for anarchs with diversion is really fun and fairly competent tool up combat, but weenie potence with dom or celerity with presence is better for bnb decks.

If you have more copies of Jimmy Dunn, I would suggest using 3 copies of him in your crypt.

If you're going with equipment, I don't think you can go wrong with a Hawg.

I don't think Undead Persistence is a good choice. Without a trap or , it is simply a press to continue that you can only use if your vampire is wounded.

You might consider trying some free Fortitude prevention cards. I know that they aren't great at , but you have a blood management problem. Skin of Steel is effective, but it does the same thing as a Leather Jacket for the cost of a precious blood. I would take out 2 Undead Persistences and 1 or 2 Skins of Steel and replace them with free Fortitude prevention such as Skin of Rock or Unflinching Persistence. These cards could give you some relief against Carrion Crows.

I don't think you should use any Freak Drives at all. Your vampires are just too small to be able to afford the blood. You have so many weenies that you should have a sufficient number of actions even with the equip actions you want to take. You might be better off replacing them with Tastes of Vitae.

You have too many masters.
-1 Fear of Mekhet
-4 Tribute to the Master (like I said, you can't afford the blood, and it's not as though you're investing a lot of pool in your minions. Heck, I would consider Gird Minions for this deck. Your principal bleed defense is not spending much pool.)
-1 Tension in the Ranks (Tension will likely hurt you as much as anyone else anyway.)
+1 Archon Investigation (if you need one, you need two)
+2 Life in the City (seems like a no-brainer)

Other pool defense may be prudent as well. Boon, dummy corp, and maybe a copy of two wrongs.

What 1 blood cost fortitude you run deends on meta. Crows heavy and only little fortitude on your minions means armor of vitality, whereas celerity guns or big punch potence would warrant superior mettle/skin of steel.

Thanks for the feedback. See in-line notes about 1.1.

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Deck Name: Let's Get Physical 1.1
Author: Christian Alipounarian
Description:
Revisiting a (failed) attempt to make a Cel/For/Pot deck.

1.1: Added and deleted cards as suggested by posters. Changed focus of deck from small to low-mid cap vampires; gives better discipline spread (each discipline is possessed by more than half of all vampires). Added two copies of Jimmy Dunn (forgot about his no-contesting thing).

Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=3 max=5 avg=4.08)
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1x Earl 4 dom for pot Ventrue:3
1x Gustavo Morales 4 ani cel for Gangrel:3
1x Jacob Bragg 3 cel pot !Brujah:2
1x Jerry 5 cel for pot SAN Blood Brother:2
3x Jimmy Dunn 4 for CEL POT Pander:2
1x Maria Stone 5 cel obf pro FOR !Gangrel:3
1x Tom 3 for pot san Blood Brother:2
1x Victor Tolliver 4 pot CEL !Brujah:2
1x Volker, The Puppet Prince 5 pot CEL Brujah:2
1x Wolfgang 4 for obf pot Nosferatu:3

Library (90 cards)
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Master (17)
2x Celerity
2x Dummy Corporation
2x Fame
3x Fortitude
2x Life in the City
1x Potence
1x Tension in the Ranks
4x Vessel

Event (1)
1x NRA PAC

Action (9)
8x Bum's Rush
1x Rampage

Equipment (10)
4x Camera Phone
1x Drum of Xipe Totec
1x Hand of Conrad
4x Leather Jacket

Action Modifier (2)
2x Freak Drive

Combat (51)
4x Blur
3x Disarm
2x Fast Hands
6x Flash
5x Immortal Grapple
3x Increased Strength
5x Rolling with the Punches
4x Sideslip
4x Taste of Vitae
2x Thrown Sewer Lid
5x Torn Signpost
4x Trap
4x Weighted Walking Stick