Germaine, the Infamous Insurgent

Deck Name: The Infamous Insurgent
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Description:
Germaine goes infernal with janky tech.

I was actually looking at Fractura when I conceptualised the deck, but it didn't make the second cut.

1. How do you intend to oust? Fame plus slowly bleeding
2. How do you intend to keep from being ousted? A bit of salmon plus Scobax outferior where necessary. Blocking and Strix becomes an option after Striga comes into play. Villein where applicable.
3. What do you want your ready region to look like (ie, how many guys are you planning on getting out)? During initial tests, Dmitra and either Germaine or Alexis seem to work well enough. I don't think I can really afford a third minion in play
4. What do you want your average turn to look like? Germaine or Alexis will rush and/or bleed, Dmitra fills up as necessary. I should be able to get enough votes to pass by whoring out her special a little since it's non-threatening.
5. What's your metagame like? How do your opponents play? Have so far only tried on JOL, so the meta is fairly varied. Locally, combat has seen less and less action, and combat ends are no longer prevalent in significant quantities.
6. What problems have you observed with the deck in play? The bleed is a little slow, but I'm not sure I want to increase the deck size too much to add bleed cards. Might consider J.S. and Tasha (I sold all my Heart of the City). Rushing is also a little inconsistent. Was running Alastor a while back, but I lack the vote push to make that happen, plus only Dmitra can all it, so it got dropped.

Crypt (Capacity min=7 max=9 avg=8.08; 12 cards)
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2x Alexis Sorokin 8 for CEL CHI OBF PRO Ravnos:4
2x Count Germaine ADV 8 obf CEL FOR POT PRE Brujah:4
2x Count Germaine 8 obf CEL FOR POT PRE Brujah:4
3x Dmitra Ilyanova 9 obf CEL FOR POT PRE Brujah:5
1x Karen Suadela 7 obf pre CEL POT Brujah:5
1x Mitru the Hunter 8 ani for CEL OBF PRO !Gangrel:4
1x Ubende 7 for obf qui CEL PRE Ishtarri:4

Library (76 cards)
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Master (26 cards)
9x Ashur Tablets
2x Fame
2x Infamous Insurgent
6x Striga
4x Villein
3x Wider View

Action (4 cards)
4x Fleetness

Equipment (6 cards)
5x .44 Magnum
1x Ivory Bow

Action Modifier (10 cards)
6x Forced March
4x Masca

Reaction (13 cards)
4x On the Qui Vive
6x Scobax
3x Strix

Combat (15 cards)
4x Acrobatics
3x Blur
4x Disguised Weapon
4x Pursuit

Combo (2 cards)
2x Resist Earth's Grasp

Created with Secret Library v0.9.4a. (Dec 11, 2012 05:30:59)

Infamous Insurgent is your only way of going infernal, right? So you'll only have Germaine able to play all those Striga cards. Given that, I'd be tempted to either 1) reduce the number of Striga cards in favour of cards that everyone will be able to use or 2) include Textbook Damnation so you'll eventually get another infernal minion. And since you're running Ashur Tablets in order to get the setup going as quickly as possible, I would cut the deck down to 60 cards and add a few more permanents like Heart of the City.

Also, only advanced Count Germaine is red list, and he need to merge to become anarch. Since you run no anarch convert or other anarch tech, you really need more copy of both germaine and germaine advanced and/or Epiphany or something.

(and I believe Masca to be vastly inferior to Pursuit)

DeathInABottle wrote:

Infamous Insurgent is your only way of going infernal, right? So you'll only have Germaine able to play all those Striga cards.

Alexis can also get Infamous Insurgent after a fashion.

DeathInABottle wrote:

Given that, I'd be tempted to either 1) reduce the number of Striga cards in favour of cards that everyone will be able to use or 2) include Textbook Damnation so you'll eventually get another infernal minion.

The Striga cards can be played at outferior by everyone, so that is not true there. I will consider adding the Textbook.

DeathInABottle wrote:

And since you're running Ashur Tablets in order to get the setup going as quickly as possible, I would cut the deck down to 60 cards and add a few more permanents like Heart of the City.

So what would you suggest I cut?

Also, I mentioned not having any HoC.



I truly thank you for the response, Death, but it feels like there wasn't any attempt to read the explanation of the deck or attempts to understand. It is a little disappointing.

Ohlmann wrote:

Also, only advanced Count Germaine is red list, and he need to merge to become anarch.

Alexis is also Red List. They can both go anarch the hard way if necessary.

Ohlmann wrote:

Since you run no anarch convert or other anarch tech, you really need more copy of both germaine and germaine advanced and/or Epiphany or something.

The initial build had Epiphany and more Germaines, but it ran into a fair number of problems because of that, so they came out (also why there is a lack of Converts). I will consider the Anarch Convert, though.

Ohlmann wrote:

(and I believe Masca to be vastly inferior to Pursuit)

Masca's outferior has served me quite well during tests, that's why it is there. I personally feel it is not vastly inferior to Pursuit because of its flexibility.

the1andonlime wrote:

Masca's outferior has served me quite well during tests, that's why it is there. I personally feel it is not vastly inferior to Pursuit because of its flexibility.

What action exactly do you need to do often at stealth ? 1 blood for stealth on rush seem very expensive, especially since you already have some stealth with Forced march and Resist. Also, it's far from being really flexible since you cannot use it if you block or you are rushed, and must pay for it before combat, and consequently before both combat end and Obedience, which you inconveniently cannot avoid or cancel.

Given the goal of the deck, if you need to go anarch, you'd better do it in a way that don't consume action, since you oust slowly and may very well need them to oust.

Camera phone would be a cheap and effective replacement for Heart of the City, and would help for oust, by the way?