Akunanse - for the fun of it

Hi there,

this is small & neat Akunanse deck, that tries to make "the best" out of the nicer Abombwe cards combined with strong master cards.

I am not looking forward to making this deck a "tier 1", but nevertheless I am sure that it can be at least nicely twisted, perfected, whatever ...

So, please, be my guests (and yes, I know, this deck will almost always die to heavy stealth & bleed):

Deck Name: Akunanse - for the fun of it
Author: Hakuron
Description: Take the nicer Abombwe cards, and try to make it work with strong master cards

Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=4 max=8 avg=6.33)
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2x Amavi 8 pre pro ABO ANI FOR Akunanse:4
2x Hasani 4 for ABO Akunanse:4
2x Jubal 6 for pot ABO ANI Akunanse:4
2x Nkule Galadima 8 ani aus pre ABO FOR Akunanse:4
2x Socrate Cidibe 5 ani ABO FOR Akunanse:4
2x Uchenna 7 ABO ANI FOR Akunanse:4

Library (68 cards)
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Master (17)
1x Archon Investigation
1x Giant's Blood
2x Heidelberg Castle, Germany
1x Information Highway
2x Lilith's Blessing
1x Major Boon
1x Mbare Market, Harare
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Powerbase: Montreal
1x Two Wrongs
5x Villein

Event (1)
1x Narrow Minds

Action (6)
6x Deep Song

Equipment (2)
1x Codex of the Edenic Groundskeepers
1x Reliquary: Akunanse Remains

Retainer (4)
1x J. S. Simmons, Esq.
1x Mr. Winthrop
1x Raven Spy
1x Shaman

Reaction (15)
2x Delaying Tactics
3x On the Qui Vive
5x Predator's Communion
5x Taking the Skin: Vulture

Combat (15)
10x Devil-Channel: Hands
5x Unflinching Persistence

Combo (8)
8x Predator's Transformation

Created with Secret Library v0.9.3. (May 17, 2011 01:03:04)

You are going a bit wrong way with the combat imo, devil-channel: hands is fairly sucky. You would be much better off with Invoking The Beast as your main combat engine supported with carrion crows and devil-channel: back. Then add some taste of vitaes and more fortitude prevent and your set, maybe some drawing out the beasts too. I would take out the predators transformations and taking the skins at least to make room for those, cat's guidance is much better than vulture. I also don't really see the point in heidelberg castle in this deck. I got a somewhat similar akunanse deck that can give you the decklist to if you want.

You seem to be missing No Secrets from the Magaji.

Prey afraid to take undirected actions? Good for you.
Predator afraid to take actions at less than 2 stealth? Good for you.

Since you are a very toolboxed deck, I would probably only go with 2 copies, but those 2 copies can help make or break a game for you.

Ideally, you should also have either a weapon with a maneuver, or an equipment/retainer with a maneuver so that you can block bleeds bounced into you and safely allow your grand-predator to survive the encounter without using up your precious transient resources.

I'd also like to see a couple of copies of Freak Drive as the surprise extra action, or extra bleed from Codex of the Edenic Groundskeepers, or extra untapped minion to end the turn defensively untapped can be very valuable.

See also, a few collected Akunanse decks:
wanderers-counsel.tripod.com/index.html

I wanted to keep the number of combat cards rather small and "basical", and therefore chose Devil Channel: Hands as main resource. But I will gladly take a look at your deck, Klaital, so, please, PM it to me or post it here right away.

The reasons for Heidelberg Castle are: blood management (to get the best out of Lilith's Blessing and/or Villein), "oust management" (to make best use of my +bleed resources), and defence management (to make best use of my +intercept resources).
Predators Transformation is too good to be taken out. It is a +1 stealth that can be cycled with any action regardless of someone's (non-)intercept, plus the option to cause your prey 2 pool damage (which will not happen that often, I know).

I really like the idea with No Secrets (and Freak Drive), first for the reasoning behind it, second for suiting the toolbox style of the deck. And maybe I can even squeeze in one or two weapons or retainers to "maximize" the toolbox factor ...

Thanks!

I don't see any defense against any weapon based deck. Drawings or even better Terror Frenzy could help you out here.

The clan Akunanse causes some problems regarding the disciplines: If you are looking for superior Abombwe (and max. capacitiy of 8), then Animalism is not a common guest ... Plus, I want to keep the size of the deck small: max. 70, if possible.