Blood Music

I've been experimenting with blood denial decks for a while, this is one of the better that I've come up with. Not something I'd bring to a tournament, but can do well in a casual game depending on table position...

Deck Name: Blood music
Author:
Description:
Aggro blood clots deck. Knock blood off with Shattering Crescendo and stop them from regaining with Blood Clots, Foul Blood.

Crypt (Capacity min=3 max=8 avg=6; 12 cards)
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1x Djuhah, The Bronze Bow 7 aus cel pre OBF QUI Assamite:5
2x Hafsa, The Watcher 6 aus cel OBF QUI Assamite:5
2x Hillanvale 5 obf FOR MEL Daughter of Cacophony:6
2x Sajid al Misbah 4 QUI Assamite:5
4x Scout Youngwood 8 for qui MEL OBF PRE Daughter of Cacophony:6
1x Sukainah 3 aus qui Assamite:5

Library (62 cards)
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Master (11 cards)
3x Blood Doll
1x Fame
2x Society of Leopold
2x Tension in the Ranks
3x Wider View

Event (1 cards)
1x Unmasking, The

Action (18 cards)
5x Blood Clots
1x Poison the Well of Life
12x Shattering Crescendo

Equipment (2 cards)
1x Camera Phone
1x Codex of the Edenic Groundskeepers

Ally (4 cards)
1x Carlton Van Wyk (Hunter)
1x Ghouls of Plaza Morería, The
1x Gregory Winter
1x Young Bloods

Action Modifier (7 cards)
1x Elder Impersonation
1x Faceless Night
2x Forgotten Labyrinth
1x Into Thin Air
2x Lost in Crowds

Reaction (11 cards)
6x Foul Blood
3x On the Qui Vive
2x Wake with Evening's Freshness

Combat (6 cards)
2x Behind You!
2x Fake Out
2x No Trace

Combo (2 cards)
2x Swallowed by the Night

Created with Secret Library v0.9.4a. (Feb 9, 2013 22:21:38)

How do you intend to oust?

Disable prey's minions, pool loss from Fame, Tension, bleed with Codex.

How do you intend to keep from being ousted?

Threats and negotiations upstream, with Shattering Crescendo upstream if needed.

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

Scout or Hillanvale, plus 1 big and 1 small Assamite, and an ally.

What do you want your average turn to look like?

An ideal lunge turn is Shattering Crescendo plus a bleed or Blood Clots, leaving smaller Assamite to use Foul Blood. Ally can remove blood or block as needed.

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

Wide variation - combat, political, toolbox, bloat engines, walls; not a lot of stealth bleed in casual although it comes out for tournaments. Fair bit of combat, normally.

What problems have you observed with the deck in play?

My own vampires tend to be low on blood by late game. Back-oust is as likely as a forward oust.

Looks fun. Foul blood is the one of the most rediculously unexpected cards there is. Ive always wanted to sweep at a final with a few well placed foul bloods late game. Id never have to win again, thats my goal...

This seems like it could use impondulu though. Maybe hidden pathways?

Consider the following additions / tech:

Free States Rant
Impundulu
Vampiric Disease
Hunger Moon
Fear of Mekhet if you see IC or Justicars often in your meta.
Ossian wouldn't be out of place either, allowing you to knock low blood vamps into torpor.

Here is a Shattering Crescendo deck that I've used with decent success: Scout's World Tour

Also, ditch the Tension the Ranks. With such a flimsy combat package, it's more likely to bite you than aid you.

Grail wrote:

Also, ditch the Tension the Ranks. With such a flimsy combat package, it's more likely to bite you than aid you.

I love tension,but im gonna agree with grail. Id even take it a step farther. -2 tension +1 carvers meat packing and storage +1 path of lilith. And blood management issues.... palatial estate? Maybe perfectionist or feeding razor?
I had something actually use ful but lost it while typing out and corrrectimg "razor" on my stupid incooperative phone keyboard. Oh well, someone else will probably think of it....

Grail wrote:

Here is a Shattering Crescendo deck that I've used with decent success: Scout's World Tour

This is a very nice variation on politics + crescendo + free states... I am not a fan of Ashur Tablets, but this is precisely THE deck, where I would gladly put them in. Maybe adding cards to make it 80 from the current 66 with tablets for stronger late game. Nice idea, thank you.
Maybe I would think of Abdelsobek as a support woth inferior OBF and PRE, that would, however, corrupt Daughters consistency a bit. Might be worth testing though...