FoS Aggression

This is a deck that I've played several iterations of in tournaments, but that has never won. Nevertheless, I think it is a good deck and worth publishing now that I'm retiring it.

Deck Name: FoS Aggression
Author: Brandon Haas
Description: Bring out Amenophobis and about two smaller vampires (preferably not spending more than another 8 pool). Bleed with Eternal Mask. It doesn't really matter if opponents try to block you or not because as long as some of your actions get through successfully, whether the bleed is successful or not, you get to cycle an extra card thanks to Amenopophobis's special. Using his special it can seem like you have a lot more defense than you really do. Marked Path was a later addition to the deck, one which I think synergizes well with Amenophobis's special because it is in the same window and you can choose the order.

This is as close to the final decklist as I have, I already took apart the deck. I think there might have been a Direct Intervention in there, possibly along with ~two WWEF. Wash is very useful in this deck for three reasons:

1) Cancel pool gain or combos of your prey
2) It doesn't take a full MPA
3) You don't need to have 7 cards since you hardly react

The major weakness of the deck is rush combat. Intercept decks aren't too bit a deal as long as you only face one on a given table. If they have time to tool-up with the Bowl of Convergence, intercept locations, etc., then they are hard to get past. It is not uncommon to get 5 stealth on a bleed action.

Anyway, try the deck for yourself if you want, see what you think.

Crypt (13 cards; Capacity min=2 max=7 avg=5.31)
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1x Ahmose Chambers 3 obf ser Follower of Set:5
5x Amenophobis 7 dom pre OBF SER Follower of Set:4
1x Ankh-sen-Sutekh 6 obf PRE SER Follower of Set:4
1x Belle Equitone 2 ser Follower of Set:4
1x Halim Bey 6 obf tha DOM SER Follower of Set:4
1x Renenet 5 ser OBF PRE Follower of Set:4
1x Reverend Djoser Jones 3 pre ser Follower of Set:4
1x Sahira Siraj 4 obf ser tha Follower of Set:4
1x Zhenga 5 obf pre SER Follower of Set:4

Library (85 cards)
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Master (16)
1x Archon Investigation
1x Barrens, The
1x Coven, The
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Giant's Blood
1x Information Highway
2x Life in the City
1x Obfuscate
1x Path of Typhon, The
1x Perfectionist
4x Wash

Event (1)
1x Bitter and Sweet Story, The

Action (24)
20x Eternal Mask, The
4x Revelation of Ecstasy (this may have been one more than in the last tournament I played in)

Action Modifier (30)
3x Cloak the Gathering
1x Elder Impersonation
3x Faceless Night
5x Lost in Crowds
3x Marked Path
8x Revelation of Desire
3x Spying Mission
2x Truth of a Thousand Lies
2x Veil the Legions

Reaction (12)
6x Deflection
2x Delaying Tactics
4x On the Qui Vive

Combo (2)
2x Swallowed by the Night

Created with Secret Library v0.9.4a. (Mar 6, 2013 16:26:23)

I don't think Ahmose is that much better than Allonzo Montoya here.

There's quite a lot of stealth in this deck.
I also think there should be more pool <=> blood conversion (Minion Tap, Blood Doll, Villein, Vessel)

Marked Path is pretty bad.

I suppose that, once they've got that you're a S&B, they'll let you choke on stealth.
There are two things you can do to avoid that:
1 - Add cyclers. More Dreams.
2 - Add smart-ass cards. Elder Impersonation is my favourite.

Finally, 8 Revelation of Desire, and a mere 4 Revelation of Ecstasy / no Cave of Apples?
I'd have more of these Truths of a Thousand Lies and 3-4 Enticement.

Pascal wrote:

I suppose that, once they've got that you're a S&B, they'll let you choke on stealth.
There are two things you can do to avoid that:
1 - Add cyclers. More Dreams.
2 - Add smart-ass cards. Elder Impersonation is my favourite.

3 - Realize that you're playing Amenophobis in a deck with 24 Serpentis-actions . That's one extra card drawn and discarded for every stealth card in the deck, with two to spare.

Who said cardtext was ever useful ?

brandonsantacruz wrote:

Bleed with Eternal Mask. It doesn't really matter if opponents try to block you or not because as long as some of your actions get through successfully, whether the bleed is successful or not, you get to cycle an extra card thanks to Amenopophobis's special.

Amenophobis
[dom]

[OBF][SER]

Follower of Set

Capacity: 7

Group: 4

Camarilla primogen: When an action requiring Serpentis [ser] is successful, you may draw a card from your library. Discard down to your hand size afterward. Amenophobis gets +1 bleed when bleeding the Methuselah who has the Edge.

brandonsantacruz wrote:

brandonsantacruz wrote:

Bleed with Eternal Mask. It doesn't really matter if opponents try to block you or not because as long as some of your actions get through successfully, whether the bleed is successful or not, you get to cycle an extra card thanks to Amenopophobis's special.

Amenophobis
[dom]

[OBF][SER]

Follower of Set

Capacity: 7

Group: 4

Camarilla primogen: When an action requiring Serpentis [ser] is successful, you may draw a card from your library. Discard down to your hand size afterward. Amenophobis gets +1 bleed when bleeding the Methuselah who has the Edge.

Interstingly, you may also draw a card if another player's serpentis action is successful. B-)

Playing with Amenophobis gives you extra style points, naturally.