The Groaning Carneval - as seen in Burton

Thank you, Ankha. I included that because previously I was told more than once, that I "should add 2-3 Charisma, and the Heart should be included in every deck". This I don't agree with. Perfectionist indeed does the job well enough.


Thanks, Klaital, for your deck. It has some things I usually see in ally decks, which I don't really understand, though. Let's look at some differences we have:


Your poolgain comes from Cemeteries instead of Blood Dolls and Vessels. This is a valid option for sure, just different.

You have more allies, Mylan and Carlton being the main differences. They are indeed good additions, but I did not include them because I don't have Carlton and Mylan is in another deck. It would work well here, however.

Your combat includes walking sticks, which I cannot understand exactly. It won't help your zombies for more than one strike, and corpses can use it twice. I think extra presses from, say, Haymaker would help your zombies more, even though you do have Mob Connections.

Why do you have 5 procurers if you're not going to use blood dolls and vessels?


The differences here are basically the number of allies. I have 3 more combat cards, and only one card more that reanimated corpses cannot use. The difference is that my combat module is a bit more offensive. I would actually want to see both of these decks on the same table, because to me they seem pretty equal, even though they do the same things differently.

In my hometown rare Thanatosis combat cards are not easy to trade. It might be a location thing. And in ebay they're just way too expensive, when some fortitude can kinda do the same thing.

Walking sticks rock for Ossian, you don't use it for shamblers first strike, you use it to keep the shamblers damage useful when its at lower health. H4 is generally plenty enough. Haymaker is not terribly good for shambler because it gives the opponent first strike, so it makes your shambler to generally hit less, unless you prevent their strike. Shamblers and reanimated corpses are very expensive, procurers help to pay for those costs. Also usually I find it more common that shamblers get outmanuevered than anything else, which is why I think Fake Out is the best combat card to support them with, and you can also use it for your vampires to stay alive against some nasty guy rushing them.

Putrescent Servitude is incredibly powerful. If nothing else -- and it does a LOT else -- it steals Carlton. One should go into every deck that can play it.