Deck Challenge - Trick of the Danya

I've been looking at a lot of Ravnos stuff recently and I also noticed that no TWDA has a copy of The Trick of the Danya.

I'm thinking that maybe there is a good way to get Trick of the Danya into the TWDA as a major theme of the deck.

Post some ideas. I already have two... one sort of clunky and the other likely to be VERY clunky.

GO!

Trick of the Danya, The
Type: Action
Requires: Chimerstry
Cost: 1 blood
+1 stealth action.
[chi] Move 1 blood from an uncontrolled minion in your prey's uncontrolled region to your pool or to a vampire in your uncontrolled region.

Find a way to play either banishment or reality with a big cap you've got; maybe Haazimel. Then, when you've got dozens of weenies just slurp away all of the blood. Add in a few Fantasy Worlds to save on stealth. Tumnimos and weenie Ravnos should work fine.

Well, the key is to put your prey to torpor. So, either Banishment, Exile with Laibon Ravnos, or combat.

kombainas wrote:

Well, the key is to put your prey to torpor. So, either Banishment, Exile with Laibon Ravnos, or combat.

Not exactly no. Exile, Reality or Banishment work fine since they return the vampire to the uncontrolled region. Torporing doesn't really work since torpor is not the uncontrolled region. Trick of Danya won't work there. Torpor is always good, but this combo won't really work with combat as a mediant.

I am sorry, I meant torpor or back to uncontrolled region, as evidenced by my card recommendations.

It would work with combat, since you force your victim to influence another vampire if he wants to stay competitive. However, combat is more card-heavy, politics need votes and Exile needs Laibon+up to 6 orun on a vampire and single orun burns when you successfully exile or play the trick (both are D actions against a vampire, though trick might need clarification whether it's D or not). From this lot, I'd go for Banish+Exile if you have enough (?) Laibon Ravnos with PRE, otherwise send 'em to torpor and catch their replacements.

kombainas wrote:

I am sorry, I meant torpor or back to uncontrolled region, as evidenced by my card recommendations.

It would work with combat, since you force your victim to influence another vampire if he wants to stay competitive. However, combat is more card-heavy, politics need votes and Exile needs Laibon+up to 6 orun on a vampire and single orun burns when you successfully exile or play the trick (both are D actions against a vampire, though trick might need clarification whether it's D or not). From this lot, I'd go for Banish+Exile if you have enough (?) Laibon Ravnos with PRE, otherwise send 'em to torpor and catch their replacements.

Good points, but really card heavy, as already stated. It might be a cool off tactic though; also you'll need some defense, and combat goes well with intercept.

Anyways, you really don't need to go for Exile even. On top of requiring laibon, it's a presence action, and that gets all the trickier. I'd advice you check out Reality:

Name: Reality
[FN:C2]
Cardtype: Action
Cost: 3 blood
Discipline: Chimerstry
[chi] Put Reality on a younger vampire. The vampire with this card cannot be the target of actions, cannot act (except to burn this card), cannot block and cannot cast votes or ballots. That vampire can burn Reality as a +1 stealth action.
[CHI] Move a tapped younger vampire to the uncontrolled region(breaking any temporary control effects). The vampire's blood counters, master cards and minion cards stay with that vampire, with any counters they have on them (those cards are out of play as long as the vampire remains uncontrolled).
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