Deck Challenge - Trick of the Danya

kombainas wrote:

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.

There is only one Laibon ravnos with sup' presence, and only one other laibon with both chimestry and presence, which have a crippling disability.

I would use only Banish + Reality. It cost more blood but it seem way more reliable, and Sha-Ennu have both voting power and sup' chimestry.

Ohlmann wrote:

kombainas wrote:

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.

There is only one Laibon ravnos with sup' presence, and only one other laibon with both chimestry and presence, which have a crippling disability.

I would use only Banish + Reality. It cost more blood but it seem way more reliable, and Sha-Ennu have both voting power and sup' chimestry.

Then again Hazimel has Fortitude for Freak Drives, as well as a Path for Chimestry. He lacks the Bleed of 3, 2 votes and obfuscate for stealth though...

Anyways, I'd try out either of the two, since G2 doesn't really have that great big caps for this, if not for Spider. You can forget about Banishments in that case though, since the votes aren't there. G2 has that 4-cap with that similar effect to that of Trick, though. It might be cool to go down that alley just because of him.

This was one idea...



Crypt [13 vampires] Capacity min: 2 max: 8 average: 5.84615

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4x Gabrin 8 ANI CHI dom for Ravnos:2
2x Joaquina Amaya 6 ANI CHI FOR Ravnos:2
2x Ghivran Dalaal, Th 5 FOR ani aus chi Ravnos:2
2x Khalil Ravana 5 CHI ani for pre Ravnos:2
1x Sarisha Veliku 6 ANI FOR chi dom Ravnos:2
1x Sennuwy, The Promo 4 ani chi for Ravnos:2
1x Sasha Miklos 2 chi Ravnos:2


Library [70 cards]

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Action [24]
8x Fatuus Mastery
6x Reality
10x Trick of the Danya, The

Action Modifier [14]
6x False Resonance
8x Freak Drive

Action Modifier/Combat [14]
8x Mirror Image
6x Occlusion

Equipment [1]
1x Karavalanisha Vrana

Master [17]
4x Brainwash
2x Chimerstry
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
3x Path of Paradox, The
4x Vessel
2x Week of Nightmares

Well, the problem with this here is that Reality doesn't really work against ~60% (totally arbitrary number) of vampires you'll be opposing. Gabrin's only cap 8, and I can't see much of an impact against, say, voters or pretty much anything.

The concept's okay though! But the ratios and crypt just seem a bit off to me. Gabrin's a great vampire to pull expensive Chi actions off, but his capacity is a problem.

Fatuus Mastery is a great card in these kinds of occasions as well, but 8 might be pushing it a wee bit.

To tweak it futher I'd add a reaction module, including Delaying Tactics, Deflection and some intercept.

In this version I could imagine playing Svadharma to deal with blood depletion.

Also, totally Lazar!
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Brainwash is wacky though. Might work real well.

Well, the thought on the Brainwashes is simple... either play after a reality (to lock the pool in place) OR if they're bringing out a big-cap, you might score yourself an opportunist break and land the Brainwash before a 9+ cap reaches the table before you can harvest the blood.

I thought about Spider Killer, but the size makes it feel a bit slow, plus you don't have to Reality EVERYONE, just enough so you can swarm bleed in behind them with the minions you bought using actions.

I believe this crypt will do the Trick, though a 2nd Khalil may be in order.

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5 Ezmerelda ANI CHI dom FOR PRE tha 11 Ravnos
1 Sasha Miklos chi 2 Ravnos
1 Spleen ani chi 2 Ravnos
1 Lazar Dobrescu for 3 Ravnos
1 Tsigane aus chi 3 Ravnos
1 Vedel Esbreno chi for 3 Ravnos
1 Salbatore Bokkengro CHI for pro 4 Ravnos
1 Khalil Ravana ani CHI for pre 5 Ravnos