Lasombra Lay Low

kombainas wrote:

The sad truth is that only 1/4 of Amaranths result in significan bloodgain.

Especially with Burning Wrath, who will often burn 2 blood off the amaranthed vampires.

In a world full of villein, your amaranth will very rarely give you enough blood to pay for entombement+heal 1 damage+lay low

And it is worse when you add thoughts betrayed.

(you pay 5 bloods, take at least 1 hand damage and you have played 4 cards. It is not IMO a good trade...

Franz wrote:

1) How do you intend to oust?
Classic bruise and bleed.

Given the fairly toolboxy bruise-bleed nature of the deck, I'd be strongly tempted to find a little room for some card cycling. Dreams, The Barrens, Heart of Cheating, a couple of things like that. It's easy to find your combat going quite well and find you've drawn into loads of stuff you don't want right now, or that once you've nuked your prey, you want a better chance of drawing into that Conditioning etc.


Given that you have quite a lot of cards with blood costs, I might be tempted to switch back to Threats or Foreshadowign Destruction, rather than Conditioning.