Dominate w/Ravnos

After our discussions about dealing with the Girls decks, I got to thinking about Chimeristry. To lock down the !Gangrel who bounces 1x/turn, Nightmare Curse at AUS CHI should do nicely. Being that there are so many viable decks out there, focusing a bit more on stopping them shouldn't hurt the viability of the deck too much. Here's what I have so far. It is a bit too blood intensive, but seems interesting and toolboxy. It's not ready for the bigtime, so I'm looking for suggestions on what to cut/add to have enough blood, survivability and ousting power.

Edit: The name comes from Ravnos decks with dominate, just in reverse.

4 Dr. John Dee 9 AUS DOM THA chi prince, vote special, ventrue can't S:CE
4 Aidan Lyle 7 AUS CHI THA dom optional press each combat
1 Zane 5 THA aus dom primogen, can contest prince
1 Claus Wegener 5 DOM aus tha
1 Tarrence Moore 4 aus dom tha
1 Tarautas 4 aus tha blood doll and MT cost 1 more

Master: 23 (9 trifles)
5 Villein
2 Lilith´s Blessing
1 Perfectionist
1 Chantry
2 Arcane Library
2 Wash
1 Giant's Blood
6 Chimerstry
2 Wider View
1 Elysium: The Arboretum

Actions 13
4 Govern the Unaligned
5 Nightmare Curse
2 Sensory Deprivation
1 Fatuus Mastery
1 Blood of Sandman

Political Actions 1
1 Tremere Justicar

Equipment 2
2 Ankara Citadel, Turkey, The

Action Modifiers 17
7 Mirror Walk
1 False Resonance
2 Fata Morgana
1 Mirror's Visage
4 Conditioning
2 Seduction

Combo 8
4 Occlusion
4 Mirror Image

Events 1
1 Scourge of the Enochians

Combat 2
2 Theft of Vitae

Reactions: 23
2 Army of Apparitions
2 Ignis Fatuus (works better at basic chi than draba, plus has reduce)
4 On the Qui Vive
2 Wake with Evening's Freshness
2 Eyes of Argus
4 Telepathic Misdirection
2 My Enemy's Enemy
1 Enhanced Senses
4 Deflection

Problems that I see
-Blood intensive
-Slow to start
-Combat isn't super strong
-Master heavy

play environment:
varied. There are often too many votes to get vote lock. I'm jumping on that bandwagon.

Typical turn:
Try to lock down some minion and depending on the table situation, govern down, hunt, bleed, or leave some guys untapped. Ideally your pred lunges, your prey is partly locked down, you bounce a couple times to them and then finish them off.

I play my Nightmare Curse deck with Aidan, some !Tremere for Infernal Pact and some Ravnos with aus/chi (Gwen Brand, Johan Matheson). My deck lacks combat defence save the Mirror Images and the Occlusions. But it is quite able to bleed and lock down minions with NC. My first intention was to lock down my predator, because the player without pressure always wins (nearly). It's funny, but I didn't dare to bring it to a tournament yet.

Joscha wrote:

I play my Nightmare Curse deck with Aidan, some !Tremere for Infernal Pact and some Ravnos with aus/chi (Gwen Brand, Johan Matheson). My deck lacks combat defence save the Mirror Images and the Occlusions. But it is quite able to bleed and lock down minions with NC. My first intention was to lock down my predator, because the player without pressure always wins (nearly). It's funny, but I didn't dare to bring it to a tournament yet.

I had thought about going with Aiden + !Trem and it sounds more stable because it has a bunch of weenie vampires. One thing I considered if I was using !Trem was to use Rutors + Recure the Homeland. I saw that in some deck and it seemed like a good trick. With weenies, I might consider a hunting ground to help keep them fed and happy. I'm reluctant to play Coven because of how much blood (and often pool) you end up giving the rest of the table. Could do some tricks with Spirit Summoning Chamber, but then we're burning through pool in a hurry.

If you play that deck can you let me know how it does?