Babalawonka's Trocholate Factory

this deck's inspiration came from this newsgroup post of Peter Bakija's HoS deck (stole the card ratios too), combined with new tech from Heirs to the Blood. It's not as strong in direct offense as Giovanni powerbleed since it lacks seduction and govern, but having Auspex provides a lot of flexibility in defense besides bouncing bleeds. Plus the clan cards are fun.

the basic idea is to bring out a few Slaughterhouses, not to deck your prey for Brinksmanship (so much tablehate), but to fuel steady Trochomancy bleeds. You'll need at least 3 of the vampires in play. Babalawo and/or Nicomedes can do amazing things with your hand flow. There's also lots of little tricks that combo with each other, see if you can find them all.

The one problem this deck constantly faces is the vampires running low on blood. This is one example where bloodline clans lacking a hunting ground really hurts. Every time I've played this I got Giants Blood first (Nicomedes helps with that) but in the long term I'm getting grinded down and empty.

played this during the NAC week of nightmares, where it got a table sweep and went to that tournament's final round. others were interested in what's in it, so here's the list.

Deck Name: Babalawonka's Trocholate Factory
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Description:

Crypt: (12 cards, Min: 18, Max: 27, Avg: 5.75)

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3 Babalawo Alafin ani AUS FOR NEC7 Harbingers of Skulls
1 Beatrice 'Oracle171' Tremblay VEN INN 3 Innocent
3 Nicomedes aus for nec vic 5 Harbingers of Skulls
2 Sennadurek dom AUS NEC 6 Nagaraja
3 Zygodat pot AUS NEC 6 Harbingers of Skulls

Library: (90 cards)

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Master (21 cards)
4 Blood Doll
1 Elder Library
1 Filchware`s Pawn Shop
1 Giant`s Blood
1 Insurance Scam
1 Lupine Assault
7 Slaughterhouse, The
2 Therbold Realty
1 Threestar Cab Company
1 Vast Wealth
1 Wider View

Action (5 cards)
1 Constant Revolution (I have never been able to play this.)
1 Restoration (Considering replacing this with Blood Tears of Kephran, since half the crypt lacks fortitude.)
3 Revelations

Action Modifier (22 cards)
10 Call of the Hungry Dead
12 Trochomancy

Reaction (22 cards)
4 Enhanced Senses
2 My Enemy`s Enemy
3 On the Qui Vive
2 Telepathic Counter
6 Telepathic Misdirection
5 Wake with Evening`s Freshness

Combat (6 cards)
3 Hidden Strength
3 Spiritual Intervention

Equipment (4 cards)
1 .44 Magnum
1 Erebus Mask
1 Palatial Estate
1 Shaal Fragment

Event (1 cards)
1 Port Authority

Conviction (1 cards)
1 Second Sight

Combo (8 cards)
8 Spectral Divination

Haze wrote:

this deck's inspiration came from this newsgroup post of Peter Bakija's HoS deck (stole the card ratios too), combined with new tech from Heirs to the Blood. It's not as strong in direct offense as Giovanni powerbleed since it lacks seduction and govern, but having Auspex provides a lot of flexibility in defense besides bouncing bleeds. Plus the clan cards are fun.

Heh heh. Yeah, that deck isn't at all bad.

Crypt: (12 cards, Min: 18, Max: 27, Avg: 5.75)

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3 Babalawo Alafin ani AUS FOR NEC7 Harbingers of Skulls
1 Beatrice 'Oracle171' Tremblay VEN INN 3 Innocent
3 Nicomedes aus for nec vic 5 Harbingers of Skulls
2 Sennadurek dom AUS NEC 6 Nagaraja
3 Zygodat pot AUS NEC 6 Harbingers of Skulls

As much as I love Beatrice in general, you have enough forward momentum in this deck that she could easily be replaced by, like, Tauratus and/or Prejudice. Nicomedes is ridiculously good.

Master (21 cards)
4 Blood Doll
1 Elder Library
1 Filchware`s Pawn Shop
1 Giant`s Blood
1 Insurance Scam
1 Lupine Assault
7 Slaughterhouse, The
2 Therbold Realty
1 Threestar Cab Company
1 Vast Wealth
1 Wider View

I can't imagine that Threestar Cab Company couldn't be something more useful. The Rack? The Coven?

Action (5 cards)
1 Constant Revolution (I have never been able to play this.)
1 Restoration (Considering replacing this with Blood Tears of Kephran, since half the crypt lacks fortitude.)
3 Revelations

Yeah, Constant Revolution seems like way too much of a stretch.

Action Modifier (22 cards)
10 Call of the Hungry Dead
12 Trochomancy

Solid.

Reaction (22 cards)
4 Enhanced Senses
2 My Enemy`s Enemy
3 On the Qui Vive
2 Telepathic Counter
6 Telepathic Misdirection
5 Wake with Evening`s Freshness

Reasonable.

Combat (6 cards)
3 Hidden Strength
3 Spiritual Intervention

I'd be inclined to maximize Spiritual Interventions, but with the .44 Magnum, probably not a bad choice.

Equipment (4 cards)
1 .44 Magnum
1 Erebus Mask
1 Palatial Estate
1 Shaal Fragment

Shaal Fragment ever pay off?

Event (1 cards)
1 Port Authority

Conviction (1 cards)
1 Second Sight

Combo (8 cards)
8 Spectral Divination

Port Authority ever do any good? I'm wondering if there is any synergy here I'm not noticing.

bakija wrote:

As much as I love Beatrice in general, you have enough forward momentum in this deck that she could easily be replaced by, like, Tauratus and/or Prejudice. Nicomedes is ridiculously good.

yeah Beatrice isn't too important and can be swapped out if you feel like it. I tend to leave Babalawo untapped on defense duty so having the extra bleeder helps. I tried Prejudice but every time I used Wider View I went fishing for Sennadurek instead, so I dropped him.

I can't imagine that Threestar Cab Company couldn't be something more useful. The Rack? The Coven?

heh, the one time I played Threestar (the first turn of the tourney finals) everyone asked, "you're seriously playing that crappy card?" but I profited at least 3 or so pool from it. I suppose a Coven + House of Sorrow package might be better overall.

Shaal Fragment ever pay off?

Lots. Having a hand size of 9 or 10 is so fun with Nicomedes. Also helps if I play Lupine Assault; I get to keep more cards than everyone else. Most people seem to completely ignore that they can steal it, and besides I'll steal it back and they'll have more cards in their ash heap. Though one time a !Ventrue Grinder deck stole it and I had too much trouble getting it back.

Port Authority ever do any good? I'm wondering if there is any synergy here I'm not noticing.

It only hurts defense instead of offense. With Nicomedes and/or Babalawo I should be less harmed by it myself. it has some nice synergy with Babalawo's ability, and that Lupine Assault :3

Haze wrote:

yeah Beatrice isn't too important and can be swapped out if you feel like it. I tend to leave Babalawo untapped on defense duty so having the extra bleeder helps. I tried Prejudice but every time I used Wider View I went fishing for Sennadurek instead, so I dropped him.

Anarch Convert? It would help you play Constant Revolution and open up Anarch Free Press/Hospital Food/Blood Turnip for blood gain.

Haze wrote:

yeah Beatrice isn't too important and can be swapped out if you feel like it. I tend to leave Babalawo untapped on defense duty so having the extra bleeder helps. I tried Prejudice but every time I used Wider View I went fishing for Sennadurek instead, so I dropped him.

Yeah, there is that--if you are using Wider View, it'll Prejudice will bite you, I'd imagine. Tauratus is totally solid here too. He can bleed for 2 with Trochomancy, block stuff, and hoses Blood Doll. Oh, wait. You are using Blood Doll. Heh.

I think my most recent version of this had Vessels and Lilith's Blessing to fill up and work with Tarautus.

heh, the one time I played Threestar (the first turn of the tourney finals) everyone asked, "you're seriously playing that crappy card?" but I profited at least 3 or so pool from it. I suppose a Coven + House of Sorrow package might be better overall.

Heck. Club Zombie will look good once and a while, too

Lots. Having a hand size of 9 or 10 is so fun with Nicomedes. Also helps if I play Lupine Assault; I get to keep more cards than everyone else. Most people seem to completely ignore that they can steal it, and besides I'll steal it back and they'll have more cards in their ash heap. Though one time a !Ventrue Grinder deck stole it and I had too much trouble getting it back.

That, and with the misprinted border, no one has any idea what it is in the first place!

It only hurts defense instead of offense. With Nicomedes and/or Babalawo I should be less harmed by it myself. it has some nice synergy with Babalawo's ability, and that Lupine Assault :3

Ah, yeah, I suppose that is completely reasonable--as you never actually have to discard in your discard phase, it might be worth playing. Funny.