Celerity gun

Hi,

I would like to play a celerity gun deck.
I found the following deck list from April 15th 2007:

Deck Name: Art of Memory: CEL Guns
Author: Iñaki Jimenez (RedVenom)
Description:
Vitoria, Spain

Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=3 max=5 avg=4.5)
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1x Brachah 5 for CEL PRE Brujah:2
1x Dodd 5 dom pre CEL !Brujah:2
1x Jimmy Dunn 4 for CEL POT Pander:2
1x Parmenides 4 qui CEL Assamite:2
1x Sarah Brando 3 CEL !Brujah:2
1x Scarlet Carson O'Toole 4 pro CEL !Gangrel:3
1x Skryta Zyleta 5 obf pot pro CEL !Gangrel:3
1x Steve Booth 5 pot pre pro CEL Brujah:3
1x Victor Revell, Loyalist 5 aus dem pre CEL !Toreador:2
1x Victor Tolliver 4 pot CEL !Brujah:2
1x Volker, The Puppet Prince 5 pot CEL Brujah:2
1x Yusuf, Scribe of Alamut 5 aus obf qui CEL Assamite:2

Library (80 cards)
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Master (11)
6x Blood Doll
2x Fame
2x Frontal Assault
1x Tension in the Ranks

Event (1)
1x Dragonbound

Action (10)
10x Bum's Rush

Equipment (8)
8x .44 Magnum

Combat (50)
6x Blur
8x Concealed Weapon
5x Flash
10x Psyche!
8x Pursuit
2x Side Strike
5x Sideslip
6x Taste of Vitae

I like the deck list, but this Tournament Winning Deck is from 2007.
How can it be improved?
What about the following ideas/cards?

- more rush-cards ?
- Zeyphyr ?
- Fleetness ?
- Dragon Breath Rounds ?
- Flurry of Action ?
- Haven Uncovered ?
- Why Flash? Only Pursuit and Psyche might be better ?
- Group 1/2 with Black Cat instead of Group 2/3 ?

auspex + celerity is generally better because you can work re actively to block what you need. It takes fewer combat cards to work effectively. I generally shy away from the pool cost of .44s and use mostly weighted walking sticks instead. Fewer cards to be effective at the cost of getting to avoid close range damage.

One thing I would change about the current deck is using more copies of Sarah Brando. Incidental votes are good so Volker is a good one to have 2 copies, just he is more likely to be contested. Black Cat is good for saving you pool, but it won't be that much pool. Not sure that's worth it. The Blood Doll + taste bloat mechanic seems solid given that you have many midcaps.

One new card to include would be Scourge of the Enochians. Little 1-2 caps could get in the way of your rush actions. I would also include 1-2 fleetness in case of Dark Influences, but also to give you +1 stealth. Some Resist Earth's Grasp could be a good source of stealth. It can also stand in for some Flash. Your combat is mostly free, so you don't need too much blood most of the time.

Here is my version:

Deck Name: MiniGun
Author:
Description:


Crypt (Capacity min=1 max=5 avg=3.5; 12 cards)
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1x Dodd 5 dom pre CEL !Brujah:2
2x Jimmy Dunn 4 for CEL POT Pander:2
1x Rigby, Crusade Vanguard 5 aus pot CEL PRE !Brujah:2
2x Sandra White 1 Caitiff:3
2x Sarah Brando 3 CEL !Brujah:2
2x Scarlet Carson O'Toole 4 pro CEL !Gangrel:3
2x Victor Tolliver 4 pot CEL !Brujah:2

Library (90 cards)
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Master (9 cards)
2x Blood Doll
2x Fame
1x Gang Territory
1x Rumor Mill, Tabloid Newspaper, The
1x Secure Haven
1x Tension in the Ranks
1x Yawp Court

Event (1 cards)
1x Dragonbound

Action (27 cards)
2x Abbot
5x Fleetness
9x Flurry of Action
2x Games of Instinct
9x Rumble

Equipment (10 cards)
9x .44 Magnum
1x Codex of the Edenic Groundskeepers

Reaction (3 cards)
3x On the Qui Vive

Combat (40 cards)
9x Concealed Weapon
13x Psyche!
13x Pursuit
5x Taste of Vitae

Created with Secret Library v0.9.4c. (Apr 12, 2015 05:00:18)

Once you remove Parmenides (which you probably should do anyway if you don't want to give your predator 4 pool), all the good vampires are Sabbat, and Sabbat has a lot of nice tech to play in a combat deck. Rumble in particular is crucial: cel gun badly needs extra cycling to dig into the guns or discard them depending on the time.

You should probably focus your crypt more anyway: no point in having 12 different vampires when you cannot afford more than 4 on the table. The 4 caps make this deck.

What?
No Infernal Pursuit!?

@brandonsantacruz: Do you have a deck list with using weighted walking sticks ?
That could be really interesting, too.
Thanks.

schabowski wrote:

@brandonsantacruz: Do you have a deck list with using weighted walking sticks ?
That could be really interesting, too.
Thanks.

I have not made a CEL wws rush deck, but I have done it with weenie assamites with celerity and anarch rush. There are some tournament winning decks that feature WWS + CEL rush. I can't find one that is pure CEL without auspex.

Here's an interesting one:

Deck Name: German ECQ 2013: "Tai Chi Walking Stick Form" by Miller & his students
Author: Andreas Nusser
Description:
Winner of the German ECQ 2013. So far I have played this deck for 6 games. 3 Game Wins and some VPs in the other games. Seems pretty solid deck construction to me and the cards are very balanced. Miller is important but not a key vampire that you have to rely uopn.

Fleetness are great in combination with Palla Grande. Always had enough forward pressure. Art Scams were extremelly important for blood gain and saved me a lot of times.

Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=2 max=8 avg=6.33)
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1x Carter 2 cel !Toreador:2
2x Greta Kircher 7 obf AUS CEL PRE !Toreador:2
1x Ian Wallingford 6 aus CEL PRE !Toreador:2
1x Mercy, Knight Inquisitor 5 cel dom pre AUS !Toreador:2
4x Miller Delmardigan, Teacher of Bahari 8 aus pro CEL PRE !Toreador:2
2x Sheila Mezarin 6 cel for AUS PRE !Toreador:2
1x Victor Revell, Loyalist 5 aus dem pre CEL !Toreador:2

Library (90 cards)
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Master (19)
1x Art of Pain, The
2x Blood Doll
1x Celerity
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Fetish Club Hunting Ground
1x Hungry Coyote, The
1x KRCG News Radio
4x Palla Grande
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
2x Perfectionist
3x Vessel

Action (25)
2x Abbot
7x Art Scam
12x Fleetness
4x Patronage

Equipment (2)
1x Bowl of Convergence
1x Ivory Bow

Action Modifier (4)
4x Aire of Elation

Reaction (12)
2x Eagle's Sight
2x Eyes of Argus
2x My Enemy's Enemy
4x On the Qui Vive
1x Quicken Sight
1x Telepathic Misdirection

Combat (25)
6x Pursuit
4x Side Strike
4x Sideslip
5x Taste of Vitae
6x Weighted Walking Stick

Combo (3)
3x Resist Earth's Grasp

Created with Secret Library v0.9.4c. (Apr 12, 2015 21:44:13)