Thrown Sewer Lid or Slam?

Joscha wrote:

I am working on a POT-Deck at the moment and wonder, if I should use rather Lids or Slams to get around possible maneuvers in other decks? Versus normal Animalismdecks and their Aid from Bat-combat Slam should be better, because after playing that card I can Immortal Grapple the other minion. I'm unsure against Guns or Ahrimanes though. What do you think?

I prefer Stunt Cycle which doesn't cost blood, prevent damange and works extremely well against animalism (since they usually don't have celerity).
Thrown Sewer Lid would be next, but Slam is bad since it costs 1.

A lot of decks move to long range by themselves, and the stunt cycles are then useful. If you're happy enough to fight against a deck that doesn't maneuver, just use one of your other combat cards and discard the Stunt Cycle later.
Of course, I won't play more than 5 Stunt Cycle, but you can play them in a deck with no maneuvers.
Besides, Bum's Rush provides a maneuver, and I think his potence deck plays some.

There are three possibilites:
1/ the opponent doesn't play any maneuver
2/ the opponent plays at most 1 maneuver (Aid from bats)
3/ the opponent plays many maneuvers (gun with cel, arhimane with swiftness)

Globally, if you want to add as few cards to handle this as possible, you musn't enter in a contest of maneuvers you'll lose but rather play long rang solutions, even if you won't be able to play Grapple (anyway, it's quite rare to play against a deck that plays both maneuvers and S:CE!)
Slam is not good I think because it's not necessary in case 1, costs too much in case 2 (compared to a free grid/sewer lid/stunt cycle) and is useless in case 3 (and costs blood).

Adding 5 Gates/Lids/Stunt cycles should be enough win some fights (you won't be able to win all of them anyway). Each of them has its own pros/cons.
Think about adding some Anarch Troublemaker if you play in an equipment heavy environment.