Deck Building challenge: Sylvester Simms

Hello all,
Because of family reasons I have not been able play any VtES recently, but I have been amusing myself by coming up with convoluted ideas for decks. Here one of my latest demented plots, use Sylvester Simms special as an actual oust mechanish.

Make sylvester go torpor several times each turn, to remove pool from whole table, bleed hard enough to make sure your prey is first to fall and bloat so you don't die yourself. That's the basic premise. I'd like to see your take on this. Below is my first draft to use as starting point, though it's still missing the bloat / survival part.

Cheers, let your inner Malkavians loose.

Sylvester Simms
ani dom pre AUS OBF
Malkavian
Capacity: 8
Group: 1
Camarilla primogen: If Sylvester goes into torpor, each Methuselah burns 1 pool.

Deck Name: Sylvester Simms torpor machine v0.1
Author: Mikko Moisander
Description:
Put fortitude on Sylvester. Bleed, hunt or do table actions and each time play daring the dawn to sent sylvester in torpor netting damage to whole table. Repeat as many times as you can rescue sylvester and untap him. Hopefully your actions hurt your prey faster than other players, you included.

Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=1 max=8 avg=4.5)
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1x Giuliano Vincenzi 2 for Gangrel:1
1x Juan Cali 3 aus for !Ventrue:2
1x Leon 3 ani for !Gangrel:2
1x Lolita 3 for pre !Toreador:2
1x Lázár Dobrescu 3 for Ravnos:2
1x March Halcyon 1 for Pander:2
1x Miriam Benyona 5 for obe AUS Salubri:2
1x Rufina Soledad 2 for Ventrue:1
4x Sylvester Simms 8 ani dom pre AUS OBF Malkavian:1

Library (60 cards)
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Master (15)
3x Agent of Power
1x Antediluvian Awakening
5x Fortitude
1x Giant's Blood
1x Humanitas
1x Powerbase: Montreal
1x Rack, The
2x Wider View

Action (15)
2x Army of Rats
5x Force of Will
2x Pulse of the Canaille
5x Rapid Healing
1x Renewed Vigor

Equipment (4)
1x Catacombs
1x Codex of the Edenic Groundskeepers
1x Seal of Veddartha
1x Soul Gem of Etrius

Action Modifier (15)
10x Daring the Dawn
5x Freak Drive

Combat (11)
4x Molotov Cocktail
4x Trap
3x Undead Persistence

Created with Secret Library v0.9.4e. (Apr 4, 2018 11:41:33)

What about using AUS to stay alive longer and pressure your prey more. By using AUS + fortitude support vamps you can do that. Also there's good synergy with NEC / OBE here:



Also a few conditionings wouldn't hurt:

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Deck Name: Sylvester Simms (alt crypt + aus)
Description: Torn between Mathias and Miriam / crypt ratios could be improved.

Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=3 max=8 avg=5.666667)
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1x Isabel de Leon 3 AUS Toreador:2
3x Matthias 7 nec AUS FOR OBE Salubri:2
1x Miriam Benyona 5 for obe AUS Salubri:2
4x Sylvester Simms 8 ani dom pre AUS OBF Malkavian:1
1x Billy 5 dom for AUS Ventrue antitribu:2
2x Agaitas, The Scholar of Antiquities6 for AUS NEC Harbinger of Skulls:2

Library: 66 cards

Master (19 cards)
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4x Fortitude
1x Giant's Blood
1x Humanitas
1x Antediluvian Awakening
1x Powerbase: Montreal
1x Rack, The
3x Villein
2x Wider View
2x Blood Doll
3x Agent of Power

Action (12 cards)
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3x Force of Will
2x Possession
3x Rapid Healing
3x Renewed Vigor
1x Daemonic Possession

Action Modifier (15 cards)
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4x Freak Drive
3x Conditioning
8x Daring the Dawn

Combat (8 cards)
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4x Hidden Strength
2x Soak
2x Weighted Walking Stick

Equipment (3 cards)
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1x Seal of Veddartha
1x Soul Gem of Etrius
1x Catacombs

Reaction (9 cards)
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4x Eyes of Argus
2x My Enemy's Enemy
3x Telepathic Misdirection

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Using lord of serenity could work quite well, I had decent results with it in gangel "torpor Olympics" style decks with catacombs and humanitas.(they add stealth, unsure if it actually reduced the card cost, its been awhile, but I feel like you still have to pay for it...)
You could cut in spirit marionette action with the outferior usable as a computer hacking as well.

I understand that Baltimore Purge (BP) not only puts you in torpor, but creates a bunch of table actions, some of which can give you blood.

..And if you are using BP and have fortitude on Sylvester (SS), Renewed Vigor is a good add. SS can use it at outferior to bounce right back from torpor during untap, and if you have a wingman with OBE, you can use it to fill him, which you will likely need to do if he is traveling in and out of torpor so much. I see you have one in your deck already; that’s a start!

Cheers!

Killiam wrote:

I understand that Baltimore Purge (BP) not only puts you in torpor, but creates a bunch of table actions, some of which can give you blood.

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So general idea:

4 Sylvester Simms
3 Leandro
3 Lucian
1 Greger Anderssen
1 Gilbert Duane

Masters:
Tension itR
Fame
Madness Network
Carver's MPS

Actions:
Baltimore Purge
Alastor -> helicopter, catacombs
Banishment
Gregory Winter
Ossian
Offensive Politics

Events:
White Nights Massacre

Stealth

Standard reaction package

... ?