seeking advice: another crappy deck

Alex wrote:

Played 2 games and ousted first both games..Game one: sat between Brujah Black Cat Arms dealers and Nana ANI. Game 2: Sat between weenie pot and Blood Brothers Mexico City. Deck was effectively worthless both games. On paper it looks strong but seeking advice.

Deck Name: Lily Grind> Anarch grinder with White Lily
Author: Alex Orzulak
Description: White Lily and Hackerspace anarch grinder. With Anarchs in play, Lily Sibyls for Hackerspaces to grind with cheap weapons.

Ok, but what's the strategy? You play both melee weapons and guns. I'd rather focus on close or long range, and considering that you won't play real combat, on long rang to avoid taking damage (or being Grappled). Your crypt is not a grinder crypt considering the lack of superior Fortitude. And if you really want to play grinder, !Ventrue are far better.
No, you want to focus on White Lily and guns! So that should be your guiding light.

Alex wrote:

Crypt (15 cards; Capacity min=1 max=8 avg=5.375)
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5x Anarch Convert 1 -none- Caitiff:ANY
1x Joseph O'Grady 7 aus cel DOM FOR Ventrue antitribu:3
1x Katherine Stoddard 4 dom for Ventrue antitribu:3
1x Kyoko Shinsegawa 5 aus cel dom for Tremere:3
1x Louis Fortier (ADV) 5 aus dom for obf pre Ventrue:4
1x Neighbor John 5 dom for AUS Ventrue antitribu:4
1x Owain Evans, The Wanderer 8 cel pre AUS DOM FOR Ventrue antitribu:3
4x White Lily 8 cel dom for DEM OBF Malkavian antitribu:4

You don't need that many vampires. First of all, you must draw White Lily in your starting crypt. Then, you won't get that many vampires out.

I see you want to play celerity, which is a good thing to get maneuvers and additional strikes. There are a lot of cheaper vampire with cel / dom that are interesting: The other option would be OBF/dom (to get stealth and maneuvers with Swallowed by the Night) but the crypt is very expensive, so we'll forget that,

1x Mustafa, The Heir 6 FOR PRE cel dom prince Ventrue:4
1x Vassily Taltos 6 aus cel chi dom for obf Ravnos:4
1x Cristos Mantigo 5 aus cel dom obf pre !Toreador:3
1x Kyoko Shinsegawa 5 aus cel dom for Tremere:3
1x Victor Pelletier 5 PRE cel dom for Ventrue:4
1x Wah Chun-Yuen 5 POT cel dom pre !Brujah:3
1x Mosfair 4 cel dom tha !Tremere:4
1x Sheva Carr 4 aus cel dom Toreador:5

Mustafa and Victor could help you going the Prince way (Parity Shift). If you want to play Anarch, Victor is still a good vampire.

Alex wrote:

Master (15 cards)
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1x Anarch Free Press, The
1x Giant's Blood
4x Hackerspace
1x Perfectionist
1x Rack, The => what for?
1x Rötschreck => unreliable, unless you play a lot more of Flamethrowers
3x Vessel => not enough
1x Wall Street Night, Financial Newspaper => WRMH is far better
1x Wider View
1x Dreams of the Sphinx

Alex wrote:

Action (15 cards)
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2x Far Mastery => considering most vampires have only inferior Dominate, it's a bad card.
9x Govern the Unaligned
4x Sibyl's Tongue => I'm not convinced. It means that your deck is so bad you need to search for the cards you need instead of just drawing them.

No Make the Misere? or any other rush? Not a lot of them, but it can help you cycle your combat cards or shoot the right minion at the right time.

Alex wrote:

Action Modifier (3 cards)
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3x Memory Rift

Why not.

Alex wrote:

Action Modifier/Combat (2 cards)
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2x Swallowed by the Night

If you go the Celerity route, put cards that all your vampires can play instead.

Alex wrote:

Combat (21 cards)
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3x Hidden Strength
5x Rolling with the Punches
5x Taste of Vitae
8x Diversion

I'd rather play maneuvers instead of the prevent. Considering that White Lily has inferior Fortitude, you should play Superior Mettle or Skin of Steel instead of Rolling.

Alex wrote:

Retainer (1 card)
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1x Crypt's Sons

Looks good on the paper, but too complicated to make it work.

Alex wrote:

Equipment (7 cards)
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1x Flamethrower
3x Assault Rifle
1x Banshee Ironwail
1x Sengir Dagger
1x Bowl of Convergence

Replace all the weapons by Assault Rifles.

Alex wrote:

Reaction (24 cards)
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3x Eyes of Argus
5x Guardian Vigil
4x On the Qui Vive
2x Protection Racket
4x Quicken Sight
6x Deflection

It looks good, but intercept/fight is very complicated to balance (too much combat when you need intercept, too much intercept when you need combat). I'd drop a few intercept cards, put more Conditioning.