Toreador: Starter Deck Keepers of Tradition

If we want to make something "combaty" out of the three toreador starters, i would suggest something like this:

Deck Name: Toreador 3 starters
Author:
Description:

Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=3 max=8 avg=5.444444)
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1x Gwendolyn Fleming 6 cel pro AUS PRE Toreador:5
1x Tyler McGill 4 pre AUS Toreador:5
1x Vasily 6 aus pre ser CEL Toreador:5
1x Bret Stryker 4 CEL PRE Toreador:6
2x Catalina Vega 8 for AUS CEL PRE Toreador:6
2x Flavio Goncalves 7 aus for CEL PRE Toreador:6
2x Mkhokheli 6 aus cel for PRE Toreador:6
1x Nik Sikko 3 cel pre Toreador:6
1x Tamoszius 5 aus CEL PRE Toreador:6

Library: 80 cards

Master (13 cards)
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1x Art Museum
1x Auspex
3x Aching Beauty
1x Society Hunting Ground
5x Villein
1x Celerity
1x Creepshow Casino

Action (12 cards)
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6x Enchant Kindred
1x Entrancement
5x Public Trust

Action Modifier (4 cards)
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4x Aire of Elation

Action Modifier/Combat (6 cards)
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6x Resist Earth's Grasp

Political Action (3 cards)
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2x Parity Shift
1x Toreador Justicar

Combat (14 cards)
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3x Psyche!
6x Pursuit
3x Taste of Vitae
2x Concealed Weapon

Equipment (7 cards)
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1x Ivory Bow
2x Sniper Rifle
1x Bowl of Convergence
3x Desert Eagle

Reaction (21 cards)
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6x On the Qui Vive
4x Second Tradition: Domain
8x Telepathic Misdirection
3x Eagle's Sight

Thanks a million for getting back with your suggestion. I’ll put that deck together and give it a try in our next home game.

Once again, thanks for your help. Very much appreciated.

Lankweird, the Tournament Winning Deck Archive Alf referred to is amazing archive of winning decks from past tournaments.

www.vekn.fr/decks/twd.htm

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Many thanks! Appreciate the help.

If you can get your hands on some Anne-Marie Bourgeois, Inconnu Recruiter (not too hard to get I think) and play her with a compatible group (5-6 or 4-5), that's awesome because Toreador combat relies on equipment, as you may have already guessed.

These decks usually play .44 Magnum (the best weapon around, even better with Celerity) with Concealed Weapon to equip them. You can also play with Berettas, maybe with some Dragon's Breath Rounds, but that's a more unrealiable, fun deck.

Toreador with guns are usually kinda blocky and you can defend your pool and some useful master cards (The Rack, Powerbase: Montreal). What I like about them is the possibility of playing Toreador Grand Ball and defend it, to make your actions unblockable (also equipping), but that requires a small vampire to dance. With the Toreador from V5, you can even make several actions unblockable because they have a splash of Fortitude to play Forced March, so Mkhokheli for example could equip a .44 Magnum unblockably, untap with Forced March and do some other actions (rush unblockably? Parity Shift?).

>You can also play with Berettas, maybe with some Dragon's Breath Rounds, but that's a more unrealiable, fun deck.
Beretta is a joke, it should be never used.
For DBR it's much better to use Saturday-Night Special, but it's very risky way where you quickly end up without weapons & pool. I would not advice it to new player as it require very good estimation of when to use it, Magnum is guns gold standard for the reason.