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Here is my latest version of good old ventrue law-firm. I chose group 3-4 mainly because of the awesome Katarina Kornfeld whos +1 stealth is a major help. The two extra princes that would have got from group 5 both have only basic presence anyway which makes them rather lame for this kind of deck, and I have plenty enough princes here already I would think. Reason why there is 2 Johannes and only 1 Victorine who is better is simply to make better govern chain. Comments welcome as always.

Crypt:
1x Victor Pelletier
2x Mustafa, The Heir
1x Mukhtar Bey
2x Katarina Kornfeld
1x Victorine Lafourcade
2x Johannes Castelein
3x Lucinde, Alastor

Library: 90

Master: 18
1x Creepshow Casino
1x Dark Influences
1x Elysium: The Palace of Versailles
1x Giant's Blood
2x Island of Yiaros
1x Papillon
1x Pentex Subversion
2x Unnatural Disaster (Hello New Carthage!)
1x Ventrue Headquarters
5x Villein
2x Wider View

Action: 14
4x Enchant Kindred
2x Entrancement
4x Govern the Unaligned
4x Scouting Mission

Action Modifier: 20
4x Change of Target
2x Conditioning
8x Freak Drive
1x The Kiss of Ra
5x Voter Captivation

Combat: 11
6x Majesty
5x Rolling with the Punches

Political Action: 17
2x Ancilla Empowerment
2x Conservative Agitation
7x Kine Resources Contested
6x Parity Shift

Reaction: 10
5x Deflection
2x Second Tradition: Domain
3x On The Qui Vive

Klaital wrote:

Combat: 11
6x Majesty
5x Rolling with the Punches

Man, your friends must really like potence decks! If you deal with much combat, I'd throw in Elysium: Arboretum. Also, don't forget about Force of Personality. It's "stealth" for the Ventrue

It is a minor point, but I prefer to go 1x anarchist uprising + 1x ancilla empowerment rather than 2x of either just in case one gets delayed and the other pops up that turn.

brandonsantacruz wrote:

Man, your friends must really like potence decks! If you deal with much combat...

Well, in my environment, this would be considered a light protection from combat, just enough to keep those vital vamps from going into torpor all the time. After much cutting, my DoC deck has been barely surviving with 16 combat cards (8 S:CE and 8 prevents).

So yeah, depending on the meta, I'd even advise more combat prevention...

Klaital wrote:

2x Unnatural Disaster (Hello New Carthage!)

That's a good call. Instead of whining how mean New Carthage is to Ventrue you try to counter it. Thumbs up. And you threat to kill some more good locations by adding those cards.

I'd drop the Islands or have you made good use of it? In a Ventrue rush- or blockdeck it is strong I bet, but in this kind of deck?

Joscha wrote:

Klaital wrote:

2x Unnatural Disaster (Hello New Carthage!)

That's a good call. Instead of whining how mean New Carthage is to Ventrue you try to counter it. Thumbs up. And you threat to kill some more good locations by adding those cards.

I'd drop the Islands or have you made good use of it? In a Ventrue rush- or blockdeck it is strong I bet, but in this kind of deck?

Lucinde does have built-in rush which can wreck people in the end game with Island of Yiaros making her punch for 4. Its also a decent threat to make people not attempt to block everything I do because I can punch them for at least 3 with everyone except Katarina who has +1 stealth anyway.

Yup, Island is a nice addition to any Ventrue deck with votes, but IMHO you don't really need two of them, one is just enough.