Card ideas to help bruise

I can understand you can make your prey accept to go to 10 or 12 pools, since she will not be that threatened yet. But, card knowledge problem notwithstanding*, how can you actually score a VP by convincing your prey not to deflect ?

First, by threatening you can often convince your prey to go a lot below 10 pool. For him it's always better to have less pool and some chances than to have his minions dead and no chances at all.
Second, when there is a moment when your bleeds can give you a VP why should you be afraid of decreasing your prey offense at all? It's the moment when you stop making deals with your prey and just kill the minions able to defend the pool and then the player.

I play a lot of combat decks, and I personally think Combat is also a viable oust method, so the initial assumption of Ousting only with vote and bleed is just an opinion. Otherwise Tension, Fame, Dragonbound, Leadership Vacuum, Path of Lilith and the like wouldn't exist.