Themistocles- How to use him?

Has anyone used Themistocles?

Themistocles
AUS CEL FOR POT pre
Brujah
Capacity: 8
Group: 5
Camarilla: Themistocles may burn a location as a action that costs 1 blood.

His ability is cool, but is there a deck that makes it worthwhile to feature him in significant quantities?

brandonsantacruz wrote:

Has anyone used Themistocles?

Themistocles
AUS CEL FOR POT pre
Brujah
Capacity: 8
Group: 5
Camarilla: Themistocles may burn a location as a action that costs 1 blood.

His ability is cool, but is there a deck that makes it worthwhile to feature him in significant quantities?

Well, playing him combatty with Count Germaine and Dmitra would be pretty obvious to me. Getting the guys and gals up should be doable with Minion Taps and Tastes of Vitae, and you could splash a few Voter Captivations while making friends with Dmitra's special.

The main thing here is Forced March. Sometimes a plain 1 Stealth is enough to get you through, and whacking pool generators is mighty fine. Multiact to tool up with Preternatural Strengths and Heroic Mights, and the rest should be obvious. I'd play these guys rather toolboxy.

Ousting with Fames, Dragonbound and Presence bleeds. It might work.

I agree with Claus. Note that Armin Brenmer work too and give you both votes and a useful special. With Iron Glare to boot you can do a deck that vote and bleed well, with multiact, stealth, and S:CE.

Huh, he works well with either Osebo or Ishtarri; even !Ventrue or HoS. Interesting. Whatever.

The built-in arson special is cool, but I don't think it's anything I would find worth building a deck around.

Well, what did you want to do with him? As an anarch, besides bounce/reduce and multiact and working 3-ways, he's all around solid support. He could be worth building a deck around because he could be a centerpiece for various different clans. For example, if you wanted to run a !Ven + Bru/!Bru anarch deck, well, here's your capstone guy.

I'm on a bleed reduction design trip currently, so here's what I currently notice: he can bleed reduce for 5 with 3 cards, Telepathic Counter, Friend of Mine, + Banner of Neutrality. Not that I'd recommend focusing on construction to overload on bleed reduce, but an interesting thing nonetheless. Yes, yes, "bounce is best" I know. But there's something to be said for reduction as it leaves you up and saves your bounces (if you have 'em) for the nastier bleeds.

Anyway, I'd run Gear Up for extra stealth and then at least Freak, Forced March -- possibly Flurry of Action -- and the more-than-obvious Diversion. Could be a fun anarch foundation for craziness.

Thermosticles has seen in my meta as a support for a Count Germaine Rush with Dmitra. They make a fairly powerful trio and with a good mix of rush and cards like Heart of the City, you can get some serious multi-smash. Slow your predator up, then focus forward and soften up any vampire that need a little loving...