Black Hand Thuggees!

mika wrote:

75 cards might be too low for a this deck and i've tried to counter inconsistency here by having dreams, admonitions, weeping stone and the heart. They should help me cycling the cards i need at the moment.

The only decks that need 90 cards are extreme outliers like Una, certain kind of CEL-weenies or decks with 10x Liquidation. Everything else is better with 60-80 cards. The transition to small decks is a bit of a leap of faith but trust me, once you try it in practice you'll never want to go back.

Considering the bleeding: Occasional bleed plus could do well but i don't really know how to fit computer hacking in this deck. Kamut is such a good card and saves me a lot pool as well as gives me speed influence. Conceals i consider too valuable to leave out. On the other hand, 6 minions at average should be able to create a bleed threat enough as a default.

With 6-8x Art of Memory, 3-4 Reunion Kamuts go a long way.

Conceals seem a little dubious to me. Even when there's a really good target on the table a stealth bleed deck should be better off by spending the action on either bleeding or creating more bleeders.

Lönkka wrote:

Petri made a Obf/Thuggee deck and qualified with it on FCQ at Paris.

He might have some pointers...

Yeah, I went against it in the Fee Stake: Helsinki I finals, I think. Between the Thugs, Saulot, obf/dom and Presence-bleed on the table, Thugs were the deck I was most worried about.

I wish i had even 6 of Arts...

Tuning down the deck size will propably make it work faster and better.

I should have several extra Arts...

Latest version:

Since there are 37 obf cards, i came to a conclusion that i want to keep obf-disciplines here to max out all the obf cards effects. Additional bleed and Art of Memory's could also fit here but i don't know what to take out.

I'll have to test the deck to see how the card ratios work & cycle in general. On the other hand, by discarding all the reactions the deck size will come down to 79 cards...

CRYPT:

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Piotr Andreikov 2 aus
Roger Farnsworth 4 OBF aus
Colonel, The 5 cel dem obf AUS
Gabriel de Cambrai 5 aus cel dem obf pre
Nails 5 ani obf pro POT
Skryta Zyleta 5 obf pot pro CEL
Ingram Frizer 6 ani pot AUS OBF
Reza Fatir 6 obf pro CEL QUI
4 x Anarch convert


LIBRARY: 89

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Master: 13
6 x Discipline: Obfuscate
2 x Dreams of the Sphinx
Drop Point network
Information highway
Admonitions
Weeping stone
Tribute to the master

Action: 15
10 x Reunion kamut
3 x Conceal
2 x Clotho's gift

Action mod: 33
5 x Cloak the gathering
4 x Faceless night
4 x Lost in crowds
4 x Spying mission
3 x Swallowed by the night
5 x Veil the legions
3 x Forgotten labyrinth
3 x Art of memory
2 x Monkey Wrench


Ally: 14
2 x Cry wolf
8 x Marijava Thuggee
Young bloods
Ossian
Vagabond mystic
Impundulu


Equipment: 2
Guarded Rubricks
Heart of nitzchetus


Reaction: 10
4 x Confusion of the eye
4 x OTQV
2 x Telepathic misdirection


Event: 2
Unmasking
FBI Special affairs division

Lönkka wrote:

Suoli wrote:

I believe this deck type has serious tournament level potential.

Petri made a Obf/Thuggee deck and qualified with it on FCQ at Paris.

He might have some pointers...

My version was an obf/aus mix, and used the Thuggees mostly as blockers and bleeders; I quite rarely got to use the " 1 pt damage" special ability on the Thuggees. A few camera phones to boost that bleed of 1 to a 2, but mostly it was a swarm bleed affair with *lots* of obfuscate and some auspex for defense. Unmasking to make the Thuggees into cheap blockers.

Were I to rebuild it, I'd put more Art of Memory in it

I didn't have any Reunion Kamuts in mine, because my thinking was I wanted to have as many vampires out as possible (to enable more Thuggees). Of course, some Reunions do make sense, but in general with a Thuggee deck you need lots of controlled black hand minions out.