Giovanni Preconstructed Starter Doubled

Challenge:
Combine and reduce 2 Lords of the Night Giovanni starter decks into the best single deck available.

See also: www.thelasombra.com/dbc/dbc.htm
Please explain why/how you make your decisions....

ARDB starter file attached.




Deck Name : Giovanni Preconstructed Starter Doubled
Author : L. Scott Johnson
Description :

Crypt [24 vampires] Capacity min: 3 max: 10 average: 6.16667

4x	Lady Constancia	(10)		2 votes	Giovanni	(group 4)
4x	Guillaume Giovanni	(9)			Giovanni	(group 4)
4x	Francis Milliner	(6)			Giovanni	(group 4)
4x	Margaret Milliner	(5)			Giovanni	(group 4)
4x	Primo Giovanni	(4)			Giovanni	(group 4)
4x	Nunzio Giovanni	(3)			Giovanni	(group 4)

Library [154 cards]

Action [38]
2x Chill of Oblivion
2x Compel the Spirit
4x Divine Sign
4x Dominate Kine
2x Ex Nihilo
2x Graverobbing
8x Harass
4x Jack of Both Sides
2x Possession
2x Siphon
2x Sudario Refraction
4x Whispers from the Dead

Action Modifier [16]
6x Call of the Hungry Dead
6x Conditioning
2x Forger's Hammer
2x Inspire Greatness

Action Modifier/Reaction [16]
8x Murmur of the False Will
8x Spectral Divination

Ally [8]
8x Shambling Hordes

Combat [26]
6x Brute Force
4x Concealed Weapon
4x Immortal Grapple
4x Slam
4x Taste of Vitae
4x Torn Signpost

Equipment [18]
6x Bang Nakh -- Tiger's Claws
6x Bundi
4x Camera Phone
2x Sargon Fragment, The

Master [20]
2x Giant's Blood
2x KRCG News Radio
2x Morgue Hunting Ground
2x Necromancy
4x Path of Bone, The
4x Proxy Kissed
4x Vessel

Political Action [8]
6x Reckless Agitation
2x Warrant

Reaction [4]
4x Eluding the Arms of Morpheus

Hey adonai would you be willing to do the ravnos and giovanni mashups?

muushupork wrote:

Hey adonai would you be willing to do the ravnos and giovanni mashups?

Its really hard to do anything worthile with this because the crypt is just so terrible.

Oh ok. I do have a lot of cards from Dark Sov. and LotN. Do you think it would be better to build from the precons and use those sets as well?

Well Dark Sovereigns has some good vampires, but, you would need the ones from Final Nights to go with them. Group 2-3 is by far the best group for giovanni. (Well just Lia Milliner from group 3, rest from group 2). Isabel Giovanni (starter only from FN), Gillespi Giovanni, and Andrea Giovanni (both from final nights boosters) are the trio that forms the main workhorse in most Giovanni decks, backed up by some of the others depending on what you want to do with the deck (Rodolfo if you want to recruit shamblers, Gloria, and Lia if you want to dominate bleed, etc)

Or if you want to go with group 4 ones from starters, you would need the ones from Kindred Most Wanted, Gehenna, and Legacies of Blood to go with them to get best worth for them. I think that most of the vampires can be gotten fairly cheaply from ebay though, the Final Nights ones especially since that set had huge print runs.

Ill have to start looking for the FN ones. I do have the KMW vamps so ill have to do this one on my own! Thanx!