princes and corpses

Deck Name: princes and corpses
Author: D-
Description: Start with a prince or Dmitra and try to look like a harmless lawfirm. Then bring it on with Angel and spawn a new corpse every turn.
This is still the first version of the deck. I just wanted to see if the trick - Angel + Reanimated Corpse + a lawfirm to fill Angel - would work. In the casual games I have played it, it did ok but I ran out of cards in every game.
The idea came from a poor attempt of building a lawfirm-with-something-special. I got bored running around the ventrue store and started looking outside.


Crypt (Capacity min=3 max=9 avg=5.5; 12 cards)
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5x Angel Chavarria 3 THN Samedi:6
1x Dmitra Ilyanova 9 obf CEL FOR POT PRE Brujah:5
2x Graham Gottesman 7 obf pre tha DOM FOR Ventrue:5
2x Lodin (Olaf Holte) 8 aus pro DOM FOR PRE Ventrue:5
2x Victor Donaldson 6 for pre DOM Ventrue:5

Library (72 cards)
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Master (17 cards)
3x Blood Doll
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Fortitude
2x Information Highway
3x Life in the City
1x Lilith's Blessing
3x Villein
2x Wider View

Action (14 cards)
6x Fifth Tradition: Hospitality
4x Fourth Tradition: The Accounting
4x Restoration

Political Action (3 cards)
3x Parity Shift

Ally (8 cards)
8x Reanimated Corpse

Action Modifier (5 cards)
5x Freak Drive

Reaction (12 cards)
5x Deflection
3x On the Qui Vive
4x Second Tradition: Domain

Combat (13 cards)
5x Majesty
8x Soak

Created with Secret Library v0.9.4a. (Dec 30, 2012 00:29:26)

How do you intend to oust?
Bleeds for two with reanimated corpses and the occasional Parity Shift.

How do you intend to keep from being ousted?
Second Tradition, Deflection, Majesty

What do you want your ready region to look like (ie, how many guys are you planning on getting out)?
Angel, 2 to 3 reanimated corpses, 2 princes/dmitra

What do you want your average turn to look like?
Recruit a corpse, fill angel with Fifth tradition or Dmitra

What's your metagame like? How do your opponents play?
A bit of everything.

What problems have you observed with the deck in play?
I ran out of cards on every occasion I played the deck, but not after getting 2 vps. I think it could use a bit more ousting power from the princes part. I could add some govern/conditioning, but then I would sacrifice dmitra from the crypt.

Any feedback is welcome, here or in #vtes

D-

Charisma instead of (or in addition) to Fortitude to make those Corpses last a little longer?

Pulled Fangs for those that block your Corpses only able to do hands-for-1?

D-dennis wrote:

a harmless lawfirm

Does not compute.

I would replace the Fourth Traditions with Governs: it is not worth losing the bleed effect just for a single copy of Dmitra.

If Angel gets stolen you're in a tight spot. You could add spontaneous power to give someone else thn as a backup

In the current environment which has lots of aggravated damage, in a Reanimated Corpse deck where your vampires can play , I think that Armor of Vitality is far superior to Soak.

KevinM wrote:

In the current environment which has lots of aggravated damage

How do you know that ?

Apart from that, I agree wholeheartedly, since Armor tend to perform very well even against non-aggravated damage. Especially since corpse can't play sup' soak and princes can use Majesty.

Don't you fear that Angel get blocked ?