Malkavian Breed Boon

How do you intend to oust?

Swarm bleed and KRC

How do you intend to keep from being ousted?

Generate a massive amount of pool

What do you want your ready region to look like (ie, how many guys are you planning on getting out)?

~10 vampires

What do you want your average turn to look like?

Progeny + Boon

What problems have you observed with the deck in play?

Never played it yet

Deck Name: Malkavian Breed Boon
Created By: Mephistopheles


Crypt: (12 cards, Min: 17, Max: 28, Avg: 5,91)

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3 Greger Anderssen AUS dom OBF pro7 Malkavian
3 Gilbert Duane AUS DOM OBF 7 Malkavian
2 Ozmo AUS dom obf 6 Malkavian
1 Zebulon aus dom OBF pro5 Malkavian
1 Didi Meyers aus cel DOM obf5 Malkavian
1 Roland Bishop aus dom obf 4 Malkavian
1 Watenda obf 3 Malkavian

Library: (75 cards)

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Master (31 cards)
4 Parthenon, The
9 Obfuscate
9 Ashur Tablets
5 Liquidation
1 Papillon
1 Pentex Subversion
1 Asylum Hunting Ground
1 Wider View

Action (11 cards)
9 Third Tradition: Progeny, The
2 Psychic Veil

Action Modifier (10 cards)
2 Veil the Legions
2 Cloak the Gathering
2 Faceless Night
2 Lost in Crowds
2 Forgotten Labyrinth

Political Action (14 cards)
3 Malkavian Justicar
6 Consanguineous Boon
4 Kine Resources Contested
1 Neonate Breach

Reaction (6 cards)
3 Malkavian Rider Clause
3 Deflection

Event (1 cards)
1 Anthelios, the Red Star

Combo (2 cards)
2 Swallowed by the Night

What do you think of this deck? Could it become a Tier1 tournament deck?

Liquidation + Ashur Tablets is like crack cocaine to VTES players these days. Why does this deck need it? If you make a bunch of dudes and call a con boon, you will be gaining a ton of pool already. If you include more stealth instead of these extra master cards, your swarm vote can get it's actions through more effectively and even potentially bleed at stealth, too. Throw in suddens or something instead. Old Friends, a few govern, on the qui vive, and more deflection should go here. Maybe a vampire hunter to discourage rush?

The idea of Liquidation/Ashur here is to get rid of all those discipline cards (you are not cycling them back) while enabling early game pool gain. In the first couple of turns you can't generate enough pool gain with Con Boons.

Later in the game you can choose which cards you need to cycle back: stealth or krc/boon. What this deck needs and I just realised is Life Boon.

Oh, and of course it needs lilith's blessing

Well, it does look good on paper, no direct flaws that i can detect (and i especially like malkavian rider clause ), but :

1) When you pull your first minion out, and it is, say, Guilbert Duane, you know what the table is thinking... And more often than not, you will eat that first rush, after which your game is as good as over (no blood to make progeny, forced to hunt if not diablerised, bla,bla)

2) your stealth package looks really, really light to me, even to the point that you may have problems with the early unmasking from your prey

3) Which brings me to the third point : Scourge of enochians kills you dead. I would not leave home without a uncoiling in any breed deck (plus, kills dragonbound, and unmasking, and other nasty stuff which hurts you). Also, i would find a place for a delaying or two, as i cannot see you having the majority of votes, and Ancilla empowerment and anarchistic uprising are nasty against any breed deck. I would also maybe think about Elysium: The Palace of Versailles, for some extra vote power.

4) I really don't feel that this deck needs ashur/liquidation/ anthelies engine, nor gazillion masters. I know it's fashionable, and stuff B) but you may choke to death on msters if your parthenon does not show up early, and what is it so important that you need recursions for? Not to mention that you have dominate, and can make your pool by governing down. Also, playing at the table with 2 ashur decks is good for anybody NOT running ashur

Just my 2 cents...

I agree that the Ashur's/Liquidation/stuff combo doesn't really need to be here. I like the idea of dumping all those skillcards quickly, but you really don't need them all in the first place. Generally, if you have more than five progeny in play, the rest can get away with not having Obbfuscate since you're mainly relying on Veil the Legions and swarming to make your actions succeed at that point anyway. (And you should have more Veils in here.) A single copy of Barrens can get rid of unwanted skillcards for a lot less master-section overhead than what you're running here.

Consider some Cryptic Rider; on a vote-heavy table it can really shine for this kind of deck, since it allows you to chain Justicar votes and Rider Clauses in a way that'll surprise players who aren't expecting it. And for some reason, people rarely seem to expect Cryptic Rider, even from a deck like this where it's a natural fit.

Other stuff I agree with:
Suddens would be better than those other masters. You don't have a lot of offensive firepower here, so cancelling other players' poolgain is a good idea.
More stealth would be a good idea.
Uncoiling is a must.