Second Seraph

Haze wrote:

Library: (90 cards)
Action Modifier (13 cards)
5 Faceless Night
5 Lost in Crowds
Combo (2 cards)
2 Blood Awakening

An environment in which people don't try to block much, I'm guessing?

Kushiel wrote:

An environment in which people don't try to block much, I'm guessing?

Block all actions, or block no actions by vampires with black square/black diamond, is a frequent dichotomy chosen during deck design. Also, why would you block a bleed of 1 from a 7-9 cap vampire? Let that Flurry bleed thru. Bounce the increased bleeds if/after J.S. or Tasha or the Laptops make it into play.

The Seraph Tag-team idea is something i toyed w a while ago, but the Lasombra's listing of his Second Seraph was inspiration to finally put something down & build it.
This is the first attempt at it - heavy focus on Loss bleeds + Reunion/Leadership bloat at stealth
Ditched Leather Jacket at the last second & inserted an extra Lost in Crowds.

Played it on Sunday w an Arihmanes predator & weenie Fort prey.
The deck should've achieved at least 1 vp, but i forgot Khabar: Glory needs to be done first (Played a 2nd Tattoo first - duh!!) which meant on lunging i'd be 1 pool short of an oust (admittedly my grand-pred may have Eagle Sight blocked the last bleed anyway...). Then experienced massive card jam & no more stealth for the rest of the game. Mind you, by that stage i'd bloated to about 20 pool w 3 minions (Izhim burned at abt that point tho ;-( ).
Possibly if i could learn to be more patient maybe the result would've been different, in saving the losses & stealth in hand until a better moment later.


Deck Name: Jism & Douchbag
Author: technobabble66

Defense is v minimal

Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=6 max=9 avg=7.83)
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3x Djuhah, The Bronze Bow 7 aus cel pre OBF QUI Assamite:5
4x Izhim abd Azrael 9 pot CEL OBF QUI THA Assamite:5
1x Joe Boot Hill 7 for obf CEL QUI Assamite:4
2x Nizzam al-Latif 9 dem ANI CEL OBF QUI Assamite:5
2x Reza Fatir, The Dark Angel 6 obf pro CEL QUI Assamite:4

Library (90 cards)
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Master (23)
4x Ashur Tablets
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Giant's Blood
2x Heidelberg Castle, Germany
2x Information Highway
1x Path of Blood, The
2x Perfectionist
3x Villein
1x Watchtower: Four Ride Forth
2x Wider View
1x Yoruba Shrine
2x Zillah's Valley

Action (30)
6x Haqim's Law: Leadership
1x Khabar: Glory
9x Loss
1x Magic of the Smith
7x Reunion Kamut
1x Revelations
1x Rutor's Hand
4x Tattoo Signal

Equipment (4)
1x Guarded Rubrics
1x Laptop Computer
1x Leather Jacket
1x Sargon Fragment, The

Retainer (2)
1x J. S. Simmons, Esq.
1x Robert Carter

Action Modifier (24)
5x Art of Memory, The
2x Cloak the Gathering
1x Council of Seraphim
2x Deed the Heart's Desire
2x Elder Impersonation
2x Faceless Night
2x Lost in Crowds
4x Seraph's Second
2x Spying Mission
2x Veil the Legions

Reaction (2)
1x Confusion of the Eye
1x Truth in Ink

Combo (5)
2x Blood Awakening
3x Swallowed by the Night

Created with Secret Library v0.9.3. (Jul 26, 2011 05:11:41)


In restrospect, i'm looking at dropping:
1 heidelberg
watchtower:4 ride forth
Sargon frag
Seraph's 2nd
1 Art of Memory
Truth in Ink

Swap in:
Watchthower: chosen r called
2nd Confusion of the Eye
more stealth stuff - maybe Elder Imp, Blood Awakening, Deed of HD, Lost in Crowds

Obviously there's almost no defence or blocking. I just wanted to test this more pure focus to test it. It may need to eventually adopt a better spread of defence & block for resilience, similar to the Lasombra's version

Adonai wrote:

Block all actions, or block no actions by vampires with black square/black diamond, is a frequent dichotomy chosen during deck design. Also, why would you block a bleed of 1 from a 7-9 cap vampire? Let that Flurry bleed thru. Bounce the increased bleeds if/after J.S. or Tasha or the Laptops make it into play.

Okay...?

Can you explain the relevance of your post to my question re: Haze's metagame?

Kushiel wrote:

Can you explain the relevance of your post to my question re: Haze's metagame?

I am his metagame.
He played the deck as my prey.
There was no reason to believe that he wasn't playing with 'red' stealth, we are very familiar with the Bannister style of Assamites here.