Malk 94

Hi,

I need help with my Malk 94 deck.
It is quite ok, but not perfect yet.
Maybe you have some good ideas how to improve it.
I wnat to play the deck at european, expecially german tournaments.
Thank you.

Vampires (12):
1 Laurent de Valois, cap 4, dom, obf
1 Roland Bishop, cap 4, dom, obf
1 Badr al-Budur, cap 5, dom, OBF
1 Count Ormonde, cap 5, dom, OBF
1 Didi Meyers, cap 5, DOM, obf
1 Zebulon, cap 5, dom, OBF
2 Reverend Blackwood, cap 6, DOM, obf
2 Gilbert Duane, cap 7, DOM, OBF
2 Mariel, Lady Thunder, cap 7, DOM, OBF

Library (90 cards)
Master cards(17):
1 Anarch Troublemaker
1 Barrens, The
4 Blood Doll
1 Coven, The
1 Direct Intervention
2 Dreams of the Sphinx
1 Giant's Blood
1 Misdirection
1 Pentex(TM) Subversion
4 Wash

Actions (15):
15 Govern the Unaligned

Combo (4):
4 Swallowed by the Night

Reaction cards(16):
7 Deflection
2 Delaying Tactics
3 On the Qui Vive
4 Wake with Evening's Freshness

Action Modifier(37):
4 Bonding
4 Cloak the Gathering
8 Conditioning
4 Elder Impersonation
4 Faceless Night
2 Foreshadowing Destruction
6 Lost in Crowds
4 Spying Mission
1 Veil the Legions

Allies(1):
1 Muddled Vamire Hunter

Drop blood dolls for 2 vessels. Cut back size in general. You hope to get 2+ vps before most stuff matters, so more than 1 dt is probably not helpful. Everything needs to help oust, so cut back reactions. Drop to like 10-12 gtu, add in command of the beast. Drop one or two impersonations, and probably drop gb, unless its to ruin other ppls game.

ReverendRevolver wrote:

Drop blood dolls for 2 vessels. Cut back size in general. You hope to get 2+ vps before most stuff matters, so more than 1 dt is probably not helpful. Everything needs to help oust, so cut back reactions. Drop to like 10-12 gtu, add in command of the beast. Drop one or two impersonations, and probably drop gb, unless its to ruin other ppls game.

I strongly agree with the "cut in size in general", this kind of deck is great in 75 card and the reaction remarks.

But you need 13/15 GtU for 75 cards because you absolutely need one in your opening hand and 2 is way better !!

Command of the beast is crap. It means a +1 bleed in 1 card when you would rather have +2 with a GtU or +3 with a conditioning. And really, even if for some reason you have only 2 bleeders, you will have difficulty bleeding for 6 with both of them so a command will basically be better being a conditioning in most cases.

And for GB, bleeding with is very costly so I would keep it.

my additional remarks would be to drop 1 blackwood for 1 ozmo. OK he doesn't have so no GtU sup for him BUT when you are stuck with 4 stealth cards and 3 reactions in hand, Ozmo still bleed for 2 !!

And for proportion, I have had great result with about 22 "stealth cards" (including bonding and seductions which are great for cycling if nobody blocks you) for 75 cards total

The deck looks fine to me. You could cut it to 80 carts, but don't do anything Rev said.

Which cards would you take out to reduce the deck size to 80 cards?

schabowski wrote:

Which cards would you take out to reduce the deck size to 80 cards?

-2 blood doll, change the 4 wash to 2 sudden reversal, -1 muddle (the action is not a bleed for 5 and it can be stolen and used to wreck you)= -5 cards

-1 faceless night, -1 bonding, -1 conditioning, -1 govern, -1 elder impersonation. = -5 more cards.

If you prefer maybe take out more stealth and leave in more +bleed. You won't be getting blocked much either way. You could substitute in some Seduction to save blood and cycle cards better. This is especially good if there are annoying +1 intercept guys at the table. Consider Fragment of the Book of Nod and Heart of Nizchetus for extra card cycling. With the right cards in hand you can blast through two preys without too much resistance.