Gangrel New Toolbox feat. Matasuntha

I like to play Gangrel and tried to build a Matasuntha deck.

FIFE different disciplines and no dominate, even after to games i am not sure if this is possible.
I need some suggestions to ompimize this deck and ideas how to oust better.

Here is my first try:
Deck Name: Matasuntha New Toolbox
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Description:

Crypt [12 vampires, average capacity: 7.41667]
5x Matasuntha ANI AUS CEL FOR PRO 10 Gangrel:5
1x Inyanga ANI AUS FOR PRO dom nec 9 Gangrel:4 primogen
2x Rosa Hernández ANI CEL FOR PRO 7 Gangrel:4
1x Dr. Sutton Gassaway FOR PRO ani aus 6 Gangrel:4
1x Gunnar PRO for 4 Gangrel:4
1x Calvin Cleaver for pro 3 Gangrel:4
1x Lillian ani pro 3 Gangrel:5

Library [84 cards]

Master [16]
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Ecoterrorists
1x Ennoia's Theater
1x Fame
1x Gangrel Revel
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Powerbase: Montreal
1x Rack, The
1x Rötschreck
2x Smiling Jack, The Anarch
5x Villein

Action [10]
3x Army of Rats
1x Gather
4x Gift of Proteus
2x Rewilding

Action Modifier [5]
3x Forced March
2x Instantaneous Transformation

Reaction [19]
2x Cats' Guidance
4x Eagle's Sight
1x Enhanced Senses
2x Eyes of Argus
1x Eyes of the Beast
3x On the Qui Vive
1x Quicken Sight
4x Sense the Savage Way
1x Sonar

Retainer [5]
5x Raven Spy

Combat [29]
2x Bear's Skin
3x Bone Spur
6x Claws of the Dead
8x Earth Meld
1x Flesh of Marble
3x Pursuit
2x Skin of Steel
1x Soak
3x Taste of Vitae

Crafted with: Anarch Revolt Deck Builder [Thu May 14 16:45:18 2015]

Things i want to change after the first two games:
- 1 Quicken Sight
- 1 Sonar
+ 2 Intercept Retainer
- 3 Gift of Proteus
+ 2 Deep Song (now its really toolbox)
+ 1 Forced March
+ 1 Instantaneous Transformation
- 2 Earth Meld
+ 1 Dragonbond ??????
- 1 Villein
+ 1 Wider view

The first two games went really good (0,5 VP + 3 VP/GW), so there are only minor changes.
There are a lot of combat decks in my meta.

Now my problems:
I need some more pressure on my prey
I want to go down to 75 cards if possible.
I want to take in a few Things, but there are already enough Action Cards.

Any help or ideas?

Gift of Proteus is a bad card, cut it entirely. Don't go below 80 cards because you are playing intercept combat. Cut the celerity angle, so 1x Rosa can be someone cheaper. Use villein+thing to breed and bloat. Don't forget giant's blood.

I like the star. I used him in an auspex + fortitude deck and managed to win vs blood brothers heavy combat. Rolling with the punches is your friend.

Without cel, Randall could be a very good option.

I would probably build it around matasuntha and weenies or drop all celerity and build around matasuntha, randall and weenies.
There are a lot of 1-2 copies of different cards that seems not needed. I would drop them all or increase their numbers if you need them, to make a deck more reliable, f.e. rotschreck, rewilding, eyes of the beast, soak, bear's skin, flash of marble

You can easily tweak this deck for ages ...

I would drop Inyanga, since she is rather big.

-1 Villein, +1 Wider View
-1 Smiling Jack, +1 Dragonbound

You could drop 4 cards of your Bone Spur/Claws of the Dead/Earth Meld package => 80 cards.

I miss Freak Drive. Maybe -1 Sonar, -1 Quicken Sight, +2 Freak Drive.
-3 Gift of Proteus, -1 Gather, - 2 Army of Rats => space for 6x Thing!

If you want even more Thing, maybe -2 Eagle's Sight (2 are enough for surprise blocks).
Or these 2 slots could be you 2x Deep Song.

You don't really need more Intercept retainers.

You could think of 2x Telepathic Misdirection instead of 2 other reaction cards that require Auspex.

alek wrote:

I would probably build it around matasuntha and weenies or drop all celerity and build around matasuntha, randall and weenies.
There are a lot of 1-2 copies of different cards that seems not needed. I would drop them all or increase their numbers if you need them, to make a deck more reliable, f.e. rotschreck, rewilding, eyes of the beast, soak, bear's skin, flash of marble

Much different deck, but Gangrel inclans with bear skin sprinkled in, and using animalism intercept with ears of thehare and eyes of the beast for most of the support cast and eyes of argus and eagles sight for inyanga, randall, and your star could be neat.

This deck shines with the meat stick and his standing strength though. I have an untested deck using Inyanga, all the meaningful support gangrel with aus, and I wall with bearskin+trap+crows. Also, I have revel, since gangrel with standing intercept like Inyanga, and both Docs (Dr allan woodstock aka "Doc'Stock" and the new guy) being able to routinely generate 3 intercept thanks to eyes of argus means i dont chose defending Jack or my revel, I instead chose who I can refill off of if I have taste in hand, since I always hold intercept and wakes.
But again, that deck hasnt really been tested, just messed with fleetingly.

With this deck, action package isnt impressive. Deep song and tier of souls seem useful. You smash, you block, but I like to oust. So, maybe run it like a nos deck, since you beat face and block, and add a cog and some oust power not souley reliant on torping vamps. That is what gangrel can win by.

@Vromfondel: sonar sucks. Use ears of the hare at pro(burn a blood, get an intercept) or eyes of the beast everytime instead. I switched sonars to those and rooftop shadow in my Henry Taylor+Ghoulet+satyrs deck. Down a blood trumps down a card and getting ousted. Test against good attrition like stickmen, carna, second trad guns,or weenie auspex to determine holes in intercept/combat, and also gagr how well cog, deep song, and tier of souls could be.