Harbinger Tap and Bleed help?

xXLazarusXx wrote:

Deck Name: HoS Tap n Bleed
Author: Jakob Haley
Description:
Im trying to make this work. I know other clans () do it better! I'm trying to make it work with Group 2 vampires.
90% of my cards are from AH back, so my newer stuff is limited to singles I order off ebay, so keep that in mind when looking at the construction.

I'm a bit puzzled on the strategy involved. Tap and bleed is fine, but why choose a dominate angle considering you play 1 vampire out of 14 that has Dominate (inferior) and 2 Dominate skills?
Anyway, let's see what we can do

xXLazarusXx wrote:

Crypt (14 cards; Capacity min=6 max=9 avg=7.4)
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4x Egothha 7 obf AUS FOR NEC Harbinger of Skulls:2
4x Gisela Harden, The Winnower 7 aus dem FOR NEC Harbinger of Skulls:2
1x Anisa Marianna Lopez 8 aus FOR NEC QUI Harbinger of Skulls:2
1x Unre, Keeper of Golgotha 9 dom ser thn AUS FOR NEC Harbinger of Skulls:2
4x Agaitas, The Scholar of Antiquities6 for AUS NEC Harbinger of Skulls:2

As I said, the crypt is AUS/NEC oriented. Unre seems too costly considering you're not planning to burn vampires so her special is rather useless. Anisa costs 8, but doesn't have superior auspex. I would drop her the same way. You can either play 4 copies of Egothha, Gisela and Agaitas (12 total) or think about adding support vampires such as Le Dinh Tho.

xXLazarusXx wrote:

Master (19 cards)
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1x Elder Library
1x Fragment of the Book of Nod
1x Giant's Blood
1x Information Highway
1x KRCG News Radio
2x Legendary Vampire
1x Maabara
3x Minion Tap
1x Misdirection
1x Rack, The
4x Blood Doll
2x Dominate

I would drop the Dominate angle completely, starting with the skills. You could replace them with 2 Wider Views that will help you cycle your crypt, and gain some pool.

xXLazarusXx wrote:

Action (25 cards)
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2x Force of Will
4x Govern the Unaligned
10x Jar the Soul
4x Rapid Healing
3x Restoration
2x Whispers from the Dead

I'm not a big fan of the tap / Force of Will / Rapid Healing combo because you don't have much stealth (risk of diablerie when you get out) and you don't have enough Freak Drive to play a Rapid Healing the same turn you play Force of Will.
The Govern the Unaligned should be removed if you don't play Dominate. Don't worry - we'll use something else.

So let's say
-2x Force of Will
-4x Govern the Unaligned
-4x Rapid Healing

xXLazarusXx wrote:

Action Modifier (20 cards)
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2x Freak Drive
10x Seduction
6x Conditioning
2x Day Operation

I'd remove the Conditioning and replace them with Trochomancy which is a golden card for Harbingers:

Trochomancy
Type: Action Modifier
Requires: Auspex & Necromancy
[nec] Remove 13 cards in the target Methuselah's ash heap from the game to get +1 bleed. Not usable if there aren't enough cards in that ash heap. You cannot play another action modifier to increase this bleed.
[aus][nec] As [nec] above, but remove only 7 cards.
[AUS][NEC] As [aus][nec] above, but for +2 bleed.

Since we removed the Govern too, you could add 8 of these.
There should be more Freak Drive (at least 5) so that you can tap a vampire with Jar the Soul, then bleed with the same vampire. 10 Seduction seems a lot, but why not?

xXLazarusXx wrote:

Action Modifier/Reaction (10 cards)
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10x Spectral Divination

10 seems too much because you can't play 2 during the same action. Putting some Call of the Hungry Dead instead wouldn't hurt.

xXLazarusXx wrote:

Combat (11 cards)
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2x Hidden Strength
1x Rolling with the Punches
3x Skin of Rock
4x Skin of Steel
1x Spiritual Intervention

I'd probably play more Rolling with the Punches, especially if the Dominate angle is dropped (you need to replace those Obediences). I'd probably play Weighted Walking Stick to punish opposing minions.

xXLazarusXx wrote:

Equipment (4 cards)
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4x Laptop Computer

Consider playing Codex of the Edenic Groundskeepers
Type: Equipment
Cost: 1 pool
Unique equipment.
This minion gets -2 stealth when bleeding. This minion may bleed as a action that costs 1 blood; this action gets +3 bleed if the target Methuselah doesn't control a ready untapped minion.

It's a promo card and goes well in tap'n'bleed strategies.

xXLazarusXx wrote:

Reaction (8 cards)
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5x Obedience
2x Wake with Evening's Freshness
1x Deflection

I'd remove the Obedience and the Deflection. You're clearly lacking Wake cards (Eyes of Argus is the best you can get here, but they are hard to find). You should put some (4-5) Telepathic Misdirection as a bleed defense.

So here's what I suggest:

Deck Name : Harbingers of Skull - tap'n'bleed
Author : Ankha
Description :

Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 5 max: 7 average: 6.41667

4x	Egothha	(7)			Harbinger of Skulls	(group 2)
3x	Gisela Harden, The Winnower	(7)		priscus	Harbinger of Skulls	(group 2)
3x	Agaitas, The Scholar of Antiquities	(6)			Harbinger of Skulls	(group 2)
2x	Le Dinh Tho	(5)			Nagaraja	(group 2)

Library [90 cards]

Action [12]
9x Jar the Soul
2x Restoration
1x Whispers from the Dead

Action Modifier [26]
3x Call of the Hungry Dead
2x Day Operation
5x Freak Drive
7x Seduction
9x Trochomancy

Action Modifier/Reaction [7]
7x Spectral Divination

Combat [13]
2x Hidden Strength
4x Rolling with the Punches
2x Skin of Rock
2x Skin of Steel
3x Spiritual Intervention

Equipment [4]
3x Camera Phone => far better than Laptop since you don't play bleed actions anymore
1x Codex of the Edenic Groundskeepers

Master [20]
1x Anarch Troublemaker => can't live without it in a tap'n'bleed
1x Barrens, The => more useful than Elder Library if you need to get rid of a late Legendary Vampire, or a card stolen from your prey with Agaitas
6x Blood Doll => rather than 4 BD + 3 Minion Tap
1x Fragment of the Book of Nod
1x Giant's Blood
2x KRCG News Radio => WMRH is better if you have one
2x Legendary Vampire
1x Maabara
1x Misdirection
1x Powerbase: Montreal => slightly better than Information Highway considering the new crypt size
1x Rack, The
2x Wider View

Reaction [8]
4x Telepathic Misdirection
4x Wake with Evening's Freshness