Fortitude/Thaumaturgy - Bruise/Bleed

Thanks to everyone for the input.

Taking everyone's suggestions into account, I've thrown together a rough idea for a modified library based on a crypt similar to that suggested by Kiddo. Any improvement?

Library [90 cards]

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Action [12]
3x Bum's Rush
4x Govern the Unaligned
3x Harass
2x Rutor's Hand

Action Modifier [23]
3x Bonding
5x Dawn Operation
3x Conditioning
9x Freak Drive
3x Threats

Combat [31]
6x Apportation
6x Burst of Sunlight
5x Weather Control
8x Skin of Night
2x Skin of Rock
4x Theft of Vitae

Master [10]
1x Archon Investigation
1x Blood Doll
1x Giant's Blood
1x Sudden Reversal
2x Vessel
4x Villein

Reaction [14]
5x Deflection
2x On the Qui Vive
4x Precognition
3x Wake with Evening's Freshness

I'm still not sure about the various card ratios. Also not sure if the is much need for Apportation or Theft of Vitae in this kind of strategy.

I don't think you need 9 Freak Drive. You don't have enough different actions to use them.

A few thoughts in no particular order:

Delaying Tactics, Eyes of Argus, Enhanced Senses, Second Tradition, Telepathic Misdirection are all better choices than Precognition since you are preventing damage with fortitude.

Arcane Library and Ponticulus.

Skin of Rock and maybe an Apportation are better off as Hidden Strength.

Like Boris implies, you need strong actions to take after untapping. For example, you definitely want a Graverobbing. Try Magic of the Smith, Heart of Nizchetus, and Ankara Citadel, Turkey. The heart cycles to your card combos, and Ankara makes Freak Drive free. You can also take advantage of multiacting by mixing in Scouting Mission and Fourth Tradition and generate a lot of pool in one turn.

Consider Tension in the Ranks, and a Sudden Reversal or two.

Keep some Theft of Vitae. You're spending a lot of blood in this deck and sometimes you block someone with a pile of damage prevention.

Another iteration:


Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 5 max: 9 average: 7

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4x Gerald Windham 9 AUS DOM FOR THA Tremere:5
2x Polly Kay Fisher 8 AUS DOM THA for pot archbishop !Ventrue:4
2x Antonio d'Erlette 5 THA dom for pot !Tremere:4
2x Claus Wegener 5 DOM aus for tha Tremere:5
1x Jefferson Foster 6 AUS DOM for tha bishop !Ventrue:4
1x Lord Ephraim Wainw 6 AUS THA for pre Tremere:5


Library [90 cards]

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Action [14]
3x Bum's Rush
3x Govern the Unaligned
1x Graverobbing
3x Harass
2x Magic of the Smith
2x Rutor's Hand

Action Modifier [19]
3x Bonding
2x Conditioning
5x Dawn Operation
7x Freak Drive
2x Threats

Combat [30]
5x Apportation
5x Burst of Sunlight
3x Hidden Strength
8x Skin of Night
4x Theft of Vitae
5x Weather Control

Equipment [3]
2x Ankara Citadel, Turkey, The
1x Heart of Nizchetus

Master [11]
1x Arcane Library
1x Archon Investigation
1x Blood Doll
1x Giant's Blood
1x Sudden Reversal
2x Vessel
4x Villein

Reaction [13]
5x Deflection
3x Enhanced Senses
2x On the Qui Vive
3x Wake with Evening's Freshness

If you're going for Magic+Ankara (which is very nice, btw), you should consider Armor of Vitality as your main prevention card or at least one of. Sure, Gerald will play it for free, but even with a cost it still prevents 3 damage, no matter what type or source it is on inferior FOR, and that can save your other guys' lives when it matters...