[Alternative format] Deal with the Devil

Pascal wrote:

Deep Song, Flesh, Claws is a nice option, but a single Majesty would ruin that first opportunity you have to torporize someone.

Well, I still have 57 card to deal with Majesty. The goal seem to find card that every one will want to play, but that advantage mainly you.

Here, everyone is interested by Deep Song (if only to bleed), or Flesh of marble (to survive against combat), while you are the one who have built its package that only aggravated damage and ignore carrion crow.

On the same idea, you can put High Ground on common ground, since it is an acceptable combat defense, while your flying Vladimir use it and Breath of Dragon.

There is also the idea of putting blood-intensive card in the common area while playing a blood denial deck

(too bad you can't put Agent of power in the common area)

You can also plan on using the cards only once and not give others anything. A Setite with Eternals of Sirius on turns 1, 2, 3 can be a very scary thing.

I think I would go for Temptation of Greater Power in a Victor Pelletier deck. Now who dares to put a vampire in play?

EDIT: dammit, Pascal, you're too fast. That Shilmulo Tarot must have stayed for only 5 seconds before I edited it out.

Shilmulo Tarot isn't a card that goes to the ash heap as it is played (but MAgic of the Smith is).

Ohlmann wrote:

Pascal wrote:

Deep Song, Flesh, Claws is a nice option, but a single Majesty would ruin that first opportunity you have to torporize someone.

Well, I still have 57 card to deal with Majesty. The goal seem to find card that every one will want to play, but that advantage mainly you.

Here, everyone is interested by Deep Song (if only to bleed), or Flesh of marble (to survive against combat), while you are the one who have built its package that only aggravated damage and ignore carrion crow.

But as soon as they realize that, if they're in your common fields, you're less dangerous (if at all) in combat, they might be willing not to get that +1 bleed if it saves their vampire.

Ohlman wrote:

On the same idea, you can put High Ground on common ground, since it is an acceptable combat defense, while your flying Vladimir use it and Breath of Dragon.

There is also the idea of putting blood-intensive card in the common area while playing a blood denial deck

(too bad you can't put Agent of power in the common area)

Does that not slow down the game too much when people have to ponder cards they are not used to play in several different areas of the table?

One could have a dumbed down version where all the public cards are removed from the game once played.