Joke Decks

Everybody has their top tier decks that can win, and almost everybody I've met who plays regularly also have the less appreciated, but very entertaining 'just for fun' decks.
at the NAC last year, the day my group showed up (or rather, the evening) we lounged around the VTES room at the Roosevelt and did essentually nothing resembling the thought consuming card playing the following few days would be full of. I also saw joke decks from all over during some of those pickup games.
so, this is a two part post:

1. What are some of your personal favorite joke decks?

2. and who would be willing to play a few tables with said joke decks @ this year's NAC? i know how said things very in power levels, but just for laughs, i'd like to see other players cooky non-tournament ideas.

safe to say i'd be in, since i'm posting this, and my favorite 'never gonna win' creations are my voting grotesques and my voty Nosferatu 'bait ona stick'

I'll bring a fairly funny Ignasio proxy kissed deck that I'd like to play at the NAC for fun

Ironically, one of my joke decks does pretty well in my playgroup...

Cryptic Treaty
Treaty of Laibach deck that uses Cryptic Mission and Weigh the Heart to deliver Corruption Counters (that you plan to burn with Revelation of Desire @) and keep minions low-ish on blood so you can use them with Temptation/Form of Corruption. It doesn't contain Heidelberg because you generally want to let the controller of the Temptation Vampire protect themselves or bleed their prey. It is ideal to get a prey vampire and use it against them during your turn. Gregory Winter, Impundulu and Young Bloods are there to keep the blood low when you need it.

Fast Magic
Menele + Tremere w/ Cel. It's defence is basically 2nd Trad and Deflections. Rush with Menele to refill him while you buy more Tremere princes or Minion Tap him for 6+. Mild bleed forwards to keep things rolling. Vote defence is obvious because of the two or three princes/justicars you usually have. Once bloated 60 pool (spent in various ways or just accumulted) in addition to the starting 30 by the end of the game.

All of my decks are a joke.

What I tried once, was a Harbinger deck with Bastard Swords. It was pretty fun, but did horribly. It was pretty dull to just die all the time. What I'll try to do, though, will be Allanyan Serrata + Epikasta Rigatos tag team with either bastard swords or something else. Too bad the artist didn't do any other G4-5 Toreador. There's really no synergy with the vampires what so ever, but that'll make it even funnier.

Another concept has been Foureyes and friends with laptops and computer hackings. Also Info highway and Shrecknet. The problem has been that I didn't own more than one Foureyes before.

Once summer kicks in I'll have a go with a couple of decks that have no more than a single copy of a given card. So no duplicate Crypt or Library cards. I'm thinkin of a combatty approach. That should be pretty fun.

ReverendRevolver wrote:

What are some of your personal favorite joke decks?

My "joke" deck is my Alan Sovereign deck. It uses Epiphany (in none of my other decks) to merge (something none of my other decks do) Alan, then I play Protracted Investment (in none of my other decks) to get out free Disguised AK-47s (in none of my other decks) with my obf/dom vampires, as defense for when they are blocked while bleeding. It's kinda, sorta good. But not.


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