Ashur´s War Journal – January 2016

Hello fellow Methuselahs, Ashur here, reigning swedish champion AND Gothcon champion (Yeah I know, it´s absurd!) Welcome to a new series of blog entries. The plan is to, once a month, list my current armory (my decks) and discuss some new ideas.

I´m known for two things:

1) Building bad, innovative and fun decks which I play a couple of times and then trash, and

2) On important events I play stable but boring decks, sometimes (like 2015) with some success.

Maybe if I list my decks and try to “grind” my more innovative deck ideas here, I might stick longer to them and maybe come up with something really interesting.

My current decks (in no particular order):

1: Ventrue+AUS G4-5 gun-wall (Mary Anne Blaire star. Seem quite strong, but is boring.)

2: !Ventrue+THA G3-4 Concordance+Daring-trick bleed (Funny, but sucks.)

3: Gangrel Mictlantecuhtli+Talbots chainsaw with ANI-weenies (Crater-deck = sucks.)

4: Malkavian G4-5 midcap stealth-bleed (Built for demo.)

5: Nosferatu+PRE bigcap vote (Ellison Humbolt star. Kind of nice, but one-track though.)

6: Malkavian G1-2 vote “White House” (See below.)

7: !Tremere Nephanduses with Ashur Tablets (Wargrim style)

8: Brujah G4-5 royalty vote (Dmitra star, Marko L style)

Ashur deck of the month:

This deck is rather strong, ie it has won me some tables. But at the recent Archipelago Jones tournament, I scored zero vp´s with it. Not sure what happened there, but I can´t blame the seatings.

Obvious weak things is lack of crypt acceleration and lack of multi-act, but on the other hand I have room for stealth, some bleed defense and at least decent combat defense.

Deck Name : White House Madness

Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 3 max: 10 average: 6.91667
3x Lucian               10 AUS DOM OBF cel tha  justicar Malkavian:1
2x Greger Anderssen     7  AUS OBF dom pro      prince   Malkavian:2
3x Gilbert Duane        7  AUS DOM OBF          prince   Malkavian:1
2x Victoria             5  AUS cel obf                   Malkavian:2
1x Didi Meyers          5  DOM aus cel obf               Malkavian:1
1x Zöe                  3  AUS cel obf                   Malkavian:2

Library [74 cards]
Action [7]
  7x Govern the Unaligned

Action Modifier [21]
  3x Conditioning
  2x Elder Impersonation
  2x Faceless Night
  1x Foreshadowing Destruction
  2x Forgotten Labyrinth
  5x Lost in Crowds
  2x Spying Mission
  4x Telepathic Vote Counting

Action Modifier/Combat [2]
  2x Swallowed by the Night

Ally [2]
  1x Carlton Van Wyk (Hunter)
  1x Muddled Vampire Hunter

Equipment [2]
  1x Bowl of Convergence
  1x Heart of Nizchetus

Master [12]
  1x Coven, The
  2x Dreams of the Sphinx
  1x Giant's Blood
  3x Madness Network
  1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
  3x Villein
  1x Wider View

Political Action [11]
  1x Anarchist Uprising
  1x Ancilla Empowerment
  1x Banishment
  4x Kine Resources Contested
  4x Parity Shift

Reaction [17]
  5x Deflection
  3x Eyes of Argus
  7x Obedience
  2x Telepathic Misdirection

Crafted with : Anarch Revolt Deck Builder. [Wed Jan 06 10:33:00 2016]

Recent ideas I ponder:

- Is Mictlantecuhtli with Bombs actually playable? (With Pier 13?!)

- Is it worth trying Improvised Flamethrower in a obtenebration stealth-bleeder?

- Is Bima playable? Why? Something with Dominate-skill cards and Halim Bey and Black Lotus, but it smells supersucky even on paper.

- Should I put together a Mimir powerbleeder? Seems rather fun.

- Is Legacy of Power ever playable?

- Why can´t I ever fit a deck with Cardinal Benedictions? Latest thoughts is on !Brujah with obfuscate.

- Will ANYTHING in the upcoming anarch set be worth playing?

- Will this game ever be printed again? (Are you interested in doing it? Contact White Wolf and get the license!)

If anyone have any answers for these questions, feel free to comment below, or at it´s VEKN forum-thread, or by mail to vtes@msghsfhi.com. Thanks!