Ashur´s War Journal – February 2016

Hello fellow Methuselahs, Ashur here again. Time to scrutinize my current decks and ideas.

My decks (in no particular order):

1: Ventrue princes with sticks (Classic Hugh style, almost no surprises)

2: Kiasyd/Lasombra sb (A bit more Nocturns than in my Nationals TWD)

3: Gerald Windham sb (Get Ankara and Govern down, Freak Drive, you know the drill)

4: Nosferatu+DEM bigcap vote (Josef von Bauren star)

5: Malkavian G1-2 vote “White House” (Will soon be rebuilt)

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

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

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

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

Ashur deck of the month:

Deck Name: Ugly, crazy and old

I wanted to try to use Josef von Bauren with Warsaw Station in some way, so I somewhat glanced on Tukos TWD and came up with this. But it doesn´t really work. Too slow, too vurnerable, not enough throughput. Any ideas anyone? Or else I´ll rip this apart soon and go back to my old Ellison Humboldt + Warsaw Station plan, that was more aggressive. 

Stockholm star player Randal Rudstam has a variant of this, but with Josef, Unmada and Thucimia, doing Dark Mirror of the Mind + Kindred Spirits and only a few political actions. More aggressive and way better, I guess. 

Crypt:

5x Josef von Bauren

1x Lutz von Hohenzollern

1x Gravitnir

1x Louhi

1x Unmada

1x Ysador the Foul

1x Drozodny

1x Gem Ghastly

Library (77 cards)

Master (18)

 3x Warsaw Station

 1x Giant's Blood

 2x Golconda: Inner Peace

 4x Information Highway

 8x Villein

Action (8)

 4x Kindred Spirits

 2x Dark Mirror of the Mind

 1x Abactor

 1x Schrecknet

Political Action (12)

 1x Anarchist Uprising

 1x Ancillae Empowerment

 1x Ancient Influence

 7x Kine Resources Contested

 1x Political Stranglehold

 1x Reins of Power

Action Modifier (19)

 3x Cloak the Gathering

 1x Closed Session

 4x Elder Impersonation

 4x Faceless Night

 4x Lost in Crowds

 2x Spying Mission

 3x Swallowed by the Night

Combat (4)

 2x No Trace

Reaction (16)

 5x Mental Maze

 4x On the Qui Vive

 5x Telepathic Misdirection

Recent ideas I ponder:

- Anach stuff. I´m not very impressed with Anarch Unbound set, but now I finally have all the cards printed, so I guess I want to do something. But every idea I get either include some titled vamps or don’t get better with adding anarch tech. The thing I am thinking about most is some bigcap Malkavian deck with Memory Rift. Maybe check out how big a bleed Esau can deliver? :)

- Rebuilding my Malkavian “White House” voter to focus more on Madness Network? With My Kin Against the World and Direct Interventions. Might be fun!

- Something with Synesios. I love that dude. Obf-PRE-bleeder with lots of Sudden Revearsals?

- Revisiting my Xaviar advanced Garou/Parity Shift deck?

- Porphyrion + Ravnos Sense Dep-deck? Is it worth adding some of the new anarch tech?

- Something with Alonso Petrodon and Judgement Camarilla Segregation? Good old Petrodon hates those pesky anarchs that´s so popular right now.

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!