Ashur´s War Journal – July 2019

My current decks (in no particular order):
Kiasyd/Lasombra Nocturn stealth-bleed
Lasombra G5-6 stealth-vote (Slightly modded double Parliament of Shadows)
Nosferatu Cock Robin toolbox (Based on Otso Saariluoma 2010 TWD)
Bigcaps Setites Tempation + Vampiric Disease (This sucks. Way worse with Nakh than with weenies!)
Toreador G2-3 Aching Beauty (Tried to make something to abuse Aching Beauty. Weak!)
Bigcap OBF/DOM stealth-vote (Based on Danilo Torrisi 2018 TWD)
Tremere/!Tremere toolbox (Based on Daniel Garguláks 2019 TWD. Nice!)
Tzimisce ANI-combat toolbox (Based on Robert Scythes 2012 TWD. Brutal!)
Ventrue princes with sticks
Decks with the Dominate discipline: 5 of 9. Have been worse.


Ashur rant of the month: People should f**king STOP RANTING about Star Wars, Game of Thrones, various card games and other games! Toxic fandom MUST STOP!! With that said, you can already look forward to next Ashur rant of the month - I´m sure I can think of something ...

Ashur deck of the month: South Brooklyn Casket Company toolbox (Draft 1)

Crypt: 12 (Tried for a “passive votes are great” crypt. Can´t fit own votes!)
5x Lambach (This vamp is so VERY good!)
1x Vlad Tepes
2x Velya, The Flayer
1x Stravinsky
1x Little Tailor of Prague
2x Meshenka

Library:
Masters: 16
1x Fear of Mekhet
1x Giant´s Blood
1x Guardian Angel (Intercept + prevent)
1x Library Hunting Ground
2x Pentex Subversion
1x The Rack
4x Vessel
3x Wash
2x Wider View

Events: 2
1x Scourge of the Enochians
1x The Uncoiling

Actions/Allies/Equipment: 15
2x Under Siege (Untap + intercept)
1x Bowl of Convergence
1x .44 Magnum (Manuever + damage)
1x Living Manse (Bleed + Strike: Combat ends)
1x Mylan Horseed
1x Carlton Van Wyk (Always good for Daring the Dawn-defense)
4x Govern the Unaligned (Bleed + pool gain/acceleration)
4x Deep Song (Bleed + rush)

Action modifiers: 10
6x Changeling (Bleed + stealth)
4x Plasmic Form (Stealth + dodge)

Combat: 6
4x Chiropteran Marauder (Maneuver + aggraveted damage)
2x Breath of the Dragon

Reactions:
4x Cat´s Guidance (Intercept + don´t tap)
4x Eagles Sight (Intercept + choose block)
4x Eyes of Argus (Wake + Intercept)
3x My Enemy´s Enemy (Intercept + bounce)
2x On the Qui Vive
6x Sense the Savage Way (Wake + intercept)
5x Telepathic Misdirection (Intercept + bounce)

General idea: I made a list with all VTES cards that have two different effects (think Changeling, or Resist Earth´s Grasp, or Govern the Unaligned, etc.), and then I checked what kind of deck could fit most of those cards. I came up with the deck listed above.

My thoughts after playing it three times: Didn´t work fantastic, but okey if my predator wasn´t very fast and aggressive. It´s in the “fun toolbox” category, but nowhere close to tournament level quality. Maybe could swap a lot of funny utility masters for boring crypt acceleration masters? Anyone got other thoughts?

Some other ideas I´ve pondered recently: 

• How broken is dominate? Could I build a deck with just 10 Govern, 10 Conditioning, 10 Deflection and just about any other 40 cards?!
• Seriously, midcap bruise-bleed POT+DOM?
• Top secret Black Chantry stuff!
• Probably time for Guillaume Giovanni again, as we no longer seem to have 3+ others playing him in our play group. I wonder what variant?
• How do one handle Matasuntha and Goratrix decks in the most humiliating way? What is the optimal block denial-bonanza?

If anyone have any answers to the questions above, feel free to comment below, or at it´s VEKN thread. Thanks!