| Deck Name: | Blood Rage |
| Created By: | David Cherryholmes |
| Description: | Haven't seen anybody try to mix up the THA Assamites with the new hand
strikes yet, so here's my stab at it. The real fire in this deck is
going to second round, playing Blood Agony, and striking for three or
four agg, unpreventable by fortitude. Thin Blood/Blood Rage whups the
fortitude crowd, Thin Blood/Psyche skools S:CE, and Celerity provides
maneuver/press control to ensure the payload lands. Lastly, Blood
Rage trumps the many weapon-based strategies that Concealed Weapon is
making more common.
Several weak points in the deck that I wouldn't mind hearing some
advice on shoring up: not much direct offense.... Al-Ashrad has +1
bleed, and maybe somebody will grab a laptop, but that's about it.
Pool gain is addressed in the following ways, but it could stand some
improvement: A) significant untap, light intercept, and tier 1 combat
should defend your remaining pool well. B) Two Blood Dolls, c) PB:M,
which only a Stealth God should be inclined to snatch after I've shown
a combat and some untap/intercept, and C) Heartblood of the Clan. If
Rutor's Hand can be brought into play it can combine well with HotC.
Blood gain has been shakey, but the first time I played the deck I
trimmed out two Succulent Vitaes in favor of two weenie-hosers. Taste
of Vitae wasn't as useful as I'd first tought on account of blowing
blood off opponents via Thin Blood so I shifted the balance to more
PoV's.
In case my other posts do show up, this is a slightly modified version
from the one I posted earlier. I've really been struggling to keep
this deck at eighty cards. Combat decks are about the only decks I'll
even consider taking to ninety, but the combat is surgical enough in
nature, and there's enough support in the way of permenants, that I'd
like to trim out those last six cards.
Assamites with Thaumaturgy. Parnassus strikes with Blood Rage for 3 or 4 unpreventable, and shuts down the weapons that are becoming more common in the metagame. Plenty of untap and light intercept. |
| Crypt: (12 cards, Min: 21, Max: 34, Avg: 6.83) | |
| 4 Parnassus aus CEL QUI tha 7, Assamite | |
| 3 Al-Ashrad aus obf CEL QUI THA 9, Assamite | |
| 2 Zahir CEL OBF qui tha 6, Assamite | |
| 1 Abd al-Rashid CEL obf QUI 5, Assamite | |
| 1 Kalinda CEL OBF tha 6, Assamite | |
| 1 Parmenides CEL qui 4, Assamite | |
| Library: (86 cards) | |
| Master (16 cards) | |
| 2 Blood Doll | |
| 5 Contract | |
| 2 Heartblood of the Clan | |
| 1 KRCG News Radio | |
| 1 Market Square | |
| 1 Powerbase: Montreal | |
| 1 Rumor Mill, Tabloid Newspaper, The | |
| 3 Thaumaturgy | |
| Action (6 cards) | |
| 3 Nose of the Hound | |
| 3 Rutor's Hand | |
| Action Modifier (3 cards) | |
| 3 Succulent Vitae | |
| Reaction (6 cards) | |
| 6 Forced Awakening | |
| Combat (48 cards) | |
| 4 Blood Agony | |
| 8 Blood Fury | |
| 1 Blood Sweat | |
| 2 Blur | |
| 4 Flash | |
| 8 Psyche! | |
| 4 Pursuit | |
| 4 Sideslip | |
| 1 Taste of Death | |
| 2 Taste of Vitae | |
| 10 Thin Blood | |
| Retainer (1 cards) | |
| 1 Mr. Winthrop | |
| Equipment (2 cards) | |
| 1 Laptop Computer | |
| 1 Sport Bike | |
| Combo (4 cards) | |
| 4 Provision of the Silsila | |
| This file was last saved at 11:23:12 PM on 2/10/2003 | |