Just for the hell of it, I'll throw up a decklist for what I've been running lately for long-range QUI combat. FWIW I've been winning a lot of games with it, but that's just in my little local group and doesn't really say anything about whether it's good or not (although I think it is). Also anecdotally, I played this deck in the DC qualifier. As my luck would have it, I had S:CE-heavy predators and/or preys each round, an anomally given the total spread of decks at the tourney. One round Arika was my prey. I had to table talk a little bit to stave off the PTO backwards, but in the end I got her and the oust. I'm just throwing it out there as a worst-case example and trying to show that even that isn't necessarily a certain loss. Deck Name : black hand assamites Author : "bluedevil" Description : Crypt ------------------------------------------------------------ 2x Yazid Tamari 8 CEL QUI ani dom obf Assamite:3 3x Joe "Boot" Hill 7 CEL QUI for obf Assamite:4 2x Reza Fatir, The Da 6 CEL QUI obf pro Assamite:4 1x Michael diCarlo 5 CEL obf qui Assamite:4 1x Ali Kar 3 obf qui Assamite:3 1x Piotr Andreikov 2 aus Tzimisce:3 1x Basir 1 qui Assamite:4 1x Olga Triminov 1 vic Pander:3 Library [90 cards] ------------------------------------------------------------ Action [19] 3x Ambush 1x Aranthebes, The Immortal 4x Clandestine Contract 4x Khabar: Glory 4x Reunion Kamut 2x Web of Knives Recruit 1x Zillah's Tears Action Modifier/Reaction [1] 1x Provision of the Silsila Combat [45] 3x Acrobatics 10x Blood Sweat 11x Pursuit 4x Selective Silence 2x Sideslip 8x Taste of Death 4x Taste of Vitae 3x Zip Gun Event [1] 1x Dragonbound Master [15] 2x Blood Doll 1x Contract 4x Corporal Reservoir 1x Fame 1x Market Square 2x Path of Blood, The 2x Shakar 1x Weeping Stone 1x Yoruba Shrine Reaction [9] 5x Black Sunrise 4x Ministry