Feck Name : Wizard's Toolchest

Author : David Cherryholmes

Description :

A tweaked up version of a previously posted deck. This is closer
to the deck I played at the Southeast qualifier, since I was running 
some events in that one (I think . I feel like the metagame is seeing 
the resurgance of weenie decks, and the rise of ally decks to a level 
of prominence they didn't have before. So, this deck has some slots 
devoted towards trying to manage them. I didn't skimp on the Rutor's 
Hand, because the plan is for two RH'd biggins by midgame. The events 
should stack to eventually form a significant hindrence towards the 
weenie deck's flow. It might take until you've churned through a 
significant amount of your deck, but the weenie deck/breeder is a 
threat that grows over time, and eventually becomes unmangeable, so 
perhaps this is sufficient. Of course, Arenthebes. The deck is going 
for light intercept anyway, and he shoe-horns right in. The three FSR's 
are thought of mainly as weenie defense, although it can be useful 
in other ways, possibly being flowable on any given political action, 
if you need to dump them. For allies. there's a few things: theft/add'l 
strike combat eats up the combat monster allies, and lots of them don't 
deal well with you going to long range. Kindred Segregation should be 
a hoot if it goes off. This basically took the place of domain challenge, 
since I decided I had enough other side elements that tried to manage 
weenie vampire hordes. Also, Nightmare upon Nightmares affects non-mortal 
allies, although at low numbers you might be helping out the ally deck 
(which is all right, since decks built around the expensive, unique 
allies aren't a problem and are, IMO, cool).

There are lots of cards I wish were in the deck. You might note I dropped 
the dominate angle entirely, aside from the lone "Ah Ha!" Conditioning. 
Perhaps the overall strength of the defensive package is weaker for it, 
but I opted for the safety of better card flow. Besides, you should be 
pulling off some pretty hefty Minion Taps, so you have respectable bloat 
to fall back on. Likewise, the equipment slots were carefully chosen. 
Permacept is key if you are going to have much success at all as a blocker, 
and goes very well with Black Sunrise. Ranged agg is one of the things 
that can wreck your day, so Flak Jacket made the cut. Seal gives a nice 
bleed boost and for/FOR for anti KoR (and more dominate for anyone who 
wants to put that back in). .44 is the solid choice, although obviously 
a lot of other weapons looked good.

As far as ousting goes, assuming you are RH'ded you should be able to 
bleed with each minion every turn, and then either untap and take a side 
action, or just stay untapped to block. Almost everyone has +1 bleed, so 
that should be a steady loss of 4 pool/turn (or at least that much pressure 
that must be consistently dealt with). It's not the best, but it also 
doesn't take any cards, meaning there's nothing to jam on or get in the 
way of your combat flow.



Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 6 max: 11 average: 8.75
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3x Al-Ashrad, Amr of 9 CEL QUI THA aus obf Assamite:2
3x Ur-Shulgi, The She 11 CEL DOM OBF QUI THA aus 2 votes Assamite:2
2x Kalinda 6 CEL OBF tha Assamite:2
1x Yitzak 7 AUS CEL THA pre !Toreador:3
1x Zahir, Hand of the 6 CEL OBF qui tha Assamite:2
1x Lucas Halton 10 AUS CEL DOM THA qui prince Tremere:3
1x Menele 10 CEL POT PRE THA aus dom Brujah:3

Library [90 cards]
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Action [11]
1x Aranthebes, The Immortal
4x Clandestine Contract
2x Magic of the Smith
4x Rutor's Hand

Action Modifier [1]
1x Conditioning

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

Ally [1]
1x Mylan Horseed (Goblin)

Combat [40]
2x Acrobatics
2x Behind You!
4x Blur
5x Psyche!
5x Pursuit
4x Selective Silence
3x Soul Burn
3x Taste of Death
12x Theft of Vitae

Equipment [4]
1x .44 Magnum
1x Flak Jacket
1x Seal of Veddartha
1x Sport Bike

Event [4]
1x Blood Trade
1x Nightmares upon Nightmares
1x Restricted Vitae
1x Thirst

Master [11]
1x Alamut
1x Guardian Angel
1x Legendary Vampire
1x Market Square
6x Minion Tap
1x Rumor Mill, Tabloid Newspaper, The

Political Action [4]
3x Free States Rant
1x Kindred Segregation

Reaction [12]
4x Black Sunrise
2x Confusion of the Eye
1x Elder Intervention
1x Foul Blood
4x Quicken Sight



Crafted with : Anarch Revolt Deck Builder. [Thu Jun 30 19:54:10 2005]