The Ventrue Antitribu - Salubri Antitribu Alliance

freakdrivr
Location: Canada
Posted to the Path of Blood: Mon Sep 20, 2004 7:43 pm


hey all - have been playing versions of this deck on / off since
bloodlines playtesting (and believe it or not it kills some tables)
and thought i would add it here to show that !salubri can win games -
even though its really 60% !ventrue. i've added some Group 3 Ventrue
to see how they fare with this deck.


anyway - here it is 


Crypt (12 vampires) Capacity min: 2 max: 8 average: 4.17 


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2x Ingrid Russo 4 DOM for !Ventrue:2 
2x Wolf Valentine 4 VAL for !Salubri:2 
2x Doris McMillon 2 val !Salubri:2 
1x Owain Evans, The W 8 AUS DOM FOR cel pre !Ventrue:3 
1x Edward Neally 7 DOM FOR aus pre !Ventrue:3 
1x Vanessa 6 DOM FOR aus pre !Ventrue:2 
1x Katherine Stoddard 4 dom for !Ventrue:3 
1x Kervos, The Lieute 3 aus val !Salubri:2 
1x Samson 2 dom !Ventrue:2 


Library (90 cards) 


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Action (26) 
4x Blessing of the Name 
3x Force of Will 
3x Govern the Unaligned 
3x Revelations 
9x Sense Vitality 
4x Sunrise Service 


Action Modifier (21) 
4x Change of Target 
6x Conditioning 
4x Daring the Dawn 
5x Freak Drive 
2x Stealth Ritus 


Combat (5) 
4x Skin of Steel 
1x Soak 


Equipment (2) 
1x Catacombs 
1x Tapestry of Blood 


Master (17) 
3x Anarch Troublemaker 
4x Blood Doll 
1x Dreams of the Sphinx 
5x Fortitude 
1x Humanitas 
1x Hungry Coyote, The 
2x Sudden Reversal 


Reaction (13) 
5x Deflection 
2x Delaying Tactics 
2x Redirection 
4x Wake with Evening's Freshness 


Retainer (6) 
4x Ghoul Escort 
1x J. S. Simmons, Esq. 
1x Tasha Morgan 


Comments: 


why this wins...it beats down your opponents ability to block and in
all honesty, doesn't look at all that imposing as the minions are
small. of course it loses to dedicated rush - but even then your vamps
get out of torpor for free most of the time and you just start
building again.


!VENTRUE play the sunrise services, and the !SALUBRI sense vitality
them out of torpor for free often at +2-3 stealth - if blocked, change
of target and repeat. Ghoul escorts add insult to injury as each
minion ends up
attempting 2 -3 actions per turn when you get a blessing of the name
going. use your daring the dawns to get the sunrise services through
if need be.


so at some point like around turn 5 or 6, you'll have 2-3 ventrue 
with superior fortitude (hopefully) and a sunrise service on them and
they do their 1-2 actions each again as usual - this is extremely
taxing on your
predator and prey and they'll just stop blocking after a while 
(probably because they just don't care or can't block anymore) 


that's when the revelations come out to get rid of your prey's 
deflections and the SUNRISED (unblockable) bleeds for 6 with all these
really small minions start - what's even better is that you can either
govern then condition or force of will then condition - either way you
have so many options available to you with this setup - but it all 
comes down to sense vitality and it's synergy with catacombs and 
humanitas - they make the rescue attempt +3 stealth and reduce the 
cost by 4 blood. a minion can attempt a sense vitality action, get 
blocked, change of target, or burn a ghoul escort to leave the blocker
tapped, and simply attempt a cardless rescue vampire from torpor
action again.


let me know your thoughts 


take care, 


jds