Malkavian Antitribu Newsletter Vol. 3 Issue 1 Intro Welcome everyone to my first issue of the !Malk newsletter. For those of you who don't know me my name is Oscar Garza, Prince of College Station, TX. I' ve played in and hosted several tournaments in the last few years, some of which are documented in the sections at texas.vekn.org. The News So with the addition of our Camarilla counterparts and Uncle George we now have 37 vampires with dementation at some level. Uncle George is a welcome addition, bringing another vamp with DEM at 5-capacity. He's a stick in most !Malk decks. Uncle George will be featured in another newsletter soon matched up with Hannibal, Vasantasena, and some vanilla Malks. Vamp of the Month Imogen Clan: Malkavian-Antitribu Capacity: 9 Sabbat - Archbishop of Miami Superior Auspex Superior Dementation Inferior Obfuscate Inferior Protean Inferior Vicissitude Group: 2 Ability: As a +1 stealth (D) action, Imogen may pick one card at random from the hand of her prey or predator and exchange it with any card in that Methuselah's ash heap. Imogen opens up some interesting combat option for the !Malks. Her discipline spread allows her to fit in with traditional !Malks perfectly. Having both AUS and DEM at superior make her a perfect Call user. Having obf at inferior isn't such a big deal when she's toting 4 disciplines that offer stealth. Being the only !Malk with pro and vic, makes her a little funny to use, a problem a couple skill cards and some sanguine instructions will fix. Protean.. Well we got some agg hand damage, some additional stealth posibilites, Form of Mist if we get superior on someone. Uncontrollable Rage is a neat card; you can do some really "crazy bleeding" with that. Flesh of marble makes it a little easier to play with Coma. Vicissitude experienced a boost with 5 new vic vampires. This truly useful support discipline will offer the !Malks some combat options as well as additional stealth and a funky card that is featured in this month's CotM. Some combos I hope to experiment with in the future are Inner Essence-Coma, getting bounced and Meld with the Land. General bruise bleed with vic-dem, Trap Bonecraft-Personal Scourge, Bonecraft Lunatic Eruption, and Fleshcraft-Derange. Pro/vic looks pretty mean in a combat situation, you've got all sorts of neat combos, kraken's kiss/flesh of marble, inner essence/claws, horrid form/claws. but that's legbiter's job. So Imogen is a killer. DEM/obf gives us our actions and a way to get them through; the pro/vic combo matched with AUS gives us our defensive angle. In this month's newsletter I'm going to feature a deck based around the dem/vic/aus combination. Card of the Month Inner Essence Requires: Vicissitude Play before range is determined. Once this combat, this vampire can reduce the cost to play a combat card by one blood. A vampire can play only one Inner Essence each combat. SUP: As above, and gain a blood. Monster of a card, I wish I could play it anytime I ever get into combat. Reducing the cost of a combat card by one blood and then giving you a blood on top of that. Many many options for this card. Inner Essence+ CE: extra blood fuels blood dolls, and in the case of, for example, majesty and mirror image, the card is free. Inner Essence (+Flesh of Mable)+Claws: net =1, Flesh of marble prevents all but that one. Inner Essence+Horrid Form+Claws: Free combo prevent one, +1 Strength. Almost too good to be true. Inner Essence+Coma: Net -1 blood for a devastating effect: torpor with untapability. Deck of the Month Deck Name: Imogen changes the face of dementation Author: Me Crypt: 12 3x Imogen 3x Little Tailor Uncle George Muriel Foucade Persia, the Beautiful stone Tony Claven Korah Dolphin Black (optional: Oscar, The Crazy Aggie) Library: 90 Masters: 16 6 Blood Doll Hungry Coyote Info Highway The Rack 4x Vicissitude 3x Rotschrek Actions 23 3x Sanguine Instruction 4x Madman's Quill 8x The Call 8x Kindred Spirits Action Modifiers 16 Abandoning the Flesh 6x Confusion 4x Malleable Visage 5x Deny Combat: 20 8x Inner Essence 4x Coma 3x Breath of Dragon 4x Chiropteran Marauder Reaction: 15 8x Forced Awakening 4x Enhanced Senses 3x Spirits Touch Inner Essence drops the price of Breath, and may give us a blood to fuel the marauder. That extra blood always comes in handy. Meld with the land is there when our minions get bounced to our grand prey, we play nice and untap them. You'll pull off a Malleable Visage trick once or twice, but most prey are pretty smart about that sort of thing. Comments Welcome Oscar Garza Prince of College Station, TX The Crazy Aggie