The Deck That No One Likes Seeing

Crypt:
1x Roland Bishop (4) dom
1x Courtland Leighton (4) dom
1x Aleph (4) dom
1x Sarah Cobbler (4) dom
1x Francesca Giovanni (4) dom
1x Ignatius (4) dom
1x Laurent de Valois (4) dom
1x Ignatio, Black Priest (4) dom
1x Shane Grimald (4) dom
1x Peter Blaine (4) dom
1x Ingrid Russo (4) DOM
1x Gloria Giovanni (4) DOM

Library:
14x Dominate

20x Scouting Mission
15x Bonding
14x Seduction
9x Absorb the Mind
9x Deflection
9x Wake with Evening's Fresheness

And here we have the type of deck that gives no limit card games a bad name. Sure, it isn't that effective of a deck, and can be foiled in many ways (the least of which is having all the Dominate skill cards Sudden Reversaled), but you play this around someone who is iffy about no limit card games, and they are going to be scarred for life.

This is a quick, relentless bleed deck that hits the ground running. Based on somone's Crypt Machine deck (I don't remember off hand who's designed that deck), and originally conceieved as a deck with 15 each of 6 different cards in it, this was tweaked to this fairly effective version.

Get out a vampire with inferior Dominate, put a skill card on her, Scouting Mission at superior to get out a second vampire for half cost. Next turn, do the same thing with both vampires, and get out a free vampire. Once you have 4 vamps out quickly and cheaply, you can start the incessant +1 stealth, Seduction backed bleeding. A bit of untap, bounce, and minor combat defense (Absorb the Mind using the outferior dom skill isn't neccessarily more effective than simply using Dodges, but there is no reason at all to not use the Absorb the Minds) round out the admittedly single minded deck. The two vampires with DOM are in the deck simply because they are efficient--don't get them out first, as they can't Scout down.

I could use Govern instead of Scouting Mission, but I like the nice math of the Scouting Missions, I like that I'll never risk getting Archon Investigated, and I like reducing the amount of damage that a waward deflected bleed will do.

It is a rather effective deck, built mostly out of commons (the Seductions, I think, are uncommon), that is quick and dirty, and generally either gets shut down completely (due to bad shuffle, Sudden Reversals, quick Rush combat, or reliable +1 intercept and untap) or sweeps.

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