"Shoot It In the Head, Man! Shoot It In the Head!"

Crypt:
5x The Baron (9) THN, OBF, NEC, FOR, dom
1x Le Din Tho (5) NEC, dom
1x Lia Milliner (3) nec, dom
1x Rudolpho Giovanni (3) NEC
1x Ohanna (2) dom
1x Christine Boscacci (2) dom
1x Marcianna Giovanni, Investigator (2) dom
1x Basil (1) obf

Library:
3x Fame
3x Memories of Mortality
1x Giant's Blood

1x Specialization
1x Blood Doll
1x Creepshow Casino
1x Coroner's Contact
1x Charisma

15x Shambling Hordes
4x Summon Soul
8x Deflection
5x Conditioning
8x Rolling With the Punches
4x Restoration
2x Freak Drive
4x Compress
2x Ashes to Ashes
8x Lost in Crowds
8x Trap
4x Fake Out
2x Pulled Fangs
4x Wake with Evening's Fresheness

The crypt is pretty straight forward--enough Barons so I can reliably get
one in my opening crypt draw; Le Din Tho for his NEC/dom spread and useful
discard ability (look and see if your target has any, like, Majesties or
Deflections). The useful weenies--the very sexy Lia Milliner; the
increadibly Gustav Klimptian Ohanna; the surprisingly useful Marcianna; the
"once every 4 turns or so" Hordes machine of Rudolpho; Mr. "I get The Baron
out of Torpor or Deablerize folks" Basil; and the also very sexy (as well as
having fantastic musical taste) Christine Boscacci (who really should be,
like, Mustafa or Lana Butcher or someone, but I'm so very fond of her...)
Mostly the Baron does all the work, and the weenies stay around to Deflect
bleeds and eventually bleed through the holes that the zombies make.

For masters, I have multiples of the necessary Fames and Memories, some
badly needed intercept from the Special Reports, the requisite Charisma, the
very useful in such a deck Creepshow Casino, and the "just in case"
Coroner's Contact (which if I get it early, insures that I get the Baron and
gives me a free transfer, and if I get it late, it is a free cycling master
that gets an extra baron out of my crypt so I am more likely to draw a not
Baron if I go fishing for more vampires). The biggest flaw here is my utter
lack of pool management, but for the one Blood Doll, that usually goes to
putting blood *on* my vampire rather than theother way around.

The bulk of the library is a lot of cards that The Baron can play with his 5
disciplines--the 15 Hordes for early and often discarding and play; blood
management in Restoration and Summon Soul, reasonable Horde combat backup
from Traps, Fake Out, and PF, good bleed defense, enough damage prevention
and Compress to make messing with the Baron less attractive, and some
stealth. And Conditionings, making the always popular dom weenies a force to
be reckoned with as well as making the Baron capable of being Archon
Investigated.

It could probably use more Freak Drives, but they are all in another,
actually good deck, and the Summon Souls can recycle them a few times (along
with the Conditionings if necessary) anyway. It'll probably die a swift,
unplesant death if next to a moderately fast vote deck (what with the very
limited intercept and minimal vote presence), but if it can set up some and
start eating brains, it should do ok. The Fake Outs are certainly fringe,
but they occasionally keep my zombie hordes from being humilliated by casual
guns and will sometimes save a weeine from an unfortunate torporization.

 

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