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Friday 10 June 2011

Deck idea: Nergal vote deck

Hi folks!

Here is a funny deck idea imo. I won't advise a deck list, just share my ideas. As the title of the post shows, this will be a vote deck with Nergal as your main or star vampire. There are some good reasons why I suggest Nergal. 

First of all he is a 10 cap and therefore can get additional multi-action power with Enkil Cog. Also he has Fortitude for Freak Drives. Since this will be a vote deck, we need to make sure our votes will pass. Condemnation: Mute is our friend and Nergal can play it and use Freak Drive to play a political action right away! With sufficient Mute/Freak Drive combos you can reduce the overall votes on table, to 0 or close to 0. Also the targets will burn a blood for each successful referendum! 

Here comes the second reason for Nergal: Free States Rant + Reckless Agitation! Free States Rant is the ultimate Predator lock-down and works well with Condemnation: Mute. Reckless Agitation is the perfect forward going card and will cost Nergal only 1 blood! So you can be aggressive both ways or wreak havoc upon a single target. 

Nergal also has Auspex for some bleed bounce. This together with Unleash Hell's Fury and the Free States will give you a solid defense. 

Nergal of course can make great use of Tend the Flock. Arishat, Annazir and Xeper are your other vampires in the crypt, of course. I think this deck doesn't need a lot of master cards, therefore you can put in a good amount of Tend the Flocks. 

So let's take a look at the deck again:

Crypt:

So our crypt will have a multi-acting star vampire with a bleed for 3 and a "free Mute/turn", who can bounce bleed. Arishat will give us additional vote power, as well as Annazir and Xeper does. Annazir can burn locations and equipments, while Xeper can steal allies. 

Versatility:

As you can see from above you have an answer to many situations. Add the threat from Free States Rant (that combos with Mute), the ousting power of Reckless Agitation and you really have an answer for maybe every possible game situation!

Ousting Power:

+2 bleed for Nergal, +1 bleed for Annazir, Reckless and Neonate Breach maybe. Enough said.

Defense:

Bleed bounce, Unleash, Free States Rant and maybe a few Banishment. S:CE of course. Seems solid.

Conclusion:

While surely not being Tier1, this deck seems to be effective. On paper at least. I think this deck will be very fun to play, mainly because of it's versatility. I encourage you guys to build it and play it because I hardly find an opportunity to play these days (mainly because I am playing soccer in a team and that is more important to me right now). Therefore I would be happy to get some feedback on this.

by: Mephistopheles 

4 comments:

  1. Great!

    I'll like to see how it works.

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  2. I have seen a similar deck, but I think not Nergal, but Annazir and (even more so) Arishat should be the main vampires.

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  3. (Been reading all these old articles. Interesting read!)

    Rise of the Nephtali is also good here!

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