Mummy Strength!

Description: Get mummies. Block, fight, rush, bleed, win! The larger vampires are obviously not meant to be influenced out and never were. They might as well have been Enkidu, Hazimel, Sha-Ennu, Saulot, etc., but it never really mattered as I rarely had a mummy burned by losing all its life. Two copies of Halim and 3x Effective Management meant I got him out in every preliminary round. In the final he showed up late and ended up having to join the ranks of the mummies. The media outlets helped a lot. I'm a firm believer in Unmasking + media locations in an ally deck. It really gets the job done. Centralized Background Check was in my starting hand in the first two games, but I didn't see it in round 3 when I was killed by .44s. Ah well. It's good in theory. Set's Curse was originally Far Mastery, but more of my crypt can play Set's Curse and there are more available targets. In round 1, I was a little slow with it and Meno Ngari got a skill card before I could hit him with it. In round 2, I turned Lupo into a snake, which was really cool, even if it probably didn't cause me to win any more than I was already winning. I died too quickly to make use of it in round 3, but turning one of Ben Peal's War Ghouls into a snake would've been pretty great. There were small vampires that would've made good targets for this in the final, but sadly I had nobody with SER to play it, so it had to be discarded. 10x Spell of Life was pretty good in a 61 card deck. I normally got the Spell off around turn 7 or so, I think. I never tried to get it to happen again and never needed it. Each game concluded a turn or two after I completed the Spell (or in the case of round 3, the game concluded for me the turn before I would've completed it). Heavy intercept would've probably been a problem for me, but luckily there was none. My first prey of the day was an Akunanse deck, but I managed to block it tooling up with intercept permanents. Veils were good to add stealth to mummies (since I never had anyone with OBF for cloak). Conditioning, just because I'd be crazy not to. Carlton made frequent appearances. I had Ossian in round 2, but he really only served to cycle my prey's Swallowed by the Night maneuvers. I got Qetu out in the first round and actually successfully bled my prey twice, which I think is pretty good (she bleeds for 2). An early Nephren-Ka probably gave me the final, because I rushed the dom/obf deck a lot to keep it from having the steam to oust me. I sadly never had the pool to get Kherebutu or Tutu. I'll have to keep playing the deck until I make good use of them. Vagabond Mystic was the 61st card in this deck (originally designed at 60), but I never drew him. I believe the only one of these I ever played was FBI Special Affairs Division, which was really useful when Carlton was blocking Matata at 1 blood. Matata couldn't take the risk of going to torpor and never coming back, so Carlton got away with dodging three or four times.