Big Toreador Deck

Here is the winning deck for "Ascendance: 1", with comments from the winner. It's a very interesting combination deck using Pool Gain, Votes, Intercept, and Bounce: By: Brian Wellington "I usually call this the 'big Toreador deck'. It's based around large Toreadors with useful special abilities. Most of them have votes, and most have +bleed. The deck mostly tries to gain pool (5th Tradition, Voter Cap, Minion Tap, Blood Doll, etc). There are votes to call, and the natural bleeds. There's enough intercept to block a non-stealth bleed deck, and a bit of bleed bounce. There are a lot of untaps - Wake, 2nd Tradition, and Alexandra and Masika's abilities. Combat defense is based around Presence S:CE, Celerity dodge and prevent, and the Elysium. "The deck mostly worked as planned in the tournament, with a few surprises. I torpored 6 vampires in the final round with Catatonic Fear and Celerity cards, which has never happened before. Very few votes succeeded (I never used a Voter Cap), but bleeding worked fairly well. I also never saw a duplicate vampire in a game, which is often a problem with this crypt, and it also helped that I didn't see any other Toreador decks."