a winning deck

Gangrel say goodbye to the Camarilla!

Crusade: Lisbon · Lisbon, Portugal

November 4th 2001 · won by Luis Duarte

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twda id
crusadelisbon2k1
marginalia

Type: Vote/Bloat The deck strength resides on the vampires titles. The big ones can be brought faster boosted by Ingrid's ability, Dreams of the Sphinx, Powerbase:Montreal and especially Zillah's Valley. Ramona's ability is very useful especially if she runs out of blood after playing some Protean action modifiers. - Zillah's Valley is very useful to control faster big vampires and in the mid-game it makes a great combo with Parity Shift. ;) - Creepshow Casino is very useful to political actions, to hunt, ... - Powerbase:Montreal is a good way to place an additional blood on an uncontrolled vampire with nmo cost. The Second Traditions never get jammed on hand for long periods... and it can be combined with Ecoterrorists for a blood cow! - Elysium:Palace of Versailles helps adding some votes. - Visit From The Capuchin is very very good, and it has a similar effect as Dreams of the Sphynx on card advantage. - Fifth Traditions are a great blood source combined with Minion Tap for bloat. - Judgement:Camarilla Segregation are useful and most of the times other players burn vampires in torpor. - Masochisms help paying some cards costs like Earth Control and Rapid Change. It can be combined with Flesh of Marble. - Ablative Skin is a add-on, just in case, to prevent some extra damage. - Rapid Change sometimes is useful to end combat. - Closed Session helps against the Lasombra and other Sabbat votes against. - Parity Shifts help control the table. Can be combined with Zillah's Valley to meet the pool requirements during the turn it is played. - Banishments are easy to play on most vampires since the titled Gangrels are high capacity. - Corruption's Purge are playable on all Setite at once, burning 2 blood and sending them to torpor if they don't have 2 blood to burn. Useful it your predator has plenty of Followers of Set. - Protect Thine Own helps burning some weenie non-Camarilla vampires. - Flesh of Marble almost kill Potence decks, and if the damage is aggravated it can be combined with Skin of Night. The single point of damage "feeds" the Masochism. - Second Tradition are a good example how a card justifies the use of bigger titled Camarilla vampires. Wake, untap, with +2 intercept is very good on a single card. Without this card, this deck almost got no real effective defense without changing other cards and its proportions.

the crypt

Vampires

12
  1. 3Angus the Unruledcelerity — inferiorfortitude — inferiorpotence — inferioranimalism — superiorprotean — superior
  2. 3Ingrid Rosslerdominate — inferioranimalism — superiorfortitude — superiorprotean — superior
  3. 2Katarinapotence — inferiorprotean — inferioranimalism — superiorfortitude — superior
  4. 2Chandler Hungerfordprotean — superior
  5. 1Ramonafortitude — inferiorprotean — inferior
  6. 1Ricki Van Demsifortitude — inferiorprotean — inferior
the library

Cards

90

Master

18
  1. 1Backways
  2. 3Blood Doll
  3. 1Creepshow Casino
  4. 2Dreams of the Sphinx
  5. 1Ecoterrorists
  6. 1Elysium: The Palace of Versailles
  7. 4Minion Tap
  8. 1Powerbase: Montreal
  9. 1Visit from the Capuchin
  10. 3Zillah's Valley

Action

14
  1. 1Ablative Skin
  2. 2Army of Rats
  3. 5Fifth Tradition: Hospitality
  4. 4Judgment: Camarilla Segregation
  5. 2Masochism

Political Action

16
  1. 1Ancient Influence
  2. 2Banishment
  3. 2Conservative Agitation
  4. 2Corruption's Purge
  5. 2Disputed Territory
  6. 2Dramatic Upheaval
  7. 2Parity Shift
  8. 1Political Stranglehold
  9. 2Protect Thine Own

Action Modifier

10
  1. 2Closed Session
  2. 6Earth Control
  3. 1Freak Drive
  4. 1Kiss of Ra, The

Action Modifier/Combat

5
  1. 5Rapid Change

Reaction

13
  1. 4Cats' Guidance
  2. 9Second Tradition: Domain

Combat

14
  1. 5Earth Meld
  2. 7Flesh of Marble
  3. 2Skin of Night