Vampires
- 2Gratiano
- 1Ambrosio Luis Monçada, Plenipotentiary
- 1Angelica, The Canonicus
- 1Francisco Domingo de Polonia
- 1Lucita
- 1Aurora Van Brande, Paladin
- 1Talley, The Hound
- 1Guido Lucciano
- 1Ignacio, The Black Priest
- 1Ramiro
- 1Mitchell, The Headhunter
Crusade III: Frozen Carnage · Edmonton (AB), Canada
March 17th 2001 · won by Mattrim Dixon
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad/c/0sk7pwVY57Y The idea behind the deck is simple: keep yourself alive, almost indefinitely, by bloating like crazy from the Blood Dolls / Hungry Coyote combination, supplemented by Govern the Unaligned and Scouting Mission at superior. After you have a suitable number of minions up and your prey is low enough in pool (less than twelve, heh), steamroll your prey with stealthed up nicely: "And here we must observe that men must either be flattered or crushed; for they will revenge themselves for slight wrongs; whilst for grave ones they cannot. The injury, therefore, that you do a man should be such that you need not fear for revenge." The weak spots of this deck, as with most focused decks, are numerous. The lack of intercept, with the exception of Angelica, is a major sore spot, which actually cost me two victory points in the final. Should anyone seek to replicate this deck, I suggest substituting a number of intercept cards in for the Redirections. A heavy-duty rush-combat deck with Immortal Grapple would tear this deck to shreds, as the maneuvers are light. Depending on your local metagame, replacement of a number of Shadow Step for Arms of the Abyss may be in order. The addition of a Power Structure, to defend against vote-based decks, would also benefit the deck greatly as it will often finish the game with four-plus minions.