DECK IDEA: Anklebiter Goes Tactical [Pot/Dom bleed n bash]. i actually have TWO decks to talk about this month but one of them, kindly donated by Derek Ray, is in my email at work where i can't access it thanks to a broken cable. So that will have to wait till next month. Here is the one i currently have to hand. Michael aka Anklebiter has had a fairly dismal summer Jyhad-wise; 4 tourneys, no VP. It is clearly time for him to do something a bit different and so here is the latest deck i have built for him. Its excuse for being in this neswletter is that it contains Shane Grimald, who always seems to me the most enigmatic of the !Gangrel. Odd, too that his disciplines are exactly the same as those of Judah - most enigmatic [IMO] of my Other Favourite Clan the Nosferatu. CRYPT [12 vampires] Cameron 3 pot dom Ignacio, the Black Priest 4 pot dom obt Shane Grimald 4 pot dom ani Francesca Giovanni 4 pot dom nec Vittorio Giovanni 5 pot dom for nec Sabine Lafitte 5 pot dom aus tha Aurora Van Brande, Paladin 6 pot dom for obt Lisette Vizquel 6 POT DOM pro Anvil 6 POT dom tha pre CEL Gratiano 8 pot DOM OBT obf Lucita 8 pot DOM FOR OBT cel Emerson Bridges 8 pot DOM FOR PRE LIBRARY [82 cards] Masters [16] 2 Minion Tap The Rumour Mill Sudden Reversal Direct Intervention Fortitude The Barrens Potence Dominate Elder Library 3 Blood Doll Dreams of the Sphinx Legendary Vampire Obtenebration Potence [18] 6 Torn Signpost 6 Immortal Grapple 4 Undead Strength Mighty Grapple Thrown Sewer Lid Obtenebration [6] 2 Eyes of the Night 2 Shadow Play Shadow Step Entombment Fortitude [6] 3 Hidden Strength Superior Mettle Skin of Steel Daring the Dawn Dominate [18] Foreshadowing Destruction Far Mastery The Sleeping Mind Seduction 4 Deflection 4 Conditioning 4 Govern the Unaligned Dominate Kine Bonding Disciplineless [18] 2 Delaying Tactics 5 WWEF 3 Bum's Rush 5 Taste of Vitae Atonement Leather Jacket Pulled Fangs This deck swept its first 3-player encounter, i wouldn't say with ease, but against two fairly competitive decks run by me [Nosferatu Kagemusha] and Lady Legbiter [Oxford University Press]. i then played it at our weekly pub game where it tied for first-place with Mark's obfuscate/presence vote/bleed deck in a timed-out 7-player game. Far Mastery should probably be Grave Robbing, but otherwise the deck looks ok.