A while back i posted the germ of an idea for using Betrayer in a deck. For
playtesting, I built three versions of this deck and used them in jol79, 84
and local 8. I am now out in all these games and got a total of 2VPs, but
actually the deck did a lot better than that implies - it became "the deck to
kill" in 84 and 8, and would have got another VP in 79 if Mike, Bleu and all
the others hadn't ganged up on me.
Here is the version of the deck i used in 84, where it flowed BEAUTIFULLY and
would have cleaned up, i think, but for some seriously WEIRD politics [Madness
Network and Reversal of Fortune ... nice combo, but boring to be on the
receiving end of].
CRYPT [500 vampires - 1 of each plus enough weeny 1-caps so that
they amountto 1/3 of the total]
Javier Montoya 9 Lazarus 9 Cassandra, Magus Prime 10 Cardano 9
Gwendolyn 11 Kalinda 6 Parnassus 7 Klaus van der Veken 9 Al-Ashrad,
Amr of Alamut 9 Aaron Duggan, Cameron’s Toady 2 Cameron 3
Ignacio, The Black Priest 4 Ramiro 4 Guido Lucciano 5
Aurora VanBrande, Paladin 6 Lisette Vizquel 6 Gratiano 8
Alvaro, The Scion of Angelica 9 Antonio Delgado 9 Angelica, The Canonicus 10
Horatio 2 Wendy Wade 3 Lolita Houston 4 Devin Bisley 5 Corine Marcon 6
Violet Tremain 6 Dragos 7 Meshenka 8 Stravinksy 9 Lambach 10 Anton 8
Didi Meyers 5 Thelonius 4 Jing Wei 3 Vanessa 6 Ingrid Russo 4
Gloria Giovanni 4 Christine Boscacci 2 Ohanna 2 Mustafa Rahman 2 Samson 2
Kurt Strauss 5 Grendel - The Worm Eaten 5 Mitchell, TheHeadhunter 2
Jimmy Dunn 4 Lena Rowe 3 Rex, The Necronomist 3 GillianKrader 2
Anvil 6 Jacko 8 Sela 6 Richter, The Templar of Du Mont 7
Fredrick the Weak 2 Volker, The Puppet Prince 5 Hugo 4 Rake 6 HectorSosa 4
Don Cruez - The Idealist 10 Lupo 2 Josef 4 Quira, The BitchQueen 6
Anson 8 Dan Murdock 3 Magdelena Schaefer 2 Black Cat 5 Nepata 4
Saqqaf, Keeper of the Grand Temple of Set 9 Boy Toy 2 Amisa 8 Lalitha 2
Artemis 6 Vasantasena 9 Yorik 3 Korah 7
Kephamos, HighPriest of Marrakech 8 Dedefra 5 Mario Giovanni 3
Cristofero Giovanni 3 Carlotta Giovanni 7
Regina Giovanni, The Right Hand of Augustus 10 IanForestal 8 Melek 7
Delilah Easton 2 Masika 10 Harika Guljan 3 Abdal-Rashid 5 Lolita 3
Jost Werner 6 Marianna Gilbert 4 Ian Wallingford 6 Sadie 2 Caitlin 5
Pieter 6 Blaise 7 Genevieve 10 GiulianoVincenzi 2 Leon 3 Sasha Miklos 2
Luther 6 Vliam Andor 2 Monique 5 Natalia 7 Sarisha Veliku 6
Gitane St. Claire 7 Katarina 9 JoaquinaAmaya 6 Lazar Dobrescu 3 Tsigane 3
Salbatore Bokkengro 4 Andre Puxon 5 Petru Sipos 7 Tereza Rostas 8
Darius Styx 9 Kostantin, Baro of theCaravan 9 Kanya Akhtar 2 Tansu Bekir 4
Husamettin 8 Thetmes, Calif ofAlamut 10 Angel 2
Vasilis, The Traitor of Don Cruez 2 Dre, Leader ofthe Cold Dawn 3
Raziya Samater 3 Uma Hatch 3 Yuri - The Talon 4 Brachah 5 Bianca 6
Akram 8 Constanza Vinti 8 Donal O’Conner 8 Miranda Sanova 8 Tura Vaughn 8
Crusher 9 Appolonius 10 Jacob Bragg 3 Sarah Brando 3 Dodd 5
Rigby, Crusade Vanguard 5 Salinger 9 Bronwen 10 Khalil Anvari 3
Hadrian Garrick 4 Aisha 6 Kemintiri 10 AnastasiaGrey 3 Chandler Hungerford 3
Panagos Levidis 3 Ricki Van Demsy 3 Roman Alexander 4 Bear Paw 5
Camille Devereux 5 Raven 5 MirembeKabbada 5 Badger 6 Zack North 6
Gunther - Beast Lord 7 Iliana 7 Faruq 8 Quinton McDonnell 8
Angus - The Unruled 10 Basilia 10 Wynn 10 Stanislava 11 Shane Grimald 4
Zachary 7 Samantha 10 Brazil 2 Normal 2 Dollface 3 Watenda 3
Zoe 3 Aleph 4 Roland Bishop 4 Victoria 5 Zebulon 5 Dancin’ Dana 6
Damaskenos, Herald of Leandro 6 Ozmo 6 Gilbert Duane 7 Gregor Anderssen 7
Mariel - Lady Thunder 7 Cornelius Ottavio 8 Dr. Jest 8 Sylvester Simms 8
Roxanne, Rectrix ofthe 13th Floor 9 Lucian 10 Leandro 11 Claven 4
Muriel Foucade 5 Virgil 8 Imogen 9 Hannibal 10 Dimple 2 Koko 2
Duck 3 Regillio,The Seeker of Akhenaten 3 Agrippina 4 Daliyah 4
Laurent de Valois 4 Sammy 4 Tiberius, The Scandelmonger 5 Judah 6
Tusk - Talebearer 6 Chester DuBois 7 Nikolaus Vermeulen 7 Sebastian Marley 7
Amadeo 8 Ebanezer Roush 8 Murat 7 Selma - The Repugnant 8
Marty Lechtansi 9 Sheldon - Lord of the Clog 9 Lucretia - Cess Queen 10
Harrod 11 Dani 2 Tommy 3 Agatha 4 Nigel the shunned 5 Olivia 5
Beast, The Leatherfaceof Detroit 7 Kendrick 7 Calebos 8 Cailean 10
Yong-Sun, Harmonist 10 Dieter Kleist 2 Colin Flynn 3 Isabel de Leon 3
Demetrius Slater 4 Dorian Strack 4 Felicia Mostrom 5 Ramiel Dupre 5
Adrianne 6 Kallista- Master Sculpter 6 Radeyah 6 Sigrid Bekker 6
Elliot Sinclair 7 Tatiana Romanov 7 Makarios, The Seducer 8 Marcellus 8
Andreas - Bard ofCrete 9 Anneke 10 Francois Villon 10 Alexandra 11
Carter 2 Remilliard, Devout Crusader 4 Victor Revell, Loyalist 5
Sheila Mezarin 6 Jessica 7 Lachlan, Noddist 8 Donatien 9
Matteus, Flesh Sculptor 10 Roreca Quaid 2 Blythe Candeleria 3
Dr. John Casey 3 Ignatius 4 SarahCobbler 4 Merrill Molitor 5
Sabine Lafitte 5 Elisabetta Romano 6 Lydia Van Cuelen 6 Thomas Thorne 6
Astrid Thomas 7 Muaziz, Archon ofUlugh Beg 7 Justine, Elder of Dallas 8
Rebekka, Chantry Elder of Munich 8 Spiridonas 9 Etrius 11 Heinrick Schlempt 2
Brooke 3 RichardTauber, Ayelea’s Puppet 4 Reverend Blackwood 6
Bryan Van Duesen 7 KijDansky 8 Ethan Locke 9
Ayelea, The Manipulator 10 Rufina Soledad 2 Gideon Fontaine 3
Itzahk Levine 3 Roland Loussarian 3 CourtlandLeighton 4 Violette Prentiss 4
Jazz Wentworth 5 Melissa Barton 5 Ranjan Rishi, Camarilla Scholar 5
Heather Florent, The Opportunist 6 Luccia Paciola 6
Nakova, Advocate of Golconda 6 Sir Walter Nash 7 Timothy Crowley 7
Emerson Bridges 8 Bindusara, Historian of the Kindred 9 Helena Casimir 9
Natasha Volfchek 9 Suhailah 9 Wilhelm Waldburg 9 Democritus 10
Queen Anne 10 Arika 11 Billy 5 Gerard 5 Dylan 6 Marlene, The Infernalist 6
Dominique 7 Quentin 9 Lazverinus, Thrall ofLambach 10
Rudolpho Giovanni 3 Vittorio Giovanni 5 Patrizia Giovanni 5
Gaspare Giovanni 6 Rafaele Giovanni 6 Stefano Giovanni 6
EnzoGiovanni, Pentex Board of Directors 8 Francesca Giovanni 4
VaclavPetalengro 6 Juan Cali 3 Ulugh Beg, The Watcher 10
plus 22 each of:
Nik 1
Antoinette DuChamp 1
Royce 1
Angela Decker 1
Basil 1
March Halcyon 1
Huang, Blood Cultist 1
Navar McClaren 1
Smudge - The Ignored 1
Franciscus 1
Hasina Kesi 1
Igo - The Hungry 1
Julius 1
Uriah Winter 1
LIBRARY [99 Cards]
25 Betrayer
14 The Parthenon
16 Recruitment
9 Rumours of Gehenna
4 Protected Resources
8 Bribes
4 The Barrens
5 Kine Resources Contested
2 Kindred Segregation
2 Dramatic Upheaval
2 Dreams of the Sphinx
2 Slave Auction
2 Disputed Territory
2 Domain Challenge
2 Fragment of the Book of Nod
Obviously the idea is to Recruit out one of your prey's vamps and pile on the
Betrayers. Pool gain is through bribed votes, especially Rumours of Gehenna
so that you get the other master phase action. Defence against bleed and vote
is not spending much on influence. As the game proceeds your deck turns into
a bit of a weenie swarm, because you tend to have recruited the little guys
your successive preys brought out.