THE BLACK HAND: ASSAMITE/GANGREL DECK IDEA i've been liquidating a bunch of old decks that we don't play with any more and have started to build or rebuild a few new decks. Here's one that has a gangrel angle though not, i have to admit, an antitribu one. The idea of this deck is to get the opportunity to deal out ranged unpreventable damage that can't be SCE'd and can only be dodged if the opposing minion has additional strikes. Basically you do this by getting the Dog Pack onto an Assamite, either via Panagos/Heidelberg or else via Clan Impersonation. Pool gain and speed are problems for this deck and hence the Succubus club [so that you can blackmail other methuselahs or hire yourself out to them - an old idea i got from William Lee] and multi-blood dolls. CRYPT [12 vamps] 2 Panagos Levidis 4 Husamettin 4 Abd Al-Rashid 2 Al-Ashrad LIBRARY [88 cards] 18 Masters: 7 Haven Uncovered 5 Blood Doll The Rack Underworld HG Heidelberg Castle, Germany Fame Succubus Club Dreams of the Sphinx 18 Non-Discipline: 3 Dog Pack 5 Forced Awakening 4 Taste of Vitae Atonement Mr Winthrop 3 Clan Impersonation Palatial Estate 17 Obfuscate: 3 Faceless Night 3 Swallowed by the Night 4 SAcrificial Lamb 3 Cloak the Gathering 2 Lost in Crowds 2 Spying Mission 15 Celerity 8 Pursuit 2 Blur 5 Sidestrike 15 Quietus 6 Taste of Death 9 Blood Sweat 6 Presence 6 Legal Manipulations