MOTHER KNOWS BEST, or, DOMINUS ILLUMINATIO ANIMA MEA [Mainly Tzimisce HF deck] i made this deck at the weekend using a starter which my mum gave me as the basis. So far i have played two games with it and won both, for a total of 6/7 possible VPs. It is an intercept combat deck at heart but it DOES have the extra pokiness required to bleed out its prey. Probably it should have a few Changelings but i've yet to decide what to take out to make room for them. Lambach should probably be another Sascha Vykos and if i go that way i might slip in a spot of Thaumaturgy. MOTHER KNOWS BEST, or, DOMINUS ILLUMINATIO ANIMA MEA [The motto of Dundee University, where i used to work. We mistranslated it as "Isn't it wonderful to be dominated by a Beast Like Me."] CRYPT [12 cards] Caliban Christine Boscacci Corine Marcon Devin Bisley Dominique Dragos Lambach Lolita Houston Meshenka Sascha Vykos Terrence Violet Tremain Wendy Wade LIBRARY [90 cards] MASTERS [18 cards] Animalism Auspex Blood Doll x 2 Dominate Festivo Dello Estinto Information Highway Library HG Minion Tap Mob Connections The Path of Metamorphosis Pentex(tm) Loves You! Powerbase, Mexico City The Rack The Rumor Mill, Tabloid Newspaper Storage Annex Sudden Reversal Viscissitude DISCIPLINELESS [18 cards] Ambush x 2 Eternal Vigilance Femur of toomler Forced Awakening x 8 JS Simmons, Esq. Revenant Tasha morgan Templar Wake with Evening's freshness War party ANIMALISM [14 cards] Army of rats Carrion crows x 4 Cats' guidance x 2 Drawing out the Beast Guard Dogs x 2 Rat's Warning x 2 Song of Serenity x 2 AUSPEX [16 cards] Enhanced Senses x 3 My Enemy's enemy Precognition x 3 Pulse of the Canaille Revelations Spirit's touch x 3 Telepathic counter x 3 Telepathic Tracking DOMINATE [7 cards] Conditioning x 2 Deflection x 2 Govern the unaligned x 3 VICISSITUDE [16 cards] Blood of Acid Body Arsenal Breath of the Dragon Chiropteran Marauder x 6 Horrid form x 2 Inner essence x 2 Kraken's Kiss x 2 Skin Trap Last night i swept a 4-player at Louisa's house at which everyone was playing a tweaked version of one of the precon decks. Michael Louisa's boyfriend was playing a lasombra deck heavily tweaked in the direction of weenie dominate-bleed. He was my prey initially and he did a good job of hurting Michael McClellan aka Anklebiter who was playing !Brujah, but then he got thoroughly kicked in by the combat sandwich. Michael McC held out against me for quite some time despite my having a revelations in play - he held me up for a while by playing Fame on one of my vamps, quite an interesting tactical play i thought. Finally Louisa had a !Ventrue deck with not enough damage prevention so that when the Revelations exposed her hand i could just pick off her vamps and eat them - 5 burned by the end of the game. At one point i actually had the multiple Chiropteran marauders and Kraken's Kisses for the classic combo but by then people were too afraid to get into combat with me. Boo! The deck flows really well and easily cycled about 70% of its cards in the 4- player. Storage Annex worked a treat - used it to cool master/intercept/ combat-card hand jam, mainly.