LEGBITER’S TERRIBLE WARNING AGAINST MAKING RASH PROMISES
TO BUILD VIABLE CONCEPT DECKS
Last month I gaily promised to design a gangrel-anti combat
deck based on the principles outlined in the last newsletter,
and for the last two weeks I have been cursing myself for my
arrogance. I hadn’t, you see, previously done any kind of
analysis of the !gangrel disciplines, and it was only when
I did so that I realised how terribly fragmented these are.
Of all the clans only the Pander are worse in this respect,
and they of course have the countervailing advantages of
being cheap, and having Legacy of Pander [one of the best
cards in the game]. Eventually I came up with the following
creation, which uses the Todd Banister Infernal Familiar
trick to create a pot/pro/for kind of a deck and aims to
do lots of rushes and a bit of grave-robbing. However, I
am under no illusion that this is a GOOD deck, and nor
should you be. It is sleepy [no wake- ups], slow [big
vampires] and feeble [no votes or decent bleeds]. I present
it nevertheless as a Terrible Warning to newsletter editors
not to write articles on the hoof. Next time I will have the
deck built before I make rash promises about it. Well, maybe
the time after next. November’s NL project is going to be
how to design a decent !Gangrel deck without initially
limiting it to being mainly combat, and this will almost
certainly mean basing it around the Gangrel anti-girlies
who have decent specials and/or are Caitlin.
CRYPT
3 x Leon 3 for ani
2 x Samantha 10 ani tha PRO OBF CEL Bishop
2 x Shane Grimald 4 pot dom ani
2 x Zachary 7 for pre PRO OBF CEL
3 x Pieter 6 tha for PRO OBF
LIBRARY
2 x Hand of Conrad
10 x Bum’s Rush
5 x Ambush
5 x Torn Signpost
10 x Immortal Grapple
4 x Flesh of Marble
4 x Infernal Familiar
4 x Amaranth
2 x Ritual of the Bitter Rose
6 x Freak Drive
4 x Disarm
6 x Skin of Steel
2 x Skin of Night
4 x Wolf Claws
4 x Grave Robbing
Heidelberg Castle
Pentex Loves You!
Hungry Coyote
2 x Rotshreck
3 x Minion Tap
2 x Blood Doll
Festivo Dell’ Estinto
Giant’s Blood
Depravity
Dominate
Potence
Twisted Forest
2 x Gangrel Conspiracy