So i rushed out and bought my Scryes, read mike's article [Lobotomy??? pull the other one, Mike! No, seriously, good work in promoting the great game] and built a deck with Hesha in it. Alright, that's a lie really. i stuffed Hesha into my existing Setite Happy Families deck, played a game with it last Wednesday, tweaked out the totally useless politics and came up with this which i played last night in a 3-player. In neither of these games did i get to activate Hesha, and nor have i managed to bring him out in home play yet. CRYPT [13 vampires] Hadrian Garrick Amisa Kemintiri Nepata Lena Rowe Hesha Ruhadze Dedefra Khalil Anvari Greta Kircher Lalitha Kephamos Aisha Saqqaf LIBRARY [75 cards]. MASTERS [15] Auspex Blood Doll x 2 Guardian Angel Information Highway Minion Tap Obfuscate Opium Den The Path of Typhon Presence The Realm of the Black Sun Serpentis Storage Annex Temple HG Tribute to the Master DISCIPLINELESS [15] 44 Magnum Covenant of Blood Deer Rifle x 2 Forced Awakening x 2 Leather Jacket x 3 Mummy's Tongue WWEF x 3 Zip Gun x 2 OBFUSCATE [12] Cloak the Gathering x 3 Elder impersonation Faceless Night x 2 Lost in Crowds x 3 Swallowed by the Night x 3 PRESENCE [14] Aire of Elation x 2 Entrancement Legal Manipulations x 4 Majesty x 5 Media Influence x 2 SERPENTIS [13] Form of Corruption Form of the Serpent x 4 Heart of Darkness x 3 Lure of the Serpent Mark of Damnation x 2 Temptation x 2 AUSPEX [6] Aura Reading x 2 Enhanced Senses Primal Instincts The Spirit's Touch Telepathic Counter Quite a functional little deck this, and played quite differently on its two competitive outings. In the first game it turned into a stealth-bleed and biff deck since my prey [Mark] activated Ventrues and i had Kemintiri in my crypt. Did some ridiculous deals and had some done against me in consequence, final 2-2 table split with me "winning" on being last man standing. In the second i got out Greta Kircher who i've always thought is a bit good and also did some productive temptation against my weenie prey's main blocker, a guy called Joe playing VTES basically for the first time. He did really well, incidentally - won the first game before i arrived taking out John Keech, John Eagles and Rob Treasure along the way, also won the second game by taking out John Keech and then me by concession since i'd arranged a lift for 11pm precisely. However, had i been able to stay i would have won since he was bleeding me for 1 each [less if i Greta'd it] with an ever-decreasing number of vampires thanks to temptation and Form of Corruption. Probably the above deck needs to lose all aspirations to blocking and just go with TCs and aura readings for the auspex sauce. Lure of the Serpent and Temptation are terrific and maybe there should be another lure for one of the Hearts of Darkness but HoD and MoD are really not bad in this deck.