i had built two Christmas decks for the purposes of this game, the one i transcribe below for me, and a virtual clone of Ben Peal's "The O-Line" Gargoyle deck for Sarah. The latter deck is very fine IMO, and it really is true as Ben says that a non-Ben player can field it and still do well. In the event, however, Sarah opted to stick with her relatively-bleedy Tzimisces, Michael played his Kiasyds, Shevaun went with a big Nosferatu bloat-vote deck, and i played the Other Christmas deck i built. And after a protracted struggle i won, though not by a sweep: Sarah got Shevaun, and i got the other three VP. Here's my deck, a marginally-accelerated Euro-Brujah affair which includes some of the less-fashionable Brujah in addition to the Usual Suspects. DECK NAME: "Breast or Thigh, Sir?" CREATED BY: Legbiter CONCEPT: Brujah-with-dominate ["EuroBrujah"] Happy Families deck [ie built by mathematically-regulating the proportions of cards of different disciplines according to the crypt one has chosen, it's all explained under Happy Families at legbiter.tripod.com], constructed on the base of the CE Brujah starter which my mother gave me for Christmas, augmented with cards that were lying around waiting to be filed. Heavy dominate-bleed, deflect, ranged combat with multi-strikes. Probably needs to lose the blurs for more Pursuit, needs to lose a few masters for Tastes of Vitae or something, but actually is quite functional as it stands. CRYPT [12 cards] Anvil x 2 Constanza Vinti x 2 Don Cruez, the Idealist x 2 Donal O'Connor x 2 Theo Bell x 2 Tura Vaughn x 2 LIBRARY [90 cards] MASTERS [18 cards] Blood Doll Celerity Dominate Fame Golconda Haven Uncovered KRCG News radio Legendary Vampire Minion Tap x 6 Warzone HG Zillah's Valley x 3 MINION [72 cards] ACTIONS [10 cards] Blood Hunt Bum's Rush x 3 Govern the Unaligned x 5 Rampage POLITICS [3 cards] Anathema Kindred Restructure x 2 ACTION MODIFIERS [4 cards] Command of the Beast Conditioning Foreshadowing Destruction x 2 COMBAT [41 cards] Blur x 4 Flash x 9 Lightning Reflexes Pursuit x 4 Taste of Vitae x 2 Thoughts Betrayed x 4 Thrown Gate x 8 Thrown Sewer Lid x 9 EQUIPMENT [3 cards] .44 Magnum Flak Jacket Leather Jacket REACTIONS [11 cards] Deflection x 2 Redirection x 3 Second Tradition x 2 WWEF x 4