Here's the deck. Actually it is one of roughly 15 designed [as anam says] on the "Happy Families" principle [qv, on this newsgroup; note that the initial post contains an incorrect version of the formula, corrected in the thread], and probably it's in the top 20% of those [the !Bru and !Ven decks are almost certainly even better, and the Giovanni deck is also very strong]. This !Tor deck has a bit of everything! i ousted my first prey [Anam, playing Brujah/Lasombra pot/dom/obt combat/bleed .... She Begged for her Life] largely by votes [bit of bleed], my second prey [Nathan Hanley, playing Tremere/!Tre combat/bleed] by bleeds [Palla Grande came up just at the right moment] and my third prey [John Lee Barber, playing cel-pot-pre combat/bleed, and making good use of Distraction] by combat. DECK NAME: The family that bleeds, votes and slays together, stays together. FORMAT: NCL Constructed [but ok for 4/6 CL], 4-5 player tables [but ok for 3-player]. CRYPT [12 vampires] One of each of the !Toreadors Angela Decker [low draw 10, high draw 34, average 5.6] [initial crypt for this game was 1, 6 [Ian Wallingford], 7, 8 [average 5.5] and i played third out of 4. i didn't draw jost - 5th vamp out was the 6-cap girlie with +1 bleed and for, Sheila mazarin, that's it.] LIBRARY [70 cards] Celerity cards [13] Celerity Blur x 3 Side Strike Fast Hands Acrobatics x 2 Sideslip x 2 Flash x 2 Speed of Thought Presence Cards [15] Presence Majesty x 4 Social Charm x 2 Mind Numb Legal Manipulations x 3 Voter Captivation Bewitching Oration x 2 Entrancement Auspex Cards [13] Auspex Aura Reading Telepathic Misdirection Pulse of the Canaille Spirit’s Touch x 2 Scrying of Secrets Telepathic Counter x 3 Enhanced Senses x 2 Melange Fortitude cards [4] Fortitude Daring the Dawn Resilience Skin of Steel Other Masters [10] Blood Doll x 2 Minion Tap Misdirection x 2 Short-term investment Palla Grande The Art of Love Fetish Club HG The Art of Pain Non-Discipline cards [15] .44 magnum Forced Awakening x 2 Disputed Territory KRC x 2 WWEF Goth Band Dramatic Upheaval Art Scam Marijava Ghoul Leather Jacket Bang Nakh – Tiger’s Claws Political Flux Consanguineous Boon ANALYSIS BY CARD TYPE Unblockability 2/70 3% Tap 3/70 4% Vote 9/70 13% Bleed 8/70 11% Combat 23/70 33% Allies/Retainers 4/70 [counting Entrancement and Art of Love] 6% Wake 3/70 4% Intercept 5/70 7% Bleed-bounce or counter 3/70 4% Pool/Blood gain 14/70 20% Information gain 2/70 3% Draw cards 1/70 1% Stealth <1/70 <1% [marijava ghoul] [Figures don't add up to 70/100% because of multivalency of some cards] Comments: A Sweet deck to play on its first competitive outing, gaining 4/4 VPs. It is based on an all-Sabbat deck that Lady Legbiter and Michael HATED in corsica, except when they got to play with it. My favourite moment was when Rigby, armed with an SMG and glazer rounds in hand, blocked Lachlan, tooled up with the Art of Pain and bang Nakh. John went long with the gun, i manoeuvered back to short with Flash, and Acrobatics superior to dodge the gun and deal him 5 damage.