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

For those who want a decent Gangrel anti combat deck I can only refer you
to George Fink?s JOL deck which is archived somewhere in the !Gangrel NLs
[in cloned-from-asheap form]. Actually there is another very good one on
a central european site but I promised the owner not to publish it till
he gave me permission.