Author/Owner: James Coupe
Date Posted: 26 Apr 99
Title: All Hail Mind Numb
DejaNews Thread

Well, it isn't really a mind numb deck, but it came up often enough to
make me happy about including it.  

I'd be interested to know what people think of the deck, and
improvements they'd make.  It's designed as weenie presence bleed,
backed up by Setite Corruption.  I've found the Corruption to be quite
useful as it can steal a vampire, and also has a tendency to encourage
"suicide runs" - "Oh, you're going to get my vampire - might as well
diablerise with it and get Bloodhunted than let you have it."  

I could deal with combat slightly - Majesty provided a good defence
against the Tzimisce floating around, though I ended up running out
fairly quickly.  I couldn't deal with Dave's Nosferatu deck due to the
IG, and I couldn't deal with Legbiter's OOT deck, because of the
Rotschreck.  Thank God I never sat next to it for very long.

It had a slight problem with being bled, especially S&B.  I'd be
interested to know how people would try and deal with that, given that I
don't have the best disciplines to hand for bounce, reduction or
intercept :(

I would remove Tongue of the Serpent, since too few of my vampires had
Serpentis for it to be overly useful, and I found that I couldn't play
it very often anyway.  Those decks I wanted to hurt wanted to hurt me
more and discretion was the better part of valour.

I didn't get a chance to play Treachery, never drew it, but I like the
card, and it fits thematically, so I'd like to probably leave them in
the deck.

I might veer more towards a Social Charm based deck, for the added pool
gain.  The special abilities of the other cards never seem to be useful,
though I might keep a couple of Media Influence for the slight bleeding
edge and unusualness ("Well, he can only bleed me for X next turn, so
I'm safe... Wrong!")

Anyway, the deck:

Vampires (12)
Mariana Gilbert
Nepata (2)
Khalil Anvari (2)
Hadrian Garrick (2)
Aisha (2)
Igo the Hungry
Gideon Fontaine (2)

Total Capacity: 45
Lowest Draw: 10
Highest Draw: 20
Average Capacity: 3.75

Library (Total Cards: 89)

- Masters (20)
Opium Den (2)
Presence (7)
Blood Doll (4)
Misdirection (4)
The Barrens
Temple Hunting Ground
Dreams of the Sphinx

- Actions (42)
Corruption (12)
The Embrace (3)
Social Charm (8)
Form of Corruption (2)
Mind Numb (7)
Media Influence (4)
Entrancement (2)
Intimidation
Enchant Kindred
Temptation
Arson

- Combat (11)
Majesty (8) (Pronounced "I am the cheese" whilst holding your arms in 
                                                                the air)
Tongue of the Serpent (3)

- Action Modifiers (4)
Aire of Elation (4)

- Reactions (7)
Dread Gaze (4)
Treachery (3)

- Action Modifiers/Combat (5)
Tongue of the Serpent (5)

-- 
James Coupe (Prince of Mercia, England)