In article <3820c8bf.2123323@nntp.netcom.net.uk>,
  anam@netcomuk.co.uk (angel) wrote:
> beware! it swept the table tonight and seems to work really well.
> so much for the white coats and formulas :)
>
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.