October's Deck Idea Clinic: Within the Walls of Chaos
The Crypt:
Al-Ashrad, Amr of Alamut (9) CEL QUI obf THA aus
Parnassus (7) CEL QUI tha aus
Parnassus (7) CEL QUI tha aus
Parnassus (7) CEL QUI tha aus
Kalinda (6) CEL tha OBF
Kalinda (6) CEL tha OBF
Victor Revell, Loyalist (5) CEL aus pre dem
Abd al-Rashid (5) CEL QUI obf
Abd al-Rashid (5) CEL QUI obf
Colin Flynn (3) cel aus
Zoe (3) cel obf AUS
Kanya Akhtar (2) cel

CEL - 12 (3 at minor and 9 at superior)
AUS - 7 (6 at minor and 1 at superior)
OBF - 6 (4 at minor and 2 at superior)
QUI - 6 (all at superior)
THA - 6 (5 at minor and 1 at superior)
DEM - 1 (all at minor)

Total Capacity of Crypt: 65
Average Vamp Size: 5.41

The Library:
Masters: (18)
5x Blood Doll
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Alamut
1x Depravity
1x Fame
1x Fragment of the Book of Nod
1x Giant's Blood
1x Market Square
1x The Path of Blood
1x The Rack
1x Underworld Hunting Ground
1x Auspex Skill Card
1x Dominate Skill Card

Combat: (35)
2x Acrobatics
6x Blood Sweat
2x Blur
7x Flash
2x Lightning Reflexes
4x Lucky Blow
2x Pursuit
2x Superior Mettle
2x Taste of Death
6x Taste of Vitae

Actions: (14)
3x Blessing of Chaos
2x Govern the Unaligned
7x Infernal Familiar
1x Ivory Bow
1x Mr. Winthrop

Action Modifiers: (8)
1x Cloak the Gathering
6x Conditioning
1x Lost in Crowds

Reactions: (15)
2x Deflection
2x Eagle's Sight
2x Enhanced Senses
6x Forced Awakening
1x Foul Blood
1x Precognition
1x Spirit's Touch

Deck Comments:
The main focus of this deck is obviously the use of the Infernal Familiars.
You will need to employ with one as soon as you can so that you do not have
to discard the Conditionings and Blessings of Chaos early in the game. I
really like the use of the Conditionings in the deck because after you are
able to play one, you can begin to play head games with your prey. Do you
have more in your hand? Could you possibly bleed for more than three? What
else is in that damn deck?

If you think that the Conditionings screw with your prey wait until you are
able to play a Blessing of Chaos on Parnassus! The card text on the Blessing
at minor reads: "If the vampire with this card attempts to block another
vampire, that vampire cannot play action modifiers requiring Dementation,
Dominate, Presence, or Chimerstry. Vampires opposing this vampire in combat
cannot play cards that require those Disciplines." The key word in the card
text is "attempts". If one of your blessed assassins "attempts" to block a
Venture/Toreador political action with no intercept, then they can no longer
play cards like Awe, Bewitching Oration or Voter Captivation! If you
"attempt" to block a stealth bleeder then they no longer can play cards like
Bonding, Conditioning, Foreshadowing Destruction, Threats and Aire of
Elation! When you finally feel like getting into combat with those pesky
Kafir, they cannot play cards like Catatonic Fear, Majesty, Thoughts
Betrayed, Apparition, Horrid Reality, or even Illusions of the Kindred. Who
ever thought that an Assamite would use a Dementation card?

After running this deck a few times you will begin to see the awesome power
of the Infernal Familiar. If this card cannot overcome the inherent
drawbacks of the clan then I am afraid that nothing will short of another
V:TES expansion with new cards. But that is another story for a later day.