Building a Beginner’s Deck: Assamites
June 6, 2011 2 Comments
Occasionally, I go up to UNCC and play games on Friday nights with the student gaming guild. Several years ago I donated a few thousand VTES cards to the guild with the hopes of forming a little VTES group up there. It worked for about six months – we had a semi-regular group meet and play VTES at the guild meet ups. But for the club organizers, it was a hassle to bring all those card boxes up to the campus each week, along with all the other board games, RPG books, videos, etc. So in the end I got the cards back.
Summer is here now, so for the upcoming Fall, I was going to donate a box of eight decks. A simple starter display box with eight different clan starters inside. Something easy and small for them to bring to the meet ups.
But I don’t want to just use regular starters, so in the spirit of Atomweaver’s Deck Building Challenge, I was going to refine each starter deck, making it both easier to play and more competitive. I’m going to build these decks from cards by mixing two (or more) starter decks together.
I’m starting off this series with the Assamite Preconstructed Starter from Lords of the Night.
I anticipate all these decks will be a little tool-boxy, with bleed, combat and reaction. So far in this first attempt, I combined some cards from two Assamite LoN Starters along with a few cards from the Toreador Starter from Keepers of Tradition.
Here is my first draft:
Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 3 max: 10 average: 6.5 ------------------------------------------------------------ 2x Dmitri Borodin 10 AUS CEL NEC QUI obf Assamite:4 2x Thucimia 10 CEL DEM OBF QUI for pro Assamite:4 2x Kashan 7 CEL OBF QUI obt pre 1 vote Assamite:4 2x Layla bint-Nadr 5 CEL OBF qui Assamite:4 2x Bertrand d'Anjou 4 aus cel qui Assamite:4 2x Evan Rogers 3 cel qui Assamite:4 Library [90 cards] ------------------------------------------------------------ Action [19] 8x Clandestine Contract 2x Haqim's Law: Leadership 6x Loss 3x Web of Knives Recruit Action Modifier/Combat [7] 4x Resist Earth's Grasp 3x Swallowed by the Night Action Modifier/Reaction [4] 4x Blood Awakening Combat [30] 8x Pursuit 6x Scorpion's Touch 4x Selective Silence 3x Taste of Death 3x Weighted Walking Stick 3x Psyche! 3x Taste of Vitae Equipment [2] 2x Garrote Event [1] 1x Dragonbound Master [12] 1x Market Square 2x Path of Blood, The 1x Quietus 1x Underworld Hunting Ground 4x Vessel 2x Fame 1x Rack, The Reaction [15] 6x Black Sunrise 2x Lost in Translation 4x Nest of Eagles 3x Rooftop Shadow
Very interesting deck! When will come the next?
Yes, I will need to post those soon. I’ve been busy the past month. I need a breather!