e Samedi Bleed

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Highlights

This is a stealth & bleed deck from the Samedi e clan.

The point of the deck is to use H and O for stealth in order to get bleeds through, then a lot of Freak Drive to bloat and get more vampires out. If it stays unchecked, the deck bloats a lot and get enough Samedi e in play that their aggregated bleed power can oust the whole table.

The deck uses permanent bleed enhancers: a handful of Camera Phone, the base bonus of some of the vampires like The Baron and Reg Driscoll and, interestingly, Legendary Vampire. Stealth is high, making full use of Under My Skin for a two-in-one kind of deal that makes even dedicated walls think twice before attempting a block.

The specificity of this deck is in the number of Freak Drive. Associated with the bloat and crypt acceleration actions Dark Mirror of the Mind, Little Mountain Cemetery and Off Kilter, it quickly becomes a nice pool-generating machine. The whole deck is built around this idea, with Coroner's Contact bringing more vampires in the crypt for Little Mountain Cemetery, Houngan and Perfectionist bringing a bit more blood on the table, and Powerbase: Zürich for yet another source of blood.

Tips & Tricks

The timing question on the influence phase is important: the plan is to keep vampires uncontrolled as much as possible to benefit more from the numerous Little Mountain Cemetery. As soon as the vampires get out, they can be rushed and blocked and Little Mountain Cemetery loses a lot of its interest. But while they're still uncontrolled, the deck is pretty low profile. Some cards in the deck are included to take advantage of this odd desire to not get the vampires out too soon. For example, Legendary Vampire is very strong: since the deck already plans to keep its vampires uncontrolled for a bit, it can wait to get it in hand before influencing a vampire out. Kaymakli Nightmares also follows the same logic: here it is not used to slow down the rest of the table in the beginning, it is a bloating tool that allows the deck to take back all of the blood that has been stacked in the uncontrolled region.

Obviously having more transfers is a good thing - enough blood gets stacked in the uncontrolled zone that takiing it back to bloat can matter. Information Highway is useful in the long run, to the point that it might still be useful in the end game.

Bleeding with no bounce available for defense, the deck easily benefits from Narrow Minds, and Archon Investigation can stop a greedy predator right in their tracks.