Archetypes
Top Tier
Here is a list of the best Vampire: the Eternal Struggle deck archetypes. Every archetype is presented with Tournament Winning Deck Archive (TWDA) deck list examples, main variations, and a play guide.
Only archetypes having proven themselves against at least 20 players twice since 2015 are taken into account, and only if one of these wins is a Continental Championship or if they have at least a third win. Example decklists are the most recent ones, or the ones with a Continental Championship win.
Please note that this list is built purely on TWDA statistics: more than a third of tournaments wins are achieved with unrelated decks.
| Anson Guns | (Toolbox) |
| Anti Ventrue Grinder | (Toolbox) |
| Cats | (Wall / Toolbox) |
| Dementation Bleed | (Stealth & Bleed) |
| Emerald Legion | (Toolbox) |
| ⬆︎ Gangrel Barons | (Wall) |
| Gentlemen With Sticks | (Toolbox) |
| Girls Will Find Inner Circle | (Stealth & Bleed) |
| Guruhi Rush | (Rush / Toolbox) |
| ⬆︎ Haqim Royalty | (Toolbox) |
| ⬆︎ Infernal Ministry | (Vote) |
| ⬆︎ Infernal Princes | (Vote) |
| Lasombra Nocturn | (Stealth & Bleed) |
| Lutz Politics | (Bleed & Vote) |
| Malgorzata | (Toolbox) |
| ⬆︎ Malkav' 22 | (Stealth & Bleed) |
| Mistress | (Bleed & Vote) |
| Parliament of Shadows | (Bleed & Vote) |
| ⬆︎ Platinum Protocol | (Stealth & Bleed) |
| Rebekka / Jost | (Powerbleed) |
| Saulot Wall | (Wall) |
| Stanislava | (Bleed & Vote) |
| The unnamed | (Stealth & Bleed) |
| Tzimisce Toolbox | (Toolbox) |
| War Chantry | (Toolbox) |
Runner-ups
These archetypes are not currently top tier, but they have potential. They have either been successful in the past, or have recently gotten some victories in tournaments. Keep an eye out for them, tinker and experiment to reveal their full potential.
| Black Hand | (Toolbox) |
| Blind Spot | (Toolbox) |
| ⬇︎ Goratrix High Tower | (Wall) |
| Guillaume Real Estate | (Powerbleed) |
| Hunters | (Toolbox) |
| MMPA Politics | (Vote & Bleed) |
| ⬇︎ Nananimalism | (Rush / Toolbox) |
| Palla Grande | (Swarm) |
Neonate Archetypes (BCP print only)
These archetypes are built using only cards that are currently in print by BCP. It is a growing project contributed to by seasoned players - reach out on the V:TES Discord for feedback or additional ideas.
All decks included are built to be tournament worthy. They include variations and options ideas. Approaching these builds is often easily done with only a few bundle packs for cheaper versions.
| Aching Beauty | (Bleed & Vote) |
| Giovanni Powerbleed | (Stealth & Bleed) |
| Harbinger Legionnaires | (Allies Swarm) |
| Infernal Royalty | (Vote) |
| Lasombra Nocturn | (Stealth & Bleed) |
| Lutz Vote | (Vote & Bleed) |
| Malkavian Dementation | (Stealth & Bleed) |
| Malkavian Dominate | (Stealth & Bleed) |
| Nephandus | (Allies Toolbox) |
| Nosferatu Primogens | (Rush) |
| Ravnos Clown Car | (Swarm) |
| Samedi Rush | (Rush) |
| Stanislava | (Vote & Bleed) |
| The Capuchin | (Toolbox) |
| The unnamed | (Stealth & Bleed) |
| Tremere Grinder | (Toolbox) |
| Tremere Wall | (Wall) |
| Tzimisce Toolbox | (Toolbox) |
| Ventrue Grinder | (Toolbox) |
| Ventrue Lawfirm | (Vote & Bleed) |
Archive
For your enjoyment, you'll find here a collection of archetypes that did not make it to the top tier lists, but are still very much viable.
Quite a few of these lists come from the « Bibliodèque »: a French project made of more than a hundred decklists based on Tournament winning decklists or archetypes to help people build decks for their casual play or tournaments, and ultimately print those decks in proxy to have a library of decks available for their playgroup.
Many thanks to the French people helping in various ways: TTC_master acting as lead designer, Ezra, Tim, Cordovader, Darkal, Stone and so on... and to the players whose decks have served as a basis for the decks presented here (or were shamelessly copied directly).
You may find the complete historic of the project in the French VEKN Forum and the final Bibliodèque with proxies on Google Drive.