o Brujah Resistance
Highlights
This is a toolbox deck using Brujah o barons.
It relies on the defensive abilities of Anarch Barons: Organized Resistance for unlock and Bait and Switch for bounces. Using versatile "three-way" combat cards Diversion and Dust Up, combined with some .44 Magnum, the deck achieves a solid defense and enough intimidation to get bleeds through.
The deck builds up power while the game progresses: the Barons start to get some .44 Magnum, permanent intercept like Mr. Winthrop, better bleed with New Carthage and/or Club Illusion, and blood regeneration with Papillon and/or Carfax Abbey.
The list presented here uses a heavy master module supported by The Parthenon, with Ashur Tablets and Garibaldi‑Meucci Museum recursion. This allows the deck to run a tight 62 cards library and gives it higher chances to get the important unique cards.
Tips & Tricks
Early on, Villein must be used to recoup as much blood as possible. The deck has decent defense, but is pool hungry. The Barons can hunt to regenerate, until Papillon and/or Carfax Abbey land.
Garibaldi‑Meucci Museum is incredibly versatile, from fetching the required unlock or bounce, to getting the lone Reckless Agitation for damage, turn after turn if needed.
This version aims for The Slow Withering. The whole deck uses only inferior disciplines, so the card only hurts the opponents. One need to be careful when playing it, though: if it hurts allies more than the prey and predator it can be discarded, and fetched back later with Ashur Tablets. The other Gehenna cards are mostly here to allow The Slow Withering to be played but can be useful in niche cases.
Ashur Tablets can be used at mid-game to put back in deck combat and reaction cards. Once a first Ashur Tablets cycle has occured, the deck increases its block and combat consistency.
Variants
Including The Slow Withering is really specific to this one instance of the deck, others do not rely on events. A few cards often find their way in: Monkey Wrench for the lunge and Protection Racket for intercept. Also, allies like Grey Thorne, Vivienne Géroux or 47th Street Royals. Some Anarch tools like Open War or Constant Revolution can also find a slot here. On the crypt side, Elen Kamjian often finds a spot.
The most common variant includes rush actions to provide more flexibility, like Line Brawl. The Ashur Tablets recursion can also be dropped by playing a larger library. See for example Márcio Pinheiro's deck.
There are a lot of variations in the combat module. If Dust Up is a constant, Diversion is sometimes dropped and Hell‑For‑Leather often included. See for example Pedro Paulo's deck.
The deck can also be much more rush-oriented, relying on a more brutal combat module and superior disciplines, like in Erik Albenze's deck.