Dave's Torpor Trampoline deck
Created by Constant Hazard (hazard@potomac.net).
Vamps
(12 total)
- 1 Ricki Van Demsy (gan)
- 2 Gitane St. Claire (gan)
- 1 Stanislava (gan)
- 1 Camille Devereux (gan)
- 1 Chandler Hungerford (gan)
- 1 Badger (gan)
- 1 Iliana (gan)
- 1 Rufina Soledad (ven)
- 1 Daliyah (nos)
- 1 Igo (cai)
- 1 Lazar (rav)
Library
(80 total)
- 3 Indomitability
- 2 Skin of Steel
- 2 Zoo Hunting Ground
- 2 Unflinching Persistence
- 4 Force of Will
- 2 Form of the Ghost
- 2 Protean
- 2 Humanitas
- 2 Fortitude
- 1 Animalism
- 1 Effective Management
- 2 Blood Doll
- 2 Claws of the Dead
- 4 Skin of Rock
- 4 Earth Control
- 3 Form of Mist
- 2 Day Operation
- 3 Rat's Warning
- 4 Dawn Operation
- 4 Wake w/ Evening's Freshness
- 4 Earth Meld
- 2 Rapid Healing
- 2 Minion Tap
- 2 Wolf Claws
- 1 Backways
- 1 Eco Terrorists
- 1 J.S.Simmons Esq.
- 2 Rotschreck
- 2 Fame
- 2 Cat's Guidance
- 1 London Evening Star
- 1 Skin of Night
- 3 Restoration
- 1 .44 Magnum
- 1 Inbase Discotek
- 1 Movement of the Slow Body
- 1 Shepherd's Innocence
- 1 Laptop
The deck could still use some tweeking to make it even more effective (I
need 2 more Day Ops., 3 more MotSB, and Inveraray Scotland), but it is
very successful as it is. This is a very defensive deck. There are a
lot of Fortitude damage prevention cards and a lot of Protean combat
avoidance cards in that respect. However, once you have a famed vamp
with superior Pot and For, and a couple Force of Wills and combat
avoidance cards (Day Op., Earth Control, etc..) in your hand, it
suddenly becomes very aggressive.
The non-Gangrel vamps are in the deck to get a few low capacity vamps
with the correct disciplines, and to avoid being pinned down by anyone
playing a Hose-the-Gangrel-deck (yes, I have seen a few). I usually
play Humanitas on them, so they can grab your looping Gangrel out of
torpor. Also, Rufina and Igo are good to use as fodder (It's better to
lose one of them to someone bluring with a flamethrower than Gitane).
Shepherd's Innocence is included to shut down Gangrel-Garou decks. I
have seen some people play with such decks, and they can be nasty.
Fortunately, I have only played against one... In that game, the SI
gave me 2 Garous (one with a Submachinegun) and an Army of Rats!
WhooHoo!
Rotschreck is included to play on your famed vamp. It sounds odd, but
it works... You block someone from doing something, play Claws otD or
Wolf Claws, and then Rotschreck on your vamp. You just successfully
blocked an action, avoided combat, and did 3 points of fame damage to
your prey... cool, huh? It is dangerous though... I don't recommend
doing this unless you have another Fame sitting in your hand, as people
will try there best to diablerize the famed vamp given the chance. It's
also fun to see the expressions on people's faces when you do this...
Everyone usually has a strange puzzled look, and your prey kinda cringes
after he realizes what just happened.