Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Nehemiah... What to do?

So the question is... What do you do with this vampire?
He's got all the lovely Temporis cards at his disposal...
Serpentis & Presence make him a nice matchup with the Followers of Set.  Potence & Obtenebration make hims a nice fit with the Lasombra if you'e after something more violent and less S&B.

But what a lovely little card text... All that stuff you wanted in your hand later, just toss it back into the library to get it later.

On the downside, Nehemiah really lacks a stealth discipline.  He's combat durable; Temporis, Presence, Potence and to a lesser extent Obtenebration and Serpentis offer some interesting combat options.

The immediate thought I have is about Followers of Set with Potence, which is moderately common in the larger members of Groups 3-4-5.  Shemti, Bupe and Clea all have at least [pot] which makes for plenty of interesting cross-overs with Nehemiah.  Do you run a variation on the [POT][SER] + Corruption/Temptation decks?  Beat the blood of them, then borrow them and bleed your prey with their own minions...  The problem becomes Stealth... While Typhonic Sleaze... aka Typhonic Beast... can give you some serious Potence-Stealth... it still doesn't help those Temptations land IF you put them on with Nehemiah.  Maybe instead Nehemiah is your backup... the Rusher who can then untap himself using Temporis and do other dodgey shennanigans.  If you use the [POT] defensively, you can again, exploit Temptations by putting them backwards... then with a combination of Touch of Pain, Frozen Object and Rush beat the blood off until you can then borrow the minion and bleed your prey with your predator's minion.  Another very viable option... but feels like it could be lacking on the ousting roids while speed-bumping your Predator.  A Form of Corruption could help with getting the needed goons for the forward pressure... but then again it's not like that's creating a 3-bleed here.  Potentially Enticements should be the kill-switch... but there is another card needed in plentiful supply...  Horseshoes can also be a key card in this deck, but then you're running MANY actions and combat and not much else.

Being a Trujah with Votes, Nehemiah also screams VOTE WITH ME... So who do you match him to? He's half-brothers/sisters in the Brujah?  That would then make his [SER] & [obt] dead space.  Indie-Vote is an option, which again puts you at the doorstep of the Followers of Set... but again... bye bye [POT] unless you're going to make it a feature of the rest and use Iron Glare...

I feel like I should be making a few Nehemiah decks.  But I almost feel like I'm only using a half-a-vampire if it isn't a FoS + Potence deck.

Do other people have ideas on what you should make with Nehemiah?  I'm hoping for it to be at least Tier 2 when its done... just another surprise out of the bag.  Like my Disciplineless Brujah Breed'n'Vote'n'Bloat...

3 comments:

  1. Hello,
    I try to built political Nehemiah:



    4x Nehemiah POT PRE SER TEM obt 9 True Brujah:4 2 votes
    3x Melinda Galbraith AUS CEL DOM POT PRE obt 10 Lasombra:4 cardinal
    1x Melinda Galbraith (Adv) AUS CEL DOM POT PRE obt 10 Toreador antitribu:4 bishop
    2x Giangaleazzo, The Trait OBT POT PRE dom 8 Lasombra:4 prince
    2x Shawnda Dorrit CEL obt pot pre 6 Brujah antitribu:4 priscus

    Master [22]
    1x Archon Investigation
    1x Giant's Blood
    1x Lilith's Blessing
    2x Tabriz Assembly
    1x Legendary Vampire
    1x Obtenebration
    5x Zillah's Valley
    2x Information's Highway
    6x Villein
    2x Wider View

    Action [2]
    2x Entrancement

    Action Modifier [32]
    2x Awe
    2x Bewitching Oration
    6x Iron Glare
    6x Voter Captivation
    2x Recurring Contemplation
    2x Blanket of Night
    2x Pocket Out of Time
    2x Shadow Play
    8x Shroud of Night

    Ally [1]
    1x Mylan Horseed (Goblin)

    Political Action [15]
    6x Kine Resources Contested
    1x Neonate Breach
    3x Reckless Agitation
    1x Anarchist Uprising
    1x Ancient Influence
    1x Conservative Agitation
    1x Political Stranglehold
    1x Reins of Power


    Reaction [8]
    4x Deflection
    4x On the Qui Vive

    Combat [10]
    10x Majesty

    But I have no much success with it...

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  2. I've had an incredible amount of fun with this deck - and it's been surprisingly successful!

    Deck Name: Nehemiah and Shemti Beatdown
    Created By: DeathInABottle

    Crypt: (12 cards, Min: 32, Max: 36, Avg: 8.66)
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    2 Bupe Kuila pre OBF POT SER7 Followers of Set
    2 Neferu dom nec OBF PRE SER THA9 Followers of Set
    4 Nehemiah obt POT PRE SER TEM9 True Brujah
    4 Shemti vic OBF POT PRE SER9 Followers of Set

    Library: (80 cards)
    -------------------
    Master (17 cards)
    1 Crocodile Temple, The
    5 Eternals of Sirius, The
    1 Ferraille
    1 Legendary Vampire
    2 Perfectionist
    1 Tabriz Assembly
    3 Villein
    1 Wash
    2 Wider View

    Action (6 cards)
    1 Clotho`s Gift
    1 Form of Corruption
    2 Frozen Object
    2 Preternatural Strength

    Action Modifier (20 cards)
    2 Cloak the Gathering
    7 Domain of Evernight
    5 Iron Glare
    1 Pocket Out of Time
    5 Voter Captivation

    Political Action (10 cards)
    2 Free States Rant
    3 Honor the Elders
    5 Reckless Agitation

    Reaction (8 cards)
    2 Ecstasy
    1 Mental Maze
    1 Rewind Time
    4 Touch of Pain

    Combat (15 cards)
    1 Immortal Grapple
    3 Majesty
    5 Outside the Hourglass
    1 Taste of Vitae
    5 Typhonic Beast

    Ally (1 cards)
    1 Mylan Horseed (Goblin)

    Equipment (1 cards)
    1 Heart of Nizchetus

    Combo (2 cards)
    2 Hall of Hades` Court

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  3. I am not sure how you believe that he doesn't have a stealth discipline. With TEM, obt, and SER he has plenty of stealth at his disposal, albeit not the cheapest. Here is a rather fun, but complicated, deck that I made a day before a tournament, made it to the finals but got crushed by a weird table. It can use some definite tweaking, have a lot of ideas for it, but it was fun to play. This is the original list:

    Deck Name: Rituals of the Evil Eye
    Created by: Robert Scythe

    Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=8 max=10 avg=8.83)
    4x Giangaleazzo, The Traitor 8 dom OBT POT PRE Lasombra:4
    2x Melinda Galbraith 10 obt AUS CEL DOM POT PRE Lasombra:4
    4x Nehemiah 9 obt POT PRE SER TEM True Brujah:4
    2x Tyler 9 dom for obt CEL POT PRE Brujah:3

    Library (90 cards)
    Master (17)
    1x Coven, The
    1x Dominate
    1x Giant's Blood
    1x Heidelberg Castle, Germany
    2x Lilith's Blessing
    2x Obtenebration
    2x Papillon
    1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
    6x Villein

    Action (10)
    2x Clotho's Gift
    1x Entrancement
    1x Path of the Scorched Heart, The
    6x Summon History

    Political Action (17)
    1x Ancient Influence
    1x Ancilla Empowerment
    2x Banishment
    1x Disputed Territory
    4x Parity Shift
    1x Political Stranglehold
    4x Reckless Agitation
    2x Reinforcements
    1x Reins of Power

    Equipment (3)
    1x Ankara Citadel, Turkey, The
    1x Heart of Nizchetus
    1x Ivory Bow

    Ally (2)
    1x Carlton Van Wyk (Hunter)
    1x Mylan Horseed (Goblin)

    Action Modifier (25)
    6x Iron Glare
    2x Pocket Out of Time
    1x Recurring Contemplation
    4x Shadow Play
    4x Shroud of Absence
    3x Tangle Atropos' Hand
    5x Voter Captivation

    Reaction (8)
    4x Deflection
    4x On the Qui Vive

    Combat (8)
    8x Majesty


    It is very convoluted but instead of focusing I would probably toolbox it more, 'cause I'm silly that way. It sprung from an old deck of mine that starred Giangaleazzo but added a bunch of new tech that is just too enjoyable to leave out. The old deck was probably a better tournament contender but this one's cooler.

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