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Samedi newsletter - January, 2009.

        -= Table of contents =-

 1 -- Word from the editors desk
 2 -- Hunk of the Month: Rafaele Giovanni
 3 -- Card of the Month: Houngan
 4 -- Deck of the Month: As it was written
 5 -- Hats off



===== 1 - Word from the editors desk =====


Yay! New Year and a lot of stuff to look forward to. My birthday is just around the
corner, a new Thor trade paperback is out soon and I'll get around to visit IKEA for
some furniture (been sleeping on a mattress on the floor for a year... does a number on
your back. The whole things a long story :P). And this is just for january!

My new years resolution was that I need to have more fun, drink more booze, be less
healthy and take it slower with work. That way no one will be disapointed if I break
my new years res except myself.

Over and out.

/alex fnurp
http://intelliganism.blogg.se - VTES Strategic Nonsense!



===== 2 - Hunk of the Month: Rafaele Giovanni =====

Rafaele Giovanni
Clan: Giovanni (group 2)
Capacity: 6
Disciplines: NEC cel obf
Independent: Raphael may bleed your predator as a (D) action. +1 bleed.

Last newsletter I covered some strong points about sharing the Giovanni family treasure
with the Samedi so here is another gentleman that got good synergy with Samedi.

I'd like to start off with that Keystone Kine looks good to use with Rafaele. You get
to choose any effect on the card and since he can go backwards it sets you up for some ally gibbing as a
defence from the basic necromancy version of the card. Carlton Van Wyk boring you out of your mind and stripping away your stealth? Blow him up! Another anarchism idea is to do a Cry Wolf + Khazar's Diary slam
dunk, spice it with Gear Up as you wish. Lets hold the anarchism ideas for the future and continue.

Rafaele's got inferior celerity, something he shares with 3 Samedi brethren (4, if you want to count
Jack Dawson twice) and even though I really hate inferior celerity there is some interesting cards to use.
Distraction is an underplayed card but works really good with Sudario Refraction and Shambling Hordes.
Allowing you to filter through your library, sculpt your hand into perfection and dump zombie fodder into
the graveyard! Liquidation is much better at the job, but Distraction is situationaly better - For example
when ther cards in your hand really bad and you want to cycle them out in a fast manner which Liquidation cant really help out with. Another card from the inferior celerity department that I like for its card efficient combat-defence ways is Resist Earth's Grasp. For one blood you get a maneuver away from all the close combat nastiness and a press against if the opponent is in a pressy mood.

Also; Vultures buffet isnt that shabby to use at inferior obfuscate. Turn an unused zombie into the
graveyard into one blood and an untaped hunter.


===== 3 - Card of the Month: Houngan =====

Houngan
Type: Master
Requires: Samedi
Cost: 1 pool
Unique master.
Put this card on a ready Samedi you control. During your untap phase, this Samedi gains 1 blood from the blood bank, and he or she may tap to gain an additional blood. Any other Samedi may move this card to himself or herself as a +1 stealth action.


If you like, this is the hunting ground for Samedi as far as card printed goes. It got some benefits over
the other hunting grounds; It only costs one pool and you can gain additional blood if you want to, just
by simply flipping the vampire sideways. The drawback is that you cant give blood to other vampires and
it takes an action if you'd ever want it to which kind of suck (and you'd probably be better off with a
simple hunt-action in that case...). The last itching thing is that other Samedis can steal it from you,
but the likeliness of that happening is pretty slim - When did you see two samedi decks at the same table?
Or even one? :)

I was tossing around the idea of handing this card to an embraced samedi, attach two blood dolls/vessels
to it to have an everlasting stream of poolgain just sitting by your side doing its thing throughout the
game. The setup is pretty steep and there is few benefits of going the embrace-route with the Samedi so
far. But its something at least I'm going to have in the back of the mind for any upcoming bloodline related sets!

Overal this card is truly ace and should be a no-brainer inclusion into any deck featuring the clan.



===== 4 - Deck of the Month: As it was written =====

Allrighty, I wanted to pencil down a quick idea I had - Using Jorge De La Muerte's
sabbat trait. By turning him into black hand he gains access to Guarded Rubrics, sweet
to run with Hag's Wrinkles if you share it via Heidelberg. The wrinkles doubles up as
stealth for the mighty obfuscate weenies Jorge got by his side. Bloating via Vessels
and Reunion Kamut to gain resources and turn the dudes sideways - hopefully to oust
your prey with your bleed toys. The single Remover in the deck is there to do trixy
stuff with (tapping a blocker, tapping Enkil Cog etc).

Reunion Kamut is an outstanding card by the way! Since theres no age restrictions on the effect of the card like there is on similar ones, for example Govern the Unaligned. But since the Cadetted vampire is black hand only when he or she is *controlled* you can only use Reunion Kamut on Roger Farnsworth in this current crypt - Hence the extra copies of him and some Effective Managements to smooth things out a little. At least in theory.

Since this decklist sits at a light 75 cards theres plenty of room for more candy to fill the basket with and tailor make it as the need comes. Wake with evenings freshness + Delaying tactics package, combat protection/assaultiness and so on.

Deck Name : As it was written
Author : A.Gyhlesten

Crypt (12 vampires) Capacity min: 1 max: 7 average: 4.41667
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4x Jorge De La Muerte     7  OBF THN cel for nec   Samedi:2
1x Josef                  4  ani obf obt           !Nosferatu:2
3x Roger Farnsworth       4  OBF aus               !Malkavian:3
1x Tock                   4  obf pot pre           !Nosferatu:3
1x Lena Rowe              3  aus obf pre           Pander:2
1x Max Lowell             3  cel obf               !Gangrel:2
1x Shannon Price, the     3  ani obf               !Nosferatu:2
1x Yorik                  3  dem obf               !Malkavian:2
1x Basil                  1  obf                   Pander:2


Library (75 cards)
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Action [10]
  1x Conceal
  2x Psychic Veil
  7x Reunion Kamut

Action Modifier [26]
  1x Art of Memory, The
  3x Cloak the Gathering
  2x Faceless Night
  5x Freak Drive
  4x Hag's Wrinkles
  2x Into Thin Air
  4x Lost in Crowds
  4x Spying Mission
  1x Veil the Legions

Action Modifier/Combat [3]
  3x Swallowed by the Night

Ally [3]
  3x Reanimated Corpse
  2x Marijava Thuggee

Equipment [8]
  3x Camera Phone
  3x Guarded Rubrics
  1x Heart of Nizchetus
  1x Ivory Bow

Master [21]
  7x Cadet
  1x Drop Point Network
  2x Heidelberg Castle, Germany
  1x Hungry Coyote, The
  2x Information Highway
  1x Remover
  5x Vessel
  2x Effective Management

Retainer [2]
  1x J. S. Simmons, Esq.
  1x Tasha Morgan

Crafted with : Anarch Revolt Deck Builder.


===== 5 - Hats off =====

For once I've had the next months issue allready planed out and it will be a bit bigger because of this.
I'll present an old-school smash hit Samedi deck that is really, really good and something I consider
taking with me to the next tournament in Oslo. I have an old, unupdated version laying about and I belive
its time to dust it off and see how it can be freshen up a bit.

Thanks for reading and have fun at the tables!

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