Followers of Set newsletter. September 2008
PaulW...@gmail.com
I wrote this newsletter almost a year ago but for some reason I forgot
about it (oops). But even though it might be almost a year old I still
feel I should give the newsletter a try and hopefully continue the
series. Being almost a year old leads to some timing errors but
shouldn't be to much of a problem.
Please keep in mind that this newsletter will focus mainly on
beginning players and that this particular newsletter is intended as
an introduction to the series which led to a fairly short letter.
Feel free to comment.
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Followers of Set Newsletter. September 2008
Author: Paul Wiggers
1. Introduction
Lords of Night has hit the shelves some time ago and gave us some new
goodies for the independents. A lot of newsletters focus on the
advanced side of the game, adding out of clan disciplines and trying
new and funky tricks. Not this one. This newsletter series will focus
primarily on the new players out there. Players who have just started
the game and who don’t own a big pile of cards. I have the feeling
that the Followers of Set are able to bring new players into the game
and giving them a challenge later on when they are becoming experts
themselves. So here it goes, the first in a line of new Followers of
Set newsletters. I hope you enjoy it.
2. Getting started
The best place to get started with the Followers of Set is to get two
Lords of Night starter decks. I choose these starters since they have
just been released and should be easily available from the local
reseller.
In this edition we will construct a deck from the two starters only.
No boosters or other cards are added. In the following newsletters I
will report on how the deck did in our meta game (I might even take it
to a tournament) and make some adjustments to the deck as required.
This allows us to create a competitive deck with limited resources.
But first things first. The content of the Followers of Set starter
deck:
Crypt (12) All vampires are group 4
2x Nakhthorheb 10 OBF, PRE, SER
2x Sundervere, The Devil Brahim 8 AUS, PRE, SER, THA, obf
2x Halim Bey 6 DOM, SER, obf, tha
2x Renenet 5 OBF, PRE, ser
2x Marla Kenyon 4 PRE ser
2x Bello Equitone 2 ser
Library (77)
Master (11)
1x Crocodile Temple, The
1x Dummy Corporation
1x Khobar Towers, Al-Khubar
1x Opium Den
1x Secure Haven
1x Serpentis
1x Temple Hunting Ground
2x Vessel
1x WMRH Talk Radio
1x Wash
Action (20)
2x Blithe Acceptance
4x Dream World
2x Enticement
1x Form of Corruption
1x Mesu Bedshet
2x Public Trust
4x Revelation of Ecstasy
1x Summoning, The
3x Temptation
Action Modifier (20)
3x Approximation of Loyalty
2x Cloak the Gathering
2x Into Thin Air
3x Revelation of Desire
2x Spying Mission
4x True Love’s Face
2x Truth of a Thousand Lies
2x Veil the Legions
Reaction (13)
3x Confusion of the Eye
3x Ecstacy
2x Eluding the Arms of Morpheus
2x Mental Maze
3x Revelations of Despair
Political Action (1)
1x Hierophant
Ally (1)
1x Tutu the Doubly Evil One
Combat (11)
3x Jones, The
4x Majesty
1x Revelation of Wrath
3x Unholy Penance
The first thing that we can see here is that the deck contains a good
amount of bleed. Since this is probably the easiest way to start we
shall continue on that path. So first thing we need to do is to get
rid of those cards that have nothing to do with bleeding. So out are
the WMRH, The Summoning, 1x Confusion of the eye, Mental Maze,
Hierophant, Tutu the Double Evil One, The Jones and Revelation of
Wrath. We keep two Confusion of the Eye as vote defense. Since we have
a limited amount of pool gain we need to watch the cost of some cards.
Khobar Towers is great, but not in this deck, same goes for Secure
Haven so we scrap those cards as well.
This leaves us with some room to add cards from the second starter.
Looking at what we have so far we are going to need more stealth and
more combat survivability. After some scrapping and adding I came up
with this deck:
Crypt (12) All vampires are group 4
3x Nakhthorheb 10 OBF, PRE, SER
1x Sundervere, The Devil Brahim 8 AUS, PRE, SER, THA, obf
2x Halim Bey 6 DOM, SER, obf, tha
2x Renenet 5 OBF, PRE, ser
2x Marla Kenyon 4 PRE ser
2x Bello Equitone 2 ser
Library (90)
Master (12)
1x Crocodile Temple, The
1x Dummy Corporation
1x Opium Den
2x Serpentis
1x Temple Hunting Ground
4x Vessel
2x Wash
Action (24)
2x Dream World
4x Enticement
2x Form of Corruption
2x Mesu Bedshet
4x Public Trust
6x Revelation of Ecstasy
4x Temptation
Action Modifier (26)
4x Cloak the Gathering
4x Into Thin Air
6x Revelation of Desire
4x Spying Mission
4x True Love’s Face
4x Veil the Legions
Reaction (17)
2x Confusion of the Eye
5x Ecstasy
4x Eluding the Arms of Morpheus
3x Revelations of Despair
Combat (11)
8x Majesty
3x Unholy Penance
I have played it during our meta game and although I died horribly to
two combat heavy decks, it did fairly well. Off course the deck still
has some major issues but that is material for the next newsletter.
You will totally destroy single vampire wall decks. Just put a
corruption counter on it fast and let Nakh do the killing. Send in
some bleed, untap and throw an enticement. Very easy but oh so
effective. Against other decks you can use the same tactic, you just
have to use more corruption counters ;-)
3. Now what?
Like I said the deck still has major issues and it still needs some
drastic changes. I will continue with this deck in the next few issues
of the newsletter. For now I just let you play with the above deck and
let you make some changes of your own. See how you fare when instead
of bleeding you go for the temptation route. Maybe try out the new
spell of life card, use allies etc etc.
Till next time,
Paul Wiggers