Deck mashup challenge, 2 Assamite Starter Decks

[The Lasombra]

Challenge:
Combine and reduce 2 Lords of the Night Assamite starter decks into
the best single deck available.

See also: http://www.thelasombra.com/dbc/dbc.htm
Please explain why/how you make your decisions....

ARDB starter file available here:
http://www.vekn.net/index.php/forum/7-deck-clinic/22455

Deck Name : Assamite Preconstructed Starter Doubled
Author : L. Scott Johnson
Description :

Crypt [24 vampires] Capacity min: 3 max: 10 average: 6.5
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4x Dmitri Borodin 10 AUS CEL NEC QUI obf Assamite:4
4x Thucimia 10 CEL DEM OBF QUI for pro 1 vote Assamite:4
4x Kashan 7 CEL OBF QUI obt pre 1 vote Assamite:4
4x Layla bint-Nadr 5 CEL OBF qui Assamite:4
4x Bertrand d'Anjou 4 aus cel qui Assamite:4
4x Evan Rogers 3 cel qui Assamite:4


Library [154 cards]
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Action [30]
8x Clandestine Contract
4x Flurry of Action
2x Haqim's Law: Leadership
2x Khabar: Glory
6x Loss
2x Songs of the Distant Vitae
2x Truth of Blood
4x Web of Knives Recruit

Action Modifier [6]
4x Deed the Heart's Desire
2x Mask of a Thousand Faces

Action Modifier/Combat [10]
4x Resist Earth's Grasp
6x Swallowed by the Night

Action Modifier/Reaction [8]
6x Blood Awakening
2x Provision of the Silsila

Combat [50]
2x Baal's Bloody Talons
6x Gemini's Mirror
4x Khabar: Honor, The
8x Pursuit
8x Scorpion's Touch
8x Selective Silence
2x Shadow Feint
6x Taste of Death
6x Weighted Walking Stick

Equipment [4]
4x Garrote

Event [2]
2x Dragonbound

Master [20]
2x Frontal Assault
2x Haqim's Law: Judgment
2x Market Square
4x Path of Blood, The
2x Quietus
2x Tajdid
2x Underworld Hunting Ground
4x Vessel

Political Action [2]
2x Free States Rant

Reaction [22]
6x Black Sunrise
4x Foul Blood
2x Lost in Translation
4x Nest of Eagles
6x Rooftop Shadow