"Old-School Ventrue say 'Get off our lawn!'" by Mike Perlman 

   This is another '10am' deck, cobbled from spare parts in the hours 
prior to a tournament.  I started with a mono-fortitude library built 
the previous day from extra Jyhad cards, as an analogue to John 
Newquist's hunters with flash grenades.  I restricted myself to Jyhad 
cards for this library, partially to avoid having to find my sleeves, 
and partially for the novelty and challenge of building both an 
all-Jyhad deck(hence, no Kine Dominance/Elder Kindred Network combo, 
Anachronism, or Revelations) and a 'freebie' deck from extra cards. 


Crypt (12 cards, Low: 2  Avg: 7.58  Hi: 11):  10 Ventrue, 2 !Ventrue 
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Rufina Soledad      2  for 
Roland Loussarian   3  for pre 
Lucia Pacciola      6  for pre DOM              +1 str 
Heather Florent     6  FOR PRE dom              edge->blood 
Jan Pieterzoon      7  FOR pre DOM pot          +1 bld, -1 hand 
Emerson Bridges     8  FOR PRE DOM pot          Prince 
Quentin             9  FOR AUS DOM obt cel      Bishop 
Bindusara,          9  FOR PRE DOM AUS tha      +1 bld 
Lazverinus,        10  FOR AUS DOM POT pre      A-Bishop, +2 str 
Queen Anne         10  FOR PRE DOM aus obf      +1 bld, Prince 
Democritus         10  for PRE DOM aus cel      +1 bld, Justicar 
Arika              11  FOR PRE DOM aus cel OBF  +2 bld, IC 


Library (90 Cards) 
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Actions (8) 
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7x Govern the Unaligned 
1x Restoration 


Allies (1) 
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1x Political Ally 


Action Modifiers (14) 
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3x Bonding 
3x Bribes 
3x Conditioning 
3x Freak Drive 
2x Seduction 


Combat(42) 
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12x Concealed Weapon 
19x Indomitability 
2x Skin of Night 
4x Skin of Rock 
1x Skin of Steel 
4x Unflinching Persistence 


Equipment(14) 
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1x .44 Magnum 
11x Grenade 
2x IR Goggles 


Master(11) 
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2x Effective Management 
2x Fame 
2x Fortitude 
1x Haven Uncovered 
3x Minion Tap 
1x Misdirection 


Listing typed by hand. 


Metagame calls: 
--Concealed Grenade/fortitude is a wonderful answer to the 
"table-control" metagame.  Blocking a superior Govern or equip?  Eat a 
grenade.  Blocking a bleed of one?  Eat a grenade.  Dodge, you say? 
Press, then eat a grenade.  Maris Streck?  Eat 2 or 3 grenades.  Get 
off our lawn! :) 
--Likewise, I would have put at least one bounce in, if heavy bleed 
was prevalent in my regional metagame. 
--There figured to be lots of voting in this storyline, so I omitted 
Ventrue HQ and the one-time votes, figuring someone else would be 
calling those for me.  This worked out fine, although I never saw an 
HQ. 
--I've consistently forgotten to include Indomitability in fortitude 
decks for years now, most recently with pot-for rush decks.  This deck 
was initially meant to get those cards into the 'working set' of 
available cards for future 10am builds.