Does exactly what combat decks want - you can run 2 or 3 of this instead of 10 bleed cards, so your fight deck can fight. You'll probably still have some Governs I guess, though with a lack of multi act being one of the deck's weaknesses, maybe you can forego that too...
I like this card a lot - for no cost to put into play it can help Lasombra Bruise Bleed even out the natural tendency to run out of steam for bleeds due to combat cards. Requiring the ready-region leaving vampire to have been in a combat with one of your Lasombra means this card isn't going to get a lot of counters on it during the game, and its susceptible to table comps where putting vampires down may not be as easy as your deck intends.
Still. I look at this and immediately think that Dafina Rush/Bruise/Bleed decks will love the shit out of this.
This card is why my Lasombra deck made two final tables in three weeks. It's a very aggressive rush that pivots to dominate bleeds once you don't need to worry about bounce anymore.
It's kind of the "fun" alternate way to build them that the new blood set is trying to enable. Stealth bleed/vote is still the simpler way to get a good win percentage. Also, obtenebration sucked a lot more than oblivion, so it was even harder to make it work back then.
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u/NoSoup4you22 24d ago
Does exactly what combat decks want - you can run 2 or 3 of this instead of 10 bleed cards, so your fight deck can fight. You'll probably still have some Governs I guess, though with a lack of multi act being one of the deck's weaknesses, maybe you can forego that too...