Ok, I confess I don’t like vampires — I don’t like books about them; I don’t like movies with them; I find the lore about them tedious and artificial. Thus, I haven’t played them before (except for Regis who is a very unvampirish vampire).
But I wanted to take advantage of the Valentine event to complete my monster event contract, that contract requires winning with the faction, and I was tired of Keltullis. So I decided to try vampires. And I found it the most unfun deck I’ve ever played.
In five games, only one was remotely interesting. In the other four, I dumped bad bronzes as deeply into round one as I could safely do so. All opponents happily took me to a long round three. Aside from playing defender, then engines, then bleeders, I gave almost no thought to my plays — card order was irrelevant. I didn’t even pay attention to my opponent’s plays because they didn’t really matter — what they killed I couldn’t protect anyway, and what they threatened I couldn’t counter. I could only hope to have more points in the end. Without fail, I did have more points, but I didn’t feel good about it.
And the one interesting game — that was against a no units deck. At least I could try to play around traps while still accumulating points where possible. With my monster contract now completed, I don’t expect to ever return to vampires unless the archetype drastically changes.
Obviously I am jaded. And there are enough vampire players that I assume there is something appealing about the archetype that I am missing. Can anyone enlighten me?
But I wanted to take advantage of the Valentine event to complete my monster event contract, that contract requires winning with the faction, and I was tired of Keltullis. So I decided to try vampires. And I found it the most unfun deck I’ve ever played.
In five games, only one was remotely interesting. In the other four, I dumped bad bronzes as deeply into round one as I could safely do so. All opponents happily took me to a long round three. Aside from playing defender, then engines, then bleeders, I gave almost no thought to my plays — card order was irrelevant. I didn’t even pay attention to my opponent’s plays because they didn’t really matter — what they killed I couldn’t protect anyway, and what they threatened I couldn’t counter. I could only hope to have more points in the end. Without fail, I did have more points, but I didn’t feel good about it.
And the one interesting game — that was against a no units deck. At least I could try to play around traps while still accumulating points where possible. With my monster contract now completed, I don’t expect to ever return to vampires unless the archetype drastically changes.
Obviously I am jaded. And there are enough vampire players that I assume there is something appealing about the archetype that I am missing. Can anyone enlighten me?