w Lasombra Politics
Highlights
This is a vote deck built on the group 6 Camarilla Lasombra crypt. Ten of the twelve crypt cards carry a Camarilla title — four different Princes and two Primogens — and every vampire has both Dominate and Oblivion , superior on all but the smallest. Power Structure adds +1 vote to each Lasombra on top of that.
The early game is pure setup: Govern the Unaligned at superior grow the minion base at +1 stealth while Villein refill the pool. In the author's own words: transfer, govern, Villein, almost never bleed. Once two or three titled vampires are out, the referendums start.
Pool damage comes from Kine Resources Contested and Camarilla's Iron Fist — the latter spreads 5 points among two or more other Methuselahs and even hands 1 pool to a player of one's choice, which either goes to oneself or serves as deal-making material. Parity Shift, Ominous Chorus and the Lasombra Justicar title round out the political package, and Amici Noctis converts passed referendum into blood and pool.
Blocking a Lasombra is a miserable proposition: Where the Veil Thins, Shadow Cast and Shadow Cloak provide plain stealth, and Stygian Shroud at superior deny motivated blockers. The Pass Through Shadow are combat ends that, at superior, come back as a +1 stealth counter on the vampire.
The deck was built as a meta answer to heavy bleed: it is designed to take pool damage and live. Deflection on an all-Dominate crypt handle the bleeds it cares to defend, and the Villein, Giant's Blood and Amici Noctis engine regrows whatever the table manages to burn.
Tips & Tricks
Amici Noctis rewards winning big: each vote of margin is a blood or a pool. Keep an unlocked titled vampire around, as Ominous Chorus is both a modifier and a reaction and its +3 votes can swing other players' referendums too. Yewon Ong turns dead cards in hand into extra votes during polling — a clean exit for surplus Shadow Cast late in the game.
Ration the stealth: Stygian Shroud at superior is the answer to the one real blocker, while superior Where the Veil Thins taxes non-Oblivion blockers a blood and shuts out allies entirely. After a successful action, superior Shadow Cloak can easily be cycled if needed, or used as anti-rush tech.
Superior Shroud of Decay is an oust that no bounce can stop, and incidental hate against ash-heap recursion. The two Spectral Servitor can be canon fodder against rushes, or additional 1-drop bleeds. Shadow Sentinel at superior can even wake the wraith for a surprise block.
Variants
The archetype is young — it took down two 20+ player events within a month in autumn 2025 — but the winning lists already show a real spread.
Jorge Garcia's deck is the control-leaning build: no wraiths and no Shroud of Decay, but 10 Deflection, 4 Second Tradition: Domain and 4 Freak Drive, letting the Princes block, vote and act in the same turn, with more Amici Noctis and Pass Through Shadow to endure.
Ivan Marin-Rivas' deck, from a smaller event, pulls the other way: 10 Spectral Servitor and 6 Parity Shift, backed by a Dominate bleed touch — Conditioning, Bonding and Foreshadowing Destruction. It shows the shell can flex toward bleed, which makes this one to watch.