w Oblivion Bleed
Highlights
This is a Stealth & Bleed deck built on the group 6 Lasombra w and their Oblivion toolkit: a dozen vampires of capacity 3 to 7, all with at least basic and , bleeding behind Govern the Unaligned and Conditioning while a stream of Spectral Servitor wraiths multiplies the pressure.
Spectral Servitor is the engine. Its first recruit each turn unlocks the recruiting vampire, so every vampire is worth two actions: recruit and unlock, then Govern the Unaligned, while the wraith chips in a bleed of its own. Better yet, the Servitor plays the deck's basic Oblivion cards as a vampire, so it bleeds at stealth and escapes combat with Pass Through Shadow.
A deep bench of Oblivion modifiers greases the way: Shadow Cast, Shadow Cloak and Where the Veil Thins for stealth, Stygian Shroud to deny committed blockers.
Defense rests on Deflection — every crypt member has — with Shadow Sentinel as wakes. At superior, Shadow Sentinel wakes a locked wraith instead: with The Unmasking on the table the Servitors block vampires, and Target Vitals makes their 1 strength count for 3. FBI Special Affairs Division punishes anyone who burns a wraith in combat, so hunting them down is rarely worth it.
The economy is lean but sufficient: Govern the Unaligned at superior stocks the next vampire, Perfectionist refills after unblocked actions — the deck takes plenty — and Jake Washington rescues an emptied one. A Servitor lapses at the unlock phase unless it was recruited at superior , which lets one spend 1 pool to keep it instead.
Tips & Tricks
Do not pay Servitor upkeep by reflex. A recruit that unlocked its vampire and bled for 1 at stealth has already paid for itself, so letting the wraith lapse can be right. Keep one only when The Unmasking is out or a blocking screen is wanted, typically when a rush deck is around, or when the deck needs next-turn pressure without spending another action on a recruit.
Sequence the modifiers: spend raw stealth first and hold Stygian Shroud for committed blockers, since it beats intercept stacks that raw stealth cannot. Where the Veil Thins at superior taxes each non-Oblivion block attempt a blood and shuts out ally blockers entirely.
The bounce suite lets the deck send almost everything downstream. Pentex™ Subversion handles the one blocker stealth cannot reasonably pass.
The deck fights with stealth, not in combat: Pass Through Shadow and Target Vitals only cover the Servitors. Auspex walls are the bad matchup — intercept plus bounces can slow the deck to a grind, and rush decks can maul a crypt that never strikes back. Keep the wraith screen up, mind the table politics, and grind.
Variants
The archetype crystallized quickly after the group 6 Lasombra w release, and its core barely moves from list to list: a dozen Spectral Servitor, a thick pack of Govern the Unaligned, the four shadow modifiers and a fistful of Deflection. The spread is in the trimmings.
Most other lists run a few Shroud of Decay beside the Governs, an oust no bounce can stop — as in Alessandro Donati's deck, otherwise very close to this one. Lukáš Simandl's all-Govern action pack is the outlier for leaving them out.
Yuri Furtado Prange's deck bends the economy around 6 Ashur Tablets and doubles up on Parijat, the Dark Oracle, who taxes any attempt to block the wraiths. Zoltán Panyik's deck, the archetype's largest win at 40 players, goes the other way: 5 Villein, 19 reactions and only 8 Servitors, for a more defensive, toolbox-paced game.