Obtenebration
7/1/2010 12:12:00 AM
On Jun 30, 5:00 pm, Haze Rever <hazere...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 30, 6:31 pm, Demnogonis Saastuttaja <vihako...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > I'm just thinking, possibly the most effective action you can take is
> > Parity Shift, and it's really common to see it, too. It totally
> > changes some situations, it can turn a game to victory from impeding
> > defeat. Well, Confusion of the Eye screws it, it also can slow down
> > some presence vote decks nicely, and has a restricted reduce. So I
> > made a deck with eight CoS's, with obfuscate Tzimisce and also auspex
> > reduce (just to test CoS's specifically), reduce up to 3, stay
> > untapped and bleed with Enkil Cog, and you'll never Parity Shift from
> > me, you can also screw some other voting with your jolly crosstable
> > buddies. Anyway, some more sensible uses could be when you also have
> > some staying voting ablilty, like the new Baali, or some Malkavians
> > with Wrong and Crosswise which is also a vote/reduce thing.
>
> > So when you want to have a reliable defense against bleeds and voting,
> > do you consider Confusion of the Eye, or is it always something like
> > 10 Deflection, 2 Delaying Tactics?
>
> > Well, I'm just going to screw some Parity Shifts anyway, some pesky
> > Alastors, too, and perhaps some poor Anathema deck which really
> > doesn't merit that kind of hate. I think I saw CoS a lot more often
> > when PTO was still here. A shame Sabbat doesn't have really worthwhile
> > votes.
>
> whenever I include it in a deck I never get to use it. maybe it's just
> because vote decks have been uncommon locally. and when they do
> appear, they don't use Parity Shift, instead going for basic KRCs and
> Con Boons. and the "younger than" clause on the bleed reduce usually
> screws me when I use midcaps.
>
> I think it's only really useful if you have permanent votes on your
> bigcap vampires, since you can even prevent awe/BO votepushing. funny
> that, votepush is also really unpopular in my local meta...
Confusion isn't a bad card. If you can find room for it and expect it
to have an impact then go for it.
There is certainly worse cards you could be using up card slots with.
Just ask yourself is it better than just using a Delaying Tactics and
if you can answer yes for your deck try it.