{% extends "archetypes/_layout.html" %} {% import "archetypes/_layout-erratum.html" as erratum with context %} {% import "archetypes/runner-ups/protean-barons.json" as deck_json %} {% block meta %} {% endblock %} {% block archetype_name %}

Protean Barons

{% endblock %} {% block archetype %} {% trans trimmed anarch_troublemaker=card("Anarch Troublemaker"), ashur_tablets=card("Ashur Tablets"), bait_and_switch=card("Bait and Switch"), bums_rush=card("Bum's Rush"), childe_of_the_revolution=card("Childe of the Revolution"), club_illusion=card("Club Illusion"), constant_revolution=card("Constant Revolution"), dark_influences=card("Dark Influences"), direct_intervention=card("Direct Intervention"), donnybrook=card("Donnybrook"), earth_control=card("Earth Control"), earth_meld=card("Earth Meld"), eat_the_rich=card("Eat The Rich"), form_of_mist=card("Form Of Mist"), heart_of_nizchetus=card("Heart Of Nizchetus"), monkey_wrench=card("Monkey Wrench"), open_war=card("Open War"), organized_resistance=card("Organized Resistance"), powerbase_los_angeles=card("Powerbase: Los Angeles"), protean_card=card("Protean"), protection_racket=card("Protection Racket"), revolutionary_council=card("Revolutionary Council"), the_anarch_free_press=card("The Anarch Free Press"), the_erciyes_fragments=card("The Erciyes Fragments"), the_uncoiling=card("The Uncoiling"), villein=card("Villein"), gangrel_thing=link("/archetypes/gangrel-thing"), simo_tiippana_s_deck=link("/deck-search", _("Simo Tiippana's deck"), id="11456"), tommi_hakomaa=link("/deck-search", _("Tommi Hakomaa"), id="11454"), diego_rodrigues_deck=link("/deck-search", _("Diego Rodrigues' deck"), id="11169") %}

Highlights

This is a multiclan {{ toolbox }} relying on Anarch Barons and the great Protean {{ pro }} discipline.

Barons allow for great defense with {{ bait_and_switch }} and {{ organized_resistance }}, while Protean {{ pro }} is maybe the most versatile discipline in the game, with stealth like {{ earth_control }} and combat both defensive with {{ earth_meld }} and offensive with {{ donnybrook }}.

Putting both together with a few Anarch cards like {{ club_illusion }} and {{ monkey_wrench }} to improve bleed, or {{ the_anarch_free_press }} and {{ protection_racket }} to improve intercept, one gets a versatile toolbox.

Since the deck recoups pool with {{ villein }}, to influence more barons, and creates additional minions with {{ childe_of_the_revolution }}, who also get Protean {{ pro }} thanks to the master discipline {{ protean_card }}. As the game progresses, the swarms only grows, bleeding and defending

The prey can be ousted with pure bleed, but there are also a couple of alternative options just in case, with {{ constant_revolution }}, {{ eat_the_rich }} and {{ revolutionary_council }}.

Tips & Tricks

{{ dark_influences }} is a bit expensive, but can have even more impact than an {{ direct_intervention }}: preventing a certain card for a whole turn can be game changing.

{{ the_erciyes_fragments }} is a very good inclusion here: given the spread of disciplines among the barons, they can play almost any card.

Card flow can be problematic, so {{ heart_of_nizchetus }} and {{ powerbase_los_angeles }} are included to help with that.

Because of the {{ childe_of_the_revolution }} swarm and all the {{ earth_meld }}, the deck can function a bit like a "tap and bleed", aiming at exhausting the prey's wake and unlock defenses. That makes {{ anarch_troublemaker }} a nice inclusion for a lunge.

Variants

This deck is inspired by {{ simo_tiippana_s_deck }} with some adaptations. {{ the_uncoiling }} should probably have stayed in the list, for example.

The Death Star variant played by {{ tommi_hakomaa }} uses {{ ashur_tablets }}, includes some {{ form_of_mist }} for more stealth, and focuses more on {{ revolutionary_council }} as a lunge device.

The Rush variant forgoes the {{ childe_of_the_revolution }} swarm to instead include {{ bums_rush }} and {{ open_war }} as well as a more aggressive combat module, for a very different toolbox, see {{ diego_rodrigues_deck }} for example, an idea credited to Bram van Stappen.

This is somehow close to the {{ gangrel_thing }} archetype, with less intercept capabilities but more votes.

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