backwards bleed malkavian

Ankha wrote:

ReverendRevolver wrote: We had an hour long conversation once about how to win by bleeding backwards;

You "oust" your predator. Your grandpredator gets to focus on your grandprey, defensively, but yoir grandprey is in deep shit because hes getting eaten alive by your prey (you know, because you are bleeding backwards).

Why would the grand-predator (now your predator with 6 more pool) would care about his own predator since his own predator is "getting eaten alive"?

What will probably happen instead is that you get ousted by your new predator. Even if you manage to backoust him, your prey will probably have ousted his prey until then and in the end, you'll have to win the duel against your prey who didn't have any pressure the whole game. Good luck!

I dont need luck. I bleed my prey.



I do miss "reacharound bleeds" where Id be sitting between Ahrimanes and No Secrets walls and bleed my Girlz grandprey as a poolgain mechanism, but winning nets more vps than slowly losing with style.

Kimdred spirits is a great deck for new players because it gains a pool buffer without the bleed of 7 that gets bounced like Malk94 risks in newbie hands. We had a huge influx of new players in Newark Ohio circa 2010, and tried teaching them to bleed crosstable into Imbued. Good times.

Sometimes I am bleeding backwards when I see, that my grandpredator are much more suitable then my current predator, but it's really nothing to do with deck design - just tactics. In the same situation with different decks I'm politisizing or rushing backwards.