Deck and description by OG Mandarin; my additions in italics.
​Wyrm Deadzone: A Reason Not to Play Skin of the Hellbound

This is an aggro-control Wyrm deck that uses Lunar Eclipse and Deadzone to pave the way for high-damage combat actions. While your Deadzone is in play, you can’t use gifts or fetish equipment but you have protection against gifts like Eye of the Cobra, Whelp Body, Master of the Pack, Take the True Form and “freeze” gifts like True Fear, Body Wrack, and Distractions. Lunar Eclipse is an extra layer of control and can also stop a lot of your opponent’s gift cancelling (if they are playing gift cancelling with the Theurge requirement).

Deadzone was a big tournament card back in the day but I took more notice of it recently after seeing a guy from my local play group – Empty Apathy - use it in a control-based Gaia deck. Deadzone prevents your characters from using gifts so this deck uses Mage of the Celestial Chorus to play Body Wrack, Fetish Sundering, Distractions and Air of Authority. The other victims can each play some of these gifts and are there as backup for Mage.

There are two areas of dyssynergy here: (1) Glade Child will be removed by Mage of Celestial Chorus at the end of turn, so only drop her if you have a clear path to killing her same turn, or if you haven’t drawn a Mage yet. (2) Lunar Eclipse will prevent Angus and Wyldkin from using Distractions so consider holding onto Lunar Eclipse for a turn if you haven’t drawn Mage yet and want to fire one off. Mage can play Distractions using the Stargazers requirement so Lunar Eclipse doesn’t pose a problem for him. When you don’t need Mage, or if you have two, you can kill it for victory points.

Playing the deck is very simple: Get out the Beast of War totem to enable high rage combat action cards and use your victims to play your limited range of gifts. You don’t need to land many attacks so this deck can get away with playing a high percentage of dodges. You have good card economy here so the card disadvantage brought by Feint is less of a problem. The two Feints will help you slip around your opponent’s dodges or land a Disarm. Block and Strike is a nice counter for first round Suprise Attack and goes well with Head Wound, Mangle, Spine Crushed, Entrail Rend, Heart Breaker, or Rent Asunder.

If you need to bail yourself out of a combat gone wrong, you have your two Umbral Escapes. With all the high damage cards you play, Skin of the Hellbound is an obvious problem for this deck. If they drop Skin, you want to blow it up with Fetish Sundering (preferably during combat) or try to break them down the old-fashioned waying using Disarm. You’re going to need good draws to make Disarm work, probably alongside a Frenzy, Feint, and even a Bodywrack. Good news is that Disarm can’t be dodged, so you just want to make sure you don’t eat a Mangle or Headwound when you throw it out.

In a game full of cheesy cards, Skin of the Hellbound may be the cheesiest - the most able to collapse an outsized portion of the meta. Probably designed to curtail “champion style” decks that steamroll with high damage and good card economy (like this deck), Skin (in theory) tipped the meta more in favor of low-rage pack attack decks. When Skin is combined with characters like Tsannik, mass removal like Breath of the Defiled, in addition to the usual range of freeze cards and combat enders, it can become oppressive and make games stretch on a very long time. Unless the opponent plays low-rage combat cards, they will have to use Beast Mind or Redemption to deal with Skin, or if they’re playing Wyrm, they can play Fetish Sundering. Sticky Paws might also work. Skin has answers but I’ve seen it discourage players at the mid-level who weren’t prepared for it.

Characters

• 1x Zhyzhack
• 1x Allonzo Montoya
• 1x Fangthane Bloodjaw

OG Mandarin originally posted the deck with Count Vlad as well, making it a 30 Renown deck. Due the Dead Zone, the only non-combat card which has requirements is Beast-of-War.

Sept

• 3x Sneak Attack
• 1x Kids Love Arson
• 1x Legal Chicanery
• 3x Beast-of-War
• 3x Iron Will
• 3x Lunar Eclipse
• 2x Red Alert
• 1x Spirit Backlash
• 3x Visit from the White Father
• 1x Grrash Tak'hyrrr
• 1x Trinity Hive Caern
• 3x Dead Zone
• 1x Chantry
• 1x Naysayer's Hovel
• 1x Joseph Herlech
• 1x Angus the White Howler
• 1x Glade Child
• 3x Mage of the Celestial Chorus
• 1x Wyldkin Kami

Although this deck intends to fight Victims, having the Iron Will covers either alphas stepping in or (more likely) the victims playing gifts back. Kids Love Arson can have a second benefit of taking your character out of the game in a sticky situation. Note that there is only one other combat ended in sept, Air of Authority.

Combat

• 1x Battle Fervor
• 2x Frenzy
  
• 1x Block and Strike
• 1x Dodge
• 2x Evasion
• 2x Fancy Footwork
• 2x Disarm
• 2x Feint
• 2x Umbral Escape
• 1x Surprise Attack
• 2x Head Wound
• 2x Maim
• 2x Mangle
• 2x Spine Crushed
• 2x Entrail Rend
• 2x Heart Breaker
• 2x Rent Asunder

What's noticeable is how many of the combat actions require crinos form, and how many of them can take out a victim in a single blow. Rage on!

I like Maim because it locks people into combat, but you can also replace it with Massive Wound. If you don’t have Fancy Footwork you can replace that with an extra Dodge, Block and Strike, or Surprise Attack. ​​

​For this deck, I was glad to explore a different Wyrm strategy. Samuel Herlech isn’t necessary but he helps cut through annoying realms like Battlefield, Summer Country, and Wolfhome, allowing your big characters to rampage. If you don’t have Samuel, just add in an extra Red Alert, Wyldkin Kami, or a Subjugation of Gaia.

For a 20 Renown deck I would suggest some of the victims can be trimmed to take the sept closer to 30 cards. If using the Least Wanted version of Visit, you might find Checking the Classified works better for the deck. You could also reduce the duplication of the combat deck to bring it down to 20 cards.

This is really a Legacy of the Tribes Special. When they released Questor, he really wanted to benefit from killing lots of prey... but in classic Rage there are very few ways for that to happen. Luckily there are victims which will attack you by themselves if you look right.

This deck is about pacing yourself so you can be attacked as many times as you can cope with each round.

Characters

• 1 Blossom
• 1 Questor
• 1 Longtooth Soulkiller

This counts as a double champion deck... even though the champions are not the biggest. They are, however, right for this deck and double for each other. It also leaves exactly the right amount of space for Blossom, the bane of many champion decks (and no answers in classic Rage).

Sept

• 3 Renegade Werewolf Hunter
• 3 Vigilante
• 3 Wild Animals
• 1 Tambertail's heart
• 1 Chronicle of the Black Labyrinth
• 1 War Knife of Benning Simon
• 1 Whip of the Wicked
• 3 Skin of the Hellbound
• 2 Vampire Blood
• 2 Spiral Boomerang
• 3 Sneak Attack
• 3 Friends in High Places
• 1 The Pit
• 3 Gaia's Will Corrupted

The core of the deck are the 9 victims, Gaia's Will Corrupted and a bit of Chronicle of the Black Labyrinth /The Pit (the latter two never did too much for me, but are definitely flavourful). The equipment and The Pit largely serve to back up the strategy by making it harder for the victims or other attackers to deal lasting harm. The Spiral Boomerangs and Tambertail's Heart really dissuade opponents from attacking you, allowing you to end combats you aren't involved in to slow down your opponents.

Combat

• 1 Frenzy
• 1 Taking the Death Blow
• 1 Fox Frenzy
• 2 Vital Blow
• 2 Block and Strike
• 1 Curb Stomp
• 2 Dry Gulch
• 1 Septum Crushed
• 1 Lucky Blow
• 2 Evasion
• 1 Fancy Footwork
• 1 Dodge
• 2 Off-balanced Attack
• 1 Overextended Attack
• 1 Shieldmate

The Frenzy, Taking the Death Blow and Fox Frenzy are fairly obvious. I'm not sure you need the Fox Frenzy but you can normally discard it if you don't need it. You have a bunch of 4 damage combat cards to take care of the six victims with 4 Health; and some Rage 1 cards in case of Vital Blow. And a good selection of dodges so you can outguess your opponent.

I am sure my actual deck (buried in a cupboard) is better tuned than this, but that's what practice is for.

The biggest question in this deck is which characters to play. When I built this deck, I didn't have Zhyzhak so didn't have much often; plus I just like Questor. If your opponent does have a character which the victims might attack instead, Blossom can take them out for you. So I would suggest this is, in fact, the optimal build. But do experiment.

I don't think there are any obvious substitutions, although it might be worth swapping in a single Massive Wound; and you may find that you want to swap in more 4-damage cards.

Pentex isn't the power house that the garou (or vampires) are, but there are some combo cards that can shine if played right. One such is Wailer, a simple 4 cost character who can stymie any number of opponents merely by flipping. This deck combines that with all the boosters and and allies to make pack combat an evil, repeatable nasty. 

Your goal is to get allies into play and then pack attack any target you think that Wailer can successfully flip on. Then frenzy or otherwise flip Wailer; or use Roar of the Wyrm; so your targets have to just sit there and take the damage. Rage has always supported decks who control combat, and this is a good example.

Characters

• 1 Wailer
• 1 Barnaby Shadrack
• 1 Blossom
• 1 Fangs-Through-Eye

Wailer is the core of the deck, but Barnaby can actually help whack your targets with his submachine gun as well as drawing the rest of your pack and other tricks. Fangs is just a strong body, although he can give you Beast-of-War.  Blossom is there to run control.

Sept

• 3 Mass Pollution
• 3 Shapeshift
• 3 Sneak Attack
• 3 Enticer
• 3 Gooshy Gooze
• 2 Beast-of-War
• 3 Roar of the Wyrm
• 2 Stench of Death
• 3 Caern of the Unwashed Child
• 3 Infectious Touch
• 2 Unseelie Troll
• 3 Pentex Executive and Limousine
• 2 Kinfolk Small Town Cop
• 2 Greenpeace Assault Team
• 1 A Bus Full of People

One of the two large groups are cards which can frustrate your opponent and, as it happens, support your abuse of Wailer's ability. Caern of the Unwashed Child is especially powerful in this deck so it's worth having three to get it out first; whilst Infectious Touch is rarely as useful as it seems it should be. Shapeshift is rarely useful as a card, but I thought it was fun to try here to allow your to put Wailer back into Homid form, ready to frenzy again. Roar of the Wyrm is there as a backup option, but only Wailer can use it.

The second group are your allies. Pentex Executives and Limousines are a risk since they are juicy kills to make; but their ability to wreck havoc with caerns make them hard to pass up.

Three special notes. Sneak Attacks, in this deck, might be best once you have an alpha so you can use Ass Whuppin' Lynch Mob. And careful with Beast-of-War that you don't undermine your Wailer. However the combat resilience of the extra Rage is worth including it for.  The deck is also, at 38 cards, on the large side; but that's because Barnaby gives you a chance of drawing all those cards.

Combat

• 1 Hunting Party
• 1 Ass Whuppin' Lynch Mob
• 1 Shieldmate
• 1 Taking the Death Blow
• 1 Head or Gut ?
• 1 Beat Unmerciful
• 2 Lucky Blow
• 2 Overextended Attack
• 2 Reckless Swing
• 1 Surprise Attack
• 2 Off-balanced Attack
• 2 Stinging Wound
• 1 Dodge
• 2 Run Like Hell
• 1 Fancy Footwork

The combat deck is mainly low-Rage damage cards, with a smattering of 4- and 5-Rage cards. It differs from Gaia weenie because it only has one Hunting Party; generally you should end up with one Hunting Part or Lynch Mob in your hand after every mass combat. Instead it has a shieldmate, so you can bring in Wailer whoever they attack. Finally, it's "only" 21 cards - the 21st is Head or Gut? - for the same reason.

It's worth noting that you aren't expecting a huge lot of damage back: at full deployment, your opponent is at -5 Rage and -6 Gnosis. Most decks aren't prepared for that and will have to escape or go home (which is why you have a Beat Unmerciful, since Run Like Hell and Fox Frenzy may be the only two repeatable escapes they can use).

I remember using Wailer in a Wyrm weenie deck. It had fewer sept cards but its theme was largely the same. I used the Barnaby version here to show how impactful he is. It makes the deck slightly less reliable; but probably more effective.

The sept deck probably requires fewer cards and if you feel you can eliminate some after testing then go for it. You could tweak the combat deck to include some Head Wounds or simply Dry Gulches and maybe some more evasion; which would make it easier to defend prey or do more damage; but I'm not it's required with the Rage denial in your sept deck.

If you were lucky or wealthy enough to get a Count Vlad, this was the deck you wanted him for (or some variant on it). It takes the characters with the highest stats in the game and some consistent Gift options and combines them with frenzy and a heavy combat deck. And lots of healing.

The deck wants you to get into combat and smash things. It's a classic double-champion deck.

Characters

• 1 Allonzo Montoya
• 1 Count Vladimir Rustovitch
• 1 Juicy Johnes

Not belonging to main splats, these two champions can't use a lot of non-Gift cards; but they have lots of good gifts. Whilst Black Spiral Dancers do have good stats, these have better

Sept

• .2 Horns of the Impaler
• 2 Wyrm Hide
• 2 Patagia
• 3 True Fear
• 1 Caern of Rytthiku
• 1 "Kirijama, 'The Hidden Foe'
• 3 Consumption of Gaia
• 2 Subjugation of Gaia
• 2 Eyes of Hate
• 3 Sneak Attack
• 3 Friends in High Places
• 1 Spiral Boomerang
• 1 Mage's Talisman
• 3 Skin of the Hellbound
• 1 Whip of the Wicked

As well as the usual, this deck has extra combat enders (Spiral Boomerang/Patagia), disrupters (Consumption/Subjugation of Gaia) and the mirror-match friendly Skin of the Hellbound. Eyes of Hate and Whip of the Wicked are mean ways to control what your opponent plays and leads to some interesting timing as you try and guess when they will play the first card you would worry about. Horns of the Impaler are not critical, just give you a little resilience.

Combat

• 1 Surprise Ally
• 2 Frenzy
• 1 Taking the Death Blow
• 1 Umbral Escape
• 1 Run Like Hell
• 2 Mangle
• 2 Entrail Rend
• 2 Vital Blow
• 2 Dry Gulch
• 1 Disarm
• 2 Feint
• 2 Dodge
• 1 Evasion

This is a very damage-heavy combat deck. You have the expected combat events. Run Like Hell is an emergency release. Whilst timing of when you play evasion/escape/damage is critical, that's about as subtle as the combat deck.

The one thing that's different is the Surprise Ally, to give you double the firepower. Remember you can always play it just to draw a card (when attacking), without bringing in a packmate.

You could choose to swap in combat actions that your champions can play before they flip to crinos. Otherwise, there aren't any immediate swaps I would think about.

This is largely based on my favourite deck from the classic era. Most of the deck are commons, there's lots of disruption and it gives those rare frenzy decks a run for their money. Putting this deck here feels like I'm giving away my old secrets. Unfortunately, large packs tend to make Lackey unhappy so I didn't play it as much later on. 

The goal of this deck is similar to frenzy decks, but focuses much more on enemies. Against a low Rage enemy, especially against high Rage decks, you can play tactically without Stand Like a Fool. But if you have a Stand Like a Fool, there are very few decks which can survive a single round against you.

Characters:
Characters:

• 1 Carleson Ruah
• 1 Susan Anthony with a Kinfolk Small Town Cop
• 1 Frenar
• 1 Dharma Bum
• 1 Passer
• 1 Banana Split
• 1 Jubati
• 1 Cesare Sodalis

Carleson Ruah is the single most important character in your deck because it allows you to have a Renown 0 alpha who acts first. So no matter how big the other alphas, you get first dibs at whatever is in the Hunting Grounds and, if they attack you, they get nothing to show for it. The other characters are a combination of synergistic abilities and with the ability to play your sept deck. Banana Split is just nifty as an extra Stand like a Fool.

One thing to note is that this is a post-Wyrm version which means it can survive a Breath of the Defiled should somebody actually play it. 

Sept deck

• 3 Stand like a Fool
• 2 Sticky Paws
• 3 Ka Spirit
• 1 Flame Spirit
• 1 Wyldstorm
• 3 Friends in High Places
• 3 Sneak Attack
• 3 New Moon
• 2 Kinfolk Small Town Cop
• 1 Dreamspeaker Mage
• 2 Sky River Caern
• 2 Pentex Refinery
• 2 Pentex First Team 43
• 2 Chainsaw

In this version, I really went to town on those low Renown allies, all of whom are fantastic in a Hunting Party; but shout out to the Ka Spirits who might never die. New Moons are your answer to frenzy. Even though they are less effective against some Wyrm decks if you're playing by older versions of the rules, they are still really good in the deck. As a combat deck, it has the full suite of Sneak Attacks, Friends and stymies. Wyldstorm is in there because there are very few good decks for this silly card - it's often not that effective for you. There are a few top cards in there to give you extra protection.

Kinfolk Cops do double duty of attacker and a way of locking down opponents. More effective against some decks than others.

Combat deck

• 2 Hunting Party
• 1 Taking the Death Blow
• 1 Attacking the Wyrm
• 2 Bitch Slap
• 2 Off-balanced Attack
• 2 Stinging Wound
• 2 Run Like Hell
• 2 Lucky Blow
• 2 Overextended Attack
• 1 Surprise Attack
• 2 Reckless Swing
• 2 Dodge
• 1 Bite
• 2 Entrail Rend

I found that this deck always needed to be oversized, otherwise you wouldn't be able to draw enough cards. Whilst Attacking the Wyrm allows you more attackers, and is ideal for alpha actions, it can't be used with Sneak Attacks. You have three so you should always have one in hand, ideally the one you need. The Entrail Rends can be bluffed if you get through all your opponents playable cards. A lot of decks don't have a lot of low-Rage cards so that happens. But you also have a couple of Chainsaws. They are essentially there so you can finish off a large opponent, otherwise you would struggle.

Run Like Hell are for prey, and Taking the Death Blow are to protect your key characters (Carleson mainly, but also Banana Split if you haven't used his ability). 

I never came across a better weenie deck than this, but there are other things you can do with the combat deck. If you add more weapons (Flamethrowers or Shotguns probably), you can add cards like Head Wound or Beat Unmerciful (to counter Run Like Hell). You can also tweak the numbers and probably remove Sky River Caern for Visit from the White Fathers. And of course you can swap characters to include your favourites. Tim Rowantree was in one version.

I did used to play a moot deck because I did have the cards and it gave me the answers to the heavy combat decks my friends were playing. But I actually can't remember how I built it. So this is a 10 minute deck build based on a combination of memory and whatever felt good at the time.

Your goal in this deck is to use your combat deck to end combats and your sept deck to gather enough votes to win moots.

There is no anti-wyrm strategy in this version. If you don't have any Gaia opponents, you are probably toast (which is one reason why pure moots stopped being viable strategy over time).

Characters:

• 1 Grimfang
• 1 Old Storm-Chaser
• 1 Ivan Korda
• 1 Diem

Grimfang is your voting lynchpin. Old Storm-Chaser is there purely to draw you cards, but is conveniently also a Theurge. Ivan and Diem both have abilities which might be useful, but can also be sacrificed or sent on an Umbral Quest without too much impact.

Sept deck

• 1 Falcon
• 3 Elder Stone
• 1 Legendary Leadership
• 3 Kinfolk TV Reporter
• 1 The Silver Crown
• 1 Aegis
• 3 Caern of the Crescent Moon
• 1 Yuri Tvarivich
• 3 Skindancer
• 1 The Stolen Wolf
• 2 Tribal War
• 2 Winter Wolf
• 1 The Litany's Guidance
• 1 Caern Building
• 3 Silver Record
• 1 Dreamspeaker Mage
• 2 Flame Spirit
• 1 Spirit Drain
• 2 Umbral Quest

All your VP comes from your sept deck. Silver Records, Winter Wolf (on Grimfang) and Legendary Leadership are your primary sources with Caern Building and Umbral Quest acting as backups. Tribal War is a great opening moot as if the same deck has both tribes, one or the other has to go. Skindancer and the Stolen Wolf can further decimate Gaia decks. Elder Stone and Caern of the Crescent Moon are your best sources of votes. Kinfolk TV Reporters are better than gifts and can generally double up as sacrificial packmates. Flame Spirits are good alphas. Dreamspeaker Mage is the only gift canceller in this version, but should be sufficient if you're avoiding combat. Spirit Drain is there primarily to deny your opponent a kill (if played well).

Combat Deck:

• 2 Fox Frenzy
• 1 Taking the Death Blow
• 1 Frenzy
• 2 Umbral Escape
• 2 Run Like Hell
• 2 Evasion
• 1 Surprise Attack
• 1 Fancy Footwork
• 2 Off-balanced Attack
• 2 Stinging Wound
• 1 Feint
• 1 Beat Unmerciful
• 2 Lucky Blow

​There are seven ways to try and end combat here. Note that your voting characters should not use Run Like Hell; but prey and allies can use it all you like. Your job is to ensure that you always have a suitable escape in your hand for any situation. There is also enough damage here to take out weak opponents if you want to, or just to nibble them with a Flame Spirit.

Another non-optimised deck. There is too much redundancy in the sept deck, and practice will show you which cards to remove; or if you need add extra gift-cancelling or Friends in High Places. I would suggest Memory Ribbon isn't a good choice for the deck, but Nightmare Coin might be.

The main alternative to this build is the Children of Gaia version which uses Pearl River (and maybe Harmon Truefriend) along with Eye of the Cobra. Eye is a powerful card, but you are substituting a one-off effect for the ongoing Caern of the Crescent Moon and the timing can make it more awkward - plus if it is cancelled you can be left wanting. (But the timing means you can take your target in Equip/Ally and then take their stuff.)

​​This is one of the top variations of the classic champion frenzy deck. This wasn't an archetype I favoured (didn't have the cards!) so I can't promise this is an optimised deck, but that just gives you an opportunity to improve it.
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Your goal is to get into combat with high-renown threats that you can take down with a frenzy. In classic Rage (White Wolf era) this was one of the defining archetypes.

The classic alternative is Golgol Fangs-First, which allows you to add Gungnir, Fenris totem and other Get of Fenris cards. It has a few more options but you lose access to cards if one of your characters dies. At the same time, Mamu is vulnerable to Gnosis reduction (e.g. Mass Pollution) so Golgol is also a good choice.

Ghost Raptor Membership, if you can get one, is a great addition if you want more options to take out non-alphas. This deck will absolutely benefit from the speed of Mantle of El Dorado or Visits from the White Father. Aside from these evergreen powerhouses, you may want to play with different equipment.

Edit: It was pointed out that Howls can't use equipment and Mamu has 4 Gnosis, so I removed some Fetish equipment and replaced it with Full Moons and a Lunar Eclipse, both typical cards for this deck archetype.