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.