Tournament losing deck archive - Spell of Life

This is the deck from my second tournament. Lords of the Night were the latest set and I experimented mostly with decks from the four independent clans at the beginning of my career. What you are about to see is a really hopeless Spell of Life-deck and maybe it is even worse than the Ravnos Toolbox I played at my first tournament.

Deck Name : Spell of Life
Author : Stefan Karlsson

Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 3 max: 10 average: 7
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1x Nakhthorheb 10 OBF PRE SER Follower :4
1x Neferu 9 OBF PRE SER THA dom nec 2 votes Follower :4
1x Porphyrion 9 CHI OBF PRE SER for Follower :5
1x Arnulf Jormungandr 8 OBF PRE SER aus cel Follower :5
1x Cagliostro, The Gr 8 OBF PRE SER nec pot Follower :4
1x Sundervere, The De 8 AUS PRE SER THA obf Follower :4
1x Ogwon 7 OBF PRE SER for Follower :5
1x Seren Sukardi 7 OBF SER THA pre Follower :4
1x Ankh-sen-Sutekh 6 PRE SER obf Follower :4
1x Renenet 5 OBF PRE ser Follower :4
1x Marla Kenyon 4 PRE ser Follower :4
1x Reverend Djoser Jo 3 pre ser Follower :4

Library [90 cards]
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Action [30]
2x Form of Corruption
5x Legal Manipulations
3x Mesu Bedshet
5x Social Charm
12x Spell of Life
3x Temptation

Action Modifier [16]
2x Cloak the Gathering
2x Faceless Night
2x Forgotten Labyrinth
6x Lost in Crowds
4x True Love's Face

Action Modifier/Combat [3]
3x Swallowed by the Night

Combat [15]
5x Majesty
5x Staredown
5x Unholy Penance

Master [15]
2x Blood Doll
1x Crocodile Temple, The
2x Dummy Corporation
2x Effective Management
1x Minion Tap
2x Obfuscate
2x Opium Den
1x Temple Hunting Ground
2x Vessel

Reaction [11]
2x Dread Gaze
5x Ecstasy
2x On the Qui Vive
2x Wake with Evening's Freshness

This time I at least managed to get one victory point and that was in the only game where I managed to pull the actual spell off. According to Sten Düring who won that table I would actually have taken a game win if I hadn't kept any minions untapped and instead bled forward with full motion. He was probably right but I was too newborn to make decent calculations back then.
I remember being owned by Seeds of Corruption and bleeds being bounced all way round at a table where I was playing the only deck without Dominate. The third game I don't remember at all othre that that I actually played a Dread Gaze to everyone's surprise and joy. I also remember that people were actually scared of my deck and the Spell of Life and few had seen a deck with it before. That of course I didn't use to my advantage, it instead made me an early table threat. I am bad at manipulating tables now but I was a disaster then. Hopefully I will keep learning.

Tournament losing deck archive - Ravnos Toolbox

Since I'm a collector by nature I off course have saved all my old deck lists and I got the idea to share with you my very first tournament deck.
To give you the correct perspective I figure I give you my background to this game. Me and some friends played Jyhad and then V:Tes when it was released and I kept buying some boosters now and then up to Original Sabbat. We never really played any real or competitive games and the vast majority of games I played was duels with my friend Lars. I also vaguely remember some insane games with like 9 players at the local gaming club in Karlstad. What I want to tell is that I never got any real experience in what the game is really about back then.
So late 2007 Lars moved to Göteborg where I live and we talked about this old game and our duels. My table-top gaming friend Mattias overheard and told us that Jyhad where still played and even still supported to our great surprise. We quickly bought some cards and started to play slowly understanding that this was a game for 4-5 players. I played Gangrel and Ravnos back in the days so my first buy was the Ravnos starter deck from Lords of the Night. In January 2008 it was time for my first tournament experience and the following deck is what I played:

Deck Name : Ravnos - Magnum Reality
Author : Stefan Karlsson

Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 3 max: 8 average: 6.16667
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3x Vasiliy Vasilevich 8 ANI CHI for pro Ravno:5
2x Kiradin 8 CHI DEM FOR ani pot Ravno:4
2x Chavi Oraczko 7 ANI CHI FOR nec Ravno:5
2x Callirus 5 CHI FOR ani Ravno:4
1x Brian Thompson 4 ani chi for Ravno:4
1x Marion French 3 ani chi Ravno:4
1x Neel Ramanathan 3 ani for Ravno:4


Library [90 cards]
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Action [10]
4x Mass Reality
3x Restoration
3x Sensory Deprivation

Action Modifier [9]
6x Fata Morgana
3x Freak Drive

Action Modifier/Combat [7]
3x Mirror Image
4x Occlusion

Combat [20]
5x Carrion Crows
6x Indomitability
4x Rolling with the Punches
2x Soak
3x Taste of Vitae

Equipment [9]
5x .44 Magnum
3x Camera Phone
1x Treasured Samadji

Master [17]
2x Blood Doll
1x Fortitude
1x Fortune Teller Shop
1x Giant's Blood
1x Kumpania
2x Minion Tap
1x Park Hunting Ground
2x Path of Paradox, The
4x Svadharma
2x Vessel

Reaction [15]
3x Cats' Guidance
5x Ignis Fatuus
2x Instinctive Reaction
2x On the Qui Vive
3x Rat's Warning

Retainer [3]
2x Raven Spy
1x Tasha Morgan

There is so many faults with this deck I really don't know where to start. First of all it is a Ravnos Toolbox, an archetype known of bleeding some, blocking some, cursing some, fighting some and not taking any victory points. Do I need to tell that I didn't get a single victory point during the tournament? Second of all my card collection was very limited so I couldn't build exactly the deck I would have built if I had unlimited card access. It is also a hopeless 90-card deck with some really weird choices. The whole Magnum / Mass Reality thing is really bad idea and I smile while looking at the deck list.
I remember parts of my first game clearly. My prey was Max Widén and my predator was Erik Torstensson. Max was doing great and ousted his two first preys pretty quickly. I remember trying to deal with Erik to leave me alone to oust Max when he got low on pool but Erik refused. Then Max suddenly saw no chance of a game win because Erik had tooled up well and he wanted to self-oust to leave the table with no game win. The judge didn't let him and I understood nothing of this whole mess and was ousted quickly thereafter.
However this first tournament made me want to play more and since then I have been playing in 23 more constructed tournaments, only scoring one win, and I still enjoy it very much. I am in the mood to make an improved version of this tacky deck and try and play it today but I don't know if it's worth the effort. Please share your ideas as comments if you have any because it would be great fun to actually make something out of this. And remember, I have 23 more tournament losing decks to give you so shout if you want more. This is not the worst one, trust me.