At Your Disposal : Perfectionist

One of the best, if not the best archetype cards in Vtes, Perfectionist is becoming so common and useful that it is unthinkable to not see a single one on a table of five nowadays. It is one free and effective card that as far as I can see, offers no reason not to have it in pretty much any deck where the Vampires you control requires blood to do anything.

First off, this is a very common card used in combat, bleeds and any blood-intensive decks. It offers a recurring +1 blood to the Vampire that it attached to whenever the Vampire performs an action successfully without any other players playing a reaction card.

This is especially useful with Vampires that are able to perform multiple actions, either with Freak Drive-like effects or with the ability to untap every round to do something (such as in a Madness Network). This will almost guarantee that the Perfectionist will come into play every round, giving you that extra 1 blood for doing something that you wanted, and needed to do anyway.

What you do with that extra blood is all up to you, but off hand, you can already see how much help this card will add to your Vampire. For example, a single hunt will give you 2 blood instead of one, and that extra blood can be used to power a Freak Drive to allow you to do something else - net gain, 1 blood. Or, with Perfectionist-empowered Governed the Unaligned, you're effectively bleeding for 3 at no cost. (assuming no one plays a reaction card and you're successful of course). You can also enter combat with one extra blood for that extra safety (the enter combat action is successful and you get the blood before combat commence), or get one extra blood for that Awe in a referendum you just called. (Same concept)

There are players who compared this to the other blood gaining Archetype card for bleeders - Capitalist. The main difference is that Capitalist only allows you to gain 1 blood upon a successful bleed against your prey, and nothing else. Against a dedicated bleed deck it's probably not a big deal, and it does alleviate a main problem that Perfectionist will face in a deck like this - against a Stealth Bleeder (or a Power Bleed, for that matter), most prey will play anything to avoid allowing the predator's vampires in gaining anything to power their bleed next round, and therefore, many reaction cards will probably be played to avoid Perfectionist coming into play. With Capitalist this problem is resolved since playing reaction cards will not cancel the effect of a Capitalist. Of course, if the bleed is bounced then it gets nothing, but in those cases Perfectionist wouldn't be helping either.

Despite this Perfectionist is still an excellent card to have in a deck as a blood gainer. Unless your Vampires are not thinking about taking actions a lot in a game (Like a Wall Deck), or your Vampires have very little need for blood (like Malkavian Stealth Bleeders), you should have Perfectionist in your deck to supplement blood gain. Even a Perfectionist Mouse with 2 Vessels on it is almost guaranteed to bloat you 2 pool every turn.

Again, why not?

Unless of course, you are Imbued.

(o.o)