Hi everybody!

Just wanted to introduce myself and take the chance to express
my gratitude for all the great advice about CoC that I have
gotten from this forum.

I am a long time geek just turned 30 and have been into rpg's,
ccg's and all things geeky, especially Lovecraftian, for the
last 20 years.

Just 6 months ago my flatmates introduced me too CoC and I was
immediately hooked! Now I have finally gotten all the released
cards for the LCG and really started to get into deck-building
and forcing people around me to play the game. Sadly I am the
only one around here (northern Sweden) playing competitively
that I know of,but hopefully I will be able to get a
going or arrangea small tournament this autumn/winter,
just to get people to try this great game out in a more
serious enviroment.

So except for my eight mono-faction highlander decks that I
mostly use to play Centacle-style four-player multiplayer with
my friends whenever I get the chance I have started to work
on four more serious tournament-decks. They are not nearly done
since I have only playtested them on my own versus one another,
but hopefully people here can help me tweak them further,
especially now that Gencon has come and gone and the meta
have crystallized after the maga-birds/endless interrogation
banning.

So nice to meet you all and thanks for the great advice you
will hopefully have for me!

So this is my favorite deck, combining my two favorite factions;
the harassment and underhanded tricks of Syndicate and the nasty
madness and control of Hastur. I just love the mechanics of both
these two factions so my personal goal for more serious deckbuilding
is to make a somewhat functionable deck with these two factions.

It has some glaring weaknesses this far in its low skill and lack
of support-removal. Y'ha-nthlei-statue is not good for this deck...

It plays like what some people here (Magnus I think) have called a
tactical deck. It's not pure rush, but instead tries to get a good
board position through two-for-one cards like the Rats, Victoria and
Hard Case to then use lock-downs like the Seventy Steps, Cavern of
Flame and Infernal Obsession to keep the pressure up,

Characters: 29

Syndicate:

3x Clover Club Bouncer
2x Demented Caretaker
2x Thief for Hire
3x Anarchist
3x Hard Case
2x Clover Club Torch Singer
2x Extortionist
2x Fugitive Scientist

Hastur:

3x Performance Artist
2x Victoria Glasser
2x Dangerous Inmate

Restricted:

3x Diseased Sewer Rats

Events: 10
Syndicate:

3x Intimidate
3x Tear Gas

Hastur:

2x Power Drain
2x Blind Submission

Support: 11
Syndicate:

3x Bound and Gagged
2x Dutch Courage

Hastur:

2x The Seventy Steps
2x The Cavern of Flame
2x Infernal Obsession

This is my standard kill-em-all-deck. Cthulhu has some ridiculous
cards and Agency is no slop when it comes to removal, so there it
is, remove characters, be able to deal with anything with Deep
One Assault and just walk over the opposition.

It has serious issues with massive Shub-spawning since it has no
Snow Graves (this is due to making four decks with one playset),
otherwise it should be able to deal with most threats.

This is the deck that I had the hardes time trimming down since
Cthulhu has so many useful cards that wasn't broad enough to fit
in like Get it off! and Feeding Frenzy. It was also a tough choice
between Cthulhu and Yig, since in playtesting none of them has ever
made an appearance. As it stands Cthulhu won out on pure late-game
removal-ability.

Characters: 27
Cthulhu:

3x Innsmouth Troublemaker
3x Brood of Yig
3x Keeper of the Golden Path
3x Dreamlands Fanatic
2x Carl Stanford
2x Ravager from the Deep
2x Deep One Rising
2x Hydra
2x Cthulhu Lord of R'lyeh

Agency:

2x Paul Lemond

Restricted:

3x Descendant of Eibon

Events: 23
Cthulhu:

3x Pulled Under
3x Deep One Assault
3x Sacrificial Offerings
2x Called by Azatoth

Agency:

3x Behind Bars
3x Shotgun Blast
2x Small Price to Pay
2x Working a Hunch
2x Short Fuse

Support: 0

This is a deck that is quickly becoming a new pet-favorite of mine,
the spawning and resource-boosting of Shub matches up with effective
but expensive Silver Twilight and their awesome two-for-one characters
to make a very powerful duo.

If it can survive the early onslaught of wounding decks without losing
to many stories it should come out flying by turn 3 and then just
continue pumping out characters and bouncing the opponents.

Its main drawback is of course Snow Graves, but when Thunder in the
East this should be greatly mitigated (since in that case the limit
to your own operations phase is irrelevant). In playtest Farrington
often beats Eibon since he bounces Eibon and removes his awesome
re-appearing powers, even without Snow Graves.

Characters: 33
Shub-Niggurath:

3x Priestess of Bubastis
2x One of the Thousand
2x Gibbering Soul
2x Predator of the Night
2x Harvesting Mi-Go
3x Hungry Dark One
2x Grasping Cthonian
2x Y'Golonac
2x Slavering Gug
2x Shub-Niggurath

Silver Twilight:

3x Keeper of Secrets
2x Knight of the Outer Void
3x High Wizard of the Order

Restricted:

3x Lord Jeffrey Farrington

Events: 8
Shub-Niggurath:

2x Burrowing Beneath
2x Shocking Transformation

Silver Twilight:

2x You Know Too Much

Neutral:

2x Eldritch Nexus

Support: 9
Shub-Niggurath:

2x Snow Graves
2x Shadowed Woods
2x Under the Porch

Neutral:

3x The Yuggoth Contract

Finally, the ubiquous TitG-deck, of course with some milling as
an alternative win-con. I haven't really given this much thought
after realisning how powerful the Stalking Hounds and Miskatonics
insanity-removal is with TitG.

If any of my decks could be accused of net-decking, it is this one.
I love to play it in single player, but after playing with and
against it in a few multiplayer games before I discovered the
Centacle-rules I have come to dislike TitG more and more, so much
that I have almost started thinking about re-making it into a sac.
deck with Doppelganger as the Restricted card.

Characters: 29
Yog-Sothoth:

3x Cannibal Ghast
3x Faceless Abductor
3x Intruder From Beyond
3x Constricting Elder Thing
3x Stalking Hound
3x Flying Polyps
3x Guardian Elder Thing
2x Glaaki
2x Yog-Sothoth

Miskatonic:

2x Dr. Carson
2x Strange Librarian

Events: 17
Yog-Soth:

3x Journey to the Other Side
3x Gathering at the Stones
3x Curse of the Stone

Miskatonic:

3x Dr. Carsons Treatment
3x Binding

Neutral:

2x Political Demonstration

Support: 4
Yog-Sothoth:

1x Prism of Many Views

Restricted:

3x Things in the Ground

These look like pretty fun decks to play, nice job! I've been messing around with a similar type things in the ground deck.