Trochomancy

About Trochomancy

Trochomancy, Action modifier, designed by Imaginary Friends Studios first released in September 2007 in the set Lords of the Night and was printed exactly in 2 different ways.

Trochomancy primarily benefits a Necromancy-based bleed deck—especially Giovanni, Harbingers of Skulls, Nagaraja, or mixed Auspex/Necromancy decks—that can reliably bleed with vampires possessing [nec] or [aus][nec] and wants incidental graveyard hate against decks relying on recursion, but its requirement to remove seven or thirteen cards from the target’s ash heap makes it unreliable early and often dead against small or carefully managed ash heaps; the free cost is attractive, yet the “limited” restriction and lack of immediate reliability make it inferior as a normal bleed modifier. Pulse of the Canaille is generally better for Auspex decks because it provides +1 bleed at inferior Auspex and +2 at superior Auspex without depending on the opponent’s ash heap, while Conditioning is better whenever the deck can use Dominate, and generic options such as Computer Hacking are more dependable when available. Trochomancy can see play as a one- or two-copy metagame choice in a dedicated Nec