I actually played zoraida into ressers last night and I got matched against Nico.
I brought McTavish, bad juju and the hooded rider, since it was interference with quite some killy schemes (dtg, hunting party and quick murder).
They did pretty well, though they got bogged down in mindless zombies. Zoraida actually performed great in picking off his henchmen. It's pretty easy for her to hem and bewitch/obey stuff like asura roten and sybelle.
The hooded rider is great for murdering things a bit later in the game. Min 5 damage deals with a summoned hanged easily, and if I wouldn't have forgotten to announce the upgrade switch at the start of my activation I would have killed the valedictorian outright with 2 5 damage hits.
All in all, I found that having several pieces that can hit his crew early (McTavish, hooded rider, zoraida and doll) put a lot of strain on his resources. He actually decided to keep his high cards and stones for summons, but that meant that I could pretty much ensure hitting anything in his crew. I could almost kill asura roten turn 1, and kill sybelle easily turn 2. Hem --> poisoned fate --> bewitch, obey, charge the voodoo doll and kill yourself, tyvm.