Observations:
Ungodly amounts of 11 cap vampires.
Only 2 wall decks at the tournament. No one else was able to generate more than 1 intercept.
Breeding 15 vampires by turn 6 draws a LOT of table hate.
How can a weenie breed deck lose to an 11 cap deck?!?
Make sure that you know ALL of the errata regarding YOUR cards

Report:
Round one of the tournament had me sitting across from the eventual tournament winner with his Assamite Breed Anarch deck. I was preying on a Eze, Demon Prince deck, which was the best thing that could happen to a ridiculously fast Turbo Embrace deck. I was able to breed and bleed without a predator and built up to 15 minions by the end of the game. I ousted Eze and flew into a Tzimisce wall deck as fast as I could, however, the Assamites built up completely unhindered as well, and had much more bloat with his Consanguineous Boons, than I did, he ousted the janky tupdog vote deck behind me and started the pressure. I managed to oust the Tzimisce without loosing too many vamps, but my pool was low enough that he Club Illusion bled me out when I was one turn away from ousting him. 3-2 Split.

Round two of the tournament I controlled 12 baby ravnos vampires by about turn 5, my prey had Stanislava and Ingrid. I dropped the Week of Nightmares and prepared to sweep the table. My prey played 6 Deflections and/or Redirections in a row, bouncing me into my grand prey who happened to also be playing a ravnos wall deck. He was able to wake up and block so that I did not oust my grand prey, however, with the week in play and all of my vampires at 1 blood, my grand prey ended up punching 6 of my vampires into torpor. I thought that I still had a chance though with 6 more vampires so I continued to bleed, in the same turn my prey managed to play 3 Wake with Evening's Freshness and blocked 3 more bleeds with a depraved Stanislava. I ended the turn with 1 untapped vampire, two tapped vampires and 9 vampires in torpor and my prey did not get bled a single time. Game, Set, Match. I never really recovered emotionally after that turn and I almost conceded right then and there, I had an unblockable Toreador deck at my back, which I wouldn't have blocked anyways, but he had a Turbo Great Beast deck at his back that was building up so he moved into me with relative impunity. There was no love across the table for me so his votes got all the support they needed or were pushed through. First oust, 0 VP.

Believe it or not I was the only one not in the final who had more than 1 VP at 2. So I managed 6th place in the tournament of 15 players, the first loser...

The Final ended with the Assamite Anarch Breed deck sweeping all five VPs under the table.

This entry was posted on Tue, 2008-11-18 11:56

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