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6/14/2010 8:14:00 PM
Date of event: June 13th 2010
Location of event: Jeux-Triboulet, Gatineau Qc. (Canada)
# of players: 12
Winning Player: François Deslauriers
Winning Clan: Baali
Winning Faction: Bahari
Key Minion: Midget (Montreal, Qc. REPRAZANT! WOOT-WOOT! )
The tournament started about 45 minutes late while waiting for Louis
to arrive. I just want to point out to the world that that was his
third time being late for tournament in a row due to previous night
out drinking on the town. But thanks to him, we avoided the cursed
Gatineau 7/11 player tournament and instead got even tables of 4
methuselahs for the prelims. The 3 visiting players from Montreal
didn’t complain much because they are used to tournament delays in
their domain.
After 2 prelims rounds, the standings were:
1- François Deslauriers – Bahari/Baali (Horde swarm bleed)- 2GW, 8VP
2- Louis Legault – Loyalist/undetermined (3x Ubende/Dmitra/Germaine/
Conde)- 1GW, 3.5VP
3- Christian Chenard – Bahari/Daughters (Crescendo/Drums) – 1GW, 3.5VP
4- Jean-Nicolas Raymond – Bahari/Abomination (Lorrie/Montoya + FoS
fight /Temptation)- 1.5VP
5- Guy Punde- Bahari/Salubri (Spirit Marionnette with animalism DotB +
anesthetic) – 1.5VP
6- Mathieu Guimond – Bahari/Baali ( Lucinde’s Flames of the
Netherworld toolbox) – 1.5VP
7- Jean Ouellet – Bahari/Gargoyle (Tupdog based on Darby Keeney’s
recent TWD) – 1VP
8- Marc Champagne- Bahari/Arhimanes (classic gr.2 animalism wall with
Howler) – 0.5VP
9- Alex Girard- Bahari/Bloodbrother (Torrance circle bleed/bloat/fight
toolbox feat. Angelo) – 0VP
10- Christian Slatchetka – Bahari/Baali (Unnamed Shattering the Gates)
– 0VP
11- Charles Granger – Bahari/Abomination (Lorrie/Ambrogino & Gios
Cold Aura-Lids) – 0VP
12- Ian Beauchamp – Loyalist/Salubri (Saulot auspex wall & Spirit
Marionnette) – 0VP
Finals seating was:
François (Baali), Jean-Nicolas (Abomination/FoS), Louis (Ishtarri but
legal), Christian (DoC), Guy (Salubri)
Here is my long rendition of the finals (scroll down for the winner’s
decklist and the one I played):
lt was pretty expeditive. François came crashing off the gates
starting with a first turn Parthenon and Troublemaker followed by Info
Highway on turn 2.
After 2 turns of transfer, out were 2 Hordes (François), Lorrie (Jean-
Nic), Ubende (Louis), Janet & Delilah (myself) and Matthias (Guy).
On turn#3, one of the Horde got Contagion, then Lorrie rushed it with
no grapple and Majesty was played. Ubende got a magnum, untapped with
freak drive then bled. She got blocked and sent to torpor by Janet who
played Death of the Drum after she went long with the gun (the look on
Louis’s face who didn’t know what my deck did… priceless!). My own
turn was a game breaker: Janet drinks the magic Koolaid from Lilith’s
Blessing to get her lost blood back. Delilah bleeds, Matthias blocks
and gets sent to torpor with a Backstep + Death of the Drum combo.
Janet bleeds and gets the edge, Command Performance untaps Delilah.
She then procceds to eat Ubende, freak drive, eat Matthias, freak
drive and torp 2 Hordes (including the one with the Contagion) using
Shattering Crescendo. Guy & Louis are starting to whine while Jean-
Nicolas and I are laughing. François just seems tense because his
position is uncertain.
For the next turns, players try to regroup. François has 6 or 7 guys
out (Tend the Flock, Clotho’s Gift and Info Highway sure help) and
manages to save the Contagious Horde from Torpor. Jean-Nicolas remains
defensive but uses Montoya to play Temptation on one Horde. Louis gets
Germaine on the board. I get Angela and Iseult out while scoring free
Camera Phone bleeds and slowing François down with another double
torping Crescendo. All the meanwhile, Guy manages to get Serena the
White into play. Antediluvian Awakening (by François) and Tension in
the Ranks (by Louis) are on the table so pools fly off from
everywhere. I get first blood ousting Guy and François gets his VP
easily right after passing along the Anarch Troublemaker to lower the
defenses of Jean-Nicolas. Louis is weak but does his job by beating
both a Member of the Entourage and Delilah (sweet retribution for
Ubende’s demise). Multi acting also permits Germaine to get a Heart of
the City and a bleed of 3 through. I bleed, rescue Delilah and get
another Member of the Entourage on my turn trying to cycle into
another Crescendo (one is already in my hand). At the beginning of
François’s turn, Louis begs him for some time to try to oust me so he
can at least get a VP and beat me in the tournament. I intervene in
the talk saying that if I survive Louis’s next few turns (a real
possibility) I’ll just Crescendo more Hordes into torpor and maybe
completely shut down the shop. François decides to let Louis go for a
turn. Louis bleeds but gets blocked in what ends up being a pointless
fortitude prevention combat. On my turn, I cycle into my Dragonbound
that I drop on the board during my discard even though I couldn’t get
the Shattering Crescendo I so desperately needed during my minion
phase. Sensing the threat, François decides to oust Louis on his next
turn. My turn comes around but it’s pointless. I bleed all out with no
blocks from François, stuck with unusable stealth and combat in my
hand. Hence I don’t cycle a single card. Of course, Shattering
Crescendo was the next card on the top of my library as I flipped it
for the remaining crowd to see after I discarded from my hand of 6.
François proceeds bleeding me out. Game over.
Finals score: François 4, me 1, the rest 0.
Congrats to François who gets an almost perfect day with 3GW and 12VP
and his first event win ever.
Winning decklist:
Name: Midget and Lena are having babies (lots of them)
Description: The name of the deck says it all. How it came to be?
Here’s the story: Reading the reports from previous storyline events,
I knew Horde decks were big with the special rules of the Battleline.
I assembled the deck and tested it playing solitaire at home just for
kicks even though I knew I wasn’t going to play it in the tournament
(my allegiance was shifting between BB and DoC for this one). I kind
of guessed François was going to play Baali at the tournament because
his fetish deck of late was The Unnamed Homunculus/Enkil Cog combo. I
was confirmed right after chatting with him on the last weekly game
night prior to the event. Feeling my list was stronger than his and
more fitting with the storyline ongoing plot (Midget and the Kaymakli
Fragment being featured during the NAC Montreal special storyline
event), I offered him to play what I told him then was the deck that
would win the tournament. He took my offer and made me right. End of
story.
Crypt (12):
1x Midget
1x Lena Rowe
10x The Horde
Library (66, got to fit with the infernal subtheme):
Master (33):
5x Villein
5x Presence
5x Parthenon
4x Tend the Flock
3x Tribute to the Master
2x Info Highway
2x Anarch Troublemaker
2x Pentex Subversion
1x Heidelberg Castle
1x Antediluvian Awakening
1x The Barrens
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Mistrust
Action (16):
7x Clotho’s Gift
5x Entrancement
2x Mind Numb
1x Contagion
1x Unleash Hell’s Fury
Equipment (3):
2x Kaymakli Fragment
1x Heart of Nizchetus
Combat (4):
4x Majesty
Action modifier (10):
1x Gift of Sleep
1x Domain of Evernight
1x Into Thin Air
1x Lost in Crowds
1x Cloak the Gathering
1x Spying Mission
1x Swallowed by the Night
1x Faceless Night
1x Veil the Legion
1x Elder Impersonation
Runner-up finalist decklist:
Name: “Our next song will break your ears and tear your heart” –
Yseult at Lilith’s Fair.
Description: A fighting/damaging deck. Fun alternative to the more
classic DoC deck approaches you usually get to see. Also a fitting
strategy and theme considering the plot for this storyline. The deck
ended up performing way better than I expected considering the total
absence of poolgain. Does have an illegal crypt if you apply the
grouping rule but could be fixed for regular play using only gr.2-3.
Crypt (12):
3x Yseult
2x Hillanvale
2x Angela Preston
2x Delilah Monroe
2x Janet Langer
1x Gaël Pilet
Library (77, but 70 if you consider that Crescendo has to be paired):
Master (11):
3x Paris Opera House
2x Command Performance
2x Fame
1x Tension in the Ranks
1x Carver’s Meat Packaging and Storage
1x Rötschreck
1x Giant’s Blood
Action (19):
14x Shattering Crescendo
2x Bum’s Rush
2x Entrancement
1x Aranthebes
Ally (4):
4x Member of the Entourage
Equipment (4):
1x Ivory Bow
1x Kevlar Vest
1x IR Goggles
1x Camera Phone
Action Modifier (21):
7x The Missing Voice
7x Freak Drive
6x Siren’s Lure
1x Aire of Elation
Combat (17):
5x Death of the Drum
4x Backstep
3x Unflinching Persistence
3x Soak
2x Majesty
Event (1):
1x Dragonbound
That's all. Thanks for reading and posting your comments/reactions.
Christian Chénard
VEKN prince of Gatineau