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Tournament Report) Reanimated Corpse: Ithaca!

Peter D Bakija

10/30/2010 4:21:00 AM

So we had a solid 12 players for Reanimated Corpse: Ithaca in Ithaca
NY on Oct 29th, 2010. We played 2 preliminary rounds with 3x 4 player
tables, and and in a fit of tackiness, I ended up winning my own
tournament with 3VPs in the final round.

The players, their total scores, and their decks:

1. Peter Bakija, 2GW, 6VP, Pot/Dom mostly Lasombra fighty/bleedy deck.
2. John Stevens, 1GW, 8VP, The Baron makes Zombies deck.
2. Dave Conroy, 1GW, 4VP, Malk '94/weenie obf/dom.
2. Ben Kalb, 1GW, 4VP, Carna the Princess Witch fighty Tremere.
2. Asif Chaudry, 0GW, 4VP, G5/6 Daughters stealthy Shattering
Crescendo.

6. James Willhelm, 0GW, 2VP, Malks with Protean Madness Network.
7. Andrew Sackett, 0GW, 1VP, !Salubri Eye of Unforgiving Heaven fighty
deck.
8. Bob Miller, 0GW, 0VP, Imbued blocky equipment.
8. James Rodriquez, 0GW, 0VP, Hell for Leather Anarch Rush.
8. Sean Harrington, 0GW, 0VP, Orlando Sabbat Vote.
8. John John Pfannkuchen, 0GW, 0VP, Ishtari fighty deck.
8. Judson Robinson, 0GW, 0VP, Lasombra Pot/Obt fighty deck.

Going into the final round, John Stevens was top seed, followed by
Dave Conroy, Ben Kalb, Peter, and then Asif. The seating was:

Ben K>Peter B>John S>Dave C>Asif C

The game started quick with Dave bleeding Asif down to about 3 pool by
turn 4 or so. Asif then Shattered all of Dave's minions into torpor,
leaving Dave a giant crater and Asif teetering on the edge. Meanwhile
on the rest of the table, John tooled up a bit, getting out some
Shambling Hordes and Reanimated Corpses, Ben got out Carna with her
Anima Gathered, and Peter got out a few minions and was bleeding John
mostly ineffectually due to not drawing into much Dominate. Dave, who
is mostly a pool sack at this point, is eventually ousted by John (1VP
John!). Asif gets a bit more set up and starts working on Ben,
torporing a couple of his minions with a Shattering Crescendo. Peter
keeps not being real effective, bleeding John a bit and killing a
couple zombies. John gets Crescendoed a bit, recovers, and powers into
Asif, ousting him (2VP John!). Peter, who is pretty well set up at
this point, bounces a bunch of Ben's bleeds into John, and draws into
a bunch of Dominate and ousts John (1VP Peter). Peter then gets
blocked by Ben a couple times, but in both cases ends up torporing
Ben's only two minions, leaving Ben without any active minions, so
Peter ousts Ben (3VP and wins!).

We played all three rounds in under 4 hours, keeping up an Ithaca
tradition of almost never timing out games. Go us!

Reanimated Corpse: Ithaca
October 29th, 2010
Ithaca, NY
12 Players

My winning deck (which I put together yesterday in a fit of madness
and was totally unplayed before the tournament. Apparently, Dominate
is good, and being able to hit folks is good too. Add them together,
and you can win!)

Name: Vauxhall and I
By: Peter Bakija
GW/3VP in final.

1x Lord Vauxhall (7) DOM, POT
2x Virginie, Prodigy (6) DOM, POT
1x Black Wallace (6) DOM, POT
1x Dr. Julius Sutphen (5) POT, dom
1x Julius Sutphen Advanced (5) POT, dom
1x Wah Chun-Yuen (5) POT, dom
1x Banjoko (5) DOM, pot
1x Ermenegildo, The Rake (5) DOM, pot
1x Donatello Giovanni (5) DOM, pot
1x Paulo de Castille (4) dom, pot
1x Almodo Giovanni (3) dom, pot

Avg 5.16

2x Haven Uncovered
2x Vessel
1x Anarch Troublemaker
1x Giant's Blood
1x Potence
1x Political Hunting Ground
1x Fame
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Power Structure

12x Govern the Unaligned
4x Bonding
4x Murmur of the False Will
8x Deflection
1x Far Mastery
12x Thrown Gate
4x Stunt Cycle
6x Target Vitals
6x High Ground
6x Taste of Vitae
4x Rumble
2x Harass
4x On the Qui Vive
4x Wake
2x Delaying Tactics

In the first game, I ended up getting a 3VP GW when Andrew's !Salubri
deck ousted James R's Hell for Leather deck, I ousted Ben K's Tremere
deck, and then ousted Andrew as he didn't have a Wake when he really
needed one. In the second game, I was the prey of Dave C's Malk '94
deck and predator to Sean's Orlando vote deck. I bounced Dave a lot
and killed his guys, almost ousting Sean, but Ben K ended up sweeping
the table. My Delaying Tactics were never played, my Far Mastery was
never played (although would have been handy in the final). The
copious amount of bleed bounce was very helpful in all of my games, as
was, ya know, the rest of the Dominate. In the end of the final, I
whacked Ben K by torping both of his only vampires with Target Vitals
strikes he couldn't prevent (one was a punch that resulted in both
minions in torpor, the other was a Stunt Bike for 6).

A fun, quick tournament. Thanks to everyone for showing up!

-Peter
38 Answers

Peter D Bakija

10/30/2010 1:20:00 PM

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On Oct 30, 12:21 am, Peter D Bakija <p...@lightlink.com> wrote:
> The players, their total scores, and their decks:
>
> 1. Peter Bakija, 2GW, 6VP, Pot/Dom mostly Lasombra fighty/bleedy deck.
> 2. John Stevens, 1GW, 8VP, The Baron makes Zombies deck.
> 2. Dave Conroy, 1GW, 4VP, Malk '94/weenie obf/dom.
> 2. Ben Kalb, 1GW, 4VP, Carna the Princess Witch fighty Tremere.
> 2. Asif Chaudry, 0GW, 4VP, G5/6 Daughters stealthy Shattering
> Crescendo.

I'll point out that John Steven's The Baron Makes Zombies deck was
actually the top VP scorer for the day, getting 2VP in his first game,
a 4VP sweep in his second, and 2VP in the final. Which, being as it
was Reanimated Corpse: Ithaca!, and his deck was ousting folks with
Computer Hacking Reanimated Corpses (well, presumably hacking the
computers with their mindless claws...), he gets super bonus points.

Ben's deck revolved around Carna, the Princess Witch, but the main
secondary vampire was Troius, who would get Biothaumtaurgically
Experimented on, he'd pick up Joumlon's Axe, and kill people with 2nd
Tradition. He swept his second game.

Asif's deck was a wacky Shattering Crescendo G5/6 Daughters deck with
grafted on Obfuscate and votes that split both preliminary tables 2/2
(we had no timeouts in the initial 6 games, but had two table ties due
to the 4 player tables).

Dave's deck was a very fast and effective weenie dom/obf Malk '94 tech
bleedzooka that generally either wins fast or dies young. He swept his
first table, but then in the second round and final, all his dudes got
killed and/or bounced too quickly and he got nada.

-Peter

Clément

10/30/2010 2:57:00 PM

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"Peter D Bakija" escreveu:
>
> I'll point out that John Steven's The Baron Makes Zombies deck was
> actually the top VP scorer for the day, getting 2VP in his first game,
> a 4VP sweep in his second, and 2VP in the final. Which, being as it
> was Reanimated Corpse: Ithaca!, and his deck was ousting folks with
> Computer Hacking Reanimated Corpses (well, presumably hacking the
> computers with their mindless claws...), he gets super bonus points.

We'd like decklist? If not available, brains will do.


Abraço,

Luiz Mello

Peter D Bakija

10/30/2010 4:15:00 PM

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On Oct 30, 10:56 am, Clément <lcmello.lis...@terra.com.br> wrote:
> We'd like decklist? If not available, brains will do.

I'm sure John will be happy to post it. John?

-Peter

Kushiel

10/30/2010 11:54:00 PM

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On Oct 30, 12:21 am, Peter D Bakija <p...@lightlink.com> wrote:
> Name: Vauxhall and I

I'm very amused by you winning with this deck, given your history of
saying how you can never make Dom/Pot work.

Even more importantly, excellent deck name! Were these guys on holiday
by accident?

John Eno

Peter D Bakija

10/31/2010 12:18:00 AM

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On Oct 30, 7:54 pm, Kushiel <invisibleking...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm very amused by you winning with this deck, given your history of
> saying how you can never make Dom/Pot work.

Well, I figured I'd just maximize the dominate and not so much the
fighty--having never been in a situation where I really *had* to kill
someone, and having a ton of bounce meant that the combat was good for
wearing folks down and getting blood back, and making it harder for
folks to beat me up, but it wasn't incredibly necessary (it's like
that "short chain combat" idea was on to something...). I imagine that
if I were sitting in front of some sort of Majesty/vote deck, I'd be
hosed, however. Mostly, really, I credit just the huge pile of
dominate.

> Even more importantly, excellent deck name! Were these guys on holiday
> by accident?

Heh. I'm glad someone thought it was funny :-)

-Peter

demonturtle

10/31/2010 2:59:00 AM

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On Oct 30, 12:14 pm, Peter D Bakija <p...@lightlink.com> wrote:
> On Oct 30, 10:56 am, Clément <lcmello.lis...@terra.com.br> wrote:
>
> > We'd like decklist? If not available, brains will do.
>
> I'm sure John will be happy to post it. John?
>
> -Peter

Here now, is my decklist. Although it's funny, there is a bit less
bleed bonus than usual, as there are a couple of masters in it that I
thought I had taken out, and I took out a Soak to add a Cooler for
some alt blood gain. It is a bit lighter in combat than usual for
Ithaca, but the allies help deal with that. Here is what I played:

Deck Name: Brides in the Night
Author: John H. Stevens
Description:
The Baron and his graveyard pals create all the friends they need and
give them the cover of darkness to work their evil deeds!

Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=5 max=9 avg=7.17)
===============================================
5x Baron, The 9 dom FOR NEC OBF THN Samedi:2
2x Catherine du Bois 5 for obf pre DOM Ventrue:3
2x George Frederick 6 nec obf FOR THN Samedi:2
2x Jorge De La Muerte, The Agent 7 cel for nec OBF THN Samedi:2
1x Lithrac 5 for thn OBF Samedi:2

Library (90 cards)
==================
Master (17)
1x Archon Investigation
1x Blood Doll
1x Charisma
2x Coroner's Contact
1x Direct Intervention
2x Dominate
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Houngan
1x Perfectionist
1x Sudden Reversal
2x Vessel
2x Wider View

Action (9)
4x Computer Hacking
4x Little Mountain Cemetery
1x Off Kilter

Equipment (2)
1x Cooler
1x Seal of Veddartha

Ally (14)
1x Carlton Van Wyk (Hunter)
9x Reanimated Corpse
4x Shambling Hordes

Action Modifier (25)
2x Call of the Hungry Dead
6x Cloak the Gathering
4x Conditioning
5x Freak Drive
5x Under My Skin
3x Veil the Legions

Reaction (13)
7x Deflection
2x Delaying Tactics
4x On the Qui Vive

Combat (10)
5x No Trace
2x Rolling with the Punches
3x Soak

Created with Secret Library v0.9.3. (Oct 31, 2010 04:41:31)

I was soooooo hoping to win this particular tourney with a Reanimated
Corpse Bride deck! And it would have worked too, if it wasn't for
those damned pop singers!

Cheers,

John

OldFan

10/31/2010 5:51:00 AM

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> I was soooooo hoping to win this particular tourney with a Reanimated
> Corpse Bride deck!  And it would have worked too, if it wasn't for
> those damned pop singers!
>
> Cheers,
>
> John

Ah yes, the obligatory "Look out for the Daughters!" stratagem - which
worked a charm in our first round game, where he managed to neglect to
mention to his 2 victims "Hey, I bleed for a lot at stealth!", until
they were both dead - in a single turn.

Fortunately, singing really loud has the benefit of making us hard of
hearing, so we are naturally able to tune out such nonsense. :D

I am kicking myself for my own misplays - had I realized my pred's
deck was so full of "not optimal", and my grand-prey's deck was having
a shuffle malfunction leading to a lack of Deflections AND minion taps/
villeins, I would have gone full force forward to try and halt the
avatar of destruction that was the "revenge of the dead, drooling
hookers, and their pasty pimps - with Hats!". Alas, I didn't realize
my error until after my prey had accumulated 12 pool and 2 VP.

The 2nd round, a misplay of a Vessel on the wrong minion, coupled with
a failure to Sudden a Madness Network because I wasn't paying
attention cost me a potential game win in round 2.

Which resulted in me being dead last in the final, and stuck with a
bleed-a-tron '94 Malk deck as my pred. And even then, I could have
done better, but I got panicked into influencing out the wrong minion
first (should have been Scout Youngwood). And after that, I lost too
much pool to recover from that error.

Definitely need to retool the deck to put in either/both of AI and
Protected Resources to slow down those wretched "all or nothing" bleed
decks.

Oh well, there's always next time.

Peter D Bakija

10/31/2010 2:30:00 PM

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On Oct 30, 10:59 pm, demonturtle <crankytur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Reaction (13)
>  7x Deflection
>  2x Delaying Tactics
>  4x On the Qui Vive

So you did have a ton of bounce, but not a ton of untap, as I don't
think I saw you bounce a bleed at all during the final. I kept
expecting to get bounced, and it never happened.

-Peter

Peter D Bakija

10/31/2010 2:31:00 PM

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On Oct 31, 1:50 am, OldFan <asif.i.chaud...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Definitely need to retool the deck to put in either/both of AI and
> Protected Resources to slow down those wretched "all or nothing" bleed
> decks.

Yeah, I think Protected Resources would definitely be good in that
deck, but I don't know how many you put in so that you draw one early
and often enough to make it worth it.

-Peter

Peter D Bakija

10/31/2010 2:53:00 PM

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On Oct 30, 7:54 pm, Kushiel <invisibleking...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm very amused by you winning with this deck, given your history of
> saying how you can never make Dom/Pot work.

In trying to figure out what made this particular version work (other
than just being lucky on seating, which is often how victory comes
about...), here are a few things that I figure:

-Target Vitals. This card is, in fact, kind of insanely good. And now
that I have enough to put, like, 6+ in a given deck, this becomes
apparent. Being able to potentially add 2 damage to any strike is
huge. Especially with no discipline requirement. And it works with a
strike card or just a punch for 1 (unlike, say, Increased Strength).
It got foiled a couple times by folks discarding combat cards (usually
when it didn't really matter), but more often than not, it stuck. And
in the final, being able to punch for 3 when stuck at close vs a guy
with 3 strength and the Sword of Nuln so we both ended up in torpor
was huge.

-Murmur of the False Will. This is generally a mediocre defense card,
and I'd never use these *instead* of Deflection, but when tooling the
deck, I originally had 8x Deflection and 4x Conditioning. But then
when trying to reduce the blood costs of things, I decided to replace
the Conditionings with Threats. But couldn't find 4 of them with a
VTES back, so I decided to go with Murmurs. Which increases offense
for free, and increases defense for free. At least once, I managed to
Deflect a bleed at DOM, remain untapped, and then Murmur bounce the
bleed a second time after it got bounced around the table back to me.

-Focusing on DOM. By shifting the average crypt capacity up a bit, you
can fit a lot of DOM in a deck like this (realizing that DOM/pot is
almost as good as DOM/POT if your combat is Thrown Gate+Target
Vitals), which means Governing down is a completely valid system. That
being said, in 2 of the three games I played, I didn't see any Governs
at all (with 12 in the deck...) until after I had already emptied my
uncontrolled region.

This all being said, I just retweaked the deck to use a G2/3 crypt
just for variation to see how if it works better, using:

1x Gilespi Giovanni (7) DOM, POT
2x Lisette Visquel (6) DOM, POT
1x Dr. Sutphen (5) POT, dom
1x Dr. Sutphen A (5) POT, dom
1x Terry (5) POT, dom
1x Wang Chung (5) POT, dom
1x Banjoko (5) DOM, pot
1x Isabel Giovanni (5) DOM, pot
1x Chas Giovanni (4) DOM, POT
1x Francesca Giovanni (4) dom, pot
1x Cameron (3) dom, pot

Mostly 'cause I wanted to try fitting in a Dis Pater (for the
increased bleed hits) and Chas Giovanni seems like he might actually
be good in this kind of deck (he is really good for Deflecting and
blocking 0 stealth actions; he can bleed for 1 and if it is cancelled
by my prey, I don't need to worry about getting AIed for the rest of
the turn...).

(this is just all discussion in the name of interesting deck
construction analysis rather than "here is why I won!" analysis--I won
'cause I got lucky, didn't run into any significant amounts of SCE,
and had a good seat in the finals).