Brum
12/30/2010 1:43:00 PM
First announced and reported tournament in Coimbra, with the local
Prince doing an excellent job. Coimbra is a central city where players
can gather from the several Domains in the land, so now that there's
some sort of coordination in Portugal, we had 15 people attending.
It was nice to see old acquaintances and new embraces from Braga and
Coimbra.
Big thanks to Jeff for the Promos and Robyn for bringing them to me.
3R+F
Date: 04/12/2010
Where: Centro Comercial Avenida, Coimbra
Number of Players: 15
Deckname: Better Gentlemen, Same Sticks
Played by: Tiago Brum
Description: After the EC in 2009 I thought about the decks that
impressed me the most and Hugh's Gentlemen with Sticks was one of
them. At the time Grinders weren't all that known in Portugal.
Being the fan of Ventrue that I am, I thought the KoT vampires would
bring advantages that the Sabbat vampires don't have, like 2nd
Tradition, inherent votes for defense and other goodies.
Played with deck in tournaments for a year and went to every Final
with it. Except the EC :(
Vampire (12) [Min: 16 Max: 34 Avg: 6,25]
1 Emily Carson for pre DOM 5 Camarilla primogen
2 Graham Gottesman obf pre tha DOM FOR 7 Camarilla Prince of
Miami.
1 Jephta Hester aus DOM FOR 5 Sabbat.
1 João Bilé pre DOM FOR 5 Camarilla
1 Keith Moody DOM 3 Sabbat
3 Lodin (Olaf Holte) aus pro DOM FOR PRE 8 Camarilla Prince of
Chicago
1 Mary Anne Blaire ani pot AUS DOM FOR PRE 10 Camarilla Ventrue
Justicar
1 Ulrike Rothbart dom for 3 Sabbat.
1 Victor Donaldson for pre DOM 6 Camarilla Prince of
Atlanta
/* After the EC 2010 I put Mary in because I wanted to add Ephor and
Bowl of Convergence. Forgot to add the Bowl. Instead I used Winthrop
and National Guard Support.
One of the reasons I made this deck is the fact that, in this setup,
Lodin is better than Owain Evans. Owain puts one blood in one of your
vamps in your untap. Lodin's special can save more than that if he has
more than one combat between your turns. Besides, Lodin's a Prince and
2nd Tradition is awesome. */
Master (14)
2 Anarch Troublemaker
2 Blood Doll
1 Channel 10
2 Dreams of the Sphinx
1 Ephor Ventrue
1 KRCG News Radio
1 Misdirection
1 Pentex(TM) Subversion
1 Powerbase: Montreal
2 Vessel
/* Hugh really nailed it. His pack of masters is awesome for a deck
like this.
I just swapped Ephor for Wallstreet Night Newspaper.
I used Papillon before but I took it out since many times I can spend
one or two turns hunting before the forward lunge. */
Event (2)
1 Scourge of the Enochians
1 Uncoiling, The
Action (10)
10 Govern the Unaligned Dominate
Equipment (1)
1 Ivory Bow
Retainer (1)
1 Mr. Winthrop
Political Action (2)
1 National Guard Support
1 Parity Shift
/* National Guard Support should be good in theory. Given time, this
deck can function like a wall deck.
Parity Shift is there to put the prey guessing.*/
Action Modifier (11)
2 Bonding Dominate
6 Conditioning Dominate
1 Kiss of Ra, The Fortitude
2 Seduction Dominate
/* Kiss of Ra is expensive and generally a bad card, but again, gives
the Prey something else to think about.*/
Reaction (24)
9 Deflection Dominate
3 Delaying Tactics
2 Forced Awakening
4 On the Qui Vive
6 Second Tradition: Domain
/* It may seem like too many waking reactions, but it's not. Specially
with Lodin's special.*/
Combat (17)
5 Hidden Strength Fortitude
5 Indomitability Fortitude
2 Rolling with the Punches Fortitude
5 Weighted Walking Stick
/* It works. Don't change it. */
Cheers!
Tiago