The Lasombra
8/11/2011 10:03:00 PM
Dragonfire 2011
Cape Town, South Africa
August 6th, 2011
12 players
3R+F
Marc Pitterman's Tournament Winning Deck with 3 VPs in the Finals
Deck Name : Deep Shoes
Author : Marc Pittermann
Description :
Bleed opponent and grind down their minion with Deep Song and
Horse Shoes then eventually drop Dragonbound for the oust.
Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 5 max: 10 average: 8.17
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2x Cock Robin 10 ANI OBF POT aus for Nosferatu:3 Justicar
2x Khalid 9 ANI AUS OBF POT tha Nosferatu:3 Primogen
1x Cailean 10 ANI OBF POT PRE dom !Nosferatu:2 Archbishop
1x Casino Reeds 9 ANI OBF POT cel dem Nosferatu:3 Prince
1x Calebos 8 ANI OBF POT cel !Nosferatu:2 Bishop
1x Tammy Walenski 8 ANI OBF POT nec tha Nosferatu:3
1x Kendrick 7 ANI POT aus obf !Nosferatu:2 Priscus
1x Teresita, The Godmother 7 ANI OBF POT for !Nosferatu:3
1x Gerard Rafin 6 OBF POT ani for Nosferatu:3
1x Amelia, The Blood Red Tears 5 POT ani obf Nosferatu:3
Library [83 cards]
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Action [18]
9x Deep Song
9x Horseshoes
Action Modifier [16]
3x Cloak the Gathering
3x Faceless Night
3x Forgotten Labyrinth
4x Lost in Crowds
3x Spying Mission
Action Modifier/Combat [4]
4x Swallowed by the Night
Combat [15]
6x Carrion Crows
3x Taste of Vitae
6x Thrown Gate
Event [1]
1x Dragonbound
Master [9]
1x Archon Investigation
2x Blood Doll
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Fame
4x Mundane
Reaction [17]
2x Guard Dogs
4x On the Qui Vive
1x Rat's Warning
2x Sense the Savage Way
7x Touch of Pain
1x Wake with Evening's Freshness
Retainer [3]
3x Raven Spy
Dragonfire VtES Final
by Marc Pitterman (the tournament winner)
Standings going into the final after 3 rounds:
Brendan ? Weenie Obfuscate Bleed (5.5 VP)
James ? Imbued wall and bleed (4.5 VP)
Brent ? Toreador Gun Wall (3.5 VP)
Marc ? Nosferatu Bleed & Bruise (3 VP)
Kevin ? Settite Bleed (3 VP)
Kevin and I placed our decks down. Brent chose to be my prey, as in
the previous game I could not get through him. James next placed his
Imbued upstream of me as my predator. Brendan placed his deck last in
between Brent and Kevin. Brendan rolled highest and started first.
Brendan -> Kevin -> James -> Marc -> Brent
Brendan started getting minions out early to start going forward
early, knowing from previous experience that the Torries do not apply
much forward pressure. Kevin and James looked to get minions out to
tools up and get ready for their respective predators. I did not get
the vamp I was looking for (Cock Robin) but ended up with bringing
Teresita and Cailean, which both proved to help keep the wall in
check. Brent struggled throughout the game unable to get a weapon onto
his minions.
The game started slower than it could with Brendan allowing Kevin a
bit of room to try do damage to the Imbued, whilst building up his
minions.
This is where the final became 2 games, with most of the play between
the respective players. The first between Brendan, Kevin and James.
And the second between Brent and myself.
Brendan was effective in slowly whittling down Kevin, while Kevin was
lacking major stealth to get past the James? Imbued. And James
preparing for when Brendan?s swarm of minions approached.
I got lucky and was able to stealth past a few Horseshoes onto Brents?
minions, and Teresita was effective in blocking any equip actions that
they tried, using her special.
2 Things happened close together to make the game pick up speed. Brent
played a Smiling Jack and I put down a Dragonbound. Brendan then
proceeded to pick up speed with his bleeds, as any combats put his
minions closer to torpor and he did not want to suffer any large pool
loss from this.
Kevin was the first to go with only being able to get out 2 minions vs
Brendans 5. James was then slowly being bled out, while I was able to
get one of Brents minions down and the other low on blood.
Brent was next to fall as he tried to block Brendans actions, in the
hope of putting some down to benefit from the Dragonbound, but was
unsuccessful. Which left me able to put his last vampire into torpor
and then bleed to oust him.
With the game now down to Brendan, James and myself. I backed off a
bit in the hopes that Brendan would oust James, as I fancied my
chances against Brendan by being able to dunk his minions and use the
Dragonbound to oust. Brendan obliged me by sneaking past James. And
then looked to get past me. I was able to hold off long enough to put
in some bleeds and put some minions in torpor, giving me the win as
Brendans last push left him 3 pool short of ousting me.