TWD: The Garou Rim Monthly III: The Blowtorcher; Joensuu 18.5.2013

The Garou Rim Monthly III: The Blowtorcher
Joensuu 18.5.2013
Finland
12 Players
2R + F

Also known as "Farewell to Lilith's Blessing, official tournament", as this one was the last tournament in Joensuu where Lilith's was still allowed. It's no surprise that every table was packed with them; it was surprising to notice that not everyone played big cap voters, but there were a lot of combat decks present as well. Just add in a couple of staple S&B's and you'll get the idea what we had in the tournie this time.

The Finals

Tomi Sillanpää - Asguresh wall
Olli Turunen - Jarsolav Pascek combat
Petrus Makkonen - Obfuscate Ventrue
Margus Paananen - Setites with Dominate
Toni Karjalainen - Classic Euro Brujah

So, what basically happened was that every Lilith abuse deck except me was beat out of the tables on the earlier rounds and the combat monsters took the tables. It was a serious 'yikes' for me even though I got to get to the crosstable with Tomi who I knew would be super trouble.

Jaroslav got me in the beginning though, and only my early Villein+Giant's Blood (so broken), followed by a Villein + LB (so broken), followed by a Golconda on a famed Marcus Vitel got me trough the early pounding. So, I was still alive while others beat each other to the pulp again and again.

So many vampires burned or were put to torpor during that game, but eventually ~half an hour before time's end Olli's blood was all but depleted and I got a very lucky turn with three princes up and took the first oust from the beat down Margus with Parity Shift and two Govern bleeds. I was sure I'd die to all the rushes that would follow, as Suhailah was the only vampire with blood on her, but Tomi left Toni to his own devices (which dropped a vampire, I'll grant you) and decided to go for the oust instead. That gave me enough time to Graverob Jarsolav, influenve out Arika, take an oust from Toni and basically walk over Tomi with ~5 minutes on the clock.

A really, really tight final, and it was no walk in the park to get in there either!

What we learned from the tournament, though: Good riddance to Lilith's Blessing. Our second round table bloated ~200 pool together with three LB voters on the table. Need I say the table resulted in a time out? Not even Tomi's Asguresh could help the time out. The card's bascially just stupid.

Not that Villein's any better though, jeez...


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Deck Name: Goodbye Lilith\'s Blessings
Author:
Description:
Basically, I just wanted to abuse Lilith's Blessing before it got banned in VEKN sanctioned tournaments. Also, G2-3 Ventrue are really really cool and I had never played them before.

I'd rather have a second Arika instead of a third Marcus Vitel, but I didn't own any.

Crypt (Capacity min=5 max=11 avg=9.33; 12 cards)
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1x Arika 11 aus cel DOM FOR OBF PRE Ventrue:2
1x Catherine du Bois 5 for obf pre DOM Ventrue:3
3x Lucinde, Alastor 10 pot obf tha DOM FOR PRE Ventrue:3
3x Marcus Vitel 10 DOM FOR OBF OBT PRE Ventrue:3
1x Queen Anne 10 aus obf DOM FOR PRE Ventrue:2
1x Suhailah 9 pot ser FOR OBF Ventrue:2
1x Victorine Lafourcade 8 tha DOM FOR PRE Ventrue:3
1x Wilhelm Waldburg 9 aus cel DOM FOR PRE Ventrue:2

Library (81 cards)
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Master (23 cards)
1x Barrens, The
1x Blood Doll
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Ephor
1x Giant's Blood
1x Golconda: Inner Peace
3x Lilith's Blessing
1x Monastery of Shadows
2x Obfuscate
1x Papillon
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Ventrue Headquarters
6x Villein
2x Wash

Action (10 cards)
1x Entrancement
8x Govern the Unaligned
1x Graverobbing

Political Action (12 cards)
1x Ancient Influence
3x Banishment
1x Conservative Agitation
3x Kine Resources Contested
2x Parity Shift
1x Political Stranglehold
1x Reins of Power

Action Modifier (23 cards)
1x Awe
1x Conditioning
3x Elder Impersonation
1x Faceless Night
2x Forgotten Labyrinth
5x Freak Drive
1x Kiss of Ra, The
2x Perfect Paragon
1x Seduction
1x Spying Mission
5x Voter Captivation

Reaction (11 cards)
8x Deflection
2x Obedience
1x Second Tradition: Domain

Combat (1 cards)
1x Majesty

Combo (1 cards)
1x Swallowed by the Night

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