TWD Justicar Retribution XXIX: Ratatat (Helsinki 06.07.2014)

Justicar Retribution XXIX: Ratatat
Standard constructed tournament
Sun 6.7.2014 11.00-
3 rounds 2 rounds + finals
9 players
Winner: Lauri Salmi (congrats for winning two JR's in a row!)

Out of the five games, including the final, three ended in a timeout.

Lauri should be adding his decklist to this thread soon.


1 1 9 Lauri Salmi 1 5 0,5 96
2 2 2 Hannu Kokkonen 0 1,5 0,5 84
2 3 5 Jyri Puhakka 0 1,5 0,5 84
2 4 7 Janne Lönnqvist 1 3,5 0,5 114
2 5 8 Teemu Pulkkinen 0 2,5 0,5 90
6 6 4 Marko Lindroos 0 0,5 60
7 7 1 Marko Saari 0 0,5 54
8 8 6 Akseli Jalava 0 0 36
9 9 3 Matti Palomäki 0 0 30

Archon submitted and approved.

Deck Name : Rachel blocks and goes under the earth!
Author : Lauri Salmi
Description :
I really should take atleast 20 cards off this deck to make it more optimized, now it's too big deck for such deck as this... It worked considerably well during the tournament, however I got a lot of luck on the way to victory too.


Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 3 max: 10 average: 7.25

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5x Rachel Brandywine 10 AUS DEM OBF PRO ani prince Malkavian:3
2x Greger Anderssen 7 AUS OBF dom pro prince Malkavian:2
2x Victoria 5 AUS cel obf Malkavian:2
1x Quentin King III 7 AUS DEM obf pre prince Malkavian:3
1x Watenda 3 obf Malkavian:2
1x Zöe 3 AUS cel obf Malkavian:2


Library [90 cards]

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Action Modifier [14]
2x Elder Impersonation
2x Enkil Cog
5x Faceless Night
1x Into Thin Air
4x Lost in Crowds

Action Modifier/Combat [2]
2x Swallowed by the Night

Action Modifier/Reaction [2]
2x Touch of Clarity

Ally [2]
1x Carlton Van Wyk (Hunter)
1x Muddled Vampire Hunter

Combat [25]
1x Claws of the Dead
18x Earth Meld
2x Flesh of Marble
3x Form of Mist
1x Wolf Claws

Equipment [3]
1x Bowl of Convergence
1x Heart of Nizchetus
1x Ivory Bow

Master [15]
1x Coven, The
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Giant's Blood
3x Madness Network
2x Pentex(TM) Subversion
2x Perfectionist
1x Powerbase: Montreal
2x Rötschreck
1x Smiling Jack, The Anarch
1x Villein

Political Action [2]
2x Parity Shift

Reaction [22]
2x Eagle's Sight
6x Eyes of Argus
2x My Enemy's Enemy
8x Second Tradition: Domain
4x Telepathic Misdirection

Retainer [3]
2x Homunculus
1x Mr. Winthrop

Ive ran an IDENTICAL crypt in a few decks like this, and at least twice not drawn Rachel in my opening crypt.
Seriously, 5 in 12 and it happened.

Did you find yourself needing things like mr winthrop, eaglesight, etc? Or flesh of marble? I plan om building another deck like this, but i choked on things like claws even when the deck worked. Bleeding, homonoclous, blocking, earth meld, and stuff like jack and rats did good for me, but other stuff (body flare, claws, childing muse, hunter, carlton, etc) didnt seem to help.

ReverendRevolver wrote:

Did you find yourself needing things like mr winthrop, eaglesight, etc? Or flesh of marble?

Today 7 out of the 9 decks featured combat quite heavily.

If the game had lasted 2 more seconds Lauri would've needed the Eagle's Sight he had in his had to prevent me from ousting my prey.

Also Flesh of Marble saved his bacon at least a couple of times when Teemu's Enkid kept on rushing him.

Was great to see Teemu's Psyche's being countered by Lauri's Earth Melds like 3 times in a row (just as I had countered Enkidu's Psyches with Jimmy Dunn's Pursuits in the earlier round).


I had a blast in all three games I played and the only thing I regret is that I so barely missed winning the tournament with Street Fighting Man aka. Jussi's Katuritarit (with minor modifications). Then again the finals had been so even that almost all finalists stood a chance at winning the game -my pov is that I was almost about to win...

Congratulations to Lauri for winning the local Justicar Retribution tournament second time in a row. I also had a lot of fun in all the games I played, mainly because I had to constantly keep thinking what to do next and how in high heavens could I manage to do something to overcome Rachel's defenses.

All in all I think that both games which we played together at the same table were really challenging which was definitely a good thing. My Anarch Revolts didn't show up at all in the final round which I believe were part of the reason why I failed to overcome Lauri's defense plan in the final even though I actually ousted him during the first round of the tournament.