TWD and report - Ropecon 2016 Finnish ECQ (July 29th, Helsinki, Finland)
16 Sep 2016 12:19 - 03 Dec 2016 22:15 #78319
by PetriWessman
This year's Finnish ECQ was played at the Ropecon gaming confernce, but the con itself was at a new venue -- the much larger "Messukeskus" congress center in Helsinki. As far as the tournament was concerned this was a good move, for once we had actual room and proper ventilation. Whee! Of course, the site is a bit more generic than the old Dipoli was, but hey, I'll take room and oxygen over "interesting architecture".
We had a total of 42 players, mostly Finns but we did have a couple of brave Swedes trying to wrest some points from the locals. Everything went very smoothly, thanks once again to the players who helped keep things running on time. Thanks to the Ropecon organizers, we actually got the chance to play the finals on a small stage, with live video streaming(!). The sound volumes are very low, sorry for that. If we do this next year, we'll try to get someone to narrate the game in real time (separately from the game table, in order to not disturb that). The final round was a bizarre affair, with Mikko's Muaziz Una-like horror totally dominating the first part, then getting wiped out and somewhat more normal play ensuing.
The finals video is here (scroll forward to 1:47:00):
I also have a separate text transcript of the finals (see below).
The preliminary games were a varied bunch. Once again, lots and lots of deck types, with no clear archetypes dominating. Some random notes:
I tried to gather info about what PDF sets (if any) had been used in the decks, that info is in the table below (see "PDF" column).
Thanks, everyone! See you again next year
.
-Petri "Orava" Wessman
Results
The bolded 15 players received EC qualification for 2015.
The PDF column shows the PDF sets used in the deck, where known (D=Danse Macabre, U=The Unaligned, R=The Returned, A=Anarchs Unbound).
Decklists
Tournament Winner (Janne Lönnqvist)
Deck Name: Rose of the Devil's Garden
Description:
Ropecon 2016 Finnish ECQ winner.
Due to having zero time to actually build anything new I had to resort to using an old deck that had scored me one win previously (Justicar Retribution XXII on Jan 26th 2014), just added the two missing Instantaneous Transformations (and forgot about the 3rd Dreams...).
The deck is Otso Saariluoma's winning deck (Praxis Seizure XLV from Nov 30th 2008) with just few very minor tweaks so praise should go in his direction.
The finals was a weird one, starting off with accidental Anarch Convert contesting, which probably ended up hampering Mikko ever so slightly and probably slowing Lasse down a bit, although not as much as missing Nizzam in the opening crypt though. With Muazizotronic Mikko ran through his deck merely acquiring my Chandler and Nora's Unnamed -the latter took the pressure off my back. I don't recall even Mikko protesting me ousting him and thus removing Pain in the Rearside #1 (aka Tablethreat) from the table soon after Timo Banished Muaziz. At this point Lasse and Noora were in more or less damaged goods while Timo also was in the same situation as I was; a player with hardly any or no pressure. Soon Noora was ousted. I was a bit worried for a while about losing vote battle to Timo but the arrival of Genevieve (and removal of Noora's Arishat with her mistress) fixed that. Then it was, luckily, just the matter of bleeding/voting in consistent manner with enough stealth all the while avoiding the temptation of going to Archonable range. Mainly I have Mikko to thank for my victory, he built the runway from himself and Lasse and also secured my rear by tripping Noora.
Crypt (Capacity min=3 max=11 avg=9.08; 12 cards)
===================================================
1x Caitlin 6 aus dom ANI PRO !Gangrel:2
1x Chandler Hungerford 3 PRO Gangrel:2
1x Genevieve 10 aus dom ANI FOR PRO !Gangrel:2
1x Hartmut Stover 10 dom for CEL OBF PRO !Gangrel:3
1x Iliana 7 tha DOM FOR PRO Gangrel:2
2x Ingrid Rossler 9 dom ANI FOR PRO Gangrel:2
5x Stanislava 11 ANI CEL DOM FOR PRO Gangrel:2
Library (80 cards)
=====================
Master (18 cards)
1x Backways
2x Blood Doll
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Ecoterrorists
4x Information Highway
2x Perfectionist
4x Vessel
2x Wider View
Action (8 cards)
6x Govern the Unaligned
2x Scouting Mission
Political Action (10 cards)
1x Ancient Influence
1x Banishment
1x Gangrel Justicar
5x Kine Resources Contested
1x Political Stranglehold
1x Reins of Power
Action Modifier (19 cards)
3x Conditioning
6x Earth Control
4x Forced March
4x Freak Drive
2x Instantaneous Transformation
Reaction (10 cards)
6x Deflection
2x Guard Dogs
2x On the Qui Vive
Combat (10 cards)
4x Earth Meld
6x Form of Mist
Combo (5 cards)
3x Murmur of the False Will
2x Rapid Change
Other Finalists
Lasse Pöyry
Deck Name: Contract Killer Nizzam
Description:
Ropecon 2016 Finnish ECQ finalist.
20 cards that allows me to enter combat, all of them "permanents", kind of.
Pool gain can be enormous, if and when working properly.
Crypt (Capacity min=1 max=9 avg=5.17; 12 cards)
==================================================
4x Anarch Convert 1 Caitiff:ANY
1x Djuhah, The Bronze Bow 7 aus cel pre OBF QUI Assamite:5
1x Joe Boot Hill 7 for obf CEL QUI Assamite:4
1x Kamau Jafari 4 obf QUI Assamite:4
4x Nizzam al-Latif 9 dem ANI CEL OBF QUI Assamite:5
1x Sajid al Misbah 4 QUI Assamite:5
Library (89 cards)
=====================
Master (32 cards)
1x Black Throne, The
2x Corporal Reservoir
1x Failsafe
1x Flames of Insurrection
1x Grooming the Protégé
4x Hand Contract
1x Market Square
6x Minion Tap
1x Monster
10x Priority Contract
1x Shakar
2x Vessel
1x Weeping Stone
Action (7 cards)
1x Blessing of Chaos
2x Clandestine Contract
4x Loss
Equipment (1 cards)
1x Ivory Bow
Ally (1 cards)
1x Mylan Horseed (Goblin)
Retainer (1 cards)
1x Nar-Sheptha
Reaction (8 cards)
3x Black Sunrise
1x Ministry
1x Nest of Eagles
3x Open Dossier
Combat (25 cards)
2x Dam the Heart's River
2x Hell-for-Leather
7x Khabar: Honor, The
2x Psyche!
2x Pursuit
4x Sanguine Entrapment
1x Selective Silence
2x Sideslip
1x Taste of Death
2x Taste of Vitae
Combo (14 cards)
2x Blood Awakening
6x Provision of the Silsila
1x Resist Earth's Grasp
3x Steely Tenacity
2x Swallowed by the Night
Mikko Hyvärinen
Deck Name: Muaziz the table trasher
Description:
Ropecon 2016 Finnish ECQ finalist
"Muaziz the table trasher" / "I'm not here to make friends"/ (aka. "why old MTG combo players are not fun to play with")
Card notes:
- Sengir Dagger: still looking for something better
- Ghoul Retainer: goes through some stupid dodge effects+something else
- Pulse of Canaile: it _also_ has "superior" ability of +2 bleed. Seriously, information is sometimes rather critical
- Nightmare Curse: special favour for those combat monsters you really don't want to have combat with.
- Chameleon: really good for those untapped average capped vampires you don't want to waste a good rush&diablerie on.
- Revelations: Archon or no?, Deflection or no? OR just NO to something
- Ancient Influence: 20 pool dmg vote +avg.5 pool gain
- Pentex Subversion: hate it, probably totally waste of a slot. Answer to itself, but if Muaziz is pentexed before acting you probably won't find this, If Muaziz got to act, changes are that the pentexing player doesn't have enough blockers
- Madness Network: goes through Archon Investigation and "Optimally" enables T4 finishing of the game by a sweep.
Extra notes;
Anarch module is strong, but a bit complex to set up due to interaction with clan impersonation, it would probably be better to just play with some of these options:
Some Extra dmg-vote,
Book of Going Forth by Night (or whatever to say)
Immortal Grable (let the Ghoul do the aggr.poking)
Charge of the Buffalo (or some other rush I've missed)
Dominate
Thoughts Betrayed
Conditioning/Govern
That Dominate thing that allows you to tap minions
That Dominate thing that allows you to steal allies(?)
+1-2 Lear Jet/Ankara Citadel to decrease the chance of not having them in your opener. You'd rather use the Magic for something broken, instead of these, but alas, it is a difficult math for me...
Game play:
Don't be afraid to go directly crosstable with the first rush if the target seems too tempting. (hey, you really want that crosstable Arika/Lutz/whatever on your team for certain!)
You are not playing "prey-predator"game, you're playing the table.
Plan A; If the table is "soft" kill&steal everything in whatever order and proceed to Sweep. If it turns out to be medium do plan B.
plan B; If table is medium Aim for 2,5 victory points by negotiating(mainly) with your grand predator, killing your preys and grand preys minions, weaken your predator enough, and attempt to Withdraw!. If this is not an option, plan C.
Plan C; Aim for a single point+withdraw, if that is not possible with the deck;
Plan D; If your prey/predator is having infinite +2 intercept on a 7&below capped Combatmonster that totally trumps your deck and you're totally unable to play through it,
start playing the Assamite Assassin for hire, and whoever lets&makes you able to play can easily negotiate what you do. Now, do your new masters bidding!
(then attempt to honorably withdraw, if possible.)
Crypt (Capacity min=1 max=7 avg=4.25; 12 cards)
==================================================
3x Anarch Convert 1 Caitiff:ANY
3x Frederick the Weak 2 pre !Brujah:2
6x Muaziz, Archon of Ulugh Beg 7 aus dom for THA Tremere:2
Library (90 cards)
=====================
Master (6 cards)
1x Auspex
1x Direct Intervention
1x Fortitude
1x Madness Network
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Waste Management Operation
Action (21 cards)
1x Ambush
1x Big Game
1x Bum's Rush
1x Chameleon
1x Clan Impersonation
1x Daemonic Possession
1x Fee Stake: Corte
1x Graverobbing
1x Harass
7x Magic of the Smith
1x Nightmare Curse
1x Nose of the Hound
1x Pulse of the Canaille
1x Revelations
1x Rutor's Hand
Political Action (1 cards)
1x Ancient Influence
Equipment (18 cards)
3x Ankara Citadel, Turkey, The
1x Codex of the Edenic Groundskeepers
1x Eye of Hazimel
1x Flak Jacket
1x IR Goggles
1x Ivory Bow
1x Kevlar Vest
1x Laptop Computer
3x Learjet
1x Leather Jacket
1x Rowan Ring
1x Sargon Fragment, The
1x Sengir Dagger
1x Signet of King Saul, The
Retainer (4 cards)
1x Ghoul Retainer
1x J. S. Simmons, Esq.
1x Robert Carter
1x Tasha Morgan
Action Modifier (40 cards)
38x Freak Drive
1x Mirror Walk
1x Perfect Clarity
Noora Hirvonen
Deck Name: Bad dreams @Ropecon 2016
Description:
Ropecon 2016 Finnish ECQ finalist.
The deck is slightly tweaked version from the one I have already listed at Secret library (Bad dreams).
Crypt (Capacity min=1 max=10 avg=6.83; 12 cards)
===================================================
2x Alex Camille 5 cel for obf PRO !Gangrel:5
1x Anarch Convert 1 Caitiff:ANY
1x Arishat 6 DAI OBF PRE Baali:6
2x Shahara al-Rashwa 5 pre OBF SER Follower of Set:6
1x Synner-G 5 pro CEL OBF !Gangrel:5
5x unnamed, The 10 CEL DAI OBF PRE PRO Baali:6
Library (61 cards)
=====================
Master (10 cards)
1x Direct Intervention
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Giant's Blood
1x Monastery of Shadows
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Perfectionist
1x Secure Haven
1x Sudden Reversal
1x Villein
1x Wider View
Action (10 cards)
1x Contagion
1x Dream World
4x Flurry of Action
1x Legal Manipulations
2x Public Trust
1x Unleash Hell's Fury
Ally (4 cards)
2x Infernal Servitor
1x Mylan Horseed (Goblin)
1x Veneficti (Mage)
Retainer (3 cards)
1x D'habi Revenant
2x Homunculus
Action Modifier (21 cards)
1x Cloak the Gathering
1x Earth Control
1x Elder Impersonation
3x Enkil Cog
2x Faceless Night
1x I am Legion
7x Instantaneous Transformation
4x Lost in Crowds
1x Psychomachia
Reaction (1 cards)
1x Delaying Tactics
Combat (4 cards)
1x Earth Meld
3x Form of Mist
Combo (8 cards)
7x Sense the Sin
1x Swallowed by the Night
Timo Rekola
Deck Name: brujahs.ver.1.2
Description:
Ropecon 2016 Finnish ECQ finalist
Crypt (Capacity min=6 max=10 avg=8.33; 12 cards)
===================================================
2x Armin Brenner 10 ani obf CEL FOR POT PRE !Brujah:4
3x Dmitra Ilyanova 9 obf CEL FOR POT PRE Brujah:5
2x Karen Suadela 7 obf pre CEL POT Brujah:5
1x Shawnda Dorrit 6 obt pot pre CEL !Brujah:4
1x Tara 6 cel POT PRE Brujah:5
3x Undele 9 obf pre ser CEL FOR Ishtarri:5
Library (75 cards)
=====================
Master (19 cards)
2x Archon Investigation
1x Barrens, The
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
3x Information Highway
1x Monastery of Shadows
2x Pentex(TM) Subversion
4x Villein
1x Wider View
3x Zillah's Valley
Action (4 cards)
2x Fleetness
2x Heroic Might
Political Action (12 cards)
1x Anarchist Uprising
1x Ancilla Empowerment
3x Banishment
4x Kine Resources Contested
3x Parity Shift
Action Modifier (10 cards)
2x Forced March
2x Forgotten Labyrinth
4x Freak Drive
2x Iron Glare
Reaction (10 cards)
1x Elder Intervention
2x On the Qui Vive
1x Pack Tactics
6x Second Tradition: Domain
Combat (16 cards)
2x Armor of Vitality
2x Blur
4x Disarm
2x Pursuit
2x Skin of Steel
2x Superior Mettle
2x Taste of Vitae
Combo (4 cards)
4x Resist Earth's Grasp
Final Round Transcript
This is based on my personal notes, scribbled down during the game. Some detail is missing and there may be mistakes here and there.
Play started around 1:15am and ended at 3am (with 15 minutes of game time left).
The players were (in seating order):
Turn 1
Mikko: bring out Anarch Convert
Lasse: bring out Anarch Convert (contest)
Timo: Zillah's Valley
Noora: -
Janne:
Turn 2
Mikko: -
Lasse: -
Timo: Zillah's Valley
Noora: Gian't Blood on Chandler
Janne:
Turn 3
Mikko: bring out Muaziz
Lasse: -
Timo: bring out Armin Brenner
Noora: bring out unnamed
Janne:
Turn 4
Mikko: oh boy, here we go...
Lasse: -
Timo:
Noora: bring out Shahara al-Rashwa
Janne:
Turn 5
Mikko: Chandler leaves torpor
Lasse:
Timo: bring out Undele
Noora:
Janne:
Turn 6
Lasse:
Timo:
Noora:
Janne:
Turn 7
Lasse:
Timo:
Noora: -
Janne:
Turn 8
Lasse:
Timo:
Janne:
Turn 9
Timo:
Janne:
Turn 10
Timo:
Janne:
TWD and report - Ropecon 2016 Finnish ECQ (July 29th, Helsinki, Finland) was created by PetriWessman
- Tournament: Ropecon 2016 Finnish ECQ
- Date: Friday July 29th, 2016
- Place: Ropecon 2015 gaming convention, Messukeskus, Helsinki, Finland
- Players: 42
- Format: EC Continental Qualifier (constructed), 3R+F
- Organizer/judge: Petri Wessman
- Winner: Janne Lönnqvist (see below for deck list)
This year's Finnish ECQ was played at the Ropecon gaming confernce, but the con itself was at a new venue -- the much larger "Messukeskus" congress center in Helsinki. As far as the tournament was concerned this was a good move, for once we had actual room and proper ventilation. Whee! Of course, the site is a bit more generic than the old Dipoli was, but hey, I'll take room and oxygen over "interesting architecture".
We had a total of 42 players, mostly Finns but we did have a couple of brave Swedes trying to wrest some points from the locals. Everything went very smoothly, thanks once again to the players who helped keep things running on time. Thanks to the Ropecon organizers, we actually got the chance to play the finals on a small stage, with live video streaming(!). The sound volumes are very low, sorry for that. If we do this next year, we'll try to get someone to narrate the game in real time (separately from the game table, in order to not disturb that). The final round was a bizarre affair, with Mikko's Muaziz Una-like horror totally dominating the first part, then getting wiped out and somewhat more normal play ensuing.
The finals video is here (scroll forward to 1:47:00):
I also have a separate text transcript of the finals (see below).
The preliminary games were a varied bunch. Once again, lots and lots of deck types, with no clear archetypes dominating. Some random notes:
- The first round had a ridiculous number of timeouts. Only two tables managed to finish on time. No idea why.
- I saw multiple "girls"-type decks, also multiple Kiasyd and quite a lot of Settite action
- Janne's Stanislava managed to get two separate Fear of Mekhets during one game round (from two different players). Saw Mekhet being used quite a bit.
- At least two Gargoyle-heavy decks, both with Hatchlings.
- Mikko Hyvärinen actually managed to withdraw during round one. Impressive.
I tried to gather info about what PDF sets (if any) had been used in the decks, that info is in the table below (see "PDF" column).
Thanks, everyone! See you again next year
.-Petri "Orava" Wessman
Results
The bolded 15 players received EC qualification for 2015.
The PDF column shows the PDF sets used in the deck, where known (D=Danse Macabre, U=The Unaligned, R=The Returned, A=Anarchs Unbound).
| Rank | Name | Prelim GW | Prelim VP | Final VP | TP | Deck/comment | |
| 1 | Janne Lönnqvist | 1 | 6.5 | 4 | 144 | D | Rose of the Devil's Garden (see below) |
| 2 | Mikko Hyvärinen | 1 | 7.5 | 144 | no | Muaziz the table trasher (see below) | |
| 2 | Timo Rekola | 1 | 6 | 1 | 138 | no | brujahs.ver.1.2 (see below) |
| 2 | Lasse Pöyry | 1 | 5.5 | 144 | U | Contract Killer Nizzam (see below) | |
| 2 | Noora Hirvonen | 2 | 5.5 | 144 | D,U | Bad dreams @Ropecon 2016 | |
| 6 | Otso Saariluoma | 1 | 5.5 | 126 | D,R | ||
| 7 | Yann Irissou | 1 | 5 | 120 | no | ||
| 8 | Tero Aalto | 1 | 4 | 144 | D | The Fanchon Show | |
| 9 | Tomi Sillanpää | 1 | 4 | 114 | no | ||
| 10 | Mikko Moisander | 1 | 3.5 | 132 | no | ||
| 11 | Teemu Sainomaa | 1 | 3.5 | 120 | ? | ||
| 12 | Jari Mäkikyrö | 1 | 3 | 108 | no | ||
| 13 | Tuomas Nyberg | 1 | 3 | 102 | no | ||
| 13 | Seppo Lipponen | 1 | 3 | 102 | no | ||
| 15 | Tuukka Kallas | 1 | 3 | 90 | no | ||
| 16 | Tommi Hakomaa | 0 | 3.5 | 150 | D | ||
| 17 | Matti Palomäki | 0 | 3 | 138 | no | ||
| 18 | Hannu Kokkonen | 0 | 3 | 132 | U | ||
| 19 | Johan Wahlström | 0 | 2.5 | 132 | no | ||
| 19 | Isak Esbjörnsson Bjärmark | 0 | 2.5 | 132 | R | Hello Darkness my old friend | |
| 19 | Antti Iivari | 0 | 2.5 | 132 | no | Pertsa | |
| 22 | Juho Vuorikoski | 0 | 2.5 | 126 | no | ||
| 22 | Reima Tuovinen | 0 | 2.5 | 126 | no | ||
| 24 | Are Vaskela | 0 | 2 | 120 | no | ||
| 25 | Niina Lindroos | 0 | 2 | 114 | D | ||
| 26 | Tom Lindberg | 0 | 2 | 84 | A,D,U | unnamed | |
| 27 | Mika Nurmikolu | 0 | 1.5 | 120 | ? | ||
| 28 | Kari Vieno | 0 | 1.5 | 108 | ? | ||
| 29 | Marko Lindroos | 0 | 1.5 | 102 | no | ||
| 30 | Teemu Pulkkinen | 0 | 1 | 102 | D | Lasombra Rulez the Night | |
| 30 | Lauri Salmi | 0 | 1 | 102 | no | Girls willl find inner skuub | |
| 30 | Ida Olsson Bjärmark | 0 | 1 | 102 | no | ||
| 33 | Toni Karjalainen | 0 | 1 | 96 | no | Kiasyd toolbox | |
| 34 | Akseli Jalava | 0 | 0.5 | 96 | no | ||
| 35 | Markus Helander | 0 | 0.5 | 90 | no | ||
| 36 | Ville Kaijasaari | 0 | 0.5 | 66 | no | ||
| 37 | Jaakko Nurro | 0 | 0 | 66 | no | ||
| 38 | Kari Mäkinen | 0 | 0 | 60 | U | ||
| 38 | Pasi Karjalainen | 0 | 0 | 60 | no | ||
| 38 | Peter Kaario | 0 | 0 | 60 | no | ||
| 41 | Raymond Mäkeläinen | 0 | 0 | 54 | no | Settite | |
| 41 | Karri Malm | 0 | 0 | 54 | D,R | ||
| 41 | Ari-Pekka Alestalo | 0 | 0 | 54 | D | Aajav-Khan | |
| DQ | Teemu Salo | 0 | 0.5 | 66 | no |
Decklists
Tournament Winner (Janne Lönnqvist)
Deck Name: Rose of the Devil's Garden
Description:
Ropecon 2016 Finnish ECQ winner.
Due to having zero time to actually build anything new I had to resort to using an old deck that had scored me one win previously (Justicar Retribution XXII on Jan 26th 2014), just added the two missing Instantaneous Transformations (and forgot about the 3rd Dreams...).
The deck is Otso Saariluoma's winning deck (Praxis Seizure XLV from Nov 30th 2008) with just few very minor tweaks so praise should go in his direction.
The finals was a weird one, starting off with accidental Anarch Convert contesting, which probably ended up hampering Mikko ever so slightly and probably slowing Lasse down a bit, although not as much as missing Nizzam in the opening crypt though. With Muazizotronic Mikko ran through his deck merely acquiring my Chandler and Nora's Unnamed -the latter took the pressure off my back. I don't recall even Mikko protesting me ousting him and thus removing Pain in the Rearside #1 (aka Tablethreat) from the table soon after Timo Banished Muaziz. At this point Lasse and Noora were in more or less damaged goods while Timo also was in the same situation as I was; a player with hardly any or no pressure. Soon Noora was ousted. I was a bit worried for a while about losing vote battle to Timo but the arrival of Genevieve (and removal of Noora's Arishat with her mistress) fixed that. Then it was, luckily, just the matter of bleeding/voting in consistent manner with enough stealth all the while avoiding the temptation of going to Archonable range. Mainly I have Mikko to thank for my victory, he built the runway from himself and Lasse and also secured my rear by tripping Noora.
Crypt (Capacity min=3 max=11 avg=9.08; 12 cards)
===================================================
1x Caitlin 6 aus dom ANI PRO !Gangrel:2
1x Chandler Hungerford 3 PRO Gangrel:2
1x Genevieve 10 aus dom ANI FOR PRO !Gangrel:2
1x Hartmut Stover 10 dom for CEL OBF PRO !Gangrel:3
1x Iliana 7 tha DOM FOR PRO Gangrel:2
2x Ingrid Rossler 9 dom ANI FOR PRO Gangrel:2
5x Stanislava 11 ANI CEL DOM FOR PRO Gangrel:2
Library (80 cards)
=====================
Master (18 cards)
1x Backways
2x Blood Doll
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Ecoterrorists
4x Information Highway
2x Perfectionist
4x Vessel
2x Wider View
Action (8 cards)
6x Govern the Unaligned
2x Scouting Mission
Political Action (10 cards)
1x Ancient Influence
1x Banishment
1x Gangrel Justicar
5x Kine Resources Contested
1x Political Stranglehold
1x Reins of Power
Action Modifier (19 cards)
3x Conditioning
6x Earth Control
4x Forced March
4x Freak Drive
2x Instantaneous Transformation
Reaction (10 cards)
6x Deflection
2x Guard Dogs
2x On the Qui Vive
Combat (10 cards)
4x Earth Meld
6x Form of Mist
Combo (5 cards)
3x Murmur of the False Will
2x Rapid Change
Other Finalists
Lasse Pöyry
Deck Name: Contract Killer Nizzam
Description:
Ropecon 2016 Finnish ECQ finalist.
20 cards that allows me to enter combat, all of them "permanents", kind of.
Pool gain can be enormous, if and when working properly.
Crypt (Capacity min=1 max=9 avg=5.17; 12 cards)
==================================================
4x Anarch Convert 1 Caitiff:ANY
1x Djuhah, The Bronze Bow 7 aus cel pre OBF QUI Assamite:5
1x Joe Boot Hill 7 for obf CEL QUI Assamite:4
1x Kamau Jafari 4 obf QUI Assamite:4
4x Nizzam al-Latif 9 dem ANI CEL OBF QUI Assamite:5
1x Sajid al Misbah 4 QUI Assamite:5
Library (89 cards)
=====================
Master (32 cards)
1x Black Throne, The
2x Corporal Reservoir
1x Failsafe
1x Flames of Insurrection
1x Grooming the Protégé
4x Hand Contract
1x Market Square
6x Minion Tap
1x Monster
10x Priority Contract
1x Shakar
2x Vessel
1x Weeping Stone
Action (7 cards)
1x Blessing of Chaos
2x Clandestine Contract
4x Loss
Equipment (1 cards)
1x Ivory Bow
Ally (1 cards)
1x Mylan Horseed (Goblin)
Retainer (1 cards)
1x Nar-Sheptha
Reaction (8 cards)
3x Black Sunrise
1x Ministry
1x Nest of Eagles
3x Open Dossier
Combat (25 cards)
2x Dam the Heart's River
2x Hell-for-Leather
7x Khabar: Honor, The
2x Psyche!
2x Pursuit
4x Sanguine Entrapment
1x Selective Silence
2x Sideslip
1x Taste of Death
2x Taste of Vitae
Combo (14 cards)
2x Blood Awakening
6x Provision of the Silsila
1x Resist Earth's Grasp
3x Steely Tenacity
2x Swallowed by the Night
Mikko Hyvärinen
Deck Name: Muaziz the table trasher
Description:
Ropecon 2016 Finnish ECQ finalist
"Muaziz the table trasher" / "I'm not here to make friends"/ (aka. "why old MTG combo players are not fun to play with")
Card notes:
- Sengir Dagger: still looking for something better
- Ghoul Retainer: goes through some stupid dodge effects+something else
- Pulse of Canaile: it _also_ has "superior" ability of +2 bleed. Seriously, information is sometimes rather critical
- Nightmare Curse: special favour for those combat monsters you really don't want to have combat with.
- Chameleon: really good for those untapped average capped vampires you don't want to waste a good rush&diablerie on.
- Revelations: Archon or no?, Deflection or no? OR just NO to something
- Ancient Influence: 20 pool dmg vote +avg.5 pool gain
- Pentex Subversion: hate it, probably totally waste of a slot. Answer to itself, but if Muaziz is pentexed before acting you probably won't find this, If Muaziz got to act, changes are that the pentexing player doesn't have enough blockers
- Madness Network: goes through Archon Investigation and "Optimally" enables T4 finishing of the game by a sweep.
Extra notes;
Anarch module is strong, but a bit complex to set up due to interaction with clan impersonation, it would probably be better to just play with some of these options:
Some Extra dmg-vote,
Book of Going Forth by Night (or whatever to say)
Immortal Grable (let the Ghoul do the aggr.poking)
Charge of the Buffalo (or some other rush I've missed)
Dominate
Thoughts Betrayed
Conditioning/Govern
That Dominate thing that allows you to tap minions
That Dominate thing that allows you to steal allies(?)
+1-2 Lear Jet/Ankara Citadel to decrease the chance of not having them in your opener. You'd rather use the Magic for something broken, instead of these, but alas, it is a difficult math for me...
Game play:
Don't be afraid to go directly crosstable with the first rush if the target seems too tempting. (hey, you really want that crosstable Arika/Lutz/whatever on your team for certain!)
You are not playing "prey-predator"game, you're playing the table.
Plan A; If the table is "soft" kill&steal everything in whatever order and proceed to Sweep. If it turns out to be medium do plan B.
plan B; If table is medium Aim for 2,5 victory points by negotiating(mainly) with your grand predator, killing your preys and grand preys minions, weaken your predator enough, and attempt to Withdraw!. If this is not an option, plan C.
Plan C; Aim for a single point+withdraw, if that is not possible with the deck;
Plan D; If your prey/predator is having infinite +2 intercept on a 7&below capped Combatmonster that totally trumps your deck and you're totally unable to play through it,
start playing the Assamite Assassin for hire, and whoever lets&makes you able to play can easily negotiate what you do. Now, do your new masters bidding!
(then attempt to honorably withdraw, if possible.)
Crypt (Capacity min=1 max=7 avg=4.25; 12 cards)
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3x Anarch Convert 1 Caitiff:ANY
3x Frederick the Weak 2 pre !Brujah:2
6x Muaziz, Archon of Ulugh Beg 7 aus dom for THA Tremere:2
Library (90 cards)
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Master (6 cards)
1x Auspex
1x Direct Intervention
1x Fortitude
1x Madness Network
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Waste Management Operation
Action (21 cards)
1x Ambush
1x Big Game
1x Bum's Rush
1x Chameleon
1x Clan Impersonation
1x Daemonic Possession
1x Fee Stake: Corte
1x Graverobbing
1x Harass
7x Magic of the Smith
1x Nightmare Curse
1x Nose of the Hound
1x Pulse of the Canaille
1x Revelations
1x Rutor's Hand
Political Action (1 cards)
1x Ancient Influence
Equipment (18 cards)
3x Ankara Citadel, Turkey, The
1x Codex of the Edenic Groundskeepers
1x Eye of Hazimel
1x Flak Jacket
1x IR Goggles
1x Ivory Bow
1x Kevlar Vest
1x Laptop Computer
3x Learjet
1x Leather Jacket
1x Rowan Ring
1x Sargon Fragment, The
1x Sengir Dagger
1x Signet of King Saul, The
Retainer (4 cards)
1x Ghoul Retainer
1x J. S. Simmons, Esq.
1x Robert Carter
1x Tasha Morgan
Action Modifier (40 cards)
38x Freak Drive
1x Mirror Walk
1x Perfect Clarity
Noora Hirvonen
Deck Name: Bad dreams @Ropecon 2016
Description:
Ropecon 2016 Finnish ECQ finalist.
The deck is slightly tweaked version from the one I have already listed at Secret library (Bad dreams).
Crypt (Capacity min=1 max=10 avg=6.83; 12 cards)
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2x Alex Camille 5 cel for obf PRO !Gangrel:5
1x Anarch Convert 1 Caitiff:ANY
1x Arishat 6 DAI OBF PRE Baali:6
2x Shahara al-Rashwa 5 pre OBF SER Follower of Set:6
1x Synner-G 5 pro CEL OBF !Gangrel:5
5x unnamed, The 10 CEL DAI OBF PRE PRO Baali:6
Library (61 cards)
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Master (10 cards)
1x Direct Intervention
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Giant's Blood
1x Monastery of Shadows
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Perfectionist
1x Secure Haven
1x Sudden Reversal
1x Villein
1x Wider View
Action (10 cards)
1x Contagion
1x Dream World
4x Flurry of Action
1x Legal Manipulations
2x Public Trust
1x Unleash Hell's Fury
Ally (4 cards)
2x Infernal Servitor
1x Mylan Horseed (Goblin)
1x Veneficti (Mage)
Retainer (3 cards)
1x D'habi Revenant
2x Homunculus
Action Modifier (21 cards)
1x Cloak the Gathering
1x Earth Control
1x Elder Impersonation
3x Enkil Cog
2x Faceless Night
1x I am Legion
7x Instantaneous Transformation
4x Lost in Crowds
1x Psychomachia
Reaction (1 cards)
1x Delaying Tactics
Combat (4 cards)
1x Earth Meld
3x Form of Mist
Combo (8 cards)
7x Sense the Sin
1x Swallowed by the Night
Timo Rekola
Deck Name: brujahs.ver.1.2
Description:
Ropecon 2016 Finnish ECQ finalist
Crypt (Capacity min=6 max=10 avg=8.33; 12 cards)
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2x Armin Brenner 10 ani obf CEL FOR POT PRE !Brujah:4
3x Dmitra Ilyanova 9 obf CEL FOR POT PRE Brujah:5
2x Karen Suadela 7 obf pre CEL POT Brujah:5
1x Shawnda Dorrit 6 obt pot pre CEL !Brujah:4
1x Tara 6 cel POT PRE Brujah:5
3x Undele 9 obf pre ser CEL FOR Ishtarri:5
Library (75 cards)
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Master (19 cards)
2x Archon Investigation
1x Barrens, The
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
3x Information Highway
1x Monastery of Shadows
2x Pentex(TM) Subversion
4x Villein
1x Wider View
3x Zillah's Valley
Action (4 cards)
2x Fleetness
2x Heroic Might
Political Action (12 cards)
1x Anarchist Uprising
1x Ancilla Empowerment
3x Banishment
4x Kine Resources Contested
3x Parity Shift
Action Modifier (10 cards)
2x Forced March
2x Forgotten Labyrinth
4x Freak Drive
2x Iron Glare
Reaction (10 cards)
1x Elder Intervention
2x On the Qui Vive
1x Pack Tactics
6x Second Tradition: Domain
Combat (16 cards)
2x Armor of Vitality
2x Blur
4x Disarm
2x Pursuit
2x Skin of Steel
2x Superior Mettle
2x Taste of Vitae
Combo (4 cards)
4x Resist Earth's Grasp
Final Round Transcript
This is based on my personal notes, scribbled down during the game. Some detail is missing and there may be mistakes here and there.
Play started around 1:15am and ended at 3am (with 15 minutes of game time left).
The players were (in seating order):
- Mikko Hyvärinen (2nd seed)
- Lasse Pöyry (5th seed)
- Timo Rekola (4th seed)
- Noora Hirvonen (1st seed)
- Janne Lönnqvist (3rd seed)
Turn 1
Mikko: bring out Anarch Convert
Lasse: bring out Anarch Convert (contest)
Timo: Zillah's Valley
Noora: -
Janne:
- Dreams of the Sphinx
- bring out Chandler Hungerford
Turn 2
Mikko: -
Lasse: -
Timo: Zillah's Valley
Noora: Gian't Blood on Chandler
Janne:
- Perfectionist on Chandler
- Chandler bleeds for 1
Turn 3
Mikko: bring out Muaziz
Lasse: -
Timo: bring out Armin Brenner
Noora: bring out unnamed
Janne:
- Chandler calls KRC (3-1), passes
- bring out Stanislava
Turn 4
Mikko: oh boy, here we go...
- yield contest
- Muaziz gets Signet of King Saul, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz gets Sargon Fragment, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz hunts, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz hunts, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz gets Tasha Morgan, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz hunts, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz hunts, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz plays Magic of the Smith, equips Learjet, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz gets Ankara Citadel, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz hunts, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz hunts, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz plays Clan Impersonation (Malkavian), untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz hunts, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz hunts, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz plays Rutor's Hand, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz hunts, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz hunts, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz hunts, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz hunts, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz plays inferior Pulse of the Canaille, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz hunts, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz hunts, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz hunts, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz gets Laptop Computer, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz hunts, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz hunts, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz gets Flak Jacket, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz gets Eye of Hazimel, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz gets Sengir Dagger, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz rushes Chandler with Ambush, sends Chandler to torpor, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz Grave Robs Chandler, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz tries to rush unnamed with Bum's Rush, gets DI from Noora
- Muaziz gets IR Goggles, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz gets Kevlar Vest, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz rushes unnamed (via Hazimel), sends unnamed to torpor, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz diablerizes unnamed, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz plays Daemonic Possession on unnamed, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz gets Robert Carter, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz plays Nightmare Curse on Stanislava, untaps with Freak Drive
- Muaziz bleeds for 6, untaps with Freak Drive
- unnamed bleeds for 1
Lasse: -
Timo:
- Villein Armin for 5
- Armin calls Banishment on Muaziz, passes, untaps with Freak Drive
- Armin bleeds for 3
Noora: bring out Shahara al-Rashwa
Janne:
- Stanislava plays superior Scouting Mission, untaps with Instantaneous Transformation
- Stanislava bleeds with GtU (5), untaps with Forced March
Turn 5
Mikko: Chandler leaves torpor
Lasse:
- Anarch Convert bleeds for 1
- bring out Nizzam
- make Nizzam anarch with Anatch Convert
Timo: bring out Undele
Noora:
Janne:
- Ecoterrorists
- Stanislava plays superior GtU, untaps with Freak Drive
- Stanislava bleeds for 3, Mikko is ousted
- bring out Hartmut
Turn 6
Lasse:
- Priority Contract for Nizzam on Undele
- Grooming the Protege
- Nizzam rushes Undele, Undele goes to torpor (4 agg damage), Priority Contract burns
- bring out Joe Boot Hill
Timo:
- Villein Undele for 2
- Armin rescues Undele, pays cost
- bring out Tara
Noora:
- Shahara bleeds with Public Trust, Hartmut bounces to Lasse, bleed reduced to zero
- bring out Arishat
Janne:
- Hartmut bleeds with GtU, Nizzam untaps and attempts to block, Hartmut plays stealth, bleed of 3
- Stanislava plays superior GtU
Turn 7
Lasse:
- Corporal Reservoir on Nizzam
- Market Square
- Joe bleeds with Loss
Timo:
- Tara calls Parity Shift (4 from Janne, 3 to Lasse, 1 to Timo), passes
- Armin bleeds for 1, Arishat blocks, hands for 1, prevent + Disarm from Armin, Arishat goes to torpor
- Undele bleeds for 1, untaps with Freak Drive
- Undele diablerizes Arishat
Noora: -
Janne:
- Hartmut bleeds for 1, Joes tries to block but fails, Conditioning for 3 total bleed
- Stanislava plays superior GtU, untaps with Freak Drive
- bring out Genevieve
Turn 8
Lasse:
- Priority Contract on Tara
- Vessel on Nizzam
- Nizzam rushes Tara, Tara goes to torpor, Priority Contract is burned, Provision of Silsila
- Anarch Convert rescues Tara
Timo:
- Wider View
- Dreams of the Sphinx
- Armin bleeds for 1, plays Iron Glare, Noora is ousted
- Undele bleeds, Genevieve blocks and plays combat ends
Janne:
- Wider View
- Hartmut bleeds for 3 (Conditioning)
- Genevieve bleeds for 3, Lasse is ousted
- Stanislava bleeds, Tara blocks (after some stealth + intercept), Stanislava plays Form of Mist to continue, bleed of 3, untaps with Freak Drive
Turn 9
Timo:
- Villein Undele for 4
- Armin bleeds for 1
- Undele bleeds for 1, Stanislava tries to block but fails
Janne:
- Information Highway
- Genevieve bleeds, Tara tries to block but fails, bleed of 2
- Hartmut calls KRC (3-1), passes
- Stanislava bleeds, Tara tries to block but fails, bleed of 3
Turn 10
Timo:
- Information Highway (contest)
- Undele bleeds for 1
- burn Wider View
Janne:
- Vessel on Stanislava
- Backways
- Genevieve bleeds, Tara blocks, Genevieve continues with Form of Mist, Tara plays 2nd Tradition and blocks again, hands for 1
- Stanislava calls Reins of Power, pass, Timo is ousted
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16 Sep 2016 18:55 - 16 Sep 2016 18:56 #78342
by Lönkka
Replied by Lönkka on topic TWD and report - Ropecon 2016 Finnish ECQ (July 29th, Helsinki, Finland)
The name of the winning deck ain't Rose in the Devil's Garden, but actually Rose of the Devil's Garden.
You know, because Tiger Army never dies!
Stanislava could be kinda envisioned to be Masumi Max, like in the video of Rose of the Devil's Garden. And the pic on Stani's card has Rose petals and such...
You know, because Tiger Army never dies!
Stanislava could be kinda envisioned to be Masumi Max, like in the video of Rose of the Devil's Garden. And the pic on Stani's card has Rose petals and such...
Finnish 
Politics!
Politics!
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