TWD: Zillah's Tears III - Body of Sun (Vantaa, Finland)

Tournament: Zillah's Tears III - Body of Sun
Event Calendar link: www.vekn.net/event-calendar/event/9178
Date: Sunday 2nd of June 2019
Place: ZILLA, Kielotie 14 01300 Vantaa, Finland
Players: 12
Format: Standard Constructed, 3R+F
Organizer&Head Judge: Teemu Pulkkinen
Winner: Antti Penttilä (see below for deck list)

Zillah's Tears III - Body of Sun continued the glorious tradition of having a tournament each month in the Southern Finland area. 12 Methuselah arrived to the tournament venue, big thanks to all of the participants. Worth of note was that each game ended in a game win, which says something of the high skill level of the Finnish players that were participating.

The final table was:
1. Tommi Hakomaa (Tupdogs and Nephandi , 3rd seed)
2. Matti Palomäki (Apolonia Charnecki and Malk Friends, 5th seed)
3. Antti Penttilä (Khurshid Dream Team, 2nd seed)
4. Juha Laukkanen (Sundervere bleed, 4th seed)
5. Marko Saari (Rock Cat combat, 1st seed)

The finalists can provide a more thorough summary what happened, but first player to be ousted was Marko after which Tommi ousted Matti. Last oust was Antti ousting Juha. Thus, Antti won the tournament as higher seed than Tommi even though both were left with 1,5 VP in the end. Congrats for the win!

Deck Name: Khurshid ”Dream Team”
Author: Antti Penttilä
Description: Teched against BlackJack(and other legionnaires obviously) silly deck, i’m sorry.

Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=1 max=9 avg=6.2)
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5x Anarch Convert 1 -none- Caitiff:ANY
1x La Viuda Blanca 6 for obf AUS NEC Harbinger of Skulls:6
1x Anu Diptinatpa 7 aus vic DOM NEC Nagaraja:6
2x Angelique 9 AUS FOR NEC SER THA Harbinger of Skulls:6
3x Khurshid 8 AUS FOR NEC POT Harbinger of Skulls:6

Library: 90 cards

Master (21 cards)
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2x Haven Uncovered
1x Heidelberg Castle, Germany
8x Liquidation
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
4x Villein
1x Wider View
1x Direct Intervention
3x Dreams of the Sphinx

Action (8 cards)
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6x Gear Up
2x Soul Feasting

Action Modifier (8 cards)
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2x Freak Drive
2x Trochomancy
4x Call of the Hungry Dead

Action Modifier/Combat (4 cards)
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4x Breath of Thanatos

Action Modifier/Reaction (3 cards)
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3x Spectral Divination

Combat (10 cards)
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2x Aura Reading
3x Rolling with the Punches
5x Target Vitals

Ally (9 cards)
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1x Mylan Horseed
8x Emerald Legionnaire

Retainer (4 cards)
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4x Vengeful Spirit

Equipment (2 cards)
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1x Erebus Mask
1x Kevlar Vest

Reaction (19 cards)
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6x Eyes of Argus
1x Funeral Wake
2x Guardian Vigil
2x My Enemy's Enemy
2x On the Qui Vive
6x Telepathic Misdirection

Event (2 cards)
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1x FBI Special Affairs Division
1x Unmasking, The


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Approved.
Congrats to Andy!

BTW Did you use the extra 10 minutes of playtime per oust during finals?

Lönkka wrote:

BTW Did you use the extra 10 minutes of playtime per oust during finals?

The extra playtime per oust rule wasn't used during the finals as it had not been advertised in the tournament announcement. Also majority of the players who were participating were either against or had no opinion on using the rule, so we decided not to use it this time as it hasn't been made official.

Worth noting that Marko's rock cat deck had 3 game wins when heading into the finals. He ruminated on his seat position on the final table for something like 10 minutes, then decided to go behind Tommi's nephandi/tupdog deck, which may have been a mistake in my opinion. If combat decks would've been crosstable, they would have dominated the table in my opinion. But Marko was more afraid of having his recruit actions blocked apparently. (I also find it crazy that someone would willingly be my prey)

Then Tommi immediately felt compelled that he and Marko should fight to the death, as rock cats beat both tupdogs and nephandi in combat. Tommi went only backwards until Marko was ousted. Matti and Antti had very slow starts and to my surprise I actually had a game, which I was sure I wouldn't have as I was playing the only deck without much combat.

Needless to say, I was donated (I actually simply did what my deck was supposed to do, lot of pool damage) a VP as everyone seemed to want Marko ousted. Then I came a hair short of a second VP off Tommi, but Antti had the intercept needed to stop my reckless agitation. Legionnaires were unleashed and I was ousted eventually, as was Matti who seemed to have little game against ally combat. The duel of Tommi vs Antti went to the legionnaires.

I'd love to see the decklist for the Rock Cat deck, especially since it did so well in the preliminary rounds.