TWD - Fantasy World, Leksands-Gråda (Sweden) (20 Jan 2024)

Fantasy World
Leksands-Gråda
January 20th, 2024
3R+F
Standard Constructed
14 players
Noora Hirvonen
www.vekn.net/event-calendar/event/11127

Deck name: Gangrel Things
Author: Noora Hirvonen
Description: Thank you Aapo Järvelin (Khormag) for handing me the predecessor of this deck in the after-games of a tournament he organized in Joensuu a couple of years back, the deck is super fun to play. I played versions of it quite a lot in 2022, and last months I have had a feeling it could do well in the grindy Stockholm meta with its fast and plentiful actions and reactions. This iteration though I feel like I made slightly worse by adding some random cards outside of the core mechanic of Computer hacking, Thing and Earth meld, but it did hold itself together this time.
Score: R1-1gw3 R2-0,5vp R-0 F-1,5vp

Crypt (13 cards, min=11 max=23 avg=4.15)

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2x André the Manipulator 6 FOR PRO Gangrel:5
1x C.J. 4 FOR pro Gangrel:5
1x Fergus Alexander 3 pot pro Gangrel:5
1x Hanna Nokelainen 4 ani for pro Gangrel:6
1x Indira 3 PRO Gangrel:6
1x Joaquín de Cádiz 3 for pro Gangrel:6
1x Kamile Paukstys 5 PRO ani for Gangrel:6
1x Lillian 3 ani pro Gangrel:5
1x Martina Srnankova 6 FOR PRO ani Gangrel:6
1x Mickey Wheeler 5 ani cel for pro Gangrel:6
1x Nathan Turner 4 PRO ani Gangrel:6
1x Ruslan Fedorenko 2 pro Gangrel:6

Library (90 cards)
Master (19; 6 trifle)
1x Anarch Free Press, The
1x Backways
1x Bleeding the Vine
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Ecoterrorists
1x Ennoia's Theater
2x Gangrel Revel
1x Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
1x Information Highway
1x Life in the City
1x Powerbase: Montreal
1x Sudden Reversal
5x Villein
1x Zoo Hunting Ground

Action (24)
1x Aranthebes, The Immortal
1x Army of Rats
7x Computer Hacking
2x Force of Will
2x Rewilding
11x Thing

Retainer (1)
1x Raven Spy

Action Modifier (11)
2x Change of Target
6x Earth Control
1x Freak Drive
1x Leverage
1x Monkey Wrench

Action Modifier/Combat (2)
2x Rapid Change

Action Modifier/Reaction (6)
6x Form of the Bat

Reaction (12)
2x Deep Ecology
3x Delaying Tactics
7x Eyes of the Wild

Combat (13)
2x Donnybrook
9x Earth Meld
2x Form of Mist

Event (2)
1x Narrow Minds
1x Uncoiling, The

is andre actually good in the deck? other than his artwork
i always feel like the crypt needs more animalism and he's just another guy without it. i ran joseph fincher in mine at the weekend and he was pretty good. I happened to open with all 3 of my vampires without animalism and it really hurt. Had a stealth bleed deck on my heels and really needed to play deep ecology for intercept.

I think he is amazing for hand management and this is a weenie PRO deck with fortitude, so his only down side is being one gen too big. The old 2-3 crypt does the job as well, and if it ran animalism it would be a different deck. (I actually use the new crypt mostly to contest new baron decks, and it has been so far a great strategy.)

Finalists' decks:

Magnus - Capuchin Obedience
Jonas - Bruce de Guy votes
Kari - Guillaume with newspaper reading zombies and nocturnes
Noora - Gangrel protean weenies
Alexander - Lord Tremere Obedience / SB

Archon approved though I was rather supprised to be the one to approve this

Congratulations for the winner and thanks for the Prince for organizing the tournament.