TWD Justicar Retribution XI Helsinki, Finland (Dec 2nd)

Justicar Retribution XI: Erikoismies erikostehtävässä
Helsinki Finland
Standard constructed tournament
Dec 2nd 2012 11.00-
3 rounds + finals
20 Players
Winner: Heikki Palomäki
(Out of the 13 games, whopping 8 ended in timeout)

Two finalists decided not to play in the finals and withdrew.
So Heikki got into finals and swept the table -congrats!

Heh, as a side note in all three of my games my predator had Gabrielle di Righetti in play...

1 1 1 Heikki Palomäki 1 3 5 102
2 2 2 Matias Frosterus 1 3,5 132
2 3 5 Aleksi Nuora 1 6 144
2 4 18 Mikko Moisander 1 4,5 120
2 5 20 Jarkko Suvela 1 3,5 132
6 6 8 Henri Kangas 0 2,5 132
7 7 6 Hannu Kokkonen 0 2,5 120
8 8 9 Anssi Rekola 0 2 120
9 9 14 Jyri Puhakka 0 2 114
10 10 13 Timo Rekola 0 1 102
11 11 12 Tom Lindberg 0 1 96
11 12 16 Janne Lönnqvist 0 1 96
13 13 15 Tommi Hakomaa 0 1 90
13 14 17 Kari Mäkinen 0 1 90
15 15 7 Juha Nyholm 0 0,5 78
16 16 4 Lauri Salmi 0 0 72
17 17 3 Tuukka Kallas 0 0 66
18 18 10 Otso Turunen 0 0 42
DQ/WD 19 11 Matti Palomäki 1 5,5 144
DQ/WD 20 19 Akseli Jalava 1 5 168

Some pics by my crappy cellphone...


Clockwise from left: Hannu, Mikko, Jarkko, Lauri and Tom.


Clockwise from left: Anssi, Kari, Matti, Tuukka and Aleksi.


Clockwise from left: Heikki, Timo, Tommi, Akseli and Juha.


Clockwise from left: Henri, Otso, Jyri and Matias.



Finals table clockwise from bottom left: Heikki, Matias, Aleksi, Mikko and Jarkko.

Ashur wrote:

And the TWD?

Waiting for Heikki to post it.
In past he's done it extremely quickly.

Go pester him...

Deck Name: Heavy duty
Created By: Heikki Palomäki
Description: Shameless obf dom S&B. A lot of titles for table control and vote protection. There is also a sizable reaction package for bleed defence. Using murmur of the false will as main defence gives this deck a great advantage, not only because it can be used for bleeding and bouncing, but because it is free. Vampires can be villeined to very little blood as governs are almost only ways of losing blood. This deck is obviously very vulnerable to rushes but votes work pretty well as protection against diableries as well. Secure haven, golconda, reins of power and obediences would be great additions to this deck but it would require taking something else out.


Crypt: (12 cards, Min: 27, Max: 44, Avg: 8,91)
1 Arika aus cel DOM FOR OBF PRE 11 Ventrue
2 Etrius AUS DOM OBF pro THA 11 Tremere
2 Gilbert Duane AUS DOM OBF 7 Malkavian
2 Gratiano DOM obf OBT pot 8 Lasombra
1 Greger Anderssen AUS dom OBF pro 7 Malkavian
1 Leandro AUS cel dom OBF PRE 11 Malkavian
2 Lucian AUS cel DOM OBF tha 10 Malkavian
1 Reverend Blackwood DOM obf THA 6 Tremere Antitribu

Library: (90 cards)

Master (17 cards)
4 Dreams of the Sphinx
1 Giant`s Blood
4 Information Highway
8 Villein

Action (13 cards)
13 Govern the Unaligned

Action Modifier (31 cards)
4 Cloak the Gathering
4 Command of the Beast
3 Elder Impersonation
4 Faceless Night
6 Lost in Crowds
3 Spying Mission
4 Threats
3 Veil the Legions

Reaction (12 cards)
4 On the Qui Vive
8 Wake with Evening`s Freshness

Combo (17 cards)
13 Murmur of the False Will
4 Swallowed by the Night






I would not have been in the finals but two players above me dropped out so eventually all players with a game win got to play in the finals. Matti (lutz anarch revolt) and akseli (ventrue law firm) weren`t able to play in the finals. I got to play in the finals instead
so I thought I would share what happened in the finals, from my point of view.

seeding was following:
Heikki (obf dom high cap)

Heikki (obf dom high cap) -> Matias (new brujah royalty vote)

Heikki (obf dom high cap) -> Matias (new brujah royalty vote) -> Jarkko (shalmath&new brujah royalty bruise vote&bleed) ->

Heikki (obf dom high cap) -> Matias (new brujah royalty vote) -> Mikko (dom black hand bleed) -> Jarkko (shalmath&new brujah royalty bruise vote&bleed) ->


Heikki (obf dom high cap) -> Matias (new brujah royalty vote) -> Aleksi (Joaquin steely tenacity zip gun) -> Mikko (dom black hand bleed) -> Jarkko (shalmath&new brujah royalty bruise vote&bleed) ->



Finals started quite nicely as four players were slowly transferring vampires from uncontrolled region and only Mikko were being aggressive from the beginning. Matias and Jarkko had both Dmitra in their uncontrolled regions and Matias had to quite bitterly transfer other vampires and discard few forced marches he had no way of using without dmitra or jann berger. Matias ended up transferring carlak and karen suadela instead. Aleksi influenced joaquin first and brought andrew stuart and anarch convert later on.

Aleksi started to put pressure on Mikko quite soon with steely tenacity rushes. Mikko transferred minions who one by one get beaten down by Aleksi eventually leaving Mikko with
only one dom weenie. Due to pressure given by Mikko Jarkko managed to transfer only two minions: shalmath and dmitra. I transferred arika and continued to transfer etrius and govern gratiano. Not much happened in the game except Jarkko getting bled few times early on and Mikko getting raped by joaquin as fast as he transferred new vampires.

Jarkko tried to do another vaticination with shalmath and Aleksi decided to block. A fragile balance in the table quickly evaporated as Jarkko preemptively destroyed joaquin with domain of evernight + outside the hourglass + decapitate! Joaquin getting decapitated left Aleksi without any real defence so there were two consecutive easy victory points in front of Matias. Joaquin gone there was nothing to held me back from trying to oust Matias so I pressed strongly onward. Matias had surprisingly little defence and I managed to oust him. Aleksi had little chance of actually doing anything at this point and he dedicated most of his efforts to make sure Jarkko wouldn`t win after destroying his joaquin. After that it was pretty much all aboard the dominate train. Jarkko got new carthago and managed to transfer tara about the time joaquin was decapitated. After getting three ousts I had too much pool for Jarkko to bleed and second traditions weren`t enough to block my bleeders.

Ummon wrote:

Matti (lutz anarch revolt)

Do you have a decklist for that deck? I have played Lutz anarch revolt in a few tournaments too, and it always came with one GW at least