TWD-The Unnamed: Newark, Ohio September 24th 2011

Mephistopheles wrote:

So yeah basically you can play everything you want until your deck has some kind of strategy. I should find the guts to play all my ideas I had discarded before...

Large pool gain will allow "non tier 1" decks to hang with the big boys.

Give it a try, and baffle the world with the stuff you stick on the TWDA:P

DJ_Assface wrote:

Mephistopheles wrote:

So yeah basically you can play everything you want until your deck has some kind of strategy. I should find the guts to play all my ideas I had discarded before...

Large pool gain will allow "non tier 1" decks to hang with the big boys.

Give it a try, and baffle the world with the stuff you stick on the TWDA:P

Jay, I spent the last 20 somewhat hours going through your decks and thinking over what I know about v:tes.

So I noticed these points:

You almost always play
1. 9-12 different vampires and there is never a star
2. many many pool generating cards
3. cards that move vamps from your crypt to the uncontrolled

Your main weapon must be patience and recognizing opportunities and use them well.

I'll definitely will include these or some of these points in the decks I want to build. Correct me if I am wrong.

Mephistopheles wrote:

Jay, I spent the last 20 somewhat hours going through your decks and thinking over what I know about v:tes.

So I noticed these points:

You almost always play
1. 9-12 different vampires and there is never a star
2. many many pool generating cards
3. cards that move vamps from your crypt to the uncontrolled

Your main weapon must be patience and recognizing opportunities and use them well.

I'll definitely will include these or some of these points in the decks I want to build. Correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks for your research. Those points you mentioned are things that I have tried to focus on in the last few years. Also noteworthy:

-The vast majority of my recent decks have been 60 cards.
-I do my best to not build decks that appear frightening.
-I am interested in the unusual.

Thanks again, and good luck!

DJ_Assface wrote:

The Unnamed: Newark
9/24/2011
10 players
winner: Jay Kristoff
TWD: The Pattie Melt
desc: My version of my favorite John Pattie deck

Izhim abd Azrael
Bakr
Djuhah, The Bronze Bow
Olugbenga
Joe "Boot" Hill
Kashan
Reza Fatir, The Dark Angel
Vadar Vardarian
Hafsa, The Wather
Kamau Jafari
Sajid al Misbah
Basir

Alamut
Anarch Troublemaker
4x Effective Management
Heartblood of the Clan
Market Square
The Path of Blood
Underworld Hunting Ground
4x Villein

2x Clotho's Gift
Condem the Sins of the Father
16x Haqim's Law: Leadership
Khabar: Glory
6x Loss

Reckless Agitation

2x Succulent Vitae

2x Black Sunrise
Delaying Tactics
Foul Blood

Blood Sweat
Dagon's Call
2x Selective Silence
4x Target Vitals
Taste of Death
Thin Blood

2x Camera Phone
Gran Madre di Dio, Italy

Jay, why did you include Gran Madre di Dio, Italy? Did you consider Pentex, or was it too much of a power card? What about any obfuscate cards?

Cool deck!

Ira wrote:

Jay, why did you include Gran Madre di Dio, Italy? Did you consider Pentex, or was it too much of a power card? What about any obfuscate cards?

Cool deck!

Gran Madre is in there because I love it. In this case for its tapping vamps when the come into play effect. I have always loved tap and bleed (vs. stealth bleed). I enjoy Mind Numb, Remover, Anarch Trouble Maker, etc. I like Gran Madre because is passively does the tapping for me. Sure, it only takes effect when a new vamp is brought into play, but that effect can be big as my prey has just spent the pool on the new vamp, and now that vamp can't play defense, and my prey has yet to get to his master phase where he could recoup that pool expendature with Villein and the like.

Pentex should probably be in there. My hubris was that I would be able to fight through a all star wall type vamp with my combat cards. Even so, Pentex should find a home in this deck.

Obfuscate cards were initially inteneded to be in the deck. However, as I assembled it, I could tell that there was going to be no way to include them and still keep the deck to 60 cards. So I just decided I was okay with being blocked.

Thanks for your interest, and sorry for the delay in my response.