TWD: Origins 2018 WoN #2 (11 June 2018)

Week of Nightmares 2018 Event #2
Columbus, Ohio
June 11th 2018
2R+F
22 players
Darby Keeney
www.vekn.net/event-calendar/event/8861

4 VP in final.

Deck Name : A Question of When
Author : Darby Keeney
Description : Starts slowly with some Anarch Revolt pressure and bleeds of 1-2, ramps output with permanents and increasingly dense combat in the late game (Ashur Tablet cycles).

Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 3 max: 9 average: 6.33333

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3x Nana Buruku 8 ANI POT PRE Guruhi:4
2x Aksinya Daclau 9 ANI FOR PRE PRO cel tha !Gangrel:4
1x Batsheva 6 ANI PRE obt pot Guruhi:4
1x Sundown (Adv) 6 ANI POT obf pre Nosferatu:3
1x Effie Lowery 5 ANI SPI obf Ahrimane:4
1x Fish 5 ANI POT pre Guruhi:4
1x Petra 5 ANI OBF aus Nosferatu:4
1x Beetleman 4 ANI obf Nosferatu:4
1x Stick 3 ANI !Nosferatu:4

*// Nana and/or Aksinya tend to drive defense and make opportunistic offensive moves. Smaller minions do most bleeding/rushing in the midgame.

Library [84 cards]

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Action [7]
7x Deep Song

Action Modifier [10]
2x Guruhi Are the Land, The
1x Monkey Wrench
2x Power of One
5x Red Question, The

*// Red Question proved to be great. Nana converted mid-action and dropped Monkey Wrench on a Codex bleed in the final. It can also be played after combat on a blocked action, so it's easy to crank out a safety net for the Revolts. Clears the hand easily (burn option or Powerbase:LA) if not needed.

Combat [22]
9x Aid from Bats
1x Canine Horde
6x Carrion Crows
1x Groundfighting
3x Taste of Vitae
2x Terror Frenzy

*// Light on combat early, but gets increasingly dense with each firing of Ashur Tablet. This is one of my main complaints with this card - the way it sculpts a deck to be more appropriate to developing game state (or predator/prey constructions).

Equipment [3]
1x Codex of the Edenic Groundskeepers *// synergistic surge offense.
1x Heart of Nizchetus
1x Sport Bike

Master [34]
1x Anarch Free Press, The
1x Anarch Railroad
6x Anarch Revolt
7x Ashur Tablets
1x Carfax Abbey
1x Club Illusion
1x Direct Intervention
1x Fame
1x Giant's Blood
1x Information Highway
1x Metro Underground
1x Parthenon, The
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Powerbase: Los Angeles
1x Twilight Camp
1x Vessel
4x Villein
1x Wider View
2x Zillah's Valley

*// Only expected to need 1-2 cycles of Tablets and I was concerned that 2 more would interrupt card flow early in the game. I couldn't go with more acceleration for the same reason, It's also necessary to jettison Masters early in most games, even at "only" 34 cards.

*// The pair of untap locations are mostly used if Aksinya shows in the opening crypt.

Reaction [7]
2x Cats' Guidance
1x Eluding the Arms of Morpheus
2x On the Qui Vive
2x Sense the Savage Way

*// I'm pretty casual about blocking unless permacept AND an untap location come up early. Backrushing remains a control option if the defense angle isn't enough.

Retainer [1]
1x Raven Spy

*// Unfortunately, this deck is almost exclusively 1 action per minion per turn with a light reaction package, I had to lean away from a loads of permacept. The Sport Bike above replaces one Raven Spy, because it can be moved and it leverages that tiny bit of untap following equip actions.

Ally [0]

*// Omitting Carlton Van Wyk was a grave error, rectified during this write-up.

Updated OP for player count.