Report & TWD - Belgian Limited Championship, Brussels, 15.7.2023

Belgian Limited National Championship 2023
Brussels, Belgium
July 15, 2023
3R + F
35 Players
Organizer: Emiliano Imeroni
Winner: Bram Van Stappen

www.vekn.net/event-calendar/event/10685

A quick overview

35 (!) players assembled for the second Limited Belgian Championship... and the biggest draft in my memory, on par with the one in the Paris EC 2019!

Each player drafted a mix of boosters and "home-made" product, detailed here , with a "Dark Sovereigns" underlying theme of Camarilla + Independent vampires.

You will (at some point) find photos of the tournament on the Facebook event page .

After three hard-fought rounds, five players sat to play the finals in the following order:
Bram (Lodin votes) -> Marko (S&B) -> Serge (Giovanni stuff) -> Frédéric (er... don't remember) -> Petr (Ravnos). Unsurprisingly, Bram the extraordinaire took the final with an imposing 4 VP to Frédéric's 1 VP.

Thanks to everyone for a super-fun day of drafting!

Final standings

The final standings as well as the results of all games of the tournament are included in the attached pdf file:


Tournament winning deck

Deck Name: GP BRUSSELS - draft

Crypt (8 cards; Capacity min=1 max=8 avg=3.75)
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1x Greger Anderssen 7 dom pro AUS OBF Malkavian:2
1x Igo the Hungry 1 pre pro Caitiff:1
1x Lodin (Olaf Holte) 8 aus pro DOM FOR PRE Ventrue:5
1x Normal 2 obf Malkavian:1
1x Rufina Soledad 2 for Ventrue:1
1x Smudge the Ignored 1 -none- Caitiff:1
1x Victor Donaldson 6 for pre DOM Ventrue:5
1x Duck 3 obf pot Nosferatu:1

Library: 35 cards

Master (7 cards)
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1x Fragment of the Book of Nod
1x Frenzy
1x Metro Underground
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Asylum Hunting Ground
1x Ventrue Headquarters
1x Blood Doll

Action (4 cards)
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1x Judgment: Camarilla Segregation
1x Legal Manipulations
1x Charming Lobby
1x Sacrificial Lamb

Action Modifier (2 cards)
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2x Change of Target

Political Action (11 cards)
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1x Kine Resources Contested
1x Parity Shift
1x Praxis Seizure: Amsterdam
1x Regaining the Upper Hand
1x Rumors of Gehenna
2x Sabbat Threat
2x Banishment
2x Conservative Agitation

Combat (6 cards)
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1x Indomitability
1x Rolling with the Punches
1x Taste of Vitae
2x Thrown Gate
1x Disguised Weapon

Equipment (1 cards)
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1x Grenade

Reaction (4 cards)
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2x On the Qui Vive
2x Spirit's Touch

Better late than never… Some pictures of the Draft Championship have been posted on the FB event page (the bad ones are mine, the good ones by the great Marko Saari!).

Bram’s winning DRAFT deck added to the original post! Look at what junk he can win with!

That is absolutely no junk for a draft. 2 Banishments, PS, Ventrue HQ, a Judgment: CS? Holy S***. Okay, no bounce is a weak spot. But hey, 2 OtqV and some intercept is cool too.

I agree : for a draft this seems solid. I would add the pentex and the fragment to the list of good cards.

and a blood doll, parity and metro underground .... but the real winner was sabbat threat, forcing your prey to move forward!
I was complaining like a child after the initial draft because it really felt like i drew nothing (nearly no useful minion cards like prevention, bounce or a majesty etc,)
Some people drafted francois villon, chun hei! masika etc ... but like on sunday ... star alligned. (one round my prey was so strong he totally crippled my grandprey who in return basically backousted)