Report & TWD - Eyes of the Dead, Helsinki 19.3.2011

First tournament in my "Is this wallpaper?" tournament series was won by Matias Frosterus with PRE bleed. Other finalist were Otso Turunen with anarch deathstar assamites, Heikki Parviainen with toolboxyish Akunanse, Matti Palomäki with midcap !Toreador and Petri Wessman with Daughters choir/harmony.

Seating in final was Otso->Matias->Petri->Heikki->Matti.
Petri did massive damage with choir/harmony to Heikki and almost got him out before he was ousted. When Petri was ousted, Heikki was really low on pool. So he decided to go full forward in hope to oust Matti, or at least cycle cards enough to survive another round. Well, neither happened. Matias ousted Heikki, and Matti was now low on pool from Heikki's lunge try. Otso tried to keep Matti alive, but after few rounds Matti was out too. In the end game, Otso managed to oust Matias, but as Matias already had three VPs, victory went to him.

All in all the tournament was kinda strange, but fun, as most of the players had chose to play something different than the usual "power deck" stuff. Still, I was little disappointed that noone actually played Eyes of the Dead.

Congrats to Matias for his first tournament win!

Eyes of the Dead
Helsinki, Finland
March 19. 2011
15 players
3R+F

Results:

Final Rank Name Prelim GWs Prelim VPs Final VPs TPs
1 Matias Frosterus 0 3 3 138
2 Otso Turunen 1 6 2 156
2 Heikki Parviainen 2 8 0 144
2 Matti Palomäki 1 3,5 0 102
2 Petri Wessman 0 4 0 162
6 Juha Nyholm 0 2 120
6 Anssi Herranen 0 2 120
8 Janne Lönnqvist 0 2 96
9 Hannu Kokkonen 0 1,5 102
9 Marko Lindroos 0 1,5 102
11 Janne Hägglund 0 1 90
12 Teemu Pulkkinen 0 1 84
13 Kirmo Lassheikki 0 0,5 84
14 Tom Lindberg 0 0 60
14 Marko Saari 0 0 60

Winning deck:

Deck Name : Pride, Presence, Princes and Prejudice
Author : Matias Frosterus
Description :
Mono PRE deck that uses cheap Princes for defense via Second Tradition and pool gain via Parity Shift. It's easyish to get through by proper negotiating even without any vote push.


Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 4 max: 6 average: 4.83333

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2x Mustafa, The Heir 6 FOR PRE cel dom prince Ventrue:4
2x Tara 6 POT PRE cel prince Brujah:5
1x Shasa Abu Badr 5 PRE cel for Ishtarri:4
1x Victor Pelletier 5 PRE cel dom for Ventrue:4
1x Antoinette Dubois 4 PRE for mel Daughter :4
1x Bethany Ray 4 PRE aus Toreador:5
1x Lumumba 4 PRE ani Guruhi:4
1x Marla Kenyon 4 PRE ser Follower :4
1x Reginald Moore 4 PRE primogen Brujah:4
1x Reverend Adams Adv 4 PRE aus Ventrue:4


Library [64 cards]

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Action [19]
8x Enchant Kindred
2x Entrancement
9x Legal Manipulations

Action Modifier [12]
5x Aire of Elation
6x Change of Target
1x Leverage

Combat [10]
5x Majesty
5x Staredown

Master [13]
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Effective Management
1x Information Highway
1x Jake Washington (Hunter)
1x Labyrinth, The
6x Life in the City
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Prophecies of Gehenna

Political Action [3]
3x Parity Shift

Reaction [7]
7x Second Tradition: Domain


Crafted with : Anarch Revolt Deck Builder. [Sun Mar 20 09:41:05 2011]

hmm... seems like there's little mistake in decklist. Labyrinth should probably be Lillith's Blessing, as I remember Matias to play one in the final.

a-e wrote:

All in all the tournament was kinda strange, but fun, as most of the players had chose to play something different than the usual "power deck" stuff.

Indeed so. On the first round all three tables had an Assamite deck on them.

Also getting to finals with mere 0 GW + 4 VP seemed unbelievable! Then again, many tables timeouted.

a-e wrote:

Still, I was little disappointed that noone actually played Eyes of the Dead.

Well, what didya expect?


Anyways, it really was great to encounter something else than your standard tournament decks.


I'll try to post some pics later on today.

Return of crappy cell phone pics.
I've included only pics from the final as the pics from the prelims were so awful they couldn't be used. Next time I'll try my best to bring an actual camera with me...


Outside looking in; getting started.


Some rounds in.
Clockwise from the left corner: Marko the judge, Matti, Otso, Matias, Petri and Heikki.


Closeups of the same moment.
Heikki's Akunanse.


Petri's Daughters.


Matias' Ventrues.


Matti's !Toreadors.


And Otso's Assamites.


Endgame with just Otso's Assamite horde facing off with Matias' few stalwart Ventrues.


Our vigilant judge is showing off colour! Respect.

a-e wrote:

hmm... seems like there's little mistake in decklist. Labyrinth should probably be Lillith's Blessing, as I remember Matias to play one in the final.

Ah, yes indeed - sorry about that! I've been using Labyrinth as a stand-in for Lilith's Blessing on ARDB and forgot to correct it. So the correct deck list is:

Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 4 max: 6 average: 4.83333

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2x Mustafa, The Heir 6 FOR PRE cel dom prince Ventrue:4
2x Tara 6 POT PRE cel prince Brujah:5
1x Shasa Abu Badr 5 PRE cel for Ishtarri:4
1x Victor Pelletier 5 PRE cel dom for Ventrue:4
1x Antoinette Dubois 4 PRE for mel Daughter :4
1x Bethany Ray 4 PRE aus Toreador:5
1x Lumumba 4 PRE ani Guruhi:4
1x Marla Kenyon 4 PRE ser Follower :4
1x Reginald Moore 4 PRE primogen Brujah:4
1x Reverend Adams Adv 4 PRE aus Ventrue:4


Library [64 cards]

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Action [19]
8x Enchant Kindred
2x Entrancement
9x Legal Manipulations

Action Modifier [12]
5x Aire of Elation
6x Change of Target
1x Leverage

Combat [10]
5x Majesty
5x Staredown

Master [13]
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Effective Management
1x Information Highway
1x Jake Washington (Hunter)
1x Lilit's Blessing
6x Life in the City
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Prophecies of Gehenna

Political Action [3]
3x Parity Shift

Reaction [7]
7x Second Tradition: Domain


Crafted with : Anarch Revolt Deck Builder. [Sun Mar 20 09:41:05 2011]


The final was indeed extremely weird. No dominate and only one deck that had bounce.