TWD - Friend of Mine, Gamex2012, Los Angeles (26 May 2012)

Friend of Mine
Gamex 2012, Los Angeles
26 May 2012
I believe it was 14, will require verification from the organizer
Edward McGlynn

Thanks to the LA V:tES crew and all the visiting players, I had a blast, even for the following tournaments where I got my arse handed to me

I'm happy to get a tournament with a "Euro Brujah" deck. Years ago I came in second to Ben Peal in Boston against a Stanislava deck, and I've revisited the deck a few times since.



Deck Name: Euro Brujah
Author:
Description:
We've all seen it before. Conditioning/Deflection and Torn Signpost/Immortal Grapple. Has an assortment of celerity and taste of vitae for combat and the bare minimum of master cards.

My own flavor was a couple of political actions and Judgement: Camarilla Segregation. I chose Flurry of Action for its dual use.

Crypt (Capacity min=5 max=10 avg=7.83; 12 cards)
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2x Constanza Vinti 8 CEL DOM POT Brujah:2
2x Dónal O'Connor 8 CEL DOM POT Brujah:2
1x Jaroslav Pascek 10 for obf CEL POT PRE Brujah:3
2x Juggler 7 obf pot CEL DOM Brujah:3
1x Menele 10 aus dom CEL POT PRE THA Brujah:3
2x Theo Bell 7 cel dom pre POT Brujah:2
1x Tyler 9 dom for obt CEL POT PRE Brujah:3
1x Volker, The Puppet Prince 5 pot CEL Brujah:2

Library (83 cards)
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Master (9 cards)
3x Blood Doll
1x Celerity
2x Fame
1x Giant's Blood
1x Legendary Vampire
1x Tension in the Ranks

Action (12 cards)
1x Ambush
2x Bum's Rush
5x Flurry of Action
2x Govern the Unaligned
1x Harass
1x Judgment: Camarilla Segregation

Political Action (3 cards)
1x Anathema
2x Parity Shift

Action Modifier (8 cards)
8x Conditioning

Reaction (14 cards)
7x Deflection
4x Second Tradition: Domain
3x Wake with Evening's Freshness

Combat (37 cards)
2x Blur
3x Disarm
3x Flash
8x Immortal Grapple
3x Pursuit
4x Sideslip
6x Taste of Vitae
8x Torn Signpost

Created with Secret Library v0.9.3. (May 29, 2012 03:04:51)

Friend of Mine
Gamex 2012, Los Angeles
26 May 2012
I believe it was 14, will require verification from the organizer
Edward McGlynn

Confirmed

A question for Direwolf : were you greatly annoyed by decks featuring multiple master phase actions ?

Reyda wrote:

A question for Direwolf : were you greatly annoyed by decks featuring multiple master phase actions ?

Yeah, I'd like to second that question. MMPA decks ca be crippled very much by rushing/removing a vamp providing an additional master phases, but this deck, while very much suitable for such a removal, has only 4 rush cards and only 2 vamps with built-in rushes.

So my question really is, in bleed-heavy environment, where it is expected to bleed hard, how do you enter combats you want?

Robert Scythe played an Isanwayen MMPA deck all weekend. You can find it in one of the reports since it finally won on Sunday. The Nocturns he played made it very difficult to remove Isanwayen, and the Shadow Twins gave him a strong minion advantage late game.

Reyda wrote:

A question for Direwolf : were you greatly annoyed by decks featuring multiple master phase actions ?

As someone who used to play Anson and Parthenon ALOT before MMPA really exploded... no, I was not annoyed.

Ashur's Tablets annoy me. Not the card recursion or the time spent selecting and shuffling cards. It's the 3 pool that really bothers me.

Also, in this particular tournament, I pulled an Eye of Hazimal from the deck just prior and didn't really think to add more rushes. I would have added a few. But I did see the few I had when I needed them.

I'd rather be lucky than good.