TWD Justicar Retribution IX Helsinki, Finland (Sep 30th)

Justicar Retribution IX: The Winner Takes it All, Helsinki Finland
Sep 30th 2012
3R+F
12 Players
Winner: Aleksi Nuora
(Out of the 10 games, 0 ended in timeout -yay!)

1 1 12 Aleksi Nuora 1 4 3 116
2 2 4 Hannu Kokkonen 1 2 96
2 3 9 Timo Rekola 1 5 136
2 4 10 Matias Frosterus 1 3 1 106
2 5 11 Matti Palomäki 2 6 1 138
6 6 5 Jarkko Suvela 0 4 136
7 7 6 Tom Lindeberg 0 3 118
8 8 8 Mikko Moisander 0 3 108
9 9 3 Heikki Palomäki 0 2 110
10 10 2 Anssi Rekola 0 2 94
11 11 7 Jyri Puhakka 0 1 72
12 12 1 Janne Lönnqvist 0 1 66

Aleksi, will you post the deck here, please?


It was very nice to see that 4 guys from Tampere could attend (you guys rule!) especially since this was on the same weekend as Swedish Championships I kinda thought it would be reflected in attendance as at least some more active players would be heading there...

Because of their National Championships I had the swedes in mind when I gave the name to the tournament. Yeah, of course we played Abba during the finals -from a compilation that naturally started off with The Winner Takes it All.

Heh, normally we divide the prize boosters with all the finalists (and you get one per each GW during the preliminary rounds as well) but due to the tournament name this time all the loot had to go to the winner.

Deck Name : Undele's Bag of Dicks
Author : Aleksi Nuora
Description : Bring out big guys with Zillah's to secure a fast vote lock, proceed to win with Undele. For defending and breaking stalemates, pull dick moves like recycling Banishment, DI, Entrancement or Pentex. Very difficult to stop by the time it gets a third minion out.

The burn option cards are a mix of whatever I had within arm's reach at the time I built the deck. Ideally, they would all be masters to feed Anthelios. The deck needs a sixth Villein in order to draw one reliably and early, probably in place of Golconda or Giant's Blood. If I was expecting heavy bleeding I would also add a second Protected Resources.



Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 9 max: 11 average: 9.5

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5x Undele 9 CEL FOR obf pre ser magaji Ishtarri:5
2x Lutz von Hohenzoll 11 AUS DEM OBF PRE pot inner circle Malkavian:4
2x Armin Brenner 10 CEL FOR POT PRE ani obf archbishop !Brujah:4
2x Dmitra Ilyanova 9 CEL FOR POT PRE obf justicar Brujah:5
1x Hektor 9 CEL POT PRE QUI for priscus !Brujah:4


Library [60 cards]

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Action [1]
1x Entrancement

Action Modifier [6]
1x Forced March
1x Forgotten Labyrinth
1x Lost in Crowds
1x Perfect Paragon
2x Voter Captivation

Action Modifier / Combat [2]
2x Force of Personality

Equipment [1]
1x Kduva's Mask

Event [1]
1x Anthelios, The Red Star

Master [27]
3x Ashur Tablets
1x Creepshow Casino
1x Direct Intervention
1x Giant's Blood
1x Golconda: Inner Peace
1x Information Highway
1x Legendary Vampire
1x Monastery of Shadows
1x Parthenon, The
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Protected Resources
5x Villein
1x Waste Management Operation
2x Wider View
6x Zillah's Valley

Political Action [8]
1x Ancient Influence
1x Ancilla Empowerment
1x Banishment
3x Kine Resources Contested
1x Political Stranglehold
1x Rumors of Gehenna

Reaction [1]
1x Lost in Translation

Burn Option [13]
1x Command Performance
3x Dirty Contract
2x Slaughterhouse, The
7x Evil Eye

Each evolution of this kind of deck creeps me more than the one before.

I like the deck very much too.

But don't you think, there's too many masters in the deck. Even subtracting the 7 trifles, the deck still has 20 masters. And with no vampire granting 2 master phases and only Parthenon (which is still quite popular these days I hear), you are almost all the time have too many masters in your hand. And using Anthelios is also less effective.

extrala wrote:

I like the deck very much too.

Thanks, I'm glad to hear that.

But don't you think, there's too many masters in the deck. Even subtracting the 7 trifles, the deck still has 20 masters. And with no vampire granting 2 master phases and only Parthenon (which is still quite popular these days I hear), you are almost all the time have too many masters in your hand. And using Anthelios is also less effective.

I had either Parthenon or Rumors of Gehenna out in almost every game, jamming on masters has never been a problem with this deck. It's also worth noting that 13 of the masters are playable on the first turn.

Then again, once you have Lutz, Undele, 1x KRC and maybe 1x Forgotten Labyrinth or Voter Cap the rest of your deck tends to become superfluous.