TWD Justicar Retribution XIX: Swinging in Pain -Helsinki, Finland (Sep 22th)

Justicar Retribution XIX: Swinging in Pain
Standard constructed tournament
Sun 22.09.2013 11.00-
3 rounds + finals
12 players
Winner: Janne Lönnqvist

Shamefully, out of the 10 games 5 ended in a timeout. Thus, for example, Jarkko got to the finals with mere 0GW, 3VP


1 1 7 Janne Lönnqvist 1 7 3 162
2 2 1 Matti Palomäki 1 5,5 1 148
2 3 5 Timo Rekola 1 3,5 114
2 4 10 Jarkko Suvela 0 3 1 126
2 5 12 Hannu Kokkonen 1 5 156
6 6 2 Teemu Pulkkinen 0 1,5 100
7 7 11 Anssi Rekola 0 1 100
8 8 6 Mikko Moisander 0 1 94
9 9 3 Marko Saari 0 1 90
10 10 4 Jyri Puhakka 0 0,5 82
10 11 8 Akseli Jalava 0 0,5 82
12 12 9 Minna Oikola 0 0 42



The winning deck

I saw a lean looking Lasombra deck in this week's reports so I decided to give it a try just for the laughs. Modified it with just two Washes -call it adapting it to local meta if you will.

Here is the TWD entry for the said deck:
vekn.net/forum/9-event-reports-and-twd/54123-twd-qcf-rennes-01092013


In finals all the other players had rather combat heavy decks so I thought I would be toast or get 1 VP tops.

Jarkko: Laidon Harbinger Shamblers
Matti: Lily White Assault Rifle (multi)rush
Hannu: Lasombra bruise bleed
Janne: Lasombra stealth bleed (luckily didn't contest any with Hannu)
Timo: Guillaume Giovanni Shamblers

In the endgame I had a handjam for ages, first with Deflections and them with Governs and I needed stealth to get over Jarkko's Unmasked Shamblers. In the final turn managed to bleed 12 with 2 minions, then sacrifice fourth minion to fish cards (Govern + inferior Bonding) and indeed managed to cycle a Shroud of Absence with those so bled another six with the last minion in Elysian Fields. If I hadn't received the Shroud I would've been ousted the next turn.


Deck Name : Lassombra S&B
User: Louis Gourdin (Janne added just two Washes to his deck he hardly can take any credit for the design of the deck)


Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 3 max: 7 average: 5.33333

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2x Onaedo 6 DOM OBT aus pot Lasombra:4
2x Ermenegildo, The R 5 DOM OBT pot Lasombra:4
1x Henri Lavenant 7 DOM OBT pot qui Lasombra:3
1x Lord Vauxhall 7 DOM OBT POT THA Lasombra:4
1x Isanwayen 6 DOM MYT OBT Kiasyd:4
1x Andrew Emory 5 OBT aus dom pot bishop Lasombra:4
1x Banjoko 5 DOM obt pot Lasombra:3
1x Dame Hollerton 5 DOM OBT myt Kiasyd:4
1x Leila Monroe 4 dom obt pre Lasombra:4
1x Lucy Markowitz 3 dom obt Lasombra:4


Library [72 cards]

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Action [13]
13x Govern the Unaligned

Action Modifier [26]
1x Blanket of Night
1x Bonding
5x Conditioning
2x Foreshadowing Destruction
4x Seduction
4x Shadow Play
4x Shroud of Absence
1x Shroud of Night
1x Stone Travel
3x Tenebrous Form

Ally [9]
9x Nocturn

Master [12]
1x Coven, The
3x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Elysian Fields
1x Giant's Blood
3x Path of Night, The
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Political Hunting Ground
1x Vessel
2x Wash

Reaction [10]
6x Deflection
4x On the Qui Vive

Archon uploaded and approved.

EDIT: Ha ha, just noticed that in my sleep deprived state I hadn't I hadn't approved the Archon. Which actually turned out to be a good thing since an error had crept in and now I can correct it.

Silly me.

EDIT 2: Updated correct info now finally uploaded and approved.

Congrats to Lönkka for winning the tournament!

It was a very bold move to add stealth when you were bleeding your grandprey (me) at round 3.
If I had had short of bounce cards, you could have ended up losing your GW.

goronaga wrote:

Congrats to Lönkka for winning the tournament!

Blind bird & worm is what I say...

goronaga wrote:

It was a very bold move to add stealth when you were bleeding your grandprey (me) at round 3.
If I had had short of bounce cards, you could have ended up losing your GW.

Bold or reckelss. Or even downright stupid, but hey, that's me...

It was a three player situation and I did ask you whether you had a bounce and I just basically wanted to force you to bounce the bleed (of 6, or was it just 3?) back to Matti since I was counting that he most likely couldn't bounce it back with White Lily.

I estimated that even if it HAD landed on you it might've profited me later in t the game as you would've been a softer target already. Besides I didn't want you to beat up my minion with your superior combat (sticks and prevent vs my non ecistent combat) which would've been in your interests since I was your prey.

Finally some pics.
Had a brainfart and only managed to get pics of the two tables in the preliminary rounds...


Clockwise from the left: Anssi, Jarko, Timo and Akseli



Clockwise from the left: Teemu, Minna, Hannu and Marko



Finals. Clockwise from the bottom left: Timo, Jarkko, Matti, Heikki and Janne