TWD Justicar Retribution XX: Mun jutut -Helsinki, Finland (Oct 27th)

Justicar Retribution XX: Mun jutut
Standard constructed tournament
Sun 27.10.2013 11.00-
3 rounds + finals
15 players
Winner: Jyri Puhakka

Jyri should be submitting the decklist to this thread soonish.


Out of the 10 games a whopping 9 ended in timeout -a new all time "record"



1 1 3 Jyri Puhakka 1 4 1,5 138
2 2 1 Kari Mäkinen 1 4 132
2 3 4 Janne Lönnqvist 1 3 0,5 126
2 4 8 Kari Vieno 1 5 0,5 144
2 5 11 Tommi Hakomaa 1 5,5 0,5 144
6 6 9 Jouko Loijas 1 3 114
7 7 5 Marko Saari 0 2,5 126
7 8 13 Aleksi Nuora 0 2,5 126
9 9 6 Niina Lindroos 0 1,5 108
10 10 14 Matti Palomäki 0 1,5 84
11 11 10 Akseli Jalava 0 0,5 84
12 12 12 Marko Lindroos 0 0,5 78
12 13 15 Juha Nyholm 0 0,5 78
14 14 7 Lauri Salmi 0 0,5 72
15 15 2 Teemu Pulkkinen 0 0 66

Archon uploaded and approved.

Some low quality pics:


Clockwise from the left: Akseli, Matti, Jyri, Kari M and Marko L


Clockwise from the left: Jouko, Aleksi, Tommi, Lauri, Marko S


Clockwise from the left: Kari V, Niina, Teemu, Juha (and empty place for me)




Finals. Clockwise from the left: Kari V, Jyri, Kari M, Tommi (and empty place for me)


Finals:
Janne: Aching Beauty + Torrent galore
Kari V: !Nosf "toolbox" ("it is toolbox since it is not just combat -there are toolbox card like Deep Song, Abbot and Reactions...." -yeah, right!)
Jyri: Black Hand + Thuggees & Anu
Kami M: Grinders
Tommi: Nana & Nagila

Deck Name: Black Hand + Thuggees & Anu
Author: Jyrkkä
Description:
Thuggees are really good and versatile allies. Use them with Anu\'s speciality. Put the Perfectionist on Anu and then just hunt or bounce with her. Remember that you can use Thuggees to Veil your other minions. Do the dirty work with !Malks.

Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=3 max=7 avg=5.83)
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3x Anu Diptinatpa 7 aus vic DOM NEC Nagaraja:6
2x Dr. Morrow, The Skindoctor 5 for AUS VIC Tzimisce:5
2x Hagar Stone 6 obf AUS DEM !Malkavian:5
2x Lubomira Hradok 3 OBF !Nosferatu:5
3x Marge Khan 7 aus for DEM OBF POT !Malkavian:5

Library (83 cards)
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Master (18)
1x Archon Investigation
1x Auspex
3x Blood Doll
1x Corporal Reservoir
3x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Giant's Blood
1x Jake Washington (Hunter)
3x Perfectionist
4x Villein

Event (1)
1x Unmasking, The

Action (7)
1x Abbot
6x Kindred Spirits

Ally (6)
1x Impundulu
5x Marijava Thuggee

Action Modifier (21)
5x Cloak the Gathering
4x Eyes of Chaos
3x Faceless Night
4x Lost in Crowds
2x Spying Mission
3x Veil the Legions

Reaction (17)
1x Enhanced Senses
4x Eyes of Argus
4x On the Qui Vive
2x Precognition
6x Telepathic Misdirection

Combat (9)
3x High Ground
3x Psychic Assault
3x Target Vitals

Combo (4)
2x Consume the Dead
2x Swallowed by the Night

Created with Secret Library v0.9.4b. (Oct 28, 2013 16:36:05)

I didn't had a chance to playtest my deck.
Any how there are lots of good cards which need to play at a right time. Waiting for the right time is the key to conceive anything with a toolbox ally deck like this.

The first round was pretty much testing out possibilities of the deck. One and a half VP to me.
At the second round I ended up to the worst place: just behind The Stickmen. I didn't really reach anything, I just slowly died away. 0 vp.

The third round was my round. My prey was playing the deck without intercep or bouncing. Just bloating and megableeds. My predator was playing Cock Robin deck so my only worry was how to survive long enough to oust my prey and my grandprey. My grandpredator was playing weenie Tremeres so Cock's had a hand full of little Tremeres which was a good thing to me. After some time one of those little Tremeres ended up to the second round at a combat with Cock. Cock was torporised via Walk of Flame after that I was almost without pressure. Cock Robin's deck although did manage to bring up Baron but it was too late. I played a perfectionist to Anu and I was constantly trying to hunt and keep up a good blood flow. After some playing I ousted Blood Brothers and soon after that Gratiano Lasombras. Timing was very tight: There were two seconds left after my second oust which brought my GW and ticket to the finals.

The final table and seating was a disaster to me: two combat decks, Stickmen as my prey (from round two) and Lönkka's Toreador aching beaty / torrent deck. My plan for the finals was just to keep the pool as low as possible on the table via Anu's speciality. That keeps the pressure on the combat decks (!Nos big caps and the other one was Nana deck). I thought that if I just stay alive and keep every deck on the table at an oust range I might have a chance.

And I got my chance: Nana used the AI to burn a little too eager Owain. Stickmen was without pressure so they brought up another copy of Owain. With that Stickmen ended up 6 pool and two bounce card. I was very short on pool too, just three. This was too temptating to !Nosferatus. They tried to bleed me away and I just bounced those last bleeds to Stickmen and finish the work with my Hagar Stone. One vp and half to me and when no one else got anything, I won the tournament. When the game ended !Nos had one pool and one blood on two different minions. Toreadors had 11 pool and no minions, Stickmen was ousted just one and half minutes before end and Nana was playing solid three (?) minions and more than ten pool.

Clearly, my deck needs some tuning but the concept is solid.

Congrats Jyrkkä for the win with Thuggee deck! Yarr!