(TWD) Blood Awakening in Denver (July 16, 2011)

Tournament: Blood Awakening
Location: Denver, CO
Format: Constructed, 3R+F
Players: 10
Winner: Darby Keeney

Deck Name : Govern is Weak Sauce
Author : Darby Keeney
Description : (Guruhi Brutal Influence)

First run though with adjustments after the Powerbase LA Win. Eze still runs low on blood. I guess sitting next to the Beast (twice) and Una (finals) might have contributed to that situation.


Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 7 max: 11 average: 9.41667

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5x Eze, The Demon Pri 11 ANI NEC POT PRE THA aus magaji Guruhi:3
2x Iniko, The Black L 9 ANI OBT POT PRE cel Guruhi:4
2x Nana Buruku 8 ANI POT PRE Guruhi:4
1x Ugadja 10 ABO ANI POT PRE dom for magaji Guruhi:4
1x Aren, Priest of Es 7 POT PRE ani obf Guruhi:4
1x Ubende 7 CEL PRE for obf qui magaji Ishtarri:4


Library [73 cards]

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Action [19]
10x Brutal Influence
1x Entrancement *// useful in theory (steal Carlton / War Ghoul)
3x Exile
1x Magic of the Smith
2x No Secrets From the Magaji
1x Revelations *// useful in theory (strip Archon Investigation)
1x Rutor's Hand

*// A first-turn No Secrets ended up being critical sitting downwind of Una.

Action Modifier [16]
1x Approximation of Loyalty
2x Call of the Hungry Dead
1x Enkil Cog
2x Iron Glare
2x Mirror Walk
1x Perfect Clarity *// only used in 1 game of 7 so far.
4x Perfect Paragon
1x Strange Day
2x Voter Captivation

Action Modifier / Combat [1]
1x Force of Personality

Action Modifier/Reaction [1]
1x Guruhi Kholo

Ally [1]
1x Mylan Horseed (Goblin)

Combat [3]
3x Majesty

Equipment [3]
1x Heart of Nizchetus
1x Kduva's Mask
1x Nkishi *// very useful addition, thank you Ira

Master [20]
1x Ancestor Spirit
1x Giant's Blood
1x Heidelberg Castle, Germany
1x Monastery of Shadows
12x Orun
3x Villein
1x Wider View

Political Action [9]
1x Ancient Influence
4x Banishment
1x Disputed Territory
1x Political Stranglehold
1x Reins of Power
1x Rumors of Gehenna

Crafted with : Anarch Revolt Deck Builder. [Sun Jul 17 09:06:41 2011]

---REPORT---

Game 1. Kiasyd --> Al-Muntaquim --> Eze --> [POT] --> Ahrimanes. The [POT] decks chases a Fames Ahrimanes the whole game, but can't get by Howler's 2-3 manuevers per fight. The Kiasyd get no pressure and I accept a 21-pool Golconda of a fully-decked out Eze to stay alive. I died to the Kiasyd just as my backup minions were lining up a kill on the [POT] grapple rush deck to my left and the rest is a time-out.

Game 2. Una --> [POT] --> Eze --> !Malk --> Ahrimanes. The [POT] deck rushed Eze (Nana blocked) instead of a newly-influenced Una behind him. He paid the price, but I was so hamstrung that I couldn't get beyond 1 VP when I butted heads with the Ahrimanes in the heads-up. At this point, I'm thinking that I'll be getting an early dinner.

Game 3. [AUS][CEL][THA] --> Eze --> Kiasyd --> [POT] --> !Malks. I got my revenge on the Kiasyd and [POT] decks as my predator was busy blocking !Malks and I got away with a few actions I probably shouldn't have. I get 3 and am heads-up with a dedicated "I can get 4 intercept and suck your minions dry" deck. I fail to draw my Strange Day fast enough for an oust and get GW / 3 VP. This win was mostly a seating-based victory.

Finals 4. Ahrimanes (Donovan) -- > Una (Kelly) --> Eze (Darby) --> Al-Muntaquim (Jon) --> Kiasyd (Shaena). Una hates seeing the intercept behind. I get an early No Secrets to help prevent her gear up. She gets rushed and blocked into torpor. I Banish the empty Una to prevent cross-table rescuing, thinking that the pool to re-influence her will kill Kelly. No luck. Donovan fails to bleed and dies to some serious Kiasyd top-decking. In retrospect, I should have just left her in torpor and blocked hunt attempts post-rescue.

But now Una gets going and burns 3 carded rushes on Eze down thinking that's what he needed to do to get enough gear to make the deck viable. Not true, I would have given him almost everything to stop the Kiasyd.

But Kelly is low on pool and his forward rushes leave him vulnerable to the 4-5 Kiasyd behind him. I Giant's Blood on Eze and get going again. Despite some cross table Banishment on the bleeders, Kelly is dead. I get Jon with a decent bleed of my own with Reins of Power for the oust, ending up heads-up with the Kiasyd.

A few more Banishments, Exiles with follow-up pool-gain votes and I am pretty well set despite eating 3-4 bleeds of 4. A large Enkil Cogged bleed after an Exile seals the deal.

FYI:
TWDs belong to totally different catagory: Event Reports and TWD

Crap, I thought that's where I was. Sorry if I mis-clicked.

TryDeflectingThisGrapple wrote:

I Giant's Blood on Eze and get going again.

Giant's Blood is so broken in this deck, wouldn't you consider running two? Seems too good not to, unless you're burning through cards so fast that you always see it in the (worst case scenario) endgame anyway.