TWD + Report - NERQ TempleCon, Warwick, RI 2/7/2015

We had 24 players for our TempleCon Qualifier tournament on February 6th, 2015 at TempleCon at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick, RI.

1. Matt Morgan 2gw, 10vp, 5vp final
2. David Cherryholmes, 2gw, 5.5vp
2. Jen Hirsch 1gw, 3.5vp, 126tp
2. Mark Danko 1gw, 3.5vp, 114tp
2. Chris Malec 1gw, 4vp
Adam Hulse
Nik Lima
Sonam Adinolf
Matt Hirsch
Mike Andryuk
Sam Ntonme
Peter Oh
John Whelan
Andrew Davis
Jason Schneiderman
Selen Turkay
Scott Gomes
Jose Lafluente
Prescott Jenner
Joshua Feuerstein
Peter Kapsalis
Jon Scherer
David Zopf
Ben Peal

Finals Seating:
Chris -> Jen -> David -> Mark -> Matt

Deck Name : Payload
Author : Matt Morgan
Description : This deck originally had one Monastery of Shadows, but I must have moved it to another deck or something. Basically what you have here is an Edward Vignes deck where everybody costs 4 extra pool. The nice thing about all those titles is you can try to shut down bloat vote. Adding pool to the table is bad. I made this deck because I hadn't won a tournament with Ventrue yet (never had an Arika phase) and because I've lost my fear of being ousted and now just play a lot of offense. Haven't had a game go to time in quite a while.

Anyway, the deck took 15 of 19 potential VPs all day, which might be a personal best. I let two get away in the first round because Peteo used some kind of mind control on me and convinced me he had wakes when he didn't. I then took 4 VPs on a pair of 5 player tables and swept the final, mostly by letting bad things happen to people who weren't me. All three of my preliminary rounds finished first and the final took around an hour.


Crypt [13 vampires] Capacity min: 2 max: 10 average: 7.15385

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5x Mary Anne Blaire 10 AUS DOM FOR PRE ani pot justicar Ventrue:5
1x Johannes Castelein 9 DEM DOM FOR PRE prince Ventrue:4
1x Lodin (Olaf Holte) 8 DOM FOR PRE aus pro prince Ventrue:5
1x Joseph DiGiaccomo 6 PRE aus dom for Ventrue:5
1x Mustafa, The Heir 6 FOR PRE cel dom prince Ventrue:4
1x Emily Carson 5 DOM for pre primogen Ventrue:5
1x Victor Pelletier 5 PRE cel dom for Ventrue:4
1x Dr. Solomon Grey 2 dom pre Caitiff:5
1x Jackson Asher 2 dom Ventrue:4

/* 13 cards makes me feel better about not being crypt screwed and empirical evidence has supported that, but there's no real math behind it. */


Library [69 cards]

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Action [14]
2x Entrancement
9x Govern the Unaligned
1x Judgment: Camarilla Segregation
2x Scouting Mission

Action Modifier [21]
5x Conditioning
1x Daring the Dawn
1x Enkil Cog
12x Freak Drive
2x Seduction

/* Daring the Dawn was key in the final. Seduction is also very important. I got Enkil Cog out every time I drew it. */

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

/* Haven't gotten this card to do anything useful for me. */

Combat [10]
10x Majesty

Master [15]
2x Anarch Troublemaker
1x Blood Doll
1x Ephor
1x Giant's Blood
1x Jake Washington (Hunter)
2x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Perfectionist
1x Ventrue Headquarters
3x Villein
2x Wider View

/* Ephor is really just there for flavor, but has helped a little from time to time. */

Political Action [3]
1x Anarchist Uprising
2x Parity Shift

/* I kept outsmarting myself and not being able to Parity Shift but having the most pool is a pretty good problem to have. I could see swapping a Parity Shift for Banishment. Great for dealing with the untapped bouncer. */

Reaction [5]
5x Deflection

Northeast Regional Qualifier 2015
Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
07 February 2015
23 Players
3R+F
Matt Morgan

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