TWD - Coupe de Paris, France

Coupe de Paris
Paris, France
March 20th, 2016
2R+F
10 players
Vincent Ripoll

Deck Name : Princess Pitch
Author : Ankha
Description : After going back and forth between versions with or without Dominate, with or without Villein+Perfectionist,
I finally tried the highly aggressive way of doing things: no deflection, 2 more Shattering Crescendos and Daring the Dawn
to ensure the delivery. The deck is a bit like a weenie potence when having an aggressive predator, but with
even less defense considering the intercept problems of the Daughters. Backousting IS an option because there is
very little pool gain (Legal, Wider View and Powerbase if you're lucky to draw it).
The "stealth" module (Daring the Dawn, Missing Voice, Siren's Lure, Paris Opera House and Virtuosa) works extremely well,
even against heavy blocker. Just be sure to use the Daring wisely so you send the blocking minions to torpor.


Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 2 max: 6 average: 4.58333

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3x Yseult 6 FOR MEL PRE Daughter :3
3x Angela Preston 5 MEL PRE for Daughter :2
2x Delilah Monroe 4 MEL for pre Daughter :2
1x Gael Pilet 6 FOR MEL chi pre Daughter :2
1x Celeste, The Voice 3 mel pre Daughter :2
1x Muse 3 ani for mel Daughter :2
1x New Blood 2 san Blood Bro:ANY -- a chump blocker, and crypt cycler


Library [88 cards]

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Master [17]
2x Archon Investigation
1x Carver's Meat Packing and Storage
1x Command Performance -- great card, definitely worth the 2 pool (you can always hunt).
1x Fear of Mekhet
1x Fragment of the Book of Nod
3x Jake Washington (Hunter)
2x Paris Opera House
2x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Powerbase: Montreal
1x Retribution -- fun card, it never sent someone to torpor for now
2x Wider View

Action [33]
1x Aranthebes, The Immortal
3x Entrancement
7x Legal Manipulations -- the ousting power, and the pool gain!
2x Rapid Healing -- quite useful considering the amount of Daring the Dawn.
20x Shattering Crescendo

Action Modifier [24]
6x Daring the Dawn
4x Freak Drive
10x Missing Voice, The -- very easy to cycle
2x Siren's Lure
2x Virtuosa

Action Modifier/Combat [6]
6x Force of Personality -- very polyvalent, very useful against Carlton or Unmasking, or to attrition vampires

Ally [1]
1x Carlton Van Wyk (Hunter) -- has the added value of avoiding diablerie of a Daughter after a DtD.

Equipment [2]
2x Heart of Nizchetus

Event [1]
1x Dragonbound -- can be discarded if drawn too early or not clearly advantaging

Reaction [4]
2x Delaying Tactics
2x On the Qui Vive

Kushiel wrote:

Very cool deck! I especially love seeing Retribution in these kinds of decks.

Did you have to do much backousting during the tournament?

Kind of, it was more "back-torporizing everyone and let him die".
I did another tournament with it where I tried it another way: deal with my predator instead of backousting them. It turned out to be a fiasco because people will betray you and you don't have the capacity to prevent them of doing so in reaction. So backousting a predator is unfortunately the only way out.

Lönkka wrote:

Because how you need to play it, could this deck be considered to be in the similar vein as a rush deck and thus a rather bad choice (according to some)?

It's pretty similar, except that:
- it's more stable as it works against any type of minion and there's no combat moving part (no prevent, no combat ends, no dodge, range doesn't matter etc.)
- it works better against multiple targets with little blood
- it has PLENTY of "rushes"
- it doesn't torporize 1 big cap vampire with full blood in one action
- it does nothing in combat when blocked or attacked

It has access to things a rush deck don't necessarily have:
- stealth
- bleed
- steal ally