TWD - Week of Nightmares 4

Week of Nightmares Event 4
Columbus, Ohio
June 7, 2022
2R+F
15 players
Karl Schaefer
www.vekn.net/event-calendar/event/10112

-- 2gw6 + 4vp in final

Deck Name: Shilmulo Death Star
Description: A Ravnos Death Star deck. A reworking of my other Death Star designs. Based
on Matt Morgan's original design.

Brad mid-cap DEM 1 VP ->
Jesse died too fast for me to recall ->
Me 4 VP ->
Guy Platinum bleed ->
Darby Imbued Chainsaw

Brad came out of the gate firing on all cylinders. He didn't have a bleed for less than 4
against his first prey.

I was struggling to do anything useful with my opening hand, which contained a bunch of
stealth and Shilmulo Tarot. I brought up Paul Forrest first and equipped the Tarot.
These extra draws came in very handy as I wasn't getting much card cycling other than my
discard.

Guy was also starting very fast. Each Platinum bleed hit and by the time Guy was ousted
there were 8 or 9 corruption counters on Darby's Imbued. Darby was under immediate and
constant pressure.

I did manage to draw into my Con Boons in a timely fashion and was keeping my pool total
high in anticipation of Brad's big bleeds. Once he was my predator, I decided to No-Block
every action. His first turn as my predator was still very damaging, but he only had two
vampires at that point. I was running with Paul, Chavi, Irena, and a baby. Guy takes
some bleeds of one, but reduces all the bleeds of two.

On my next turn, I'm low on pool and I play a master card to draw the Revolutionary
Council from my Tarot, attempting to oust Guy with votes, since his bleed reduction was
too consistent. The vote gets DI2'd, so I have to bleed instead. Guy has 6 pool and Paul
Forrest plus the hand and Tarot stealth make short work of him as he was out of bleed
reduction. Darby was at three pool and I had saved Chavi for last, setting up many
different stealth cards in hand to combine with her special. I go for the bleed of three
and manage to hit 4 stealth, just enough to make it land.

Twelve pool to the better, but it's Brad's turn and he removes almost all of those gains.
I make a baby and call Exclusion Principle. Fire off a few bleeds all boosted by Paul
Forrest who can get The Coven blood every turn during the heads-up. Brad's pool total is
still very high because Darby was unable to make any forward progress. Another round of
bleeds. I Archon the plus-bleeder and Brad's remaining vampires do very little. I recur
Eat the Rich because Gem Ghastly is a Primogen, then proceed to vote and bleed Brad off
the table.

This deck originally had Rom Gypsy, which was removed. I never bothered to put City Star
Taxi back in, but an additional stealth permanent might prove useful in some metas.

Crypt (12 cards, min=4 max=28 avg=3.92)

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1x Alexis Sorokin 8 for CEL CHI OBF PRO Ravnos:4
1x Chavi Oraczko 7 nec ANI CHI FOR Ravnos:5
1x Tatiana Stepanova, Alastor 7 ani for obf CHI PRE Ravnos:4
1x Vassily Taltos 6 aus cel chi dom for obf Ravnos:4
1x Irena 5 ani for pre CHI Ravnos:5
1x Paul Forrest, False Prophet 5 chi for pre Ravnos:4
1x Devyn 4 ani chi pre Ravnos:4
5x Anarch Convert 1 Caitiff:ANY

Library (75 cards)
Master (15)
1x Anarch Railroad
1x Archon Investigation -- if you need it, you need it
1x Barrens, The
2x Blood Doll
1x Carfax Abbey
1x Coven, The
1x Fear of Mekhet -- not needed today; meta dependent
1x Fortune Teller Shop
1x Garibaldi-Meucci Museum -- recursion is still broken
1x Giant's Blood
1x Infamous Insurgent -- Suddened today, but generally good
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion -- still good
1x Twilight Camp
1x Week of Nightmares

Action (15)
1x Fee Stake: Boston
1x Fee Stake: Corte
1x Fee Stake: Los Angeles
1x Fee Stake: New York
1x Fee Stake: Perth
1x Fee Stake: Seattle
2x Illegalism -- most of the crypt can use two functions
7x Tumnimos

Equipment (1)
1x Shilmulo Tarot -- great for setting up your hand flow

Political Action (16)
2x Anarch Salon -- refilling Ravnos during the Week is important
4x Consanguineous Boon
1x Domain Challenge
2x Eat the Rich -- great in the current vote-heavy meta
1x Exclusion Principle -- good for Delayed Boons, never had that issue
1x Kine Resources Contested
1x Neonate Breach
2x Reckless Agitation
2x Revolutionary Council

Action Modifier (22)
5x Adhocracy
2x Bewitching Oration -- stacks with Adhocracy on vote heavy tables
2x Cryptic Rider -- ensure the important vote cannot be Delayed
2x False Resonance
2x Fata Morgana
1x Forgotten Labyrinth
2x Mirror's Visage
2x Propaganda of the Deed -- cycles easily
3x Smoke and Mirrors
1x Voter Captivation -- so good even the chance of getting it is worth the slot

Action Modifier/Combat (6)
3x Mirror Image
3x Occlusion

That might have been Jesse playing that Brad rolled through that game.
Or satyr Henry Taylor.