TWD - Week of Nightmares 2024 - Day 3, Warsaw (Poland) (26 Sep 2024)
26 Oct 2024 09:09 #112908
by Ankha
Replied by Ankha on topic TWD - Week of Nightmares 2024 - Day 3, Warsaw (Poland) (26 Sep 2024)
Could the organizers please upload the archon?
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06 Nov 2024 14:09 #113023
by UFOPOLI
2 votes (titled) of Helsinki
Replied by UFOPOLI on topic TWD - Week of Nightmares 2024 - Day 3, Warsaw (Poland) (26 Sep 2024)
The key to this final was the seating order, i.e. getting to choose the one and only right place to sit, which being the first seed allowed me to do, and it has never been as easy as it was this time. The Carna deck was the only one that could reliably stop the clown car, and the only way to deal with having an almost identical crypt in the table was to be its cross-table and be able to negotiate around contesting. The rest was just trying to maintain balance while slowly sneaking towards an oust.
Final table:
Luckily enough, my cross-table clan buddies had the same idea and suggested agreeing upon vampires at the very first second of the game. We found a distribution that was acceptable to both, with me taking Adrino and he getting Ángel. For the rest, whenever I drew a new crypt card, I asked whether it would be okay to bring out, and if not, left it there and tried again the next turn. I didn't even remotely consider contesting at any point of the game.
However, getting a point turned out to be tricky as the Guillaume Giovanni deck sandwiched between us two Tzimisces has a hand size of 10–20 and virtually guaranteed bounce for any bleed above one, and even for some of the ones. One or two bleeds for one per turn it was, then. Meanwhile, Carna was keeping the clown car humble, not allowing much else than Con. Boons, for which I provided the votes, in order to keep him out of ousting range for the other Tzimisces, because for a certain reason, I knew that deck's lunge potential more than well. Carna's Nephandi were, in turn, bleeding me for ones, forcing me to balance between blocking, bouncing and Govern-bloating the lost pool back.
Had there been ten more minutes on the clock, Sélim would have surely got his oust, as he made it really close, or the winner might have been Magnus who had been holding a Life Boon. In the end, my balancing act paid off, and the final timed out peacefully with everybody still unalive.
To finish with a few hot takes about the deck, while Garibaldi is probably the defining card of the current meta, I'm not convinced about it in this deck in particular. Cycling an Organized Resistance or Bait and Switch sounds great on paper but neither has so far been relevant in practice. Repeated Eat the Riches can be powerful, too, but my experience with the card (even though it gave the inspiration for the deck's name) is that I'd almost always rather have an Anarchist Uprising or Ancilla Empowerment. Mixing up the vote math isn't usually strong enough in a deck that isn't dedicated to voting, and it's quite common that the player you need to get rid of is the one with no titles.
Final table:
- Nemanja: V5 Tzimisce
- Magnus: Ravnos clown car
- Jozef: Carna w/ Nephandi
- Tero: V5 Tzimisce
- Sélim: Guillaume Giovanni
Luckily enough, my cross-table clan buddies had the same idea and suggested agreeing upon vampires at the very first second of the game. We found a distribution that was acceptable to both, with me taking Adrino and he getting Ángel. For the rest, whenever I drew a new crypt card, I asked whether it would be okay to bring out, and if not, left it there and tried again the next turn. I didn't even remotely consider contesting at any point of the game.
However, getting a point turned out to be tricky as the Guillaume Giovanni deck sandwiched between us two Tzimisces has a hand size of 10–20 and virtually guaranteed bounce for any bleed above one, and even for some of the ones. One or two bleeds for one per turn it was, then. Meanwhile, Carna was keeping the clown car humble, not allowing much else than Con. Boons, for which I provided the votes, in order to keep him out of ousting range for the other Tzimisces, because for a certain reason, I knew that deck's lunge potential more than well. Carna's Nephandi were, in turn, bleeding me for ones, forcing me to balance between blocking, bouncing and Govern-bloating the lost pool back.
Had there been ten more minutes on the clock, Sélim would have surely got his oust, as he made it really close, or the winner might have been Magnus who had been holding a Life Boon. In the end, my balancing act paid off, and the final timed out peacefully with everybody still unalive.
To finish with a few hot takes about the deck, while Garibaldi is probably the defining card of the current meta, I'm not convinced about it in this deck in particular. Cycling an Organized Resistance or Bait and Switch sounds great on paper but neither has so far been relevant in practice. Repeated Eat the Riches can be powerful, too, but my experience with the card (even though it gave the inspiration for the deck's name) is that I'd almost always rather have an Anarchist Uprising or Ancilla Empowerment. Mixing up the vote math isn't usually strong enough in a deck that isn't dedicated to voting, and it's quite common that the player you need to get rid of is the one with no titles.
2 votes (titled) of Helsinki
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