TWD - Liga GL/PT 24/25 – Almada

Liga GL/PT 24/25 – Almada
Almada, Setúbal, Portugal
February 8th, 2025
3R+F
18 players
Paul Direktor
www.vekn.net/event-calendar/event/12042

-- 2GW 7VP in preliminary, 3VPs in final

Deck Name: How Martin would play Arika
Author: Paul Direktor
Description:
This deck is strongly inspired by Martin Weinmayer’s latest TWD from the 28th of December 2024, 30th Stanislava. I adapted this horrendous master module to fit Arika. Three direct interventions were maybe a bit excessive and I am unsure if the voter captivation is really necessary. The strong sides of this deck are its durability, especially in the early game. The key to this deck is to just wait and build your board, getting key actions through at the right time.

After 3 games, we had the following situation:

Arika (me) -> Malkav DEM bleed -> Kyasid Bleed -> Mambo Jeanne Rush -> Lasombra V5 bleed

As the top seed, I made the choice to sit as far away from Mambo Jeanne as possible. My game plan was to wait until the first oust happens and try to support my oust by deflecting bleeds from the Lasombra.
The Kyasid bleed deck died pretty quickly to the DEM bleed deck, when Mambo Jeanne started torporizing the DEM vampires. I managed to keep my prey low on pool, keeping him from running away with the table. My predator has been bleeding for one for most of the game, not drawing any bleed increase. Eating up most of the bleeds, liquidations and ashur kept my pool in order. Bringing out Queen Anne first (2nd spot), an early enkil cog proved very efficient in keeping up the pressure on my prey.

The key moment in the game happened after an hour: Mambo Jeanne was on 3 pool and lunging for the oust, but was one freak drive short of the VP and died one turn later. I decided to let my prey kill Mambo, since I thought that I have worse chances in a 1v1 against him. I quickly killed the DEM bleeder and my predator, the Lasombra bleed deck, was on 4 pool and low on blood. After one banishment and one bleed the game was done. 1GW 3VPs.


Crypt (12 cards, min=38 max=44 avg=10.25)

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5x Arika 11 DOM FOR OBF PRE aus cel inner circle Ventrue:2
3x Lucinde, Alastor 10 DOM FOR PRE obf pot tha justicar Ventrue:3
2x Queen Anne 10 DOM FOR PRE aus obf prince Ventrue:2
1x Gratiano 8 DOM OBT obf pot priscus Lasombra:2
1x Marcus Vitel 10 DOM FOR OBF OBT PRE prince Ventrue:3

Library (90 cards)
Master (42; 1 trifle)
12x Ashur Tablets
1x Bleeding the Vine
1x Camarilla Conclave
3x Direct Intervention
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Giant's Blood
1x Golconda: Inner Peace
7x Liquidation
1x Metro Underground
1x Minion Tap
1x Monastery of Shadows
1x Papillon
7x Parthenon, The
1x Secure Haven
1x Ventrue Headquarters
1x Wider View

Action (6)
1x Dominate Kine
5x Govern the Unaligned

Political Action (9)
1x Ancient Influence
1x Ancilla Empowerment
2x Banishment
2x Camarilla's Iron Fist
1x Political Stranglehold
1x Reins of Power
1x Rumors of Gehenna

Equipment (1)
1x Heart of Nizchetus

Action Modifier (19)
2x Conditioning
2x Enkil Cog
4x Forgotten Labyrinth
7x Freak Drive
3x Lost in Crowds
1x Voter Captivation

Reaction (11)
7x Deflection
4x Obedience

Combat (2)
2x Majesty