TWD - Midwest Mayhem Tainted Spring - Madison WI, USA (18 May 2025)

Midwest Mayhem - Madison - Tainted Spring
Madison WI
May 19, 2025
2R+F
12 players
Darby Keeney
www.vekn.net/event-calendar/event/12149

-- 0GW2 + 5VP in final

Deck Name: Compromise
Created by: Darby Keeney and Reagan Keeney
Description:Doberhuahuas fetch sticks and rampage.

A variant of this deck won a 9 player tournament a couple of years ago, after Reagan corrected a few imbalances. I continue to play the deck because it is too much fun to set aside. I'm giddy about getting its TWD entry in "Madison Mayhem - Tainted Springs"

Many of you won't get the concept for the deck - it relates back to a brilliant 2014 Audi commercial that can be found here:

Oh wow, that actually embedded!

I have created tracking proxies with screenshots from that commercial to handle the action modifier not attaching to the allies. I find they add to the play experience, and the first Tainted Doberhuahua should always be named "Franchesca Tiramisu." Don't ask.

The "tech" is pretty straightforward.
-- Ludmilla amasses Doberhuahua for free and leverages [vic] stealth.
-- Rurik offers some bleed pressure, New Blood was supposed to be 2nd copy
-- Xipe tracks down Doberhuahuas that get inappropriately adopted

There's probably a viable version of using a couple more Villeins and the G6 Nos Primogen with bleed specials instead of the 3-4 caps with ANI.

From there abuse the puppies for rush, blocks, presses and unlocks to bounce as needed. Be creative. Jake Washington has torpored a full 5 cap blocker and lived to tell the tale....while attempting to bleed for 0. A Stray has held the Heart of Cheating and sacrificed himself mid-Entracement. The deck gets away with odd things.

Crypt (12 cards, min=18 max=30 avg=6.17)

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4x Ludmijla Rakoczy 7 ANI AUS VIC bishop Tzimisce:5
1x Rurik Rakoczy 6 ANI VIC aus Tzimisce:5
1x Adhiambo 6 ANI VIC pot Tzimisce:4
1x Beetleman 4 ANI obf Nosferatu:4
1x Laika 7 ANI AUS chi obf vic Tzimisce:4
1x Stick 3 ANI Nosferatu antitribu:4
1x Xipe Totec 9 ANI AUS PRO VIC archbishop Tzimisce:5
1x Yuri Kerezenski 5 ANI aus for vic bishop Tzimisce:4
1x New Blood 2 san Blood Brothers: ANY

Library (90 cards)
Master (18; 5 trifle)
1x Anarch Troublemaker
1x Creepshow Casino
1x Fame
1x Frontal Assault -- OMG is this hilarious late game
1x Giant's Blood
4x Haven Uncovered -- does a lot of heavy lifting.
1x Jake Washington
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
2x Perfectionist
4x Villein
1x Wider View

-- REALLY needs a Direct Intervention. After you get going, everyone and their probther would support Anarchist Uprising. I just don't know what to drop for it.

Action (3)
1x Ambush
1x Bum's Rush
1x Harass

Ally (16)
1x Carlton Van Wyk
1x ECTU Operative
1x Ossian -- the missing link in Doberhuahua evolution
11x Underbridge Stray
2x Vagabond Mystic -- veterinarian, more like.

Equipment (1)
1x Heart of Nizchetus

Action Modifier (15)
5x Changeling
2x Mind of the Wilds
8x Tainted Spring

Action Modifier/Combat (3)
3x Plasmic Form

Reaction (11)
3x Eyes of Argus
3x On the Qui Vive
5x Telepathic Misdirection

Combat (19)
4x Glancing Blow
2x Lucky Blow -- oddly, none of the dogs were named Lucky......
2x Pulled Fangs -- who knew doggy dentistry was a thing?
7x Target Vitals -- when those dog paws land in your crotch
4x Weighted Walking Stick -- Fetch!

Event (4)
1x Dragonbound
1x Scourge of the Enochians
2x Unmasking, The