TWD - Origins Sunday

Origins Sunday
Origins Game Fair, Greater Columbus Convention Center
Columbus, OH
21 June 2026
2R + F
33 players
Martin Weinmayer
www.vekn.net/event-calendar/event/13219
2 GW 9 VP
1.5 VP in final

Deck Name: The Return of the Queen
Author: Martin Weinmayer

Crypt (12 cards, min=36 max=44 avg=10.08)
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5x Stanislava 11 ANI CEL DOM FOR PRO inner circle Gangrel:2
2x Hartmut Stover 10 CEL OBF PRO dom for archbishop Gangrel antitribu:3
1x Genevieve 10 ANI FOR PRO aus dom priscus Gangrel antitribu:2
1x Xaviar (ADV) 10 ABO ANI FOR PRO aus cel pot justicar Gangrel:3
2x Ingrid Rossler 9 ANI FOR PRO dom prince Gangrel:2
1x Mark Decker 8 CEL PRO ani for obf pot prince Gangrel:3

Library (90 cards)
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Master (24; 7 trifle)

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2x Backways
1x British Museum, London, The
1x Camarilla Conclave
2x Direct Intervention
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Elder Library
1x Giant's Blood
2x Jake Washington
2x Monastery of Shadows
2x Papillon
1x Secure Haven
6x Villein
1x Wider View

Action (8)

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8x Govern the Unaligned

Political Action (8)

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1x Anarchist Uprising
1x Ancient Influence
2x Ancilla Empowerment
2x Banishment
1x Political Stranglehold
1x Reins of Power

Equipment (2)

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2x Heart of Nizchetus

Action Modifier (18)

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2x Conditioning
2x Earth Control
2x Enkil Cog
6x Forced March
6x Instantaneous Transformation

Action Modifier/Reaction (6)

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3x Form of the Bat
3x Murmur of the False Will

Reaction (12)

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8x Deflection
4x Sense the Savage Way

Combat (12)

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4x Earth Meld
8x Form of Mist

This is basically the perfected form of Stanislava.dec as it stands in 2026, and is in line with Martin's usual deck building style to run two copies of critical cards to increase your chances of finding them earlier in the course of a game. I like this 'standard' version a LOT better than the MMPA version that played a ton of Parthenon, Ashur Tablets and Liquidation.

There's a few minor tweaks I'd personally make. One is cutting a copy of Papillion for a standard Zoo Hunting Ground: in addition to dodging possible contestation issues, you also get to play it early if you've started by influencing Stani and don't yet have a sidekick in play. I think you could also consider a 1/1 split (or even replace entirely) the Conditioning with Foreshadowing Destruction -- though the aggressive playstyle enabled by an early Conditioned bleed is definitely a strength of the archetype. The lone British Museum seems a tad unnecessary imho... if the goal is to merely have another +1 hand size master, you can achieve that with Ennoia's Theatre; if the goal is instead to cause issues for an opposing Museum deck, you could instead run some number of Dominate Kine -- yes, yes, of course you get the possible bonus of untapping after equipping Heart, but that is such a minor component of the deck that it seems a bit overkill. The last consideration I'd make is whether the 2nd copy of Ancilla Empowerment is essential -- it would depend on how frequently you expect to run into breed/ally swarm strategies. This could be a different vote card, or something else entirely.

I think this deck would face trouble into a combat-heavy metagame (particularly of the rushing potence variety), but the combination of DIs, Jake Washingtons (to get thrown under the bus), Banishments and Secure Haven likely is enough to buy you enough time to handle such a strategy, provided you're not seated directly next to it from the start. Modifying the list to include stuff like Obedience, Alpha Glint or even Rolling with the Punches/Flesh of Marble would also help with surviving rushes. Or increase the number of Secure Haven (and/or include some Secret Passage).