TWD-Appalachian Assault: Louisville

Appalachian Assault: Louisville
Louisville, KY
07/25/26
2R+final
11 Players
Alex Romano
www.vekn.net/event-calendar/event/13284

--2GW6 + 4vp in final

Deck Name: Green Squirrel in Pretty Bad Shape
Description: "Are you really playing earth meld with Molly McDonald"-Ben Peal
This deck is just kind of my entire play style rolled into one. Really hard to oust if I don't overextend and a good amount of table poison. Molly's text is much better than I think it gets credit for, in the current meta it comes up at every table I sit at at some point.

There are a couple of changes I'd make as it's currently constructed like taking the hide the mind and the smiling jack(I discarded it in all three games yesterday) and make one of them another enkil cog and one another dreams of the sphinx.

The final was seated as follows

Felicia(Malk stealth bleed)-->Jason(Gangrel/Tzimice block and bleed)-->Jess(Lasombra grapple monster)-->Felipe(Hecata ally swarm)-->Myself(Molly block)

I wasn't particularly excited about my seat but felt it was best case scenario so I could control the Hecata swarm and hopefully catch up to the malks if she got a VP or two. Just needed to sit as far away from the grapple deck as I could because I didn't want to encourage any rushes towards me. Hilariously this didn't play out how I thought it would but still worked out in my favor. I got four Molly in my opening crypt but luckily an opening hand wider view and dreams going fifth. She was out on turn 2 and I had wider view to go through my little ones until I got the ones I wanted. Mark Loughman suggested I add Daria to this deck a month or so ago and she has been enormous in how well it seems to do. The splash of bounce is nice but really her text allows me to get most key actions though with Molly and the final was no different.


Oddly early on I did not draw a lot of block and had to be very judicious on what of Felipe's I was stopping but was able to get a cam seg and two sabotages in play early. Felicia dropped to 10 or so pool and I was able to bounce a bleed of two from Felipe into her which got her to oust range on my turn. Jess ousted Felipe with a tension of the ranks in play after a turn where Felipe was able to hit me for around 8 pool with a few shroud of decay and bleeds. It took a few turns of static damage for Jason to die but he did oust himself with a DI instead of letting my kill him, so respect where it's due. Jess and I then went probably 6-8 turns of head to head with bleeds and combats, the real breaking point coming when Dafina rushed Molly and grappled her for hands 6 sending her to torpor but thanks to my all important owl companion letting me know he had no prevent I used a claws of the dead to take away the permanent rushing minion on the board. Immediately using Warsaw Station to get Molly back in the ready region.

Took a few turns of attrition but Jess was out grapples at this point so I was able to earth meld out of every combat and eventually he succumbed to the cog bleeds and creeping sabotage in play. Spectacular final that came down to a lot of hard-fought play.


Thanks to Sean Payne and the city of Louisville for hosting!

Crypt (12 cards, min=15 max=40 avg=6.67)

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5x Molly MacDonald 10 ANI OBF POT PRO justicar Nosferatu:7
3x Daria 5 AUS OBF ani Nosferatu:6
2x Regina Blake 5 AUS PRE Toreador:6
1x Kazuki Hanabira 2 aus Toreador:7
1x Meaghan 3 aus obf Malkavian:6

Library (89 cards)
Master (20; 4 trifle)
1x Archon Investigation
1x Direct Intervention
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Giant's Blood
1x Guardian Angel
1x Labyrinth, The
1x Monastery of Shadows
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Powerbase: Montreal
1x Rack, The
1x Slum Hunting Ground
1x Smiling Jack, The Anarch
2x Vessel
3x Warsaw Station
2x Wider View

Action (13)
3x Anima Gathering
1x Army of Rats
1x Conceal
4x Creeping Sabotage
3x Judgment: Camarilla Segregation
1x SchreckNET

Equipment (1)
1x Heart of Nizchetus

Retainer (1)
1x Owl Companion

Action Modifier (8)
2x Cloak the Gathering
1x Elder Impersonation
2x Enkil Cog
1x Faceless Night
2x Lost in Crowds

Action Modifier/Combat (1)
1x Hide the Mind

Action Modifier/Reaction (2)
2x Form of the Bat

Reaction (20)
2x Cats' Guidance
2x Eyes of Argus
6x Second Tradition: Domain
8x Sense the Savage Way
2x Telepathic Misdirection

Combat (22)
2x Claws of the Dead
14x Earth Meld
6x Form of Mist

Event (1)
1x Nightmares upon Nightmares