Tournament - Claws of the Dead

Well, due to a quirk of numbers (and having less than 10 players) we decided to turn this from a proper rated tournament into a social tournament.

We had 7 people all up (including myself) so to push the numbers up to 8, we had one player take 'two positions' and then the first ousted player from either table would take over that position.

The final was:

James Bonham (Valerius & Uta Flames of the Netherworld Wall)
Brendan Healy (Guillaume Giovanni Real Estate Powerbleed)
Andrew Chirgwin (!Tremere Ally Wall/Blood Denial Deck)
Paul Azzopardi (Ventrue w/ OBF vote-bleed)
Claudio Gomes (!Tor Cel-Gun's Wall)

I was the first ousted from the final, due to a variety of things including a fairly average library draw (very few allies and no copy of The Unmasking), being in front of the Powerbleeder (and not drawing flicks!!!!) and getting Parity Shifted down to 11 pool by my prey basically because I was the only one who couldn't block the action.

There were a LOT of long negotiations and debates in the game, which contributed to the timeout, but the end result was 2VPs to Brendan Healy and 1VP to Claudio Gomes.


For those interested... the rough outline of the winning deck was a classic Dominate-Necromancy Block Denial and Bleed module built around having a 15-card handsize (or more) due to Guillaume Giovanni's cardtext.

I'll include the results from this in the Spider League results, but because of the 'fake player' I won't be reporting these results to the VEKN.

Claws of the Dead Round 1

Round 1 of Claws of the Dead...

Paul Azzopardi and James Bonham gain Game Wins in Round 1.

Decklist: Valeren Honour

This is my Valeren Honour deck.  It's an !Salubri Bleed'n'Bash deck.

Deck Name:	Valeren Honour
Created by:	Andrew Chirgwin
Description:	!Salubri Bleed'n'Bash Bleed using Rayzeel's Song + Burning Touch Rush troublesome predator and prey minions Combat: Aggravated weapons + Prevent Sense Vitality instead of Rescue actions

Crypt [12 vampires, average capacity: 5.5]
2x	Dela Eden	AUS FOR VAL cel dom	8	Salubri antitribu:3
2x	Uriel	AUS FOR VAL ani obe	8	Salubri antitribu:4	bishop
2x	Aredhel	FOR VAL aus	5	Salubri antitribu:4
2x	Langa	VAL for	5	Salubri antitribu:4
2x	Nkechi	aus for val	4	Salubri antitribu:4
2x	Rashiel	for val	3	Salubri antitribu:4

Library [90 cards]
Master [16]
2x	Blood Doll
4x	Blooding by the Code
2x	Mbare Market, Harare
2x	Path of Lilith, The
2x	Path of Retribution, The
2x	Powerbase: Tshwane
2x	Vast Wealth
Action [16]
8x	Rayzeel's Song
4x	Sense Death
2x	Sense Vitality
2x	Shadow of Taint
Action Modifier [10]
6x	Freak Drive
4x	Gift of Bellona
Action Modifier/Combat [6]
6x	Burning Touch
Equipment [4]
2x	Bastard Sword
2x	Kerrie
Reaction [10]
6x	Aversion
4x	Hide the Heart
Combat [28]
6x	Armor of Caine's Fury
4x	Death Seeker
6x	Skin of Rock
6x	Sword of the Righteous
6x	Vengeance of Samiel
Crafted with: Anarch Revolt Deck Builder [Wed Jun 13 10:20:07 2012]