newsgroup tournament report:
Date of event: Saturday June 19th, 2010 Location of event: Espoo, Finland # of players: 16 Winning Player: Aleksi Nuora (VEKN 3070125) Winning Clan: True Brujah Winning Faction: Bahari Key Minion: Nehemiah
We played the Battle Lines storyline over here last Saturday, and got a very decent attendance (16) taking into account that it's a summer weekend.
The win went to Aleksi Nuora with his (Bahari) True Brujah deck. It's a slow builder of a deck, but when it gets going it's very very dangerous. It also has some fun tech (the Temptation angle, with Abactor for maximized nasty).
All in all, I saw a lot of very different decks. Multiple Baali of course (though nobody was quite crazy enough to bring a Loyalist Baali deck :) but only two Kiasyd, which has a bit of a surprise for me. My own (Nagaraja) deck packed a copy of Mistrust but I didn't draw it once over 3 games – plain bad luck there. It would have been useful. The final round consisted of (in seating order):
The finals were actually pretty boring and resulted in a timeout… almost everyone had so much bloat that nothing much seemed to happen. The two Baali decks were both Great Beast -based, so they were stuck in contest hell and ended up being a lot less powerful than they otherwise would have been.
The full clan breakdown for the day was:
4 x Baali (Bahari) 3 x Gargoyle (Bahari) 2 x Daughters (Loyalist) 2 x Kiasyd (Bahari) 2 x Nagaraja (one Bahari, one Loyalist) 2 x Salubri (one Bahari, one Loyalist) 1 x True Brujah (Bahari)
Bahari was obvious a *lot* more popular, for obvious reasons. It was a fun tournament, especially because ignoring the grouping rules and some clan disabilities let you build decks you never could try out normally. It was also very very unbalanced, the Bahari faction card was miles beyond the Loyalist one in power, and letting Baali ignore their untap cost let them do nasty things. Still, a fun time was had.
Aleksi's winning deck:
Description : Fairly straightforward. Control Villeined minions with Rants and Tempts, oust when the opportunity presents itself. The deck is based on the idea that if a stealth vote/bleed deck can cycle cards at a nearly arbitrary rate it will win. Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 7 max: 9 average: 8.41667 ------------------------------------------------------------ 4x Nehemiah 9 POT PRE SER TEM obt 2 votes True Bruj:4 3x Dmitra Ilyanova 9 CEL FOR POT PRE obf justicar Brujah:5 2x Synesios 8 POT PRE TEM obf ser 2 votes True Bruj:2 2x Karen Suadela 7 CEL POT obf pre prince Brujah:5 1x Giangaleazzo, The 8 OBT POT PRE dom prince Lasombra:4 Library [90 cards] ------------------------------------------------------------ Action [15] 1x Abactor /Excellent card. 4x Clotho's Gift 1x Entrancement 1x Heart of the City 1x Horseshoes /Might even add a second one. 7x Temptation Action Modifier [39] 4x Bewitching Oration 5x Domain of Evernight 5x Iron Glare /Needs two more of these. 2x Perfect Paragon 6x Pocket Out of Time 4x Recurring Contemplation /Absolute gold. 5x Tangle Atropos' Hand /Absolute... platinum. 8x Voter Captivation Action Modifier / Combat [2] 2x Force of Personality Ally [3] 1x Impundulu 1x Mylan Horseed (Goblin) 1x Young Bloods Combat [6] 6x Majesty Master [10] 1x Creepshow Casino 1x Monastery of Shadows 1x Tabriz Assembly 7x Villein Political Action [15] 1x Banishment 4x Free States Rant 5x Kine Resources Contested 3x Parity Shift 2x Reckless Agitation
original announcement:
Please read the rules, this is a Bloodlines tournament with some very specialized rules.
We'll be playing in Otaniemi in the 3A gaming room (Jämeräntaival 3A, Espoo), starting at 11:00. Entry fee is 3 euros.
Since we got a fair amount of the promos for this one, each player will receive two copies of all the new promos!