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Tournament report: Aggressive Tactics: Umea
Here in Umea we have 6 months of winter. Now in May, you can walk
around in shorts and t-shirts for the first since august. Yet, some
prefer to lock themselves up in a basement a whole Sunday to play
cards. Must be a bunch of strange people…
Anyway, here are the methuselahs:
Mathias Olsson (me) Lasombra/Kiasyd toolbox
Robert Holmberg Tzimisce wall w. specials
Tomas Gustavsson Gangrel princes with angry wolves
Fredrik Nordensson Tzimisce wall
Fredrik Andersson Toreador vote
Sven-Johan Westman Ventrue law firm
Samuel Eriksson !Brujah fight/vote
Mathias Renmark Lasombra s&b
Andreas Gustavsson Dominate bleed
Johan Landström Malkavian s&b
Erik Torstensson Baron possession
Andreas Johansson Blood Brothers Torrance fight
Fredrik Ljungberg Nosferatu princes (bloat & some votes)
The highlight of the qualifying rounds must have been when poor Andrea
Giovanni with the Soul Gem got bought by the Nosferatu in a Hostile
Takeover. The Baron had nothing to do without his favorite toy!
Others include a Renegade Garou with an Ivory Bow chasing Malkavians.
Johan had a Far Mastery in his hand, but only Leandro was able to act
at the critical moment, and the bastard has inferior dominate!
In another round the Lasombra was near dead thanks to the Gangrel. The
Nosferatu was the third player left. He called a Protect Thine Own on
Gratiano with Arika, the Gangrel agreed (with Stanislava & Katarina),
but got screwed when Suhailah called a Kindred Restructure and
switched places. (Wasn’t it a nos deck?)
The final
Fredrik Ljungberg 10 VP
Andreas Gustavsson 8 VP
Mathias Renmark 5 VP
Erik Torstensson 4 VP
Mathias Olsson 3 VP
I was lucky to have reached the finals (with points tied), but I
didn’t think I would last very long. I thought I was doomed to
be the prey of Erik’s Baron deck. However, I ended up as his
predator (!). I don’t know how the others reasoned, but now I
had a deck with no defense and very little pool management to start
chewing at.
Seating: Andreas- Mathias O- Erik- Mathias R- Fredrik
I was seated after Andreas dominate deck, which had a build up a
terrible reputation during the day. Although he bled me for 13 pool, I
was never near being ousted by him. I influenced my smallest vampires,
and the deck was nice to me and gave me wakes/deflections. Ingrid
Rossler (controlled by Andreas) got stuck in the Society of
Leopold/hunt loop. By the end I had bled Erik for about 20 pool, but
this Sunday belonged to The Baron.
He started with Rudolfo Giovanni who equipped with the Soul Gem and in
round 4, when it was The Barons time to act we knew which way it was
heading. At the end of the round Le Dinh Tho , Kanimana Belghazi &
Isabel Giovanni had joined Erik’s ranks. By this time he had
both the Dreams of the Sphinx and a Visit from the Capuchin in play,
and the rest of us sat with six cards, due to Jan Pieterzoon. However,
the heavy bleeds had been deflected to the Nosferatu, so there was
still little chance to win (if my grandprey would be the first one to
take a VP). If Andreas deck hadn’t let him down he would have
tried some heavy bleeds, which I would have deflected. Combined with a
heavy bleed round of my own I might have brought the Baron down. But
that was only in my dreams.
Round 5 was uneventful, but in round 6 Erik ousted both Mathias R and
Fredrik. Round 7 saw the death of Andreas and the round after that it
was all over.
Erik’s crypt was empty and The Baron took his necromancy buddies
to an “all death-all night”-party and told them tales
about how to die fast and come back to do it again.
Thanks to everybody who entered and we’ll see each other again
at the Camarilla pre-release.
/Mathias, prince of Umea
The winning deck:
Deck Name: Some shit from the internet that I tweaked
Created By: Erik Torstensson
Description:
Crypt: (12 cards, Min: 19, Max: 31, Avg: 6,50)
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1 Agaitas AUS for NEC 6, Harbingers of Skulls
1 Andrea Giovanni DOM NEC pot vic 7, Giovanni
1 Anisa Marianna Lopez aus FOR NEC QUI 8, Harbingers of Skulls
1 Carlotta Giovanni dom NEC obf POT 7, Giovanni
1 Egothha AUS FOR NEC obf 7, Harbingers of Skulls
1 Gillespi Giovanni aus DOM NEC POT 7, Giovanni
1 Gisela Harden aus dem FOR NEC 7, Harbingers of
Skulls, Priscus
1 Isabel Giovanni DOM NEC pot 5, Giovanni
1 Kanimana Belghazi AUS DOM NEC pro 7, Nagaraja
1 Le Dinh Tho aus dom NEC 5, Nagaraja
1 Rudolfo Giovanni NEC 3, Giovanni
1 The Baron dom FOR NEC OBF THN 9, Samedi, 2 votes
Library: (70 cards)
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Master (27 cards)
1 Barrens, The
8 Coroners Contact
1 Dreams of the Sphinx
1 Elder Library
8 Minion Tap
2 Parthenon, The
6 Vast Wealth
Action (20 cards)
10 Force of Will
10 Possession
Action Modifier (12 cards)
8 Call of the Hungry Dead
4 Daring the Dawn
Equipment (2 cards)
2 Soul Gem of Etrius
Combo (9 cards)
9 Spectral Divination