Gen*Con 2006 Tourneys

A quick note before I get on the plane home: Josh Duffin won the G*C qualifier with an Imbued deck. He was sixth going into the finals, but made the cut since the #1 finalist, Jared Strait, had to bow out to catch his plane. John Bell won the draft event on Saturday, and went on to win the US Championship with another 2 GW in the qualifier on Sunday. Thanks to everyone who came out.

LSJ wrote: > A quick note before I get on the plane home: > > Josh Duffin won the G*C qualifier with an Imbued deck. He was sixth > going into the finals, but made the cut since the #1 finalist, Jared > Strait, had to bow out to catch his plane. Jared had a Guruhi deck with Eze. John Bell had his "Sudden Reversal Monstrosity" (!Malk bleed w/ 11 suddens) Jay Kristoff had weenie-obf Computer Hacks Josh had imbued. Bob Joseph had PRE/PRO vote+bloat I had !Ven bleedy-toolbox. > John Bell won the draft event on Saturday, and went on to win the US > Championship with another 2 GW in the qualifier on Sunday. Other draft finalists were Bob Joseph, myself, Jeff Thompson and Eric Chiang. > Thanks to everyone who came out. -John Flournoy

John Flournoy wrote: > LSJ wrote: > > A quick note before I get on the plane home: > > > > Josh Duffin won the G*C qualifier with an Imbued deck. He was sixth > > going into the finals, but made the cut since the #1 finalist, Jared > > Strait, had to bow out to catch his plane. > > Jared had a Guruhi deck with Eze. Awesome, because I heard a lot of people saying that Eze sucked (at Origins I think) and I always thought he looked like a strong vampire to me. Maybe now I'll finally try a deck around him. A neat little Eze story that I remembered from Origins ... Eze called The Eldest Command Undeath to burn his prey's Anson spending 9 blood, basically emptying Eze of all his blood. The next turn an outraged Alexandra calls Protect Thine Own on Eze for 1 blood, I don't remember if there was a Voter Captivation afterwards or not. Good times :) Later, ~Rehlow

On 14 Aug 2006 03:13:43 -0700, "LSJ" <vte...@white-wolf.com> wrote: >Josh Duffin won the G*C qualifier with an Imbued deck. He was sixth >going into the finals, but made the cut since the #1 finalist, Jared >Strait, had to bow out to catch his plane. GenCon 2006 Championship Qualifier Sunday August 13th, 2006 27 players 3R + F Tournament Winning Deck by Josh Duffin Email from JD himself: Here's the list for my Imbued constructed-winning deck from Sunday. Lots of credit to Matt Morgan for the basic ideas of this deck. Then, too, the powers, convictions, and Imbued themselves dictate a lot of the deck's gameplan... This is a deck somewhat tweaked from the version I played at Origins earlier this year. Matt told me I shouldn't play it again since it had already won a tournament, but I don't know, I think maybe this horse should be ridden into the ground until something happens to make it less effective. :-) This version ended up with every single card being one that goes into play, except for a few of the masters (Fortschritt, DI, Sudden, Angel, Effective, Misdirection). That's definitely one of the great strengths of the Imbued: so many of their powerful effects are permanents, usable over and over again. You don't have to keep drawing more copies of them in order to be effective; they've already gone into play and just stay there for you to reuse every turn. In the first and third rounds of the tournament, I got only 0.5 VP as the game didn't develop quickly enough for me to ever oust anyone after recovering from early pool losses (though at least I was never ousted on the day). But in the second round and the final round, the game moved along more swiftly and I had plenty of time to lose some pool, recover and build up, and then oust people. 4 VP in the second round and 3 in the finals earned the win. Deck Name : 2006_08_10_all_powerful Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 3 max: 5 average: 4 ------------------------------------------------------------ 2x Jennie "Cassie247" 5 inn jud vis Visionary:4 2x Travis "Traveler72 5 mar def Martyr:4 2x Inez "Nurse216" Vi 3 inn Innocent:4 1x Erick "Shophet125" 4 inn jud Judge:4 1x Jack "Hannibal137" 4 def jud Defender:4 1x Lupe "Cabbie22" Dr 4 def ven Defender:4 1x Xian "DziDzat155" 4 def inn Defender:4 1x Béatrice "Oracle17 3 inn ven Innocent:4 1x François "Warden" 3 def jud Judge:4 Library [90 cards] ------------------------------------------------------------ Ally [2] 2x Vagabond Mystic ** in case not everyone can get a Rejuvenate Conviction [18] 6x React with Conviction 6x Second Sight 6x Strike with Conviction Equipment [9] 4x .44 Magnum ** probably don't need this many, discarded several 1x Crusader Sword, The 1x Ivory Bow 3x Sport Bike ** didn't have these last time, great with Angel Event [5] 1x Anthelios, The Red Star 2x Edge Explosion ** I didn't want to run too much Gehenna and 2x Unmasking, The ** get the table too mad at me... Master [32] 5x Angel of Berlin ** On the Qui Vive will be nice to add... 1x Barrens, The 2x Brothers Grimm ** really strong card in master-heavy decks 1x Channel 10 2x Church of Vindicated Faith, The 4x Direct Intervention ** think 3x DI 3x Sudden might be better 2x Effective Management 1x Fortschritt Library 2x Information Highway 1x KRCG News Radio 2x Memories of Mortality ** more of these instead of Misdirection? 2x Misdirection ** only advantages: taps an ally, or vs bleed-bounce 2x Parthenon, The 1x Rose Foundation, The 1x Smiling Jack, The Anarch ** to contest, potentially 2x Sudden Reversal 1x Vigil: The Thin Line Power [24] 3x Champion ** really strong, e.g. vs Stanislava 5x Discern ** more Sport Bikes for free! 1x Foresee ** never used on the day 1x Hide ** useful a few times 1x Inspire ** great with Inez, used all the time 1x Project ** never used on the day, good in theory though 5x Rejuvenate ** key card, keeps you out of incapacitated 2x Surge ** never used on the day, not much combat around 5x Vigilance ** great for second action and for double-blocking

Rehlow wrote: > A neat little Eze story that I remembered from Origins ... Eze called > The Eldest Command Undeath to burn his prey's Anson spending 9 blood, > basically emptying Eze of all his blood. The next turn an outraged > Alexandra calls Protect Thine Own on Eze for 1 blood, I don't remember > if there was a Voter Captivation afterwards or not. Good times :) At least Eze got to do something usefull with his blood, PTO is less good now since all the non-cams actually have things to do before they go poof. ;-) -- johannes walch

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