The Lasombra#
A joyous occasion in Austin!
New Cards for the second time in less than a year!
Ten players gathered for our pre-release event celebrating Final Nights.
(One showed up an hour late, but still got the cards and watched the games.)
We did not draft or allow trading. We had each player ransack the three
boosters we were allowed, and then had 30 minutes to tweak our decks.
(Survery Says: NEVER AGAIN. Draft of some sort is essential, I got
one vampire for my clan, and two rares that were appropriate, and all
of the rest of the cards from the boosters were for other clans. Ok, so
they were both the Path of Bone, but the deck could have used
a lot more help.)
With only nine players, one clan had to appear 3 times. That clan was the
Followers of Set. All three Followers managed to gain victory points, and
so all three made it to the finals.
The Ravnos and Assamites each failed to gain any victory points, so both
sets of players for those decks played other things while the finals was
going on.
The Giovanni took victory points every game but one. Four in a five player
the
first round and none the second from one deck. One in the first round and
three
in the second for the other deck.
In the finals, we were seated as follows:
Giovanni (1+3) -- Follower of Set (0-1) -- Giovanni (4+0)
-- Follower of Set (3+4) -- Follower of Set (1+1)
The Giovanni (1+3) took the the first victory point of the finals, after
which
the Follower of Set (3+4) took one, the Giovanni (1+3) took his second vp,
the Follower of Set (3+4) stole Enzo with a Form of Corruption, then took
out the Giovanni.
Final totals for victory points on the day:
Assamites 0
Followers of Set 13
Giovanni 10
Ravnos 0
The Austin group was fairly well convinced that the Giovanni starter
was the best prepared, being the only deck with bleed bounce, in
addition to having stealth bleed. All players were disappointed with
the blood management aspects of their decks, and the Assamite players
were very vocal in their denounciation of some of their new clan members
drawbacks. (ie Parmenides gets Kalis Fang, then Banished, then
returned to play, then gives his new Fang away to a vampire of his
predator -- ouch!!!)
Ten boatloads of feces will be shipped to the home of the monkeys
who decided typesetting needs (fonts, discipline symbols, colorization
of reprinted art).
Kudos to all who actually were creative in the design of the cards,
particularly Todd Bannister, L. Scott Johnson, and the artists.
Hope you get your cards soon, I won't see any more 'til the 14th
according to Potomac Distribution.
Carpe Noctem.
Lasombra
http://www.TheLasombra.com