Turpakäräjät 1

Unsanctioned Event Report Turpakäräjät 1 Helsinki; Finland May 21st, 2011 3R+F 9 Players Tuomas "Tube" Vuokko I'm guessing that having it on the same week as Finnish Championships had the mark on attendance. Nevertheless, fun tourney with different deck. No one came up with an ubercheasy deck that trumped all others. Although Jari did raise a concern should the format limit the number of combo cards, having tried to explot the number of combt cards with piles of Deny and Swallowed by Night. He didn't get to the finals so we're not convinced if this is necessary... Plenty of timeouts. Only one game eneded before timeouting Here's Tube's winning deck. More comments and pics later on -I'm off to Finnish Championships... Deck Name: Torvus likes pressure Created By: Tuomas Vuokko Description: Made for a supposedly combat heavy enviroment (minimum amount of combat cards in deck : 50%, i topped that by a few), heavy pressure to prey with constant bleeds of 1-3, some blocking ability. Crypt: (12 cards, Min: 19, Max: 34, Avg: 6,41) 1 Jacob Fermor ani tha PRO 5 Gangrel 1 Dr. Allan Woodstock PRO ani aus for5 Gangrel 1 Lord Ashton ANI for pro 5 Gangrel 2 Danielle Diron chi for ANI PRO7 Gangrel 1 Janey Pickman for ANI PRO 6 Gangrel Antitribu 1 Horrock vic ANI PRO 6 Gangrel 1 Celeste Lamontagne for ANI PRO 5 Gangrel Antitribu 1 Bobby Lemon ANI pro 4 Gangrel 3 Torvus Bloodbeard pot ANI FOR OBF PRO9 Gangrel Library: (90 cards) Master (14 cards) 4 Vessel 2 Dreams of the Sphinx 1 Zoo Hunting Ground 1 Rotschreck 1 Ecoterrorists 2 Grooming the Protege 1 Giant`s Blood 1 Perfectionist 1 Lilith's blessing Action (3 cards) 2 Tier of Souls 1 Army of Rats Reaction (13 cards) 4 Cats` Guidance 1 Eyes of the Beast 2 Guard Dogs 2 Sense the Savage Way 2 Rat`s Warning 2 On the Qui Vive Combat (51 cards) 4 Drawing Out the Beast 9 Flesh of Marble 5 Gleam of Red Eyes 6 Taste of Vitae 9 Carrion Crows 1 Body Flare 5 Form of Mist 2 Form of the Ghost 1 Bone Spur 4 Scorpion Sting 2 Wolf Claws 2 Claws of the Dead 1 Canine Horde Retainer (5 cards) 2 Homunculus 2 Raven Spy 1 J. S. Simmons, Esq. Equipment (4 cards) 4 Camera Phone Finnish Politics!

Some pics from the tournament. Table 1, Rnd 1. Clockwise from left: Teemu, Juha, Jari, Lauri. At this point Lauri's Terror Frenzys had trumped my Blood Furies. Attachment T03.JPG not found Some view's of the above situation. Teemu's Trapping Wraiths with Zip Guns: Attachment T-Teemu.JPG not found Juha's Lucinde with murderous intent: Attachment T-Juha.JPG not found Jaris' attnept to break the format with combo cards: Attachment T-Jari.JPG not found The obligatory Girls deck. Lauri had just ousted me. Attachment T-Lauri.JPG not found Finnish Politics!

Table 2, Rnd 1 Clockwise from left: Tuomas, Matias, Kirmo, Hannu. Attachment T01_2011-05-23.JPG not found Tube's victorious Gangrels. Attachment T-Tube.JPG not found Satanic legion of Matias. Attachment T-Matias.JPG not found Kirmo's pumped up Saulot Attachment T-kirmo.JPG not found Hannu's classic !Brujah Attachment T-Hannu.JPG not found Finnish Politics!

Here are the results before finals: Matias 1 4 Invulnerable Maleficia Unnamed Hannu 1 2,5 !Brujah Teemu 0 3,5 Wraith combat + Gehenna Tuomas 0 3,5 Gangrel Animlism + Protean Lauri 0 3 Girls Animalism feat. Enkidu Jari 0 2,5 SB Deny/Swallowed + Elimelech Obedience/Psychic Assault Janne 0 1,5 Uta Kovacs Kirmo 0 0,5 Biothaumaturgy Saulot Juha 0 0 Lucinda Bloodfury/Disarm/Amaranth And the mighty finalists Tuomas, Lauri, Matias, Hannu and Teemu. Attachment T-Finalists_2011-05-23.JPG not found Finnish Politics!

Any chance to see Teemu's Wraiths? I found the idea absolutely astounding! ---- Banging trashcans, breaking windows We'll wake you up tonight We like the good time, we scream and shout And that's what fun's about

> Jussi wrote: > Any chance to see Teemu's Wraiths?/quote] > Huh? > The 2nd pic of this thread. > It is just missing Ambrosius. > > Or do you want the decklist for it? > Finnish Politics!

Deck Name: Wraiths with zip guns Created By: Teemu Sainomaa Description: Should have included way more forward going actions for the wraiths. Few more haven uncovereds and a fame would have helped a lot. The deck was fun to play with. Crypt: (12 cards, Min: 10, Max: 36, Avg: 5,58) 1 Almiro Suarez aus 2 Tremere 1 Almodo Giovanni dom pot 3 Giovanni 1 Cristobal Ghiberti nec 2 Giovanni 1 Ehrich Weiss dom tha 3 Tremere 4 Guillaume Giovanni CEL DOM NEC POT obt9 Giovanni 2 Isanwayen DOM MYT OBT 6 Kiasyd 1 Lia Milliner dom nec 3 Giovanni 1 Valois Sang AUS DOM nec tha6 Tremere Library: (80 cards) Master (18 cards) 9 Ashur Tablets 1 Creepshow Casino 1 Haven Uncovered 1 Jake Washington (Hunter) 1 Monastery of Shadows 2 Parthenon, The 1 Secure Haven 1 Society of Leopold 1 Wall Street Night, Financial Newspaper Action (9 cards) 1 Daemonic Possession 1 Dominate Kine 4 Govern the Unaligned 1 Graverobbing 2 Sudario Refraction Reaction (6 cards) 2 Deflection 4 On the Qui Vive Combat (40 cards) 4 Boxed In 6 Dodge 6 Glancing Blow 4 Molotov Cocktail 4 Pulled Fangs 4 Spiritual Intervention 6 Trap 6 Zip Gun Ally (3 cards) 1 Ambrosius, The Ferryman (Wraith) 1 Ponticulus 1 Tye Cooper Event (4 cards) 1 Anthelios, the Red Star 1 Blood Weakens 1 Slow Withering, The 1 Unmasking, The This deck was last saved at 23:33:25 on 25.5.2011

> Lönkka wrote: > Or do you want the decklist for it? > Decklist, you silly! Thanks to Teemu for it! ---- Banging trashcans, breaking windows We'll wake you up tonight We like the good time, we scream and shout And that's what fun's about

> Jussi wrote: > > > Lönkka wrote: > > Or do you want the decklist for it? > > > Decklist, you silly! > Yup, that's me. Guilty as charged. Finnish Politics!

What is Ponticulus doing here? He cannot use the guns...

Maybe he is just an "eternal" blocker, with +2 intercept against directed actions under Unmasking ... National Coordinator Germany nc [dot] germany [at] magenta [dot] de

He's in the deck for just blocking purposes. You could tweak the deck and include Biothaumaturgic Experiments. Didn't have enough time to think if it's worth the investment and an action.

> Azazel wrote: > Deck Name: Wraiths with zip guns...snip deck... > Where is Talbot's Chainsaw? Baron of Frankfurt

The wraith deck seems too short on wraiths to work very well.... Also, why Ashurs instead of locations to get the hand size to actually find your wraiths? Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one. -Friedrich Nietzsche brandonsantacruz.blogspot.com/

> brandonsantacruz wrote: > The wraith deck seems too short on wraiths to work very well.... Also, why Ashurs instead of locations to get the hand size to actually find your wraiths? > Ashurs means more Dominate in a format that practically limits the amount of Dominate you can have in a deck. As for drawing wraiths, the combat cards probably cycle out fairly quickly even if you're not actively rushing anybody.

> Suoli wrote: > > > brandonsantacruz wrote: > > The wraith deck seems too short on wraiths to work very well.... Also, why Ashurs instead of locations to get the hand size to actually find your wraiths? > > > Ashurs means more Dominate in a format that practically limits the amount of Dominate you can have in a deck. As for drawing wraiths, the combat cards probably cycle out fairly quickly even if you're not actively rushing anybody. > What are the rules of this format? Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one. -Friedrich Nietzsche brandonsantacruz.blogspot.com/

> brandonsantacruz wrote: > What are the rules of this format? > Here you go.

My deck: Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 1 max: 10 average: 6.33333 4x unnamed, The 10 CEL DAI OBF PRE PRO Baali:6 4x Xeper, Sultan of L 7 OBF PRE ani dai pro Baali:6 2x Horde, The 3 dai obf pre Baali:6 2x Anarch Convert 1 Caitiff:0 Library [76 cards] Action [9] 4x Flurry of Action 3x Greater Curse 2x Legal Manipulations Action Modifier [8] 1x Aire of Elation 1x I am Legion 1x Lost in Crowds 2x Psalm of the Damned 3x Spying Mission Action Modifier/Combat [8] 8x Swallowed by the Night Combat [23] 4x Flames of the Netherworld 6x Flesh of Marble 3x Form of Mist 1x Gleam of Red Eyes 4x Ignore the Searing Flames 3x Pursuit 1x Quick Meld 1x Sideslip Combat/Reaction [7] 7x Evil Eye Master [15] 7x Maleficia 1x Path of Death and the Soul 1x Perfectionist 1x Protean 1x Ruins of Charizel 3x Tend the Flock 1x Wider View Reaction [3] 3x On the Qui Vive Reaction/Action Modifier [3] 3x Sense the Sin Crafted with : Anarch Revolt Deck Builder. [Fri May 27 07:50:33 2011] The idea here was that the best combat offense is a good combat defense - Flesh of Marble and Ignore the Searing Flames means that the vampire will be taking basically a maximum of one point of damage per round. Evil Eye can be used to counter Comas and such. Unnamed didn't enter torpor even once and all in all I think that only one of my vamps got torpored all tournament. On the offense there is the built-in aggravated and cancelling dodges with a surprise additional strike to boot. In this format Greater Curse basically shut down vampires as paying an extra blood for combat cards was crippling. Aside from that, I tried to pack in a nice bleed punch as well. Ended up as top seed in the finals and lost them basically due to a stupid mistake (I had never realized that Greater Curse indeed gives you stealth for the bleed action as well) but OTOH had the game been 10 minutes longer, I would've lost even if I had realized the stealth and ousted my prey, so can't really complain.

> Lemminkäinen wrote: > My deck: > <snip> > No Homunculus nor Enkil Cog? Prince of Paris, France Ratings Coordinator, Rules Director

Here's my Thaumaturgy Uta deck. On the first table the couple Terror Frenzys that Lauri had in his Girls deck totally stumped my combat, especially as he managd to cycle them time and again. Then again, on second table he didn't draw those and I robbed his maneuvers (from Aid from Bats) with Thoughts Betrayed thus manging to oust him. Spirit Summoning Chamber is way cool and Shoulder Drop is also so awesome letting you control presses. Uta really likes Serenading the Kamis so there should be more of them in the deck. The deck has way too little ousting power though. Originally I envisioned also using Claudio Severino, but Gehenna Events would've eaten too much card slots. Also finding a suitable way for him to rush was another card slot problem. There's too little intercept to have him just block. For regular play, I'm planning on combining this with an older Thaumaturgy rush deck starring Oliver Thrace as you just got to take care of those pesky combat ends somehow. 3 Carna, The Princess Witch 1 Ladislas Toth, The Torch 1 Muhsin Samir 1 Paul Cordwood 1 Selena 5 Uta Kovacs ACTION (13) 3 Biothaumaturgic Experiment 2 Ecstatic Agony 5 Govern the Unaligned 1 Graverobbing 1 Pulse of the Canaille 1 Rutor's Hand ACTION MODIFIER (4) 4 Serenading the Kami COMBAT (54) 8 Apportation 3 Aura Reading 8 Blood Fury 2 Blood Rage 2 Blood to Water 1 Eldritch Glimmer 1 Flames of the Netherworld 1 Primal Instincts 8 Rego Motis 3 Shoulder Drop 1 Soul Burn 7 Taste of Vitae 4 Thoughts Betrayed 5 Wind Dance REACTION (7) 5 Eyes of Argus 2 My Enemy's Enemy MASTER (12) 1 Monastery of Shadows 1 Spirit Summoning Chamber 1 Storage Annex 2 Sudden Reversal 5 Vessel 2 Wider View Finnish Politics!