TWD - Coupe de Paris, France

Coupe de Paris Paris, France March 20th, 2016 2R+F 10 players Vincent Ripoll Deck Name : Princess Pitch Author : Ankha Description : After going back and forth between versions with or without Dominate, with or without Villein+Perfectionist, I finally tried the highly aggressive way of doing things: no deflection, 2 more Shattering Crescendos and Daring the Dawn to ensure the delivery. The deck is a bit like a weenie potence when having an aggressive predator, but with even less defense considering the intercept problems of the Daughters. Backousting IS an option because there is very little pool gain (Legal, Wider View and Powerbase if you're lucky to draw it). The "stealth" module (Daring the Dawn, Missing Voice, Siren's Lure, Paris Opera House and Virtuosa) works extremely well, even against heavy blocker. Just be sure to use the Daring wisely so you send the blocking minions to torpor. Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 2 max: 6 average: 4.58333 3x Yseult 6 FOR MEL PRE Daughter :3 3x Angela Preston 5 MEL PRE for Daughter :2 2x Delilah Monroe 4 MEL for pre Daughter :2 1x Gael Pilet 6 FOR MEL chi pre Daughter :2 1x Celeste, The Voice 3 mel pre Daughter :2 1x Muse 3 ani for mel Daughter :2 1x New Blood 2 san Blood Bro:ANY -- a chump blocker, and crypt cycler Library [88 cards] Master [17] 2x Archon Investigation 1x Carver's Meat Packing and Storage 1x Command Performance -- great card, definitely worth the 2 pool (you can always hunt). 1x Fear of Mekhet 1x Fragment of the Book of Nod 3x Jake Washington (Hunter) 2x Paris Opera House 2x Pentex(TM) Subversion 1x Powerbase: Montreal 1x Retribution -- fun card, it never sent someone to torpor for now 2x Wider View Action [33] 1x Aranthebes, The Immortal 3x Entrancement 7x Legal Manipulations -- the ousting power, and the pool gain! 2x Rapid Healing -- quite useful considering the amount of Daring the Dawn. 20x Shattering Crescendo Action Modifier [24] 6x Daring the Dawn 4x Freak Drive 10x Missing Voice, The -- very easy to cycle 2x Siren's Lure 2x Virtuosa Action Modifier/Combat [6] 6x Force of Personality -- very polyvalent, very useful against Carlton or Unmasking, or to attrition vampires Ally [1] 1x Carlton Van Wyk (Hunter) -- has the added value of avoiding diablerie of a Daughter after a DtD. Equipment [2] 2x Heart of Nizchetus Event [1] 1x Dragonbound -- can be discarded if drawn too early or not clearly advantaging Reaction [4] 2x Delaying Tactics 2x On the Qui Vive Prince of Paris, France Ratings Coordinator, Rules Director

Very cool deck! I especially love seeing Retribution in these kinds of decks. Did you have to do much backousting during the tournament?

> Kushiel wrote: > Very cool deck! I especially love seeing Retribution in these kinds of decks. > > Did you have to do much backousting during the tournament? > Kind of, it was more "back-torporizing everyone and let him die". I did another tournament with it where I tried it another way: deal with my predator instead of backousting them. It turned out to be a fiasco because people will betray you and you don't have the capacity to prevent them of doing so in reaction. So backousting a predator is unfortunately the only way out. Prince of Paris, France Ratings Coordinator, Rules Director

Because how you need to play it, could this deck be considered to be in the similar vein as a rush deck and thus a rather bad choice (according to some)? I'm not one of those though, merely interested if people putting rush decks down will feel the need to put this down as well? Certainly makes craters etc... Finnish Politics!

> Lönkka wrote: > Because how you need to play it, could this deck be considered to be in the similar vein as a rush deck and thus a rather bad choice (according to some)? > It's pretty similar, except that: - it's more stable as it works against any type of minion and there's no combat moving part (no prevent, no combat ends, no dodge, range doesn't matter etc.) - it works better against multiple targets with little blood - it has PLENTY of "rushes" - it doesn't torporize 1 big cap vampire with full blood in one action - it does nothing in combat when blocked or attacked It has access to things a rush deck don't necessarily have: - stealth - bleed - steal ally Prince of Paris, France Ratings Coordinator, Rules Director

> Lönkka wrote: > Because how you need to play it, could this deck be considered to be in the similar vein as a rush deck and thus a rather bad choice (according to some)? > > I'm not one of those though, merely interested if people putting rush decks down will feel the need to put this down as well? Certainly makes craters etc... > It is as bad a concept (your Prey might get away from you, smart cross table players might use your damage to quickly drop to 3 players and win, wall decks might destroy you better than is you were pure combat, etc..). On the other hand, it deals damage to minions with much more card efficiency as was stated. Card efficiency is the worse part of a combat deck. That's why my and John Eno's grinder is so awesome. And Fatima with guns and 18 Psyches (yeah americans, keep lobbying to ban Pentex. Please!) And Eurobrujah. And walls with Vicissitude. And ally combat (once it's running smoothly). Card efficiency.