TWD - Week of Nightmares 2024 - Day 3, Warsaw (Poland) (26 Sep 2024)

Week of Nightmares 2024 - Day 3 Warsaw, Poland 26 September 2024 2R+F 48 players Tero Aalto www.vekn.net/event-calendar/event/11665 2 GW 7,5 + 0,5 in the final Deck Name: Radical Leftist Description: Considering that this team of small incompetent Stanislavas is my freshest new TWD entry since the first unnamed win back in 2019, it was beyond high time to turn a new page. The deck is atypical to me in several ways, including not having a star vampire, nor any 10/11-caps. Then again, there are familiar traits, too, such as great combat defense and lunge potential. 5/5 would play again. Crypt (12 cards, min=20 max=31 avg=6.42) 3x Adrino Manauara 8 ANI DOM PRO pot baron Tzimisce:6 3x Ángel Guerrero 7 ANI DOM PRO baron Tzimisce:6 2x Kamile Paukstys 5 PRO ani for Gangrel:6 1x Branimira 6 ANI dom pre pro baron Tzimisce:6 1x Clara Hjortshøj 5 PRO ani aus dom Tzimisce:6 1x Kuyén 6 ANI PRO baron Gangrel:6 1x Marialena 5 DOM PRO ani Tzimisce:6 Library (77 cards) Master (14; 4 trifle) 1x Anarch Railroad 1x Carfax Abbey 1x Direct Intervention 2x Dreams of the Sphinx 2x Garibaldi-Meucci Museum 1x Giant's Blood 1x Library Hunting Ground 1x Papillon 4x Villein Action (10) 10x Govern the Unaligned Political Action (2) 2x Eat the Rich Equipment (2) 2x Heart of Nizchetus Action Modifier (7) 3x Conditioning 4x Earth Control Action Modifier/Reaction (4) 4x Form of the Bat Reaction (21) 5x Bait and Switch 3x Deep Ecology 3x Deflection 2x On the Qui Vive 8x Organized Resistance Combat (16) 2x Donnybrook 7x Earth Meld 7x Form of Mist Event (1) 1x Scourge of the Enochians

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The key to this final was the seating order, i.e. getting to choose the one and only right place to sit, which being the first seed allowed me to do, and it has never been as easy as it was this time. The Carna deck was the only one that could reliably stop the clown car, and the only way to deal with having an almost identical crypt in the table was to be its cross-table and be able to negotiate around contesting. The rest was just trying to maintain balance while slowly sneaking towards an oust. Final table: Nemanja: V5 Tzimisce Magnus: Ravnos clown car Jozef: Carna w/ Nephandi Tero: V5 Tzimisce Sélim: Guillaume Giovanni Luckily enough, my cross-table clan buddies had the same idea and suggested agreeing upon vampires at the very first second of the game. We found a distribution that was acceptable to both, with me taking Adrino and he getting Ángel. For the rest, whenever I drew a new crypt card, I asked whether it would be okay to bring out, and if not, left it there and tried again the next turn. I didn't even remotely consider contesting at any point of the game. However, getting a point turned out to be tricky as the Guillaume Giovanni deck sandwiched between us two Tzimisces has a hand size of 10–20 and virtually guaranteed bounce for any bleed above one, and even for some of the ones. One or two bleeds for one per turn it was, then. Meanwhile, Carna was keeping the clown car humble, not allowing much else than Con. Boons, for which I provided the votes, in order to keep him out of ousting range for the other Tzimisces, because for a certain reason, I knew that deck's lunge potential more than well. Carna's Nephandi were, in turn, bleeding me for ones, forcing me to balance between blocking, bouncing and Govern-bloating the lost pool back. Had there been ten more minutes on the clock, Sélim would have surely got his oust, as he made it really close, or the winner might have been Magnus who had been holding a Life Boon. In the end, my balancing act paid off, and the final timed out peacefully with everybody still unalive. To finish with a few hot takes about the deck, while Garibaldi is probably the defining card of the current meta, I'm not convinced about it in this deck in particular. Cycling an Organized Resistance or Bait and Switch sounds great on paper but neither has so far been relevant in practice. Repeated Eat the Riches can be powerful, too, but my experience with the card (even though it gave the inspiration for the deck's name) is that I'd almost always rather have an Anarchist Uprising or Ancilla Empowerment. Mixing up the vote math isn't usually strong enough in a deck that isn't dedicated to voting, and it's quite common that the player you need to get rid of is the one with no titles. 2 votes (titled) of Helsinki