Robert Goudie#
This month's offering is another winning weenie deck. The following
weenie presence bleed deck was created by Mike Courtois and was played
to a first place finish in late October at Crusade: Los Angeles '98.
Mike has won 3 of the last 5 tournaments in Los Angeles with two of
those victories coming from some form of this deck.
Prior to the most recent round of rulings, Mike used Bum's Rush, Zip
Guns, and Dragon's Breath Rounds to attack and hopefully incapacitate
any potential blockers. The deck was still quite successful but
sometimes seemed to lose its original focus as Mike would slowly revise
the deck to do combat better and better.
The revised version of the deck abondons combat altogether. In a nod to
my Weenie Dominate deck, Mike chose to use Misdirections to get his
bleeds through rather than simply trying to outnumber his prey as he had
done in the past. In theory, the Media Influences should be keeping his
vampires full and the occassional Tribute to the Master should be
keeping his pool high enough to continue to bring out vampires. In
practice, Mike said that he seemed to have a Tribute in his hand
whenever he needed a Misdirection. And his vampires rarely, if ever,
received a blood from a Media Influence played at superior. Not that
this mattered much. Mike won two of his three preliminary rounds to
advance to the final. In the finals Mike made a couple of quick
(practically instant) oustings and then the game evolved into a
stalemate allowing Mike to take his lead to the game time-limit.
Here is his deck:
CRYPT:
Mariana Gilbert x2
Gideon Fontaine x2
Antoinette DuChamp x2
Vasilis, The Traitor of Don Cruez x2
Angela Decker
Igo the Hungry
Delilah Easton
Frederick the Weak
LIBRARY:
Tribute to the Master x10
Misdirection x10
Blood Doll x6
Media Influence x40
Aire of Elation x10
Majesty x14