POWERBASE LA #2 - NAQ Los Angeles - Winning deck and qualifiers
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18 players.
Winner: Ira Fay
Standings - Top 5 Qualify for Championship Event(s)
1 Ira Fay 2 8.5 3
2 Robert Goudie 2 9.5 2
3 Chris Shorb 2 8.5 0
4 Steve Bucy 1 5 0
5 Paul Johnson 1 4.5 0
6 Robyn Tatu 0 3
7 Darby Keeney 0 2.5
8 Preston Poulter 0 2.5
9 Fred Scott 0 1.5
10 David Tatu 0 1
11 Kevin Mergen 0 0.5
12 Nat Hammond 0 0.5
13 Andrew Fernandez 0 0.5
14 Jeff Pool 0 0
15 Michael Nilsen 0 0
16 Matt Wedge 0 0
16 Robert Scythe 0 0
16 Eric Schacter 0 0
IRA's Deck:
Deck Name: Thank You Ian Lee
Description: Get a bunch of locations in play, a giant hand size, and
then win. Make sure Guillaume doesn't go to torpor. Ian loaned me
the Preternatural Strength and Therbold Realty, both of which are very
strong in this deck.
I got up to hand size 18 in the tournament.
Crypt: (12)
5x Guillaume Giovanni
3x Baldesar Rossellini
1x Don Michael Antonio Giovanni
1x Benedict Giovanni, Agent
1x Primo Giovanni
1x Lia Milliner
Library: (90)
Master: (27)
2x Blood Doll
2x Fortitude
2x The Parthenon
2x Therbold Realty
2x Vessel
1x Brothers Grimm
1x Carver's Meat Packing and Storage
1x Centralized Background Check
1x Channel 10
1x Club Zombie
1x Direct Intervention
1x Filchware's Pawn Shop
1x Information Highway
1x KRCG News Radio
1x London Evening Star, Tabloid Newspaper
1x Metro Underground
1x Morgue Hunting Ground
1x Powerbase: Cape Verde
1x Powerbase: Chicago
1x The Rumor Mill, Tabloid Newspaper
1x WMRH Talk Radio
1x Wall Street Night, Financial Newspaper
Action: (13)
7x Govern the Unaligned
3x Preternatural Strength
1x Mesmerize
1x Scouting Mission
1x Sudario Refraction
Action Modifier: (8)
3x Freak Drive
2x Bonding
2x Foreshadowing Destruction
1x Forced March
Action Modifier/Reaction: (5)
3x Murmur of the False Will
2x Spectral Divination
Ally: (4)
1x Ambrosius, The Ferryman (Wraith)
1x Carlton Van Wyk (Hunter)
1x Felix "Fix" Hessian (Wraith)
1x Mylan Horseed (Goblin)
Combat: (20)
5x Immortal Grapple
4x Soak
3x Taste of Vitae
2x Disarm
2x Skin of Steel
2x Thrown Sewer Lid
2x Undead Strength
Equipment: (2)
1x Palatial Estate
1x Gran Madre di Dio, Italy
Reaction: (11)
3x Deflection
2x Forced Awakening
2x On the Qui Vive
2x Wake with Evening's Freshness
1x Delaying Tactics
1x Fillip
Retainer: (1)
1x J. S. Simmons, Esq.
Robert Goudie
> POWERBASELA: NAQ Event # 2 North American Cont. Qualifier
> 18 players.
> Winner: Ira Fay
>
> Standings - Top 5 Qualify for Championship Event(s)
>
> 1 Ira Fay 2 8.5 3
> 2 Robert Goudie 2 9.5 2
Grrrrr. I really shot my wad and lost all of my shamblers ousting
Chris Shorb...and even that was close. However, I did get a very nice
adrenaline rush lunging to oust shorb. It's pretty hard to get my
hands shaking these days so I did enjoy the thrill.
Ira messed me up bad after that. Some suggested to me later that I
should have let Shorb oust Ira and then ousted Shorb on my own later.
That's not something I considered (kinda goes against my nature
frankly) but I also didn't know Chris had the ability to stealth by
Ira's blockers.
In any event, Ira's deck was cooking and he came back after being back
bled by Bucy's anti-Malks down to a single pool.
Good stuff.
-Robert
adam....@gmail.com
Cool deck! Just some questions in case I want to make a similar deck.
Maybe I'm missing something.
1) Why not two sedario refraction for recursion purposes?
2) Why no Ty Cooper?
3) Was Murmur the False Will worth it? Or would more deflection/
redirection be better?
4) Was Filchware's Pawn Shop useful? If you just used it for hand
size, maybe Elder Library?
5) No Creepshow Casino for all those undirected actions?
Congratulations!
brandons...@yahoo.com
that if he's left alone for very long, just having a large hand size
gives you opportunities that you might not have with only so many
copies of each card in the deck. When you have 1/5 of your deck in
your hand at a time, I would think that 6 bounce is more than enough!
Congrats, Ira!
Brandon
Robert Goudie
Well I don't know if you could say he was left alone. After all, his
prey back-bled him for all but one pool. But other than that, yes, he
seemed to be able to build freely.
I was also playing Giovannia and I had to give up the Parthenon to Ira
(my predator was the !Malk bleeded) and he seemed to get all of the
Gio locations and Allies before me.
-Robert
Jeff Kuta
The only card I'm surprised not to see is Secure Haven! LOCATION!!! :)
Gratz, Ira! :)
Jeff
ira...@gmail.com
> 1) Why not two sedario refraction for recursion purposes?
I considered it, but 1 seemed to be enough. With a large hand size,
you often have what you need already. Maybe 2 would be better!
> 2) Why no Ty Cooper?
I considered it. Mostly I left Ty out because of pool costs. Maybe
it would be better with him in? Also, I don't think I own one.
> 3) Was Murmur the False Will worth it? Or would more deflection/redirection be better?
I didn't face many (any?) bleeding allies, and Guillaume is pretty old
(especially with +2 cap from Fortitude), so Murmur was good.
> 4) Was Filchware's Pawn Shop useful? If you just used it for hand size, maybe Elder Library?
Filchware's Pawn Shop is the only trifle location in the game.
Definitely worth playing a trifle that effectively says "+1 hand size
for 0 pool." I considered Elder Library, but I didn't think it was
really necessary.
> 5) No Creepshow Casino for all those undirected actions?
Good suggestion. I think I just missed that one, and I think it would
be good to include in the next version. There were a couple Governs
at superior that got blocked, and it would have been nice to have an
extra stealth.
Ira
ira...@gmail.com
> The only card I'm surprised not to see is Secure Haven! LOCATION!!! :)
Probably a good addition as well. I might have overlooked it since I
play blood dolls and vessels, but it's likely good to include!
Ira
ira...@gmail.com
> I was also playing Giovannia and I had to give up the Parthenon to Ira
> (my predator was the !Malk bleeded) and he seemed to get all of the
> Gio locations and Allies before me.
If by "had to give up the Parthenon" you mean that you "didn't block
Felix's action to burn The Parthnon", then I agree. :)
Ira
Robert Goudie
Meh. Whatever. I couldn't remember whether or not we'd contested.
Either way though, I had a Parthenon and a Felix in my deck too, and I
already knew based on our pool totals at the time that I wouldn't be
able to contest a Parthenon with you.
Then again, had I known Bucy was going to take you down to 1 pool I
would have tried to fight you for it. :-)
-Robert
Chris Berger
Needs more Insurance Scams. =)
Even just 1 should be enough. Good for "just in case", and you of
course get to pick what you discard, so should be no big deal.
librarian
Oh Ira, if only you were playing this deck as the prey to my Arika deck...
best -
chris
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