EC draft
Matthew T. Morgan
championship tournament. We did 9 packs of KoT in two draft pods, so I
came up with a pretty good deck. We used the recursion rules, that means
9 vampires, 40 minimum library and no recursions. Better than a 12 card
library. Kevin Mergen did an excellent job of organizing the draft as the
EC organizers were busy with the two larger tournaments.
My first table was four players. Me->Kevin->Augusto->Mike. Kevin had a
stealth bleed deck. Augusto had a very strong and gutsy deck based around
10 caps. Very nice. Mike was doing stuff with Gerald Windham.
Kevin came out pretty strong. I got some princes. Mike got Gerald and
somebody else. Augusto got Petrodon. The game went very fast as Augusto
felt a lot of pressure early and contested Arthur Denholm with Kevin, in
hopes of keeping the pressure off. That made it maybe too easy for me to
kill Kevin, but Kevin managed to bring Augusto down to 1 pool before the
table blew up. Augusto had to yield Arthur, but killed Mike (with my help
as per our deal). I finished off Kevin and took Augusto in the endgame.
I had too many guys, too much pool and too much intercept for him to get
much done.
Next game had me preying on Augusto. We almost contested Mary Anne, but I
decided not to. Folks got low at times, but a Powerbase Montreal was
going around, so nobody got ousted.
That gave me 3rd seed in the final. Seating was Javier (Gangrel combat)
-> me -> Pepe (some kind of weenie swarm, I guess) -> Mike (Gerald) ->
Kevin. Another fast game. Pepe only drew his big guys, so big guy swarm
didn't go over so well. Kevin had a horrible draw and was killed pretty
quickly by Mike. I got Pepe, since he didn't have enough minions to
block, then played Gambit Accepted and chipped away at Mike. Mike still
had a game, but Javier hadn't spent enough to die quickly, so soon enough
I got Mike. By this point, I had four princes plus Mary Anne, so Javier
didn't really have a shot, despite him getting out Ossian and Gregory
Winter at the end. He might've been able to hurt me if he'd gotten them
sooner.
Here's my deck.
Deck Name: EC09 Draft (Nov 15)
Created by: Matt Morgan
Description: I should've played this deck on day 1, but I hadn't built it
yet.
Crypt [9 vampires, average capacity: 7.66667]
2x Mary Anne Blaire AUS DOM FOR PRE ani pot 10 Ventrue:5 justicar
1x Carlak CEL PRE dom pot 8 Brujah:5 prince
1x Lodin (Olaf Holte) DOM FOR PRE aus pro 8 Ventrue:5 prince
1x Benjamin Rose AUS OBF ani pot 7 Nosferatu:5 prince
1x Graham Gottesman DOM FOR obf pre tha 7 Ventrue:5 prince
1x Karen Suadela CEL POT obf pre 7 Brujah:5 prince
1x Tara POT PRE cel 6 Brujah:5 prince
1x Victor Donaldson DOM for pre 6 Ventrue:5 prince
/* Never got out Carlak or Tara. The only real problem with this deck is
there aren't enough vampires with obfuscate. An obfuscate master (not
available in the set) would've really helped. I only had Mary Anne in
the final, but she sure was useful there. */
Library [43 cards]
Master [8]
1x Effective Management
1x Elysium: The Arboretum
1x Gambit Accepted
1x KRCG News Radio
1x Perfectionist
1x Rack, The
1x Special Report
1x Warzone Hunting Ground
/* Played all of these at various points in the tournament. Good picks.
*/
Action [6]
1x Embrace, The
1x Fourth Tradition: The Accounting
2x Public Trust
2x Third Tradition: Progeny
/* The Progeny and Embrace were very good with Empowering the Puppet King.
*/
Action Modifier [12]
2x Cloak the Gathering
2x Conditioning
3x Empowering the Puppet King
1x Mask of a Thousand Faces
1x Mirror Walk (draft: obf +1 stealth)
1x Seduction
1x Spying Mission
1x Veil the Legions
Action Modifier / Combat [2]
2x Force of Personality (pre: sce, very useful)
Equipment [1]
1x Ivory Bow
Political Action [4]
2x Kine Resources Contested
1x Neonate Breach - never had a prey with weenies!
1x Reins of Power
Reaction [6]
1x Delaying Tactics
1x Eluding the Arms of Morpheus
2x Spirit's Touch
1x Steadfastness - could've dropped this
1x Telepathic Misdirection
Combat [4]
1x Burst of Sunlight (draft: aus sce)
1x Indomitability
1x Soak
1x Torrent - should've left this out
xfa...@iki.fi
Rules were exactly the same as on above. I really should start to take
notes of my games since I don't anymore remember all the players on my
tables.
Deck isn't that good at all but I think that I got lucky. Like the
first round in first game, KRCG News Radio, 2 cap out and he gets
Sniper Rifle. Well predator countered with Assault Rifle but I got the
Elysium Arboretum. And when my granpredators Mistress Fanchion (with
ankara citadel, meat hook and kevlar vest) was burned by Archon
Investigation I knew that table is mine. 1GW 3VP.
Second round I got all Ventrues into play so it was totally different
game. My roommate Jaakko was as my prey and he didn't like too much
for Hostile Takeover which I used to take one of his vampires. I just
don't understand why my predator didn't want to pay more of that
vampire since Ruxanda has -1 intercept against Ventrues and I had 3
Ventrues on table. Well he was influencing 10 cap out so maybe that is
the reason. At the end I got 2VP.
So I went to final with 1GW 5VP and that was first seed. And the
seating was this :
Mike -> Kasper -> Juan -> Timo -> Raul
Raul influenced himself fast down to 3 pool and I managed to oust him.
At that point Mike already had "Bernard, the Scourge" in game and he
was able to burn all my vampires. He actually burned one out of my 4
vampires. So I decided to play Millicent Smith to slow things down
since I had already 1VP. Rest of the game I just defended myself
against Juan who took me down to 2 pool. Mike got Kasper down to 1.
Time was counted down from 7 seconds when Juan was untapping his
vampires and would have ousted me there for victory. Close call I
would say.
Here's my deck.
Deck Name : EC Draft (Nov 14)
Author : Timo ' xfactor' Snellman
Description : I am the lucky bastard.
Crypt (10 vampires) Capacity min: 1 max: 6 average: 3
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1x Beth Malcolm 6 FOR PRE ani Ventrue:5
1x Jeremy "Wix" Wyzch 5 ani obf pot Nosferatu:4
1x Bethany Ray 4 PRE aus Toreador:5
1x Portia 4 for pre pro Ventrue:5
1x Foureyes 3 obf pot Nosferatu:4
1x Dr. Solomon Grey 2 dom pre Caitiff:5
1x Ezra Hawthorne 2 tha Tremere:4
1x Jack Tredegar 2 pre Ventrue:5
1x Cesar Holfield 1 obf Caitiff:4
1x Walker Grimes 1 ani Caitiff:5
Library (43 cards)
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Action (4)
1x Deep Song
1x Public Trust
1x Scrounging
1x Summoning, The
Action Modifier (3)
1x Dawn Operation
1x Into Thin Air
1x Leverage
Ally (1)
1x Political Ally
Combat (13)
3x Backstep
1x Caseless Rounds
3x Concealed Weapon
2x High Ground
1x Indomitability
2x Scattershot
1x Taste of Vitae
Equipment (9)
2x Beretta 9mm
2x Cooler
1x Heart of Nizchetus
1x Helicopter
1x Kevlar Vest
1x Light Intensifying Goggles
1x Sniper Rifle
Master (10)
1x Dark Influences
1x Elysium: The Arboretum
1x Hostile Takeover
1x KRCG News Radio
1x Major Boon
1x Millicent Smith, Puritan Vampire Hunter
1x Minor Boon
1x Powerbase: Chicago
1x Uptown Hunting Ground
1x Vast Wealth
Reaction (2)
2x Keep it Simple
Retainer (1)
1x Jackie Therman
Brum
I'm happy that half the cards I passed were put to good use. :)
Too bad mine weren't.
Congrats to you both.
Tiago
echia...@yahoo.com
I must commend Mr. Morgan for taking this "douche baggery" to new
heights! Mr. Matt, you see, is quite the sneaky little bastard!
He's trying to have it both ways - collecting the fame and adoration
of his many VTES groupies while actually providing an inaccurate and
incomplete deck list. It really puts those treacherous Europeans, who
delay posting their decks, to shame (plus the Eurotrash obviously
can't pull it off with as much pizzaz as Mr. Matt).
As everyone should obviously know from being well-versed in VEKN
rules, a "proper" Limited deck list includes not only the cards in
your deck at the finals, but also every card you drafted or otherwise
received:
7.2.3. Limited Deck Registration
The head judge or tournament organizer may require players to record
on a decklist every card they receive in a Limited tournament. Once
the cards are registered, players have a limited amount of time to
prepare their decks before play begins. The V:EKN recommends that
organizers check a reasonable number of decks against their decklists
each round.
So by "neglecting" to provide this crucial information (cards he
drafted but weren't in his deck), Matthew was trying to pull one over
the naive VTES community. Unfortunately for him, I was prepared for
his underhanded tricks. Talk about being totally pwned!
Nice try Matt T. but next time you'll have to do much better! TBSS.
[/facetious]
:-P
Matthew T. Morgan
> I must commend Mr. Morgan for taking this "douche baggery" to new
> heights!
Okay, you caught me. The deck I played contained 52 cards and we drafted
9 packs of KoT, so that's 47 cards unaccounted for. The truth, and I
didn't want to embarass my fellow players, but now you force me to, is
that the unplayed cards were all Enkil Cogs (15), Unmaskings (12),
Embraces (14, not counting the one that slipped into my deck) and Jake
Washingtons (6). I'm not sure why the other players weren't interested in
getting these cards for their collections, if not their decks. Anyway,
I'm planning to use them to all in a really awesome deck I'm working on,
so stay tuned for that!
echia...@yahoo.com
Some honesty, for once! How refreshing!
Brum
<Eurotrash talking>
Hey! Before the tournament you told me that Enkil Cog was bad and Jake
Washington was wallpaper.... Darn!
That ain't nice, Mr Morgan!
Half of those were mine! You cheated!
You must be one of those liberals who praise that Evolution Theory
thinggy!
<\Eurotrash talking>