TWD Member of the Entourage May 16th NYC

[Ruben Feldman]

Name: Member of the Entourage
Day: SUNDAY MAY 16th
2R+F, 10 players

Deckname: Eldest are Ravnos
Author: Ruben Feldman
Description Bring out little Ravnos, who in turn bring out littler
Ravnos. Cycle Mozambique Allures easily by going Laibon and the
calling votes using Eldest are Kholo. Vote defense is also Eldest are
KHOLO!

Results: 1st place 2GW10 (5VP in final)

Crypt:
2 Sasha Miklos
2 Spleen
2 Zip
1 Lazar Dobrescu
1 Tsigane
1 Vedel Esbreno
1 Anka, Priestess of Thorns
1 salbator bokkengro
1 Sennuwy

Action:
16 Embrace
9 Mozambique Allure
1 Heart of Nizchetus
1 Reliquiary: Trinket

Political Action:
5 Con Boon
1 KRC
1 Rumors
2 My kin against the world

Action Modifier:
1 Change of target

Combat:
1 Zip gun

Action Modifier/Reaction:
12 Eldest are Kholo

Master:
1 Archon Investigation
4 Parthenon
4 Information highway
1 Week of nightmare
1 Dreams
1 Jake Washington
6 Ravnos Carnival
1 Pentex Subversion
1 Last Stand
1 Tribute to the master
1 Gird minion

Event:
1 Anthelios
1 Bitter sweet story
1 Veil of Darkness
1 Slow withering
1 Fall of the camarilla

A few comments on the deck:
Turns out the events were mostly useless, destroying my handsize. The
only time someone played the Uncoiling, I was glad to see it!
First time i try heart of Nizchetus: disapointing, i would have
prefered a tarot or another trinket...
Archon investigation was, once again, completely useless - being a
dead card for all the time i ever had it in hand.
Probably too many things going on in this deck, jammed a lot. Need to
cut down to 60-66 cards, notably the events, some masters and still
not convinced about the Eldest are kholo vote mechanism...

I got a 0VP in the first round. My prey was very defensive and i was
not able to kill him before Cory's Malk chewed through my pool. I had
many minions but they couldn't do much - it's a lot more intimidating
than it should be!
I was lucky in the seating for the final. My predator had bad crypt
problems, not bringing out a real minion until turn 5, this allowed me
to get a headstart and pass a few con boons...

Thanks to Adam for organizing this event, it was a lot of fun!

[The Lasombra]

On Thu, 20 May 2010 07:34:14 -0700 (PDT), Ruben Feldman wrote:

>Name: Member of the Entourage
>Day: SUNDAY MAY 16th
>2R+F, 10 players

>Deckname: Eldest are Ravnos
>Author: Ruben Feldman
>Description Bring out little Ravnos, who in turn bring out littler
>Ravnos. Cycle Mozambique Allures easily by going Laibon and the
>calling votes using Eldest are Kholo. Vote defense is also Eldest are
>KHOLO!
>Results: 1st place 2GW10 (5VP in final)

Would Tsunda have made any difference in your results? Or Bamba or
Tumnimos? Or would that have slowed you down too much?

Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 2 max: 4 average: 2.75
------------------------------------------------------------
2x Sasha Miklos 2 chi Ravnos:2
2x Spleen, Georgio Gutterpunk 2 ani chi Ravnos:2
2x Zip 2 ani Ravnos:3
1x Anka, Priestess of Thorns 4 ani chi pro Ravnos:2
1x Salbatore Bokkengr 4 CHI for pro Ravnos:2
1x Sennuwy, The Promoter 4 ani chi for Ravnos:2
1x Lazar Dobrescu 3 for Ravnos:2
1x Tsigane 3 aus chi Ravnos:2
1x Vedel Esbreno 3 chi for Ravnos:2

Library [77 cards]
-----------------------------------
Action [25]
16x Embrace, The
9x Mozambique Allure

Action Modifier [1]
1x Change of Target

Action Modifier/Reaction [12]
12x Eldest Are Kholo, The

Combat [1]
1x Zip Gun

Equipment [2]
1x Heart of Nizchetus
1x Reliquary: Trinket

Event [5]
1x Anthelios, The Red Star
1x Bitter and Sweet Story, The
1x Fall of the Camarilla
1x Slow Withering, The
1x Veil of Darkness

Master [22]
1x Archon Investigation
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Gird Minions
4x Information Highway
1x Jake Washington (Hunter)
1x Last Stand
4x Parthenon, The
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
6x Ravnos Carnival
1x Tribute to the Master
1x Week of Nightmares

Political Action [9]
5x Consanguineous Boon
1x Kine Resources Contested
2x My Kin Against the World
1x Rumors of Gehenna

[Ruben Feldman]

Tsunda is group 4, where the ravnos crypt is much bigger. I suppose it
could be tried with larger vampires and using tumnimos, but then it
would be ad ifferent deck. In that case, I would play Chimestry
stealth/combat defense and swarm less, maybe it will be version 2.0!

[Anthony Coleman]

I think Tsunda is better if you decide that TEaK is worth using (I
think it is). Obviously as your semi dependant ** on Tsunda you
sometimes have a bad start and also there is a critical time where
tusunda can get rushed before creating enough blocking laibon tumnious
weenies to protect himself.

** you have others (paul, callirus) who can use Mozam Allure and then
create laibon Tumnious but its very sub optimal and slow if forced to
go that route