Reverend Blackwood (TWD and report), Paris, France
Stone
Location : Troll2Jeux shop, Paris, Franc
Date : December 12th, 2010
Number of players : 21
Winning player : Philippe LANG
Deck :
Crypt (12 cards)
4 Carna
1 Selena
1 Hannigan
1 Blythe Candeleria
1 Richard tauber
1 Aisling Sturbridge
1 Almiro Suarez
1 Masika St John
1 Martin Franckel
Library (90 cards)
Masters : 18
1 Arcane Library
1 Rack
1 Powerbase Montreal
1 Chantry
2 Blood Dool
4 Vessel
1 Pentex
1 From a sinking Ship
2 Direct Intervention
3 Life Boon
1 Fragment of the Book of Nod
Action : 14
2 Ponticulus
1 Talbot Chainsaw
1 Snipper Riffle
3 Magic of the Smith
2 Nose of the Hound
1 Bowl of Convergence
1 Ivory Bow
3 Govern The Unaligned
Action Modifier : 9
3 Mirror Walk
3 Conditioning
2 Foreshadowing Destruction
1 Bonding
Reaction : 19
2 Force Awakening
3 On The Qui Vive
4 Eye of Argus
3 Eagle's Sight
3 My enemy's Enemy
2 Telepathic Misdirection
2 Enhanded Sense
Combat : 30
2 Aura reading
7 Apportation
9 Theft of Vitae
3 Blood Fury
1 Burst of Sunlight
2 Rego Motus
2 Walk of Flame
4 Telepathic Tracking
A full report can be found in french at
http://www.veknfrance.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16316
A brief report in english (or approximate english, bear with me) :
I organized this tournament to honor the work of our National Coordinator,
Philippe Lang aka Reverend Blackwood, who did a great job as French NC for 3
years and who did most of the work in organizing the 2010 European
Championship in Paris. I traditionnally organize the last tournament of the
calendar year without playing in it, but since 19 players were present in
round 1, they asked me to join them so we could have 5-players tables. Then
Floppy had to drop for round 2 but another player joined in round 2, hence
the 21 players indicated in the TWD.
Here are the standings with a brief description of the metagame :
Final Rank Name Prelim GWs Prelim VPs Final VPs TPs
1 Philippe LANG (Carna) 2 6 4 144
2 Nicolas BIGOT (Howler) 2 7,5 1 168
2 Orian GISSLER (Army of Allah) 1 4,5 0 120
2 Pierre-Benoīt LAGOEYTE (Nana Buruku Deep Song Ashur) 1 5 0 144
2 Pierre TRAN-VAN (Derjudge's Kiev Circle S&B) 2 7 0 174
6 Margaux DAQUINO (Muricia) 0 3 126
7 Vincent RIPOLL (Nergal/Great Beast/Contagion/Pocket out of Time) 0 2 108
8 Julien OHLER (Anson Slaughterhouse) 0 2 90
9 David FLEURY (Mictlantecuhlti rush) 0 2 84
10 Raphaėl ACQUAVIVA (!Malk S&B) 0 1,5 108
10 Franck BERNARD (Midcap pot / dom) 0 1,5 108
12 Christophe BOLOGNINO (Goratrix from outer space) 0 1,5 102
13 Daniel UJHELJI-VARGA (Velya wall with strange set-up) 0 1 96
14 Jeff CORNELIUS (Uta Kovacs) 0 1 90
14 Antonio COBO CUENCA (Rockcat Graverobbing) 0 1 90
14 Nicolas VERHILLE (Shambling) 0 1 90
17 Patrice LASCOMBES (!Ventrue) 0 1 78
18 Lucas BONROY (weenie pot) 0 0,5 84
19 Karim BALOUL (Uta rush) 0 0,5 78
20 Jérome GOYET (Theo Bell Amaranth) 0 0,5 54
21 Pascal BERTRAND (Shalmath wall) 0 0 24
1GW 4.5VP was necessary to hit the final. As a side note, a special prize
was awarded to the player who played the most "Reverend Blackwood" deck,
basically either a deck that won with Life Boon or who toasted minions using
Thaumaturgic combat. Karim won the prize with his Uta rush deck.
Final was Philippe Lang aka Reverend Blackwood (Carna) -> meh (Kiev Circle
S&B) -> Nicolas Bigot aka Dimple (Howler) -> Orian Gissler aka TTC (Army of
Allah, i.e. Assamite swarm vote) -> Nhetic (Nana Buruku Deep Song)
TTC was sandwiched between 2 intercept decks and couldn't do much. Philippe
didn't want to help him. I was also stuck between 2 intercept decks so
couldn't perform set-up actions. Even if TTC had some narrow openings at
some point when Nhetic began thinking it wasn't his job to kill Dimple's
prey, he was in rough shape. So Dimple moved forward with Howler, Cynthia,
Lena Rowe and TTC was ousted. Nhetic initially had the upper hand against
Blackwood in combat, but Blackwood benefited from Montreal and Arcanle
Library early in the game, so had plenty of vampires and he had Ponticulus
as well.
Nhetic and I helped each other with cross-table rescues from torpor; I tried
to go for an oust on Dimple and he resisted. I tried again the turn after,
full tapping my Kiev vamps but Blackwood prevented me from ousting Dimple,
first with an Eagle Sight, second with a Life Boon. I had hesitated on
pushing the ousting bleed in "overkill" mode (i.e. a bleed of 5 with Walk of
Caine even though Dimple was at 1 pool), to dissuade Blackwood from playing
Life Boon (the player is quite famous in Paris for playing it), but that
would have left my vamps without blood and Blackwood had too much permacept
so it wouldn't have paid off in the long run. Anyway I took the risk that he
had a life boon which he did, so he saved Dimple after agreeing on ousting
their respective preys then going for a duel. Philippe ousts me the turn
after that. Nhetic couldn't win a 1 versus 2 and falls. The duel began 15
minutes before the time limit and both sides had fairly equal chances of
winning at first but Blackwood got the upper hand and torporized nearly all
of Dimple's minions. Dimple concedes, 3 minutes before the time limit.
Philippe therefore wins the tournament that was organized in his honor.
Congratulations to him !
Thanks to the Troll2Jeux shop for providing the venue, as always ; to
Floppy, our new National Coordinator, who took care of providing a nice
surprise gift for Philippe ; to the players, who made the tournament a nice
one with good mood ; to Philippe, for his extraordinary commitment to the
game and contribution to the growth of the VtES french community, as well as
taking the burden of so many tasks in the organization and running of the
2010 EC in Paris .
Greeting from Paris
Stone
DeBomas
> 2 Pierre TRAN-VAN (Derjudge's Kiev Circle S&B) 2 7 0 174
I'd love to see the decklist for your Kiev Circle.
I played the deck for a while in local games, but wouldn't dare to
bring it to a tournament for the slow setup and lack of defenses, so
i'm really interested in your take on it. ;-)
Stone
"DeBomas" <th.kouw...@gmail.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
4c190f71-1ebb-4e68...@r29g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...
It wasn't mine, actually. Since I didn't plan to play, I came without deck
and borrowed one at the last minute. Here's his decklist - I highly doubt
he'd mind, he got inspired by the one found in
http://www.secretlibrary.info/index.php?deck=view&id=5017 :
Deck Name : kiev by night
Author : Derjudge
Description :
Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 4 max: 4 average: 4
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3x Kyrylo 4 SAN for Blood Bro:5
3x Pavlo 4 SAN pro Blood Bro:5
2x Danylo 4 for pro san Blood Bro:5
2x Gavrylo 4 pot pro san Blood Bro:5
2x Volo 4 POT pro san Blood Bro:5
Library [82 cards]
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Action [25]
9x Hive Mind
4x Sanguine Instruction
12x Unwholesome Bond
Action Modifier [24]
6x Earth Control
8x Shell Game
10x Walk of Caine
Action Modifier / Combat [4]
4x Slake the Thirst
Action Modifier/Combat [4]
4x Rapid Change
Combat [8]
8x Earth Meld
Equipment [4]
4x Camera Phone
Event [1]
1x Narrow Minds
Master [12]
1x Anarch Troublemaker
1x Coven, The
5x Effective Management
1x Hungry Coyote, The
1x Information Highway
3x Protean
After playing 4 games with this deck, I'd swap some Hive Mind with more
Shell Game, and remove Narrow Mind in order to put Pentex Subversion. As for
the lack of defense, it really depends on how much your opponents think
you're playing a rush deck. In round 2, my prey was a dementation bleed deck
who asked me each turn if he could get vampires, asked to deal "you don't
rush me vs I don't back-bleed you" etc. Unwholesome Bond is really good pool
gain so is a good defense in itself. This version would be killed by any
vote deck, of course. But it was fun to play, it reminded me of good old
Davila's ELDB advice : "when in doubt, bleed at stealth".
Stone
The Lasombra
>A full report can be found in french at
>http://www.veknfrance.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16316
That site really takes forever and a day to load....
Reverend Blackwood
Troll2Jeux shop, Paris, France
December 12th, 2010
21 players
Philippe LANG's Tournament Winning Deck with 4 VPs in the Finals
Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 2 max: 7 average: 4.91667
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4x Carna, The Princes 7 AUS DOM THA primogen Tremere:3
1x Selena 6 AUS DOM THA !Tremere:3
1x Aisling Sturbridge 5 AUS THA dom Tremere:2
1x Hannigan 5 AUS THA dom !Tremere:2
1x Richard Tauber, Ay 4 AUS tha !Tremere:2
1x Blythe Candeleria 3 THA aus Tremere:2
1x Martin Franckel 3 AUS tha Tremere:3
1x Masika St. John 3 THA Tremere:3
1x Almiro Suarez 2 aus Tremere:3
Library [90 cards]
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Action [8]
3x Govern the Unaligned
3x Magic of the Smith
2x Nose of the Hound
Action Modifier [9]
1x Bonding
3x Conditioning
2x Foreshadowing Destruction
3x Mirror Walk
Ally [2]
2x Ponticulus
Combat [30]
7x Apportation
2x Aura Reading
3x Blood Fury
1x Burst of Sunlight
2x Rego Motus
4x Telepathic Tracking
9x Theft of Vitae
2x Walk of Flame
Equipment [4]
1x Bowl of Convergence
1x Ivory Bow
1x Sniper Rifle
1x Talbot's Chainsaw
Master [18]
1x Arcane Library
2x Blood Doll
1x Chantry
2x Direct Intervention
1x Fragment of the Book of Nod
1x From a Sinking Ship
3x Life Boon
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Powerbase: Montreal
1x Rack, The
4x Vessel
Reaction [19]
3x Eagle's Sight
2x Enhanced Senses
4x Eyes of Argus
2x Forced Awakening
3x My Enemy's Enemy
3x On the Qui Vive
2x Telepathic Misdirection
Vincent
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:40:12 +0100, "Stone" wrote:
> >A full report can be found in french at
> >http://www.veknfrance.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16316
>
> That site really takes forever and a day to load....
>
? It's instantaneous for me. Can you try again?
Vinicius Coelho de Almeida
faster in the mid to end game. Incidentally, it can disrupt other
Methuselahs influencing.
Kaymakli Nightmares
Master.
All Methuselahs move any crypt cards in their uncontrolled regions to
their crypts. Any blood counters on them are moved to the Methuselah's
pool, and any cards on them are burned. Each Methuselah shuffles his or
her crypt and then moves as many cards from his or her crypt to his or her
uncontrolled region as he or she shuffled in. Only one Kaymakli Nightmares
may be played per game.
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Stone wrote:
>
> "DeBomas" <th.kouw...@gmail.com> a ?crit dans le message de news:
The Lasombra
>? It's instantaneous for me. Can you try again?
Tonight it worked.