Official VEKN Gangrel-Antitribu newsletter volume 8 number 2 February 2005
legbiter
2005
In this cold-noses-pressed-to-the-toy-shop-window issue ……
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FICTION: Love in a Cold Climate
DECK: Tournament-winning deck Tlaxcala, Mexico
FICTION: Love in a Cold Climate
February in the far North …. A time of returning sunshine after the
biting cold of winter. Against the great white expanse of the Arctic
Nanook is prowling, but not for prey. He breathes easily and steadily,
black eyes scanning the horizon. There! Disciplining himself not to
lope TOO eagerly, he approaches. Nanooka watches, silently.
"Hey babe! Long time, no see!"
"11 months and 28 days, to be precise."
"Lovely weather for the time of year!"
"Marvellous."
"How's the, erm, family?"
"Since you've eaten most of them, perhaps you're in a better position
to answer that than I am!"
"Well! I was hungry, and they were slow."
In the awkward silence the huge male scratches at an invisible
imperfection in the ice.
"So, erm, do you fancy a shag?"
"OK, but you gotta chase me a bit first."
The chase leads them over snow-dunes and past some humans on a heavy
sleigh who are driving a dog-team. When the chase and its sequel are
over, the two Polar Bears relax in the lee of a drift, enjoying each
other's body-heat.
"I must admit, they worry me a bit."
"Who? The Humans?"
"Yeah, all that scratching at the old places and heating stuff up.
What if they, you know, melt all the ice and stuff?"
"Gee, that WOULD be awful – no more spending six months of the year
starving to death and freezing one's butt off in a hole in the ice.
We're MAMMALS for Cripe's sake – top of the fuckin' food chain,
biggest and best land predator since the flippin' Cretaceous. Guess
we'll just have to eat more, sleep less and take a few cold baths,
eh?"
"Alright, point taken. Still don't think much of them digging just
there."
Nanooka snorts with derision, but privately she agrees. Not just to
keep them out of the big male's way, she there and then resolves to
raise this particular litter a hundred miles or so away.
[Prologue to another Vampirish Call of Cthulhu adventure …. To Be
Continued]
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DECK: Tournament-winning deck Tlaxcala, Mexico
It's a pleasure to draw the group's attention to yet another
tournament-winning !Gangrel deck, the victor of a 14-player event in
Tlaxcala, Mexico. Here is a marginally-rearranged version of the
original post:
Posted to Newsgroup by: Dr. Enrique Monta o Torres
V:EKN Brujah Prince of Tlaxcala
Deck Name : Bugs Bunny
Author : Hiramm Sanchez Gomez
Description :
The trick of this deck is the Bugs Bunny maneuver; do you remember
when Bugs go throw the earth to kick the ass of Sam or Daffy duck [no
-Ed.], in this deck is the same; bleed bleed bleed, and if some one
try to stop you or comes to hit you; you have the protean to protect
you, with "flesh of marble" you can defeat against immortal grapple,
or simple the excellent Bugs maneuver of the "earth meld".
Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min :5 max :8 average : 7.42
3x Sebastian Goulet 8 DOM OBF cel pre pro Gangrel antitribu (group
3)
2x Sebastian Goulet Advanced 8 DOM OBF cel pre pro Gangrel antitribu
(group 3)
2x Ian Forestal 8 AUS DOM THA Tremere antitribu (group 2)
2x Greger Anderssen 7 AUS OBF dom pro prince Malkavian (group 2)
2x Soldat 7 POT PRO cel dom obf Gangrel antitribu (group 3)
1x Badr al-Budur 5 OBF cel dom qui Assamite (group 2)
Library [90 cards]
Action[9]
9x Govern the Unaligned
Action Modifier[33]
3x Cloak the Gathering
1x Command of the Beast
10x Conditioning
3x Earth Control
3x Elder Impersonation
3x Faceless Night
2x Foreshadowing Destruction
4x Lost in Crowds
4x Spying Mission
Action Modifier/Combat[6]
3x Rapid Change
3x Swallowed by the Night
Combat[12]
8x Earth Meld
4x Flesh of Marble
Master[13]
3x Blood Doll
2x Campground Hunting Ground
2x Dominate
3x Obfuscate
3x Protean
Reaction[14]
7x Deflection
7x Wake with Evening's Freshness
Retainer[3]
1x J. S. Simmons, Esq.
1x Robert Carter
1x Tasha Morgan
Crafted with : Anarch Revolt Deck Builder. [Mon Feb 21 09:08:41 2005]
That's all folks.
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And that's nearly all from this month's newsletter! JUST in time to
qualify as February's offering, and by the time we meet again I will
have SCADS of new deck ideas based around !Gangrel from the KMW
expansion. Rumour has it that Enkidu, the Noah is THE tastiest thing
since a Very Tasty Thing, so see you in March for some
Epic-of-Gilgamesh butt-kicking fun!
Darky
> Author : Hiramm Sanchez Gomez
> Description :
> The trick of this deck is the Bugs Bunny maneuver; do you remember
> when Bugs go throw
The autor's english wasn't perfect. My bet is that 'throw' is meant to
mean: 'through' here. Just clarifying :)
> the earth to kick the ass of Sam or Daffy duck [no
> -Ed.], in this deck is the same; bleed bleed bleed, and if some one
> try to stop you or comes to hit you; you have the protean to protect
> you, with "flesh of marble" you can defeat against immortal grapple,
> or simple the excellent Bugs maneuver of the "earth meld".
Nice newsletter :)
-Bram Vink
Xian
the newsgroup that I am, in fact, still alive.
Played the !Gangrel pre-constructed deck in our pre-release, and had an
excellent time with it. I thought it was one of the stronger decks in
the set.
Uh. That is all.
Xian
take...@yahoo.com
I won a tournament at november 2004 with a Gangrel-!Gangrel wall.
http://www.thelasombra.com/decks/twd.htm#2k4mexicodec
Congratualtions to Hiramm.
And sorry for his English.
Dr. Enrique Montaño Torres
legbiter
> Somewhat off-topic, but this seemed as good a place as any to remind
> the newsgroup that I am, in fact, still alive.
i'm honoured to have been the vehicle for this announcement! And also
pleased that you are, in fact, alive.
>
> Played the !Gangrel pre-constructed deck in our pre-release, and had an
> excellent time with it. I thought it was one of the stronger decks in
> the set.
i would second that, and maybe even argue that it is the strongEST.
legbiter
> > Deck Name : Bugs Bunny
> > Author : Hiramm Sanchez Gomez
> > Description :
> > The trick of this deck is the Bugs Bunny maneuver; do you remember
> > when Bugs go throw
>
> The autor's english wasn't perfect. My bet is that 'throw' is meant to
> mean: 'through' here. Just clarifying :)
Thank-you for the clarification! i'm sure you are right, though i
would NEVER have figured that out for myself.
>
> > the earth to kick the ass of Sam or Daffy duck [no
> > -Ed.], in this deck is the same; bleed bleed bleed, and if some one
> > try to stop you or comes to hit you; you have the protean to protect
> > you, with "flesh of marble" you can defeat against immortal grapple,
> > or simple the excellent Bugs maneuver of the "earth meld".
>
> Nice newsletter :)
Thanks again!
>
> -Bram Vink
Xian
> Xian wrote:
> > Played the !Gangrel pre-constructed deck in our pre-release, and
> > had an excellent time with it. I thought it was one of the
> > stronger decks in the set.
>
> i would second that, and maybe even argue that it is the strongEST.
Since I haven't played straight-up precons, but precon + 4 booster
draft, I can't say for certain, but I thought that the Baali decks
performed strongly (due to their bleed advantage). And our actual
winning deck was an Anathema deck.
However, multiple Gangrel antitribu decks won tables at our pre-release
by beating up all comers and smashing their way to victory.
I also played my (unmodified since the pre-release) KMW pre-release
deck last night against 2 constructed decks, and it didn't totally
suck.
Xian