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Tobias wrote:Well, my deck worked. I won the Utrecht tourney with it. My report is on the newsgroup, but I'll re-post it here:

I'll just do a report for the whole day, from what I saw. The decklist
is at the end of the post. Basically, it was the no-combat-cards
version of my Samedi SB/Hordes deck. I didn't get the 5th baron the
deck needs to be SL-compatible, so I left in a second Catherine du
Bois.

The deck flowed really well for me on the day, generally there'd be
very few cards left in my library when the game was over. Thanks and
props to the people who suggested Jorge de la Muerte (his +1 bleed was
in effect a lot of times), computer hackings (instead of scouting
missions), more blood management, and specialization. It's a
monstrously good card for this deck. The Jake Washington's were also
excellent.

There were 19 or 20 people (some sleepyhead showed up late, but I'm
not sure he played). It was very good to see guys from Belgium and
Germany show up for this tournament as well. Always a pleasure.

Table 1:

Me -> Cryptic Mission (Isaac) -> Blood Brothers (Peter, IIRC)) -> Laz
Multirush (Dave)

The table started with the blood brothers going strong, later heard
the deck has 17 (!) Unwholesome bonds. I knew Lazverinus could toast
me easily, so I decided to bring out just 1 minion (Jorge de la
Muerte) and let him put a Shambling in the way of Laz, and play it
easy so that Lazverinus would have to go upstream. The cryptic deck
was turning over, but not very fast, it did take out 1 blood brother,
but Lazverinus did indeed have to go backward (those force of will /
walk of cain / daring the dawn bleeds were hurting, I bet). At one
point, I lost Jorge to an Archon Investigation. Around the time
Lazverinus went down to the bleeds, I got up another minion and bled
out my prey (unlucky with his deflect, although I did have the spying
missions ready against it). I then was 1-on-1 with the blood brother,
whose daring the dawns were not much of a threat due to the
shamblings. He did have 4 or 5 minions, but whenever they demolished a
shambling, I'd get a new one. In the end, his minions ended up in
torpor and I bled him out as well.

Me: 3 VP, GW; Peter: 1 VP

Table 2:

Me -> Ravnos toolbox (with dom?) -> !Tor vote (Bram) -> Weenie Dem
(Frank, IIRC) -> Cryptic Mission Again (Isaac)

The game started with the dementation weenie going bang out of the
games on Isaac, who turned his cryptics towards his predator to slow
him down. Knowing my prey would probably Sense Dep me, I decided to
only take actions with my first minion (George Frederick) if I had a
freak drive available, but I did get greedy one time and tapped him
for a Tasha Morgan, thinking my prey would sense dep his prey (since
Bram was also running well). I think my second minion was Isabel
Giovanni, but I'm not sure. I basically used the hordes as a deterrant
force (not much rushing, the way I prefer them), and slowly bled out
my prey. Bram had gotten his prey by that time, but I got my sense
depped minion back, brought out another minion, and in the 1-on-1
managed to take out Bram in the end (although Bram was kicking himself
for a few mistakes).

Me: 3 VP, GW, Bram: 2 VP

Table 3:

Me -> Lazverinus Again (Dave) -> Gangrel wall w. serpentis (Tom) ->
!Malk SB with Anarch Revolt (Dieter) -> Nosferatu/Beast Vote/Rush with
presence (Dietmar)

Dieter started with a round-1 (or was it 2?) Anarch Revolt, and a
quick SB minion, prompting Dietmar to go backwards with his rush
power. In reponse, Dieter shifted to a strategy of not bringing out
minions (since his predator was not a powerful bleeder), to get
Dietmar to go forward into me. Dave, in the meantime, did not get a
Laz in his opening crypt, and before Laz could make an appearance I
had pounded his minions and his pool, so Laz never made it. With a
little dealing with Dietmar, Tom ousted Dieter, and I then ousted Tom
with big SB. In the 1-on-1 with Dietmar, I went down to the rushing
power of Dietmar.

Me: 2 VP, Tom: 1 VP, Dietmar: 2 VP.

Finals:

I got into the finals in 1st place, and previous placement had been:

Tzimi Vote (Oortje) -> Nos princely breed/vote (Paul) -> Gangrel Wall
(Emiliano) -> Nos/Beast Vote/Rush (Dietmar).

Knowing that the gangrel wall could stop/slow me if my stealth wasn't
flowing well, I didn't want to sit next to it, and I didn't really
like the rush power of Dietmar either. And, of course, with 3 vote
decks at the table, I'd love it if they were at each other's throats.
I thought Oortje's deck would probably run the slowest initially,
allowing me some setup time, and Paul would be slowed by the Gangrel
wall, so I decided to sit between Oortje and Paul:

Tzimi -> Me -> Nos Breed -> Gangrel -> Nos Rush

Everyone started off fairly well. I got out an early Rudolfo and
Shambling, followed by the baron. Paul started breeding heavily, but I
bled into him fairly hard (although the shambling rushes were
generally ineffective due to his maneuvers, so I mostly kept the
shambling untapped as deterrants, again). Jost was bleeding into me a
bit, but Oortje didn't get many votes, and, as predicted, the vote
decks were at odds with each other. Paul was allowed a Parity shift on
his prey once by the other voters (mostly Dietmar), but kept going
down to my bleeds. He did breed effectively though, and although he
did not have vote lock, he did have the biggest chunk of votes, so he
was both dangerous and in danger. In the end, all the talk etc.
amounted to nothing as a series of 3-and-less bleeds at +1 stealth got
him, including a Cloaked one by Jake Washington with J.S. Simmons (no
second trads on paul's hand that time). All the vote-talk had slowed
the table significantly, so some time after that the table timed out,
with me getting the only oust and the tournament win.

Once again, a fun tournament, with fun games and quality play. Thanks
to Emile for organising, all the people for travelling, and see you
all the 29th?

Greets,
Tobias

Deck Name: Even Samedi Are Better With Dominate
Created By: Tobias
Description:

Crypt: (12 cards, Min: 18, Max: 36, Avg: 6.67)
----------------------------------------------
2 Catherine du Bois DOM for obf pre 5, Ventrue:3
4 Baron dom FOR NEC OBF THN 9, Samedi:2, 2 votes
2 George Frederick FOR nec obf THN 6, Samedi:2
2 Jorge De La Muerte cel for nec OBF THN 7, Samedi:2
1 Isabel Giovanni DOM NEC pot 5, Giovanni:2
1 Rudolfo Giovanni NEC 3, Giovanni:2

Library: (90 cards)
-------------------
Master (18 cards)
1 Barrens, The
5 Blood Doll
1 Charisma
4 Dominate
2 Dreams of the Sphinx
1 Giant's Blood
2 Jake Washington (Hunter)
1 Secure Haven
1 Specialization

Action (16 cards)
5 Computer Hacking
6 Govern the Unaligned
5 Restoration

Action Modifier (23 cards)
5 Cloak the Gathering
3 Conditioning
2 Faceless Night
6 Freak Drive
3 Lost in Crowds
4 Spying Mission

Reaction (13 cards)
7 Deflection
6 Wake with Evening's Freshness

Ally (14 cards)
14 Shambling Hordes

Retainer (2 cards)
1 J. S. Simmons, Esq.
1 Tasha Morgan

Equipment (1 cards)
1 Sargon Fragment, The

Combo (3 cards)
3 Swallowed by the Night

From: Emile Bosman (ebos14@hotmail.com)
Subject: Tournament report Path of Death and Soul Utrecht [short]
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad
Date: 2004-02-09 02:05:15 PST

It was another crowded tournament in the Jaarbeurs hallen in Utrecht
last saturday 02-07-2004 even though it wasn't a sanctioned
tournament.
20 players showed up.
As usual I will only report on the finals.
The following players went into the finals

1 Tobias :Samedi Shamblings.
2 Dietmar :Nosferatu Princes with rush.
3 Paul :Nosferatu princes with third traditions.
4 Emiliano :Gangrel combat with ravenspy intercept.
5 Jeroen :Tzimisce big cap pre vote.

The finals didn't really have any fast agressive deck so it started of
pretty slow also being hindered by three vote decks.
Paul and his Nosferatu third tradition deck managed to keep pressure
on Emiliano's Gangrel deck for almost the entire game bringing him
down to four pool several times.
But since he didn't have a good vote lock he had to get the help of
Dietmar and his Nosferatu princes.
Tobias and his Shambling hordes also kept the presure on Paul with
bleeds for 5 or 6 and rushing him with his Hordes.
Paul eventually got stopped by Dietmar who played an Anathema on one
of his princes before rushing him and collecting the pool.
This gave Tobias an oppertunity to oust Paul and walk away with the
only victory point gained in the entire finals.
And here is Tobias his deck list.

[Decklist snipped by Hardy]

Emile
"We are an ape with a symiotic relationship to a mushroom"

From: Paul Wiggers (borgir_666@hotmail.com)
Subject: Re: Tournament report Path of Death and Soul Utrecht [short]
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad
Date: 2004-02-09 10:02:31 PST

This is not completely true.
it is true that dietmar played an anathema on one of my vamps but it
was Emiliano who got the pool. This happend because he blocked my
"oust emiliano" action with his top decked cat's guidance. emptyd me
with carrion crows superior and a drawing out the beast superior.

so there went my chance for a victory point.

Dietmar rushed another vampire later on in the game leaving me
completely defenseless against tobias who greatfully took the change
to oust me.

Paul

- Even as I walk through the valley of death I shall know no fear-