a winning deck

Shilmulo Death Star

Week of Nightmares Event 4 · Columbus (OH), USA

June 7th 2022 · won by Karl Schaefer

consult the event report

score
2GW6+4
format
2R+F
souls at table
15
twda id
10112
marginalia

Description: A Ravnos Death Star deck. A reworking of my other Death Star designs. Based on Matt Morgan's original design. Brad mid-cap DEM 1vp -> Jesse died too fast for me to recall -> Me 4vp -> Guy Platinum bleed -> Darby Imbued Chainsaw Brad came out of the gate firing on all cylinders. He didn't have a bleed for less than 4 against his first prey. I was struggling to do anything useful with my opening hand, which contained a bunch of stealth and Shilmulo Tarot. I brought up Paul Forrest first and equipped the Tarot. These extra draws came in very handy as I wasn't getting much card cycling other than my discard. Guy was also starting very fast. Each Platinum bleed hit and by the time Guy was ousted there were 8 or 9 corruption counters on Darby's Imbued. Darby was under immediate and constant pressure. I did manage to draw into my Con Boons in a timely fashion and was keeping my pool total high in anticipation of Brad's big bleeds. Once he was my predator, I decided to No-Block every action. His first turn as my predator was still very damaging, but he only had two vampires at that point. I was running with Paul, Chavi, Irena, and a baby. Guy takes some bleeds of one, but reduces all the bleeds of two. On my next turn, I'm low on pool and I play a master card to draw the Revolutionary Council from my Tarot, attempting to oust Guy with votes, since his bleed reduction was too consistent. The vote gets DI2'd, so I have to bleed instead. Guy has 6 pool and Paul Forrest plus the hand and Tarot stealth make short work of him as he was out of bleed reduction. Darby was at three pool and I had saved Chavi for last, setting up many different stealth cards in hand to combine with her special. I go for the bleed of three and manage to hit 4 stealth, just enough to make it land. Twelve pool to the better, but it's Brad's turn and he removes almost all of those gains. I make a baby and call Exclusion Principle. Fire off a few bleeds all boosted by Paul Forrest who can get The Coven blood every turn during the heads-up. Brad's pool total is still very high because Darby was unable to make any forward progress. Another round of bleeds. I Archon the plus-bleeder and Brad's remaining vampires do very little. I recur Eat the Rich because Gem Ghastly is a Primogen, then proceed to vote and bleed Brad off the table. This deck originally had Rom Gypsy, which was removed. I never bothered to put City Star Taxi back in, but an additional stealth permanent might prove useful in some metas.

the crypt

Vampires

12
  1. 5Anarch Convert
  2. 1Alexis Sorokinfortitude — inferiorcelerity — superiorchimerstry — superiorobfuscate — superiorprotean — superior
  3. 1Chavi Oraczkonecromancy — inferioranimalism — superiorchimerstry — superiorfortitude — superior
  4. 1Tatiana Stepanova, Alastoranimalism — inferiorfortitude — inferiorobfuscate — inferiorchimerstry — superiorpresence — superior
  5. 1Vassily Taltosauspex — inferiorcelerity — inferiorchimerstry — inferiordominate — inferiorfortitude — inferiorobfuscate — inferior
  6. 1Irenaanimalism — inferiorfortitude — inferiorpresence — inferiorchimerstry — superior
  7. 1Paul Forrest, False Prophetchimerstry — inferiorfortitude — inferiorpresence — inferior
  8. 1Devynanimalism — inferiorchimerstry — inferiorpresence — inferior
the library

Cards

75

Master

15
  1. 1Anarch Railroad
  2. 1Archon Investigation
  3. 1Barrens, The
  4. 2Blood Doll
  5. 1Carfax Abbey
  6. 1Coven, The
  7. 1Fear of Mekhet
  8. 1Fortune Teller Shop
  9. 1Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
  10. 1Giant's Blood
  11. 1Infamous Insurgent
  12. 1Pentex(TM) Subversion
  13. 1Twilight Camp
  14. 1Week of Nightmares

Action

15
  1. 1Fee Stake: Boston
  2. 1Fee Stake: Corte
  3. 1Fee Stake: Los Angeles
  4. 1Fee Stake: New York
  5. 1Fee Stake: Perth
  6. 1Fee Stake: Seattle
  7. 2Illegalism
  8. 7Tumnimos

Equipment

1
  1. 1Shilmulo Tarot

Political Action

16
  1. 2Anarch Salon
  2. 4Consanguineous Boon
  3. 1Domain Challenge
  4. 2Eat the Rich
  5. 1Exclusion Principle
  6. 1Kine Resources Contested
  7. 1Neonate Breach
  8. 2Reckless Agitation
  9. 2Revolutionary Council

Action Modifier

22
  1. 5Adhocracy
  2. 2Bewitching Oration
  3. 2Cryptic Rider
  4. 2False Resonance
  5. 2Fata Morgana
  6. 1Forgotten Labyrinth
  7. 2Mirror's Visage
  8. 2Propaganda of the Deed
  9. 3Smoke and Mirrors
  10. 1Voter Captivation

Action Modifier/Combat

6
  1. 3Mirror Image
  2. 3Occlusion