Vampires
- 5Anarch Convert
- 1Alexis Sorokin
- 1Chavi Oraczko
- 1Tatiana Stepanova, Alastor
- 1Vassily Taltos
- 1Irena
- 1Paul Forrest, False Prophet
- 1Devyn
Week of Nightmares Event 4 · Columbus (OH), USA
June 7th 2022 · won by Karl Schaefer
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.