a winning deck

"Great Beast Takes the Skin: A Stupid Deck for Crappy Jerks"

Dragonbound: Polaris · Lewis Center (OH), USA

December 4th 2022 · won by Bill Troxel

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score
..So in sum, might remove one copy each of Dreams, Mantle, Mylan, and Zephyr,
format
2R+F
souls at table
12
twda id
10415
marginalia

Swept a 4-player table round 1, got 1vp in round 2. Went into finals as 2nd seed with 1GW+5VP. Won with 4vp in final round. Finals seating: 1. Alex Romano (1st seed): Inyanga Garou -> 2. Matt: Fighty Summon History Toolbox -> 3. Bill: Unnamed Great Beast w/Abombwe -> 4. Logan Cozad: G6 Platinum Ministry + Serpentis -> 5. Karl Schaefer: Giotto Summons Legionnaires w/British Museum Thanks to Jay Kristoff for further refining the otherwise boring deck title. Thanks to Darby Keeney for assisting with initial ideation. Brings out the Unnamed who gets Abombwe, grabs a Soul Gem and Calls the Great Beast for ABO+CEL+PRO. The two large, infernal minions then bleed a lot and the Great Beast also rushes and goes on ancillary errands. If the Great Beast burns a minion, it hopefully gets a superior Taking the Skin: Minion and then bleeds twice at four per bleed. This deck is really a lot of fun to play, and bloats like crazy when it works. In both the first and the final rounds, had over 40 pool at the time of ousting final prey. Can get decked, especially if it runs into walling tech, but don't want to increase library size any more since it relies on getting a combo going early, and consistency is key. I encourage you to try this deck out yourself for some quality entertainment. If there was one element I regretted lacking across rounds, it was a touch of surprise intercept for the Great Beast. REALLY would have liked to have one more Pursuit. ..So in sum, might remove one copy each of Dreams, Mantle, Mylan, and Zephyr, -- replacing with one Claws of the Dead, one Pursuit, and maybe one more Earth Control -- and/or Form of Mist. Might try to make room for a Predator's Communion and/or a -- Taking the Skin: Vulture, and maaaaybe a Carlton Van Wyk and/or Veneficti if I can find -- room. Would not try to shrink the deck too much; got decked in round 2 (resulting in -- the game loss), and the library was brought low in both of the other rounds. -- (edit: changed "-" to "--" for clarity because extra whitespace is not being rendered after submitting)

the crypt

Vampires

12
  1. 12unnamed, Thecelerity — superiordaimoinon — superiorobfuscate — superiorpresence — superiorprotean — superior
the library

Cards

79

Master

18
  1. 7Abombwe
  2. 5Dreams of the Sphinx
  3. 1Golconda: Inner Peace
  4. 1Monastery of Shadows
  5. 1Redeem the Lost Soul
  6. 3Villein

Action

18
  1. 5Call the Great Beast
  2. 7Flurry of Action
  3. 2Mantle of the Bestial Majesty
  4. 4Unleash Hell's Fury

Ally

2
  1. 2Mylan Horseed

Equipment

6
  1. 6Soul Gem of Etrius

Action Modifier

20
  1. 1Cloak the Gathering
  2. 4Earth Control
  3. 3Enkil Cog
  4. 9Instantaneous Transformation
  5. 1Revelation of the Serpent
  6. 2Zephyr

Action Modifier/Combat

7
  1. 4Predator's Transformation
  2. 3Taking the Skin: Minion

Combat

8
  1. 1Claws of the Dead
  2. 4Form of Mist
  3. 3Pursuit