a winning deck

A Knight, a Crusader and an Artist

Praxis Seizure: Hilversum · Hilversum, Netherlands

April 24th 2010 · won by Izaak Havelaar

score
+4
format
3R+F
souls at table
20
twda id
2010pshilversum
marginalia

I had awful crypt draws in the preliminaries with me drawing all 5 Converts in the first 6 crypt cards in one game and only one Convert in the first seven in the other two games. In the finals I actually had a really good draw, so it can work. Some number tweaking is probably in order. I never needed Anarch Railroad, but the Free Press came in handy quite a few times. I was considering to drop the Blood Dolls altogether and in retrospect I should have. An extra Dreams and a few Washes or Suddens would have helped greatly. The Dutch meta has been loaded with allies for a while so I figured Entrancement would be a safe bet. As it turned out, I didn't see a single ally and mostly discarded them. 23 Undue Influence was a tad bit too high. Should go down to 19 or 20. This worked perfectly for me. My Enemy's Enemy was intended more as intercept than as bounce and it did its job perfectly. Two or so more wakes wouldn't be bad though, as I usually had to fully tap out playing Undue Influence to keep pressure on my preys and get enough "transfers" to be able to user my regular transfers to move crypt cards to the uncontrolled region

the crypt

Vampires

13
  1. 5Anarch Convert
  2. 2Jost Werneranimalism — inferiorauspex — superiorpresence — superior
  3. 1Sheila Mezarincelerity — inferiorfortitude — inferiorauspex — superiorpresence — superior
  4. 1Creamy Jadeauspex — inferiorcelerity — inferiorvicissitude — inferiorpresence — superior
  5. 1Mercy, Knight Inquisitorcelerity — inferiordominate — inferiorpresence — inferiorauspex — superior
  6. 1Remilliard, Devout Crusaderpresence — inferiorauspex — superior
  7. 1Sabrinaauspex — inferiorcelerity — inferiorpresence — inferior
  8. 1Lolitafortitude — inferiorpresence — inferior
the library

Cards

75

Master

13
  1. 1Anarch Free Press, The
  2. 1Anarch Railroad
  3. 3Blood Doll
  4. 2Dreams of the Sphinx
  5. 4Palla Grande
  6. 1Pentex(TM) Subversion
  7. 1Powerbase: Los Angeles

Action

27
  1. 4Entrancement
  2. 23Undue Influence

Action Modifier

7
  1. 7Power of One

Reaction

22
  1. 3Delaying Tactics
  2. 4My Enemy's Enemy
  3. 5On the Qui Vive
  4. 5Telepathic Misdirection
  5. 5Wake with Evening's Freshness

Combat

6
  1. 3Majesty
  2. 3Staredown