Vampires
- 13Tupdog
- 1Esoara
- 1Janine
- 1Ember Wright
- 1Keith Moody
- 1Saiz
Powerbase: Los Angeles Event #1 · Strategicon - GAMEX 2010, Los Angeles (CA), USA
May 29th 2010 · won by Darby Keeney
Comments: Many thanks to Fred Scott for lending me 2 Tupdogs for this tournament. Generally, I have found a 2.5:1 Tupdog-to-!Tremere ratio to work out pretty well, though a long string of Dogs at the top pf one's crypt is frustrating. The objective for this deck is to get additional mileage from the Tupdogs... decreasing their effective cost from 1 pool per action to 0.5 pool per action and further leveraging both the rush and the slave option (rush first, untap, available for slave clause, take an action of the slave clause is not needed). The deck is supposed to carry 1 more Ashur Tablet, but I seem to own only 5 at this time. 4, 6 or 7 seem like the right numbers to me, depending on your risk tolerance and recycling needs. Synergies: Carver's + Dragonbound and Carver's + Vessel are pretty clear. Carver's + Raw Recruit is an indefinate hold on a Recruit target (that could not be Graverobbed). Carver's not affecting Tupdogs is a bonus. Heidleburg can save master vampires from dangerous hunting requirements, can empty a Tupdog of before it explodes and allows 2 Hand of Conrad actions per turn. A "good" combat ran "set close and agg hands, Grapple, prevent and untap".