a winning deck

[2010 TW] The World's Biggest Small Multirushers

Powerbase: Los Angeles Event #1 · Strategicon - GAMEX 2010, Los Angeles (CA), USA

May 29th 2010 · won by Darby Keeney

score
format
2R+F
souls at table
12
twda id
2010pwbla1
marginalia

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".

the crypt

Vampires

18
  1. 13Tupdogpotence — superiorvisceratika — superior
  2. 1Esoaraauspex — inferiorfortitude — inferiorpotence — inferiordominate — superior
  3. 1Janineauspex — inferiordominate — inferiorthaumaturgy — inferior
  4. 1Ember Wrightauspex — inferiordominate — inferior
  5. 1Keith Moodydominate — superior
  6. 1Saizauspex — inferiordominate — inferior
the library

Cards

79

Master

13
  1. 5Ashur Tablets
  2. 1Carver's Meat Packing and Storage
  3. 1Dreams of the Sphinx
  4. 1Fame
  5. 1Heidelberg Castle, Germany
  6. 1Powerbase: Montreal
  7. 1Secure Haven
  8. 2Vessel

Action

13
  1. 5Dive Bomb
  2. 1Goblinism
  3. 2Graverobbing
  4. 3Raw Recruit
  5. 2Thin-Blooded Seer

Ally

1
  1. 1Nephandus

Equipment

2
  1. 1Hand of Conrad
  2. 1Sargon Fragment, The

Political Action

2
  1. 1Ancient Influence
  2. 1Reins of Power

Action Modifier

8
  1. 8As the Crow

Combat

39
  1. 8Brick by Brick
  2. 8Immortal Grapple
  3. 4Lead Fist
  4. 9Raking Talons
  5. 10Stonestrength

Event

1
  1. 1Dragonbound