a winning deck

What We Do In the Shadows

Field Training: Newark · Comic Shop Plus, Newark (OH), USA

August 14th 2016 · won by John Eno

consult the event report

score
+5
format
2R+F
souls at table
13
twda id
2016ftno
marginalia

Description: Black Hand tap-and-bleed. In this tournament, I rarely drew any of the tapping tech (except Nocturn Theater, but see below), and so it ended up playing as bleed-and-bleed instead. I got 13 of the 14 possible VPs available to me, though, so I can't complain too much. Theoretically good tech which I didn't get to use includes using Tattoo Signal and the bleed equipment to do some light Darby Dancing, using Tangle Atropos' Hand with the bleed equipment to safely eliminate bleed bounce and then bleed again with the same vampire, and being able to boast that you played a Lasombra bleed deck without ever adding stealth to a bleed action. Thanks to Darby and Hugh for transcontinental and trans-Atlantic deck advice, to Karl Schaefer for lending me the Shrouds of Absence, and to Mark Loughman for breaking down the local metagame before the tournament. could use a Wider View or two and some Sudden Reversals, but I didn't know what to cull for them

the crypt

Vampires

12
  1. 3Banjokoobtenebration — inferiorpotence — inferiordominate — superior
  2. 2Henri Lavenantpotence — inferiorquietus — inferiordominate — superiorobtenebration — superior
  3. 2Ermenegildo, The Rakepotence — inferiordominate — superiorobtenebration — superior
  4. 1Phillipe Rigaudanimalism — inferiorauspex — inferiorobtenebration — inferiordominate — superiorobfuscate — superiorprotean — superior
  5. 1Katherine Stoddarddominate — inferiorfortitude — inferior
  6. 1Mosfaircelerity — inferiordominate — inferiorthaumaturgy — inferior
  7. 1Keith Moodydominate — superior
  8. 1Lucy Markowitzdominate — inferiorobtenebration — inferior
the library

Cards

76

Master

14
  1. 2Anarch Troublemaker
  2. 1Coven, The
  3. 1Elysian Fields
  4. 1Giant's Blood
  5. 2Jake Washington
  6. 1Nocturn Theater
  7. 1Pentex(TM) Subversion
  8. 1Political Hunting Ground
  9. 2Remover
  10. 1Watchtower: Four Ride Forth
  11. 1Weeping Stone

Action

14
  1. 11Govern the Unaligned
  2. 3Tattoo Signal

Ally

4
  1. 4Nocturn

Equipment

4
  1. 1Codex of the Edenic Groundskeepers
  2. 1Gran Madre di Dio, Italy
  3. 1Guarded Rubrics
  4. 1Zaire River Ferry

Action Modifier

24
  1. 3Art of Memory, The
  2. 2Change of Target
  3. 5Conditioning
  4. 3Foreshadowing Destruction
  5. 2Seduction
  6. 2Shadow Play
  7. 3Shroud of Absence
  8. 2Shroud of Night
  9. 2Tangle Atropos' Hand

Reaction

14
  1. 5Deflection
  2. 2Delaying Tactics
  3. 3On the Qui Vive
  4. 2Redirection
  5. 2Wake with Evening's Freshness

Combat

2
  1. 2Shadow Body