a winning deck

This is not a Hatchling deck

NAC Qualifier · Northfield (NJ), USA

March 18th 2006 · won by Matthew Morgan

score
format
3R+F
souls at table
25
twda id
2k6nnjqual
marginalia

Description: It's basically a swarm deck that can fight. I even found myself playing it like a swarm, i.e. Mustafa bleeds, gets blocked, I don't bother to slave in, but bleed with a Gargoyle instead. Crypt was just fine. I got Ublo-Satha in every round except the final. I always had a decent mix of Tremere and Gargoyles in my uncontrolled region. Aranthebes would've saved me in round 3, but he declined to make an appearance. Could've made even had more Create Gargoyles. Alas for the Hatchlings. Defender of the Haven is strong. I got it into play in rounds 1 and 3. Probably should've been more but this was meant to be an exploratory effort. Raking Talons and Rockheart are both super good. Check out the outferior of Rockheart. It totally saved me from Shambling Hordes in round 2 and got me that vital .5VP I needed to make the final. I didn't really feel like the Grapples were that necessary. The could probably be cut for more of the other stuff. I mean, it's a swarm deck that might agg you if you block. It's not like I need to make every combat count. Roll is a great card and was also good for frustrating Shambling Hordes. I originally had Tastes, but cut them due to poor synergy with agg pokes. I should've had Stone Quills in here. It's the only real answer to Sniper Rifle. Never saw the hunting ground. I figured Arcane Library would be killer, but I only drew it in the final and had no Tremere in my uncontrolled region. Chantry was played but not used as there were no rush decks to target my Tremere. The Potence master and Havens Uncovered weren't useful. Six Blood Dolls was my way of insuring the deck wouldn't be completely pathetic. I wanted to try out Scry the Hearthstone. It's limitation to (D) actions (similar limitation to Defender of the Haven) makes it kind of bad because vote decks and other such things can act with impunity. I mostly discarded them and probably would've rather had Patrol. Delaying Tactics were really big for me in the final and I was lucky to draw them both in my first 20 cards. I played the first one to Delay Josh's Free States Rant which was to be 4 points on my guys. When he called the vote again the next turn, he needed to put some of the points backward on Ethan. My other use was mentioned above. The Razor Bats were good when I got them. I probably should've had four of them. The Stone Dog was always discarded. I was thinking that permanent rush would be useful, but I just never wanted to pay 3 pool for the privilege.

the crypt

Vampires

12
  1. 3Ublo-Sathacelerity — inferiorfortitude — superiorpotence — superiorvisceratika — superior
  2. 2Saxum, Master of Slavespotence — inferiorpresence — inferiorfortitude — superiorvisceratika — superior
  3. 2Luma, Stone Beautyauspex — inferiorpotence — inferiorvisceratika — inferiorfortitude — superior
  4. 1Ignatiusauspex — inferiordominate — inferiorthaumaturgy — inferior
  5. 1Sarah Cobblerdominate — inferiorthaumaturgy — superior
  6. 1Jing Weidominate — inferiorthaumaturgy — inferior
  7. 1Mustafa Rahmandominate — inferior
  8. 1Roreca Quaidthaumaturgy — inferior
the library

Cards

90

Master

15
  1. 1Academic Hunting Ground
  2. 1Arcane Library
  3. 1Barrens, The
  4. 6Blood Doll
  5. 1Chantry
  6. 1Dominate
  7. 1Fame
  8. 2Haven Uncovered
  9. 1Potence

Action

12
  1. 1Aranthebes, The Immortal
  2. 6Create Gargoyle
  3. 3Defender of the Haven
  4. 2Hatchling

Retainer

3
  1. 2Razor Bat
  2. 1Stone Dog

Action Modifier

4
  1. 4Conditioning

Reaction

20
  1. 6Deflection
  2. 2Delaying Tactics
  3. 4Forced Awakening
  4. 4Scry the Hearthstone
  5. 4Wake with Evening's Freshness

Combat

36
  1. 4Crawling Chamber
  2. 6Immortal Grapple
  3. 4Pounce
  4. 3Pulled Fangs
  5. 8Raking Talons
  6. 9Rockheart
  7. 2Roll