Vampires
- 5Zubeida
- 1Rashid Stockton
- 1Ahmose Chambers
- 1Blister
- 1Lubomira Hradok
- 1Alu
- 1Bloodfeud
- 1Denette Stensen
- 1Old Neddacka
Target Vitals, Washington, D.C. · Rockville (MD), USA
November 18th 2007 · won by Matthew Morgan
Description: This deck has solid offense but obviously should drop the Dual Forms for more stealth/Freak/whatever. Another take on the deck might be to use Ogwon who has for/OBF/PRE and costs 1 less but also gives you access to the Opium Den and some other good stuff like Enticement at superior. No real reason to use 13 vamps, but I couldn't decide which obf weenie not to use here. Zubeida's conditional +1 bleed only came up once and it didn't matter. Not much of an ability, if you ask me. Note the Blood Dolls, not Vessels. Vessels were all over the place in this tournament, but I'll swear by Blood Dolls in a deck like this. Another Entrancement or three would be good. Never had an opportunity to play Enchant Kindred at superior so those should be more plentiful perhaps, or Social Charms. Six Dream World seems a little low, but I didn't want to have them too early or the extent of the threat I represented would be too apparent. It's a very powerful card. This is kind of a middling amount of stealth in my book for a deck like this. I think I would've had some trouble against heavy intercept because none of my actions are that damaging individually. Spying Missions were mostly used for extra bleed. No need to spy if I'm bleeding my grandprey for 1. Great card. Extremely useful in this deck. I think I was the only person in the tournament running any events at all, so I didn't play The Uncoiling. I played Narrow Minds in the final and it helped me some, but it probably didn't alter the outcome. Confusion of the Eye was only used on bleeds. Truth in Ink worked out quite well. I wasn't sure it would because I tend to take a sort of Murphy's Law view toward bleed reduction (4 reduction cards in your hand? your predator calls KRC!), but they seemed good and I had no trouble playing them on bleeds of more than 1. Here's the other slightly embarrassing part of my deck. Bleeding under Dream World and attempting to Form of Mist a blocker doesn't work. As soon as the block is successful, Dream World goes away. All the same, I didn't mind having a few s:ce when the Shambling Hordes rushed me. In this case, Earth Meld would've been better, but I don't know if that would be generally true. I had considered Unholy Penance as well, but decided that free s:ce, when available, should always be used.