Vampires
- 2Jost Werner
- 2Sheila Mezarin
- 2Angela Preston
- 1Gaël Pilet
- 1Yseult
- 1Delilah Monroe
- 1Maldavis
- 1Remilliard, Devout Crusader
- 1Céleste, The Voice of a Secret
Origins Sunday · Origins, Columbus (OH), USA
June 29th 2008 · won by Matthew Morgan
Description: The challenge I gave myself was to create a good Daughters of Cacophony deck that wasn't a copy of Ben Peal's NAC winning deck. This one is mostly inspired by a deck of Forrest Nielsen's that won a qualifier back in 2003 and made the NAC final the same year. It adds !Toreador for bleed defense and has a good chunk of combat defense. With another minute or two left on the clock, I would've ousted my last prey for a 3rd 4VP win (but I'm plenty satisfied with just a win). Never saw Gael or Remilliard, who are probably the weakest crypt choices here, so just as well. A couple other players have insisted that this crypt needs Greta, but she wouldn't have really helped this time. Sheila's +1 bleed and Fortitude were just more useful. Strangely, the Anarch Troublemakers never were that important and I didn't draw them often. Could use another Pentex and probably Direct Intervention. The Presence masters didn't matter much since I mostly got out minions with PRE. This seems like a lot, but I never discarded a bleed card and often ran out. I probably had some chances to steal Hugh's Carlton in the final, but he was really doing me more good where he was, so I just bled with the Entrancements. More Siren's Lure is a no-brainer, but this is all I own. Oddly enough, most of my preys never tried to block me at all, so again it didn't matter this time. Daring the Dawn could certainly go here. Only one Delaying Tactics? What was I thinking? It totally saved me in round 1 and the final. Another copy should certainly be here. Tourette's Voice was completely useless and sadly misplayed a couple of times (sorry!). I thought it might be good for saving grandpreys or for some unexpected intercept, but the need never arose. Likewise, I think I bounced one bleed in the entire tournament. That's something you just can't plan for. This worked out great. With all the other blood costs in the deck, playing a Soak against hands for 1 is completely worthwhile, which is mostly what I did with them.