a winning deck

DoC bleed

Origins Sunday · Origins, Columbus (OH), USA

June 29th 2008 · won by Matthew Morgan

score
2GW8+2.5
format
2R+F
souls at table
24
twda id
2k8originssun
marginalia

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.

the crypt

Vampires

12
  1. 2Jost Werneranimalism — inferiorauspex — superiorpresence — superior
  2. 2Sheila Mezarincelerity — inferiorfortitude — inferiorauspex — superiorpresence — superior
  3. 2Angela Prestonfortitude — inferiormelpominee — superiorpresence — superior
  4. 1Gaël Piletchimerstry — inferiorpresence — inferiorfortitude — superiormelpominee — superior
  5. 1Yseultfortitude — superiormelpominee — superiorpresence — superior
  6. 1Delilah Monroefortitude — inferiorpresence — inferiormelpominee — superior
  7. 1Maldavisfortitude — inferiorpresence — inferiorauspex — superior
  8. 1Remilliard, Devout Crusaderpresence — inferiorauspex — superior
  9. 1Céleste, The Voice of a Secretmelpominee — inferiorpresence — inferior
the library

Cards

90

Master

16
  1. 4Anarch Troublemaker
  2. 5Blood Doll
  3. 1Dreams of the Sphinx
  4. 1Fetish Club Hunting Ground
  5. 1Palla Grande
  6. 1Paris Opera House
  7. 1Pentex(TM) Subversion
  8. 2Presence

Action

18
  1. 6Enchant Kindred
  2. 4Entrancement
  3. 4Legal Manipulations
  4. 4Social Charm

Action Modifier

14
  1. 6Aire of Elation
  2. 4Missing Voice, The
  3. 4Siren's Lure

Reaction

24
  1. 1Delaying Tactics
  2. 2My Enemy's Enemy
  3. 3On the Qui Vive
  4. 8Telepathic Misdirection
  5. 4Tourette's Voice
  6. 6Wake with Evening's Freshness

Combat

18
  1. 10Majesty
  2. 8Soak