Hi Hardy,
Here it is!
As Always during the mightnight tournaments Great fun!! Thanks for hosting. I hope you organize it again next year.
Deck Name: Anson’s beautifull Tongue
Author: Jeroen van Oort
Description:
Here is my Aching Beauty deck.
Ok first here are a few notes: 1. I am not a fan of ashur tablets. They are overpowered and I think the card is a problem, but that is for another topic. 2. I prefer to play midcaps over big caps so it is a little out of my comfort zone. 3 I like Aching Beauty, but never had a deck with it like this. Way in the past I tried it with Anson and other midcaps, but it was too wonky. Also I prefer it over grand ball, because it gives the toreador such an intresting game experience. It forces your prey and predator to interact with you diffrently. 4. I made this deck fridaynight, because I wasn't in the mood to play any of my other 20 decks.
The below deck is an adaptation a deck from Armen Khachikyan who won the Russian EC of 2016 with it. He has an intresting angle for playing aching beauty so I wanted to try it. Look it up on
http://www.vekn.fr/decks/twd.htm
I decided to use group 1/2 instead of 3/4. I think it is better if you don't use OBF. Also Ashur fits so well in this kind of deck.
So in advance some changes to the below deck.
- 5 telephatic misdirection, +5 deflection: Oh boy I was defenceless a lot of the times and I got away with it. Anson without superior auspex is a problem.
- 1 Flurry of Actions, +1 Powerbase Montreal or Voter Captivation
- 1 Political Stranglehold, +1 Ancient Influence
+ 1 Aire of Elations: I thought it was already in the deck but I guess I forgot to include it.
-1 Masika, +1 Francois Villon: Masika was never on the table, but it feels like Francois is stronger in this type of deck. His ability emptied a dominate vampire and caused an oust.
So my experience during the tournament:
I was lucky at a few points during the tournament. There was an intresting stand of against Hardy’s Unnamed deck in the face to face of round 1. He was gaining 4 pool each round and but also loosing 4 each round. Next to that I was gaining and loosing pool. This went back and forth for about 7 rounds and time was running out. But then I got my banishment to target unnamed and I got a handshake in return. I think the finals could have been won be anyone exept hardy at some point during the final. Hardy was tpseated, but didnt knew the deck of his predator, which turned out to be a Malkavian Antitribu Bleed deck. It was his worst matchup. I brought out Alexandra first because I had 3 transfers and wanted superior auspex to defend against a big lasombra, but that turned out to be not that urgent. I didnt draw a single Aching Beauty the entire game which slowed down the ousting dramaticly. But I was able to pressure my prey well enough to make him loose wakes, getting his defence down. I presume the !Ventrue was clogging on prevention, because he had a very hard time ousting his prey. When his defence was down I was able to land some bleeds. Anneke stole the show blocking 2 bleeds making him locked out, giving me the oppertunity to oust. If the above is not accurate, I am sorry, I was drunk as well. Thanks Dietmar for keeping my throat wet
Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=7 max=11 avg=9.166667)
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1x Francois Villon 10 chi obf pot AUS CEL PRE Toreador:2
2x Anneke 10 dom AUS CEL PRE Toreador:1
4x Anson 8 aus dom CEL PRE Toreador:1
1x Masika 10 AUS CEL PRE Toreador:1
4x Alexandra 11 dom ANI AUS CEL PRE Toreador:2
Library: 87 cards
Master (33 cards)
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1x Giant's Blood
1x Golconda: Inner Peace
1x Information Highway
2x Life in the City
1x Art Museum
1x Parthenon, The
12x Ashur Tablets
1x Auspex
5x Aching Beauty
5x Villein
1x Wider View
1x Zillah's Valley
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
Action (9 cards)
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8x Flurry of Action
1x Dark Mirror of the Mind
Action Modifier (15 cards)
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7x Change of Target
8x Crocodile's Tongue
Political Action (7 cards)
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1x Anarchist Uprising
1x Kine Resources Contested
1x Parity Shift
1x Political Stranglehold
1x Reins of Power
1x Banishment
1x Conservative Agitation
Combat (11 cards)
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3x Majesty
3x Staredown
1x Target Vitals
4x Catatonic Fear
Reaction (11 cards)
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1x My Enemy's Enemy
5x On the Qui Vive
5x Telepathic Misdirection
Event (1 cards)
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1x Scourge of the Enochians
https://amaranth.vtes.co.nz/#deck/391c8 ... aa7cb50773
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Oort