Report, TWD and interview: Pulled Fangs Stockholm 2012

Place: Stockholm Sweden
Date: 9 September 2012
2 rounds + final
10 players
Winner: Ivan Marin-Rivas

Round 1:
Table 1:
1: Ivan M-R (Ventrue lawfirm) (2 vp)
2: Andreas T (Stanislava Purge-Rape)
3: Michael H (Kiasyd sb w tablets)
4: Henrik K (G4/5 Ventrue lawfirm w guns and sticks) (2 vp)
(Pentex + Mind Numb prevented Andreas from taking a single action in this game.)

Table 2:
1: Magnus K (CEL guns w Coyote bloat)
2: Tomas W (Small pre-princes w Parity Shifts) (3 vp, 1 gw)
3: Randal R (Girls)
4: Marcus B (G1-2 princes w obf) (1 vp)


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Round 2:
Table 1:
1: Johannes B (BH !Ventrue) (Late arrival)
2: Ivan M-R (Ventrue lawfirm) (3 vp, 1 gw)
3: Olof H (Aus-Obf-Cel Sabbat toolbox) (Late arrival)
4: Marcus B (G1-2 princes w obf) (2 vp)
5: Andreas T (Stanislava Purge-Rape)
(More bad luck for Andreas here: Stanislava got Tempted by a Greater Power after one turn of actions. And this time it was Olofs turn to not take any actions because of Ivans Pentex.)

Table 2:
1: Magnus K (CEL guns w Coyote bloat)
2: Henrik K (G4/5 Ventrue lawfirm w guns and sticks) (3 vp, 1 gw)
3: Tomas W (2 vp) (Small pre-princes w Parity Shifts)
4: Michael H (Kiasyd sb w tablets)
5: Randal R (Girls)

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Final standings:
1. Ivan M-R (1 gw-5 vp)
2. Henrik K (1-5)
3. Tomas W (1-5)
4. Marcus B (0-3)
5. Michael H (0-0)

Final table:
1. Michael H (Kiasyd sb w tablets)
2. Marcus B (G1-2 princes w obf) (2 vp)
3. Tomas W (Small pre-princes w Parity Shifts)
4. Henrik K (G4/5 Ventrue lawfirm w guns and sticks)
5. Ivan M-R (Ventrue lawfirm) (3 vp, 1gw, tournament victory)

First vampires:
Michael H: Some Kiasyd midcap
Marcus B: Queen Anne
Tomas W: Victor Donaldson
Henrik K: Graham Gottesman
Ivan M-R: Democritus


All decks in the final played Dominate. Henrik did not take any actions the first 10 rounds or so because of 2x Pentex and Mind Numbs. It made it possible for Ivan to Govern/Scout/influence out 4 minions, making him very hard to stop.

Congrats Ivan for the tournament victory!

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Tournament winning deck
Deck Name: Vita Kränkta Män ("White violated men")
Created By: Ivan Marin-Rivas
Description: I made this deck for Sofia as a newbie deck to show how votes work. The deck is a normal Govern chain with Democritus at the top, vote if you can, otherwise discard vote cards during referendums to draw more bleed.

Crypt: (12 cards, Min: 24, Max: 36, Avg: 7,41)
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2 Sir Walter Nash DOM FOR PRE 7 Ventrue
2 Emerson Bridges DOM FOR pot PRE8 Ventrue
1 Ranjan Rishi DOM for PRE 5 Ventrue
1 Democritus aus cel DOM for PRE10 Ventrue
1 Heather Florent dom FOR PRE 6 Ventrue
2 Timothy Crowley ani dom FOR PRE7 Ventrue
2 Wilhelm Waldburg aus cel DOM FOR PRE9 Ventrue
1 Luccia Paciola DOM for pre 6 Ventrue

Library: (83 cards)
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Master (11 cards)
2 Anarch Troublemaker
2 Misdirection
2 Pentex Subversion
1 Legendary Vampire
1 Direct Intervention
1 Dreams of the Sphinx
1 Giant`s Blood
1 Ventrue Headquarters

Action (17 cards)
2 Entrancement
2 Mind Numb
4 Scouting Mission
9 Govern the Unaligned

Action Modifier (26 cards)
3 Daring the Dawn
2 Bewitching Oration
3 Voter Captivation
9 Freak Drive
2 Seduction
3 Bonding
4 Conditioning

Political Action (13 cards)
6 Kine Resources Contested
1 Conservative Agitation
1 Anarchist Uprising
3 Parity Shift
2 Neonate Breach

Reaction (7 cards)
5 Deflection
2 Second Tradition: Domain, The

Combat (8 cards)
8 Majesty

Equipment (1 cards)
1 Heart of Nizchetus

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Interview with Ivan Marin-Rivas, the winner:

1. What did you play? Why?
"I chose my Ventrue Lawfirm because at the last tournament the meta was shifted when an anti-cryptspeed deck won and many of the powervote decks did poorly, I felt that this would leave my Lawfirm deck an edge in the meta since it votes while having no cryptspeed instead relying more heavily on dominate."

2. What are your thoughts about your preformance?
"I'm very happy, both during the inital rounds and the finals, I felt I had a good grasp on the decks played and I didn't do alot of mistakes (no big ones at least), also I had slept fairly well and was in a good mood which helps alot. For the finals I was nervous about chosing seating since I usually don't get very high seed (I prefer less aggressive decks generally speaking). Looking back I think I made the right seating choice though."

3. What did you learn from the tournament?
"The power of sudden/wash and bleeding the vine against crypt acceleration is immense, many aggressive decks rely heavily on early masters being played, stopping this hurts the decks alot, slowing them down and choking their actions and hands. It is a meta-shift that is worth exploring further."