Hi folks. Time for Gothcon in Gothenburg again, with the Swedish ECQ. 27 players attended, including people from Finland, Great Britain, Germany and Hungary.
I haven´t been in the best
deckbuilding mood the last months, so I picked a deck built by my friend Jens,
a deck both he and I have played a lot recently, with some success. His version
is a bit thicker, with Anthelios and 1 Golconda, but I´m always worried that
some other player can exploit Anthelios better than me, so I choose to leave
that out.
Deck: Murmurgeezers Gothcon 2014
Crypt: 12
3 Arika
1 Esau
3 Huitzilopochtli
2 Leandro
1 Nefertiti
1 Etrius
1 Queen Anne
Library: 72
Masters: 22
2 Dreams of the Sphinx
1 Giant's Blood
1 Information Highway
1 Metro Underground
1 Monastery of Shadows
1 Parthenon, The
1 Pentex Subversion
7 Villein
7 Zillah's Valley
Action: 7
1 Entrancement
4 Intimidation
2 Unleash Hell's Fury
Action Modifier + Combo: 35
2 Bonding
1 Approximation of Loyalty
2 Elder Impersonation
2 Enkil Cog
2 Faceless Night
4 Force of Personality
2 Foreshadowing Destruction
4 Lost in Crowds
10 Murmur of the False Will
2 Spying Mission
3 Swallowed by the Night
1 Hide the Mind
Reactions: 8
4 On the Qui Vive
2 Redirection
2 Wake with Evening's Freshness
As in some of my earlier reports, the
arrows in the graphics below shows the general amount of pressure a Methuselah
put on his or her prey – yellow is “not much”, orange is “some” and red is “a
lot”.
Table 1:
Difficulty for me: 3/5. I thought I had
a serious chance here, but didn´t count on Randal bleeding that heavy knowing
Otso had bounce and me not being able to bounce his bigcaps with my Murmurs.
My performance: 2/5. I shouldn´t have
pulled out Leandro as my first vamp, as he can´t even use my Redirections in a
decent way :)
The other players: Randal´s deck was
almost identical to mine – but he got Huitzilopochtli and Arika in his starting
crypt, while I didn´t :( Niina started with Klaus Konrecht with Abbot, and drew just enough
bounce to survive. Otso had it easy this game.
Lesson to learn: A game is over very
fast with turn 1 Anarch Revolt, turn 2 Leandro and large bleeds being bounced
multiple times.
Otso: 3 vp
Tiina: 1 vp
Table 2:
Difficulty for me: 2/5. With Hugh having
such an aggressive predator, I actually thought I would win this, as Erik
didn´t have a very strong defense against me.
My performance: 2/5. I took a large
chance in what turned out to be my last turn, going down to 3 pool to get both
Monastery of Shadows and Etrius. Kim pulled up a Bewitching Oration and my 8
votes was not enough to keep me alive.
The other players: Hugh had to go up
stream. Kim did some nice Banishments on his Giovanni weenie, preventing him to
play Tye Cooper, forcing him to put the chainsaw into his imbued. Tomas didn´t
have any defense (not even a single bleed bounce!), so he was an easy prey for
Erik´s multiple Infernal Servitors.
Lesson to learn: Don´t get to low on pool :)
Kim: 4 vp
Erik: 1 vp
Table 3:
Difficulty for me: 3/5. A aus-wall at
the table is always bad – and this one also rushes!
My performance: 4/5. Sure, a sweep is a
sweep, but I was really lucky.
The other players: Noora got a slow
start, but is actually quite close to ousting Isak, who is likewise close to
ousting Ralf, but is forced to focus some Mind Rapes backwards to stay alive. Ralf
has problems with my Unleash Hell´s Fury, but I get a bit scared when he
musters three stealth on a rush (Nose of the Hound + Resist Earth´s Grasp + Shaman),
but then I have sc:e and he lacks Psyche.
Lesson to learn: Unleash Hell´s Fury is
very, very strong. Without it I wouldn´t have had a chance here. Luck is also
very strong – this game could have gone either way.
Me: 4 vp
So, I qualified for the EC and got a
nice but green t-shirt. And I did not see a single Pentex Subversion the whole
day – what´s happened to you guys?!
The final was Otso (Aus-weenie) > Erik T (Nergal slow turbo stealth-bleed) > Marko (Tzimisce Dabbler toolbox) > Caroline (G3-4 Ventrue lawfirm) > Adam (Toreador bleed with Giotto Verducci and Tablets).
Marko won after a very exciting heads up with Otso, ousting Otso with his own Anarch Revolts. Congrats Marko!
