This is a special edition Ashur´s War Journal just to inform you how bad my draft at Ropecon went. The main tournament was better - I got to the final with Ventrue princes with sticks with 1 gw 6 vp. To bad I had to hunt Tiago Brum playing the same crypt as me, and he created that deck concept back in 2009, so you can imagine the result. Very competitive decks and players. You can watch that game in it´s entirety at Youtube. (My tabletalk wasn´t the best in that game, but at least it wasn´t the worst at the table!)
But the fun part of the Ropecon weekend was of course the draft. It´s been a while since I drafted real boosters, we instead have built draft cubes for drafting V:TES, because it´s good to have boosters available for newbies. Anyway, I appreciate this opportunity to do the real thing.
The boosters was 5 Third Edition, 1 Black Hand and 1 Sword of Caine. I guess my not so innovative base idea is get some stealth and some bleed, if I don´t bump into something extremely exciting early on that changes that plan. Nosferatu Antitribu and Brujah Antitribu is also always interesting when drafting these sets, being the clans with Nosferatu Kingdom and Gang Territory = permanent pool gain.
I ended up with this library:
As you see, I got double Elysian Fields. The first one was first pick in the first booster, so it decided to focus on Lasombra from start. Sadly, I didn´t find a lot of dominate bleed cards, but ...
... I drafted two (actually three) Virgine, Prodigy, who can increase every bleed by one by buring 1 blood. Naively, I thought that would be enough to do some easy ousting, especially if I also happen to smack that Capitalist on her.
The random Tzimisce is not in there for his looks, but for his permanent +1 stealth on all actions. I actually managed to equip him with Local 1111 to fuel Virgine in the first game. That was fun, but not fun enough.
Key defense is Rumour Mill, 2x Darkness Within, 2x Guard Dogs and 2x Touch of Pain. Nothing too fantastic. A single Redirection would have been nice.
The preliminaries was just two rounds, not three, and no easy ousting was done by me. I managed to get 1,5 vp totally in those two games. Rather tragic.
But at least fellow Swede Kim Nilsson won the tournament. She played a strange wallish auspex-celerity brew which I don´t understand. But if it works - it works!
Draft is always great fun. Actually often enjoy it more than constructed games, because of the non-predictability. Thanks to the organizers and thanks for Ropecon generally - a great event.
Feel free to comment below.
Kim's draft deck (as well as the one she used at the main event) was brutal!
SvaraRadera