Tournament Report: EC2011 FCQ

Hi folks!

Here is my third and last tournament report on the EC2011. Since my disastrous performance on the Day1 wasn't even close to getting qualified for Day2 I had to play the First Chance Qualifier. I've lost trust in my own decks so I borrowed Csaba Greguss' Ventrue deck. He reached the Day1 final with this deck making 3GW 10 VP's in the preliminaries. Since I used to play Ventrue Lawfirm decks a lot in the past I thought this might be a good choice. Again reality proved me wrong.

1st round:

Michael Heyder (Kyasid bleed) - Alfred Behrends (Nana pot-ani rush) - Myself - Christian Nislev (Sylvia Giovanni multi rush) - Maciej Kozlowski (Lasombra bleed with Nocturns)

Yay! Sitting in between two Immortal Grapple rush decks is the dream of every Lawfirm deck. Isn't it? Actually it isn't. Christian back rushed me right away. I was very much surprised that I wasn't the first to get ousted. I received cross table help from both buddies and could survive somehow. The Guruhi deck became so threatening that I had to back oust it otherwise I would have been ousted. I counted on Michael starting to bleed me, but I had sufficient Deflections so that was no problem. So I spent turns of desperately trying to oust Christian, but I always missed a cards, a blood or that 1 extra pool damage. Force of Personality worked wonders on this table. Two times Christian had only vampires with one or two blood available to block me, so he either ended up in torpor from a 1 hand damage or at 0 blood so he had to hunt. Unfortunately shortly before the time out I ran out of reaction cards and Michael ousted me. 

All in all I really enjoyed this table even though making a big fat 0 here. I especially enjoyed Christians deck and the way he played it. I had a good time, thank you guys!

2nd round:

Vlad Mazanik (Ventrue Lawfirm) - Andrei Kashpar (Girls will find Aids) - Tomasz Kliszewski (Turbo Parity Sheldon) - Myself - Michal Orowiecki (Ventrue Lawfirm)

Yeah, what should I write here? 3 guys sitting next to each other contesting the same crypt. One unoustable deck and a fourth vote deck. After 2 hours of massive trash talk from all of us we timed out.

3rd round:

Norbert Flasko (Toreador! tap and bleed) - Gianluca Vindigni (Brujah Debate) - Mikkel Peterson (Tunnel Runners) - Sebastian Rouillard (Moncada and Co) - Myself

By the time I had Mary Anne Blaire and a prince in play Sebastian had 12 votes! He started with Information Highway and a Govern at superior. Even worse he drew 2 Cardinal Benedictions. With him having the total vote lock and my prey bloating with Art Scams and Enchant Kindreds I was even more hopeless than Yvette will ever be. Big fat 0 again. Thanks Sebastian for emailing me your deck list!

Conclusion:

I don't know if I made any mistakes while playing but I think this time I didn't. As you can see from the seating I just had really bad luck with it again. There was a good thing though: on the first table I re-discovered that you can have real fun in v:tes even if you end up losing again.

Now the EC is over and after I arrived home I pushed the reset button. This means that I deconstructed all my decks. Even the Broken Brujah. Now I started to build decks around vampires or cards that I never played before. Just to have fun, but also trying to make these decks as tournament viable as possible. Currently my personal favorite is my new Eze deck. However Unnamed, Muaziz and Jann Berger seem to be promising as well. 

by: Mephistopheles