Tournament Report: Legendary Vampire Warsaw 2011

Hi folks!

This is my first report on the EC2011 in Warsaw. I played with my Broken Brujah deck on the Legendary Vampire tournament. I was a little afraid of playing this deck, because of all the Animalism combat being played these days and it turned out that my fear was justified. I had my own version of the Nana archetype with me (mINIMAL sTYLE), but I was way too afraid of contesting Nana. Since only these 2 decks were available I took my chances with Dmitra and her Assault Rifles.

1st round:

Myself - Tomas (Lazverenus toolbox) - Ralf (Nosferoyalty with Anathema and Animalism) - Manuel (Anarch Gunner) - Martin W. (Kung Fu Miller)

Tomas started with a first turn Smiling Jack. Thankfully the table agreed on removing it asap and we got rid of it before it would cause too much damage. Tomas then played a Pentex on Dmitra. Somehow I managed to talk myself out of this and the Pentex got removed. I called an Alastor. In Tomas' turn he played another Pentex on me. Meanwhile Manuel didn't draw any guns and therefore was becoming very weak which so there was little pressure on Martin. These Pentexes prevented me from playing my deck and Tomas was about to oust his prey. In that situation I had to decide who I want to have as a cross table "buddy". I could "sacrifice" Ralf and let my prey get a vp so I get rid of the Animalism. This would have been the obvious choice if Manuel would have drawn this deck normally. In that situation Manuel couldn't do anything because he was weakened down a lot and without any guns. I wanted to have pressure on Martin so I helped Ralf to stay in the game. I manged to oust my prey within a few turns. Ralf ousted Manuel and Martin and we were heads-up. Meanwhile I got Pentexed a third time. All these Pentex destroyed my game since I could never set up the way I usually can and this way all I could achieve was to stay alive until the time out. 1,5 VP's.

2nd round: 

Rudolf (Anson tap and bleed) - Paul W. (Anim No Secrets) - Myself - Alessandro Donati (Giovanni powerbleed) - Adam Esbjörnsson (Auspex Wall)

This time I managed to make quite a good start. I could keep the Anim under control since he had also pressure from behind. Adam started by playing a Pentex on Le Dinh Tho. I tried to set up so I could oust Adam easily once I was behind him. This plan didn't work out since I got Delayed 3 times and this once more disturbed my build-up. I had to make my vp faster than I wanted since there was pressure on me (meanwhile Paul was getting much stronger) and I desperately needed that +6 pool. Once I got behind Adam there was a little window open to oust him, but he had cycled enough cards to build up a solid hand and I couldn't oust him with my Parity Shift. I iDied soon after. 1 VP

3rd round:

Thomasz (Ahrimane wall) - Cesar (Animalsim Nana) - Milán (Tremere toolbox) - Pascal (Epikasta vote) - Myself

There is really not much to report about this game. I didn't draw Dmitra in 5 crypt cards (I am playing 5 copies of her) and my prey was an Ahrimane Wall. Even if the Mars, Saturn and whatever planet there is that counts were in the right constellation I wouldn't have had a chance here. 

Conclusion:

Maybe with some luck (less Pentex, less Delaying) I could have won one of the first 2 tables. So the chance to reach the final was there. But I would have needed luck for that. In the current meta Animalism is over represented and this meta is just bad for a deck like Broken Brujah. After more than 2 years of playing with it I finally deconstructed it to let the guys rest until less Animlism heavy days arrive in the World of Darkness.

by: Mephistopheles