Hi folks!
So the EC is over and I had a couple of days to think everything through. I don't want to do a round by round tournament report right now. What I want to say is, that it was great to see and talk to many people. This itself was totally worth joining the event. On the other hand I played 9 rounds of v:tes.
On Friday I decided to play my Broken Brujah deck. I made a Game Win with 2 Vps on the first table which was really a tough game. Second game made me 1 Vp and the third table was a disastrous 0. Last 2 games I played together with an Anarch Revolt + Lutz deck. He basically dropped a Revolt every turn starting with the first one. Since my crypt consisted of titled vampires only this was pretty unpleasant to say the least. Well at least I did qualify, since I wasn't yet.
Saturday I choose to play Martin Weinmayer's Auspex + Presence deck. He won his second EC title with this deck. I thought it would be great choice even though I don't really like playing with such decks. It was a terrible choice. Triple 0 Vps's without even the slightest chance of making a Vp. Well not entirely true. With a deal break I could have made 1 VP. I rather kept it.
Sunday. After the previous 2 days I felt like playing my favorite deck on the First Chance Qualifier. Namely my Eze deck. It is an 11 cap vampire that can not bounce bleeds, I don't play any crypt acceleration cards in it and it isn't built to block. Well, after the 2nd round I had 2 Game Wins with 7 Victory Points. First Game Win included some help from my side to back oust my first predator. Then I killed my prey and grand prey with a Reins of Power and easily won the heads up against a malkavian antitribu stealth bleed (Banishment for the win). On the second table I had my very best draw ever. My prey played only 8+ vampires, my opening hand had a Magic of the Smith to go for a Signet of King Saul. Untap, bleed for 1, Enkil Cog. Fuck yeah! So before the 3rd table I had good hopes to make it to the final. I drew my crypt and opening hand and they were awesome again (Villein, Enkil Cog were in there). Now came the pain: re-seating!!! New crypt: no Eze. New predator: War Ghoul featuring Maris. I think you will read about this game on the Lord of the Clog blog. Despite the 0 Vp here and missing the final because of this I really enjoyed this game!
Conclusion: I am really sure now that it doesn't matter what deck you play. It's all about seating, that is the luck factor in the game. Next EC I will play only decks I like to play with.
by: Mephistopheles
