The Deck of the Month for July/August 2015 is the tournament winning deck “Anu Gets A Blood” by Bram van Stappen (BEL), who won the Last Chance Qualifier to the French National Championship 2015 with this deck. The deck is a rather untypical ally bleed deck build around Anu Diptinatpa and the Procurer ally. The Procurers together with Anu’s special ability to spent a blood to give a minion(!) an extra +1 bleed, serve two purposes. The first is to bleed for one with Anu’s help, and the second one is to provide Anu with an extra blood (hence the deck’s name) for future bleed modification. If you dare to block, the third angle of the deck is kicking in: with Concealed Weapon & Flash Grenade the minions are able end combat and to tap down an opposing vampire easily for the next untap phase. The deck list lists very inconspicuous, but it’s fast, and puts a lot of pressure on its prey with a horde of minions.
As usual a couple of other decks were quite interesting in these two months.
- The Malk Trollbox deck by Samir Sardinha (BRA) shows nicely that a Malkavian antitribu deck can be something different than just a Dementation Bleed deck (with or without Obfuscate). The deck is toolboxish wall using Auspex/Dementation for blocking, including a total 20(!) combo cards which gives the deck a lot of flexibility.
- The Gangrel antitribu small/midcap bleed decks have become quite popular since the release of The Unaligned. But that’s actually not that surprisingly because the expansion had a plethora of useful library and crypt cards for the Gangrel antitribu in general (and the City Gangrel in particular). The on the latest example is the deck Loving you was like loving the dead as played by Desso Alastor (BRA).
- The last deck on the list is Brandon Haas’ (USA) deck “Laying the Foundation“. At first, glancing over the crypt, I was thinking that this might be a variation of a typical Weenie/Midcap Animalism deck. But there’s more to this deck, it’s actually a decent bleed deck. In the first place, it conserves a lot of pool with Founders of the Ebony Kingdom and has some multi-act (and other) capabilities with Guruhi Are the Land to tool up, before it starts bleeding in earnest.
Deck Name: French LCQ 2015: NAG Anu gets a blood
Author: Bram van Stappen
Description:
French LCQ
Soissons, France
July, 4th 2015
3R+F
31 players
vekn.net/event-calendar/event/8042Crypt (Capacity min=2 max=7 avg=4.36; 11 cards)
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1x Alu 2 obf Assamite:5
1x Andre LeRoux 3 aus Toreador:5
5x Anu Diptinatpa 7 aus vic DOM NEC Nagaraja:6
1x Dr. Solomon Grey 2 dom pre Caitiff:5
1x Eric Milliner 2 pot Giovanni:5
1x Honest Abe 2 pre Brujah:5
1x Nichodemus 2 pot Nosferatu:5
1x New Blood 2 pot san Blood Brother:5Library (73 cards)
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Master (23 cards)
1x Anarch Troublemaker
6x Ashur Tablets
3x Blood Doll
1x Coven, The
1x Direct Intervention
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Giant’s Blood
1x Jake Washington (Hunter)
4x Life in the City
2x Parthenon, The
1x Wider ViewEvent (3 cards)
1x FBI Special Affairs Division
2x Unmasking, TheEquipment (12 cards)
1x Camera Phone
1x Codex of the Edenic Groundskeepers
7x Flash Grenade
3x Saturday-Night SpecialAlly (11 cards)
1x Carlton Van Wyk (Hunter)
10x ProcurerAction Modifier (1 cards)
1x Change of TargetReaction (10 cards)
6x Deflection
1x Delaying Tactics
2x On the Qui Vive
1x RedirectionCombat (13 cards)
2x Backstep
9x Concealed Weapon
2x Dragon’s Breath RoundsCreated with Secret Library v0.9.4c. (Oct 28, 2015 14:28:31)