Archon of the Swamp
January 12th, 2002
Constructed Tournament in Lafayette, Louisiana

15 players attended, 3 rounds were played.
 7 players took games wins before the final round.

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A brief introduction to each player and their
comments about their decks.  The format will follow
this outline:

Player's Name
Their comments about the deck
-The title of their deck

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Adam Genz
Mostly a bleeder, some intercept, some bounce
needed some copies of The Missing Voice
-"Toreador Antitribu"

Edgar Trevino
Traditional Malkavian Stealth Bleed
-"All She Wrote"

Kelly Nine
Hyper Aggressive bleed for as much as you can
as fast as you can and hope for no deflections
In game two, he called it "Bleed thru this"
-"Dominate Protean Stealth Power Bleed"
also called "AutoPilot"

Mark Cloutier
Assamite rush deck
Some rush, some intercept, no plus bleed
-"Just an Assamite Deck"

Chad Brinkley
4 card limit Ventrue Toolbox
-"Market Forces"

Brian Reed
Weenie Potence with all of the free potence cards,
Disarms, Amaranths because he was playing with the
disposable small potence vampires
-"Choke on the Weenie"

Mike Ooi
Tzimisce
tried to do too much,
too much intercept, wasn't balanced to flow well,
also didn't have any way to gain superior Vicissitude.
-"I want to be like Eric"

Norman Brown
Blood Brothers Torrance
Based on Unwholesome Bond, 6 effective managements
used more fortitude that potence, lots of bloat,
feels that the Torrance Circle is far superior to the
Chicago Circle, don't want to waste UB's refilling your
own vampires, duplicates all the vampires and three of
each of the ones with superior sanguinous
the key to the deck is to have more than three vampires
in your uncontrolled region, then it is more effective
than Govern the Unaligned
-"Attack of the Clones"

Derek Ray
Harbingers, Salubri, Nagaraja
Auspex Necromancy Stealth Bleed with Pulse of the Canaille
with selective library destruction thru Scryeing of Secrets
and Slaughterhouse
-"Selective Disservice"

Ethan Burrow
Toreador Antitribu
Eternal Vigilance Intercept deck, inspired by the Cailean
deck of Robert Acevedo of Los Angeles that was played at GenCon
last year, Art of Pain on the titled vampire, Eternal Vigilance,
block and taste of vitae to continue blocking
-Powerrrr UP!


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The next five players made it into the finals,
and they sat in the order they are presented.

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Rob Sheiman
Austin Represents!
Crumbles to combat rush or wall,
the key to the deck is to get one table
where you sweep and to draw people out with
always being forward motion, until you can
count on the table not to gang up on you,
look inoffensive until the table is about
to collapse, and then bleed all out, card
cycling is Key (Dreams of the Sphinx), as
are Sleeping Mind, Anarch Revolt and Troublemaker
Bloodlines has offered a lot to the deck with
the ability to tap minions and the increase combat
defense of Absorb the Mind, use the tap minion effects
to avoid having your bleeds bounced.
Be prepared to have the entire table turn on you
everytime.  Minions are expendable, remember this
and expect it.
-"God, I don't have a name for it" or "The Seducers"
or "Mono Dominate made nasty by Bloodlines" or
"Vorpal Ass Hacker of Death"

Oscar Garza
Tzimisce Intercept Burn Wall
Make it a wall that falls forward, 8-10 Eagle's Sights
Use selective intercept on prey's actions to burn their
vampires and oust them
-"Meshenka to Block"

Jeffrey Thompson
Ahrimanes Toolbox
Long Range Combat, Bleed and Intercept
Based on permanents
-"The Falconers"

Chris "Sorrow" Boget
Brujah Princes Archon / Anathema
Traditional Potence Celerity combat, with
Archon votes to get into combat, and Anathema
votes to burn them once in place.
-"Brujah Archon"

Mike Perlman
Malkavian Antitribu / Anatole / Ian Forestal
Dementation Fortitude Auspex Obfuscate
Hauntings, Lunatic Eruptions,
Grind or Lock Down everyone, do everything at
stealth using Dementation and/or Obfuscate
with Freak Drives to chain actions together
-"Spread the Love"


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Rob Sheiman's Tournament Winning Deck 
from Archon of the Swamp 1/12/02
Lafayette, Louisiana

Crypt:
  Ignatius
  Marciana Giovanni, Investigator
  Peter Blaine
  Courtland Leighton
  Chas Giovanni Tello
  Ingrid Russo
  Gloria Giovanni
  Didi Meyers
  Jing Wei
  Isabel Giovanni
  Royce
  Violette Prentiss

Master (24)
  Anarch Revolt x4
  Anarch Troublemaker x2
  Dominate x5
  Dreams of the Sphinx x3
  Information Highway x1
  The Parthenon x1
  Powerbase: Montreal x1
  Sudden Reversal x7

Action (15)
  Govern the Unaligned x12
  Steal the Mind x3

Combat (7)
  Absorb the Mind x7

Modifier (28)
  Bonding x3
  Command of the Beast x4
  Conditioning x6
  Seduction x12 
  The Sleeping Mind x3

Reaction (16)
  Deflection x6
  Redirection x4
  Wake with Evening's Freshness x6