Lords of the Final Nights Draft Atlanta, Georgia White Wolf Headquarters January 26th, 2008 12 players 2R + F We had 12 players for the draft event, including Nick Watkins from New York City and a player new to town, David! If there is something that is good for V:TES, it has to be more Davids playing. We drafted the following sets: 2x V:TES (19 card packs) 2x Final Nights 2x Third Edition 2x Lords of the Night We drafted in 4 player pods and played at 4 player tables. Both of the first two rounds finished 20-30 minutes prior to time. The finals also finished in about an hour and a half, although it was the only game to be played with 5 players. The following is a brief account of my rounds. As usual, seating was the most significant item determining the winner on my tables. Minion Tap and vote lock also tended to help significantly. Round 1: Robyn playing an Aching Beauty Toreador backed up with Ravnos and Nos Me playing the deck at the bottom of the post Mike Perlman playing Giovanni/Tremere with many discipline masters Tatu playing Marianna Giovanni/Tremere with Aus/Dom/Tha/Pot I was very fortunate to have no Giovanni, and Marianna did significant work on Mike's pool, taking him out of the game so that I was able to conserve a significant portion of my library to use against my next prey and my predator. Marcia Felicia Licinia and Sheldon insured my vote lock, with Basilia being last out after Gitane St. Claire. I used Gramle at the draft effect to acquire my Minion Tap, and all went very, very well for me. Mike had been very successful at reducing Tatu's pool, in an effort to get out of the Marianna Anarch Revolt effect, so I only had to do ~5 pool damage to him with votes to oust him. I had 1 card in hand when I finally managed to work Robyn's minions over with Army of Rats and Basilia. (Can't take it with you) Jeff 4vp Round 2: Todd Bannister with Tariq and Bakr (Rush Monsters, Inc.) Me John weenie potence/presence/fortitude (I think) Danielle Raven/Zebulon/little Gangrel In this game, I was deathly afraid of Todd's combat, having seen my entire deck in the previous game, so I knew he would crunch me up whenever he wanted. He tooled up Tariq with a Flak Jacket and a Blow Torch. He also had Angel and Bakr. I had to torp Angel, otherwise she would have kept bleeding me for 1 for the rest of the game. It would also put him on the defensive against Danielle, which I thought could only be good for me. I had out Vasiliy Vasilevich, Ysador the Foul, and Zack North. My vote lock again insured that I ousted my prey, and the extra damage always went onto Todd. With one of the votes that helped ousted my prey (an Anarchist Uprising, if I remember correctly), I brought Todd down to 4. Danielle had 4 minions that all attempted to bleed, and Zebulon went last, playing a Computer Hacking and Conditioning to oust Todd. Danielle always had damage prevention when our minions interacted and frequently had the aggravated damage that I could not significantly handle. Zack North was graverobbed, and I was eventually overwhelmed as I did not cycle into the necessary votes fast enough to keep up with her minion advantage. Danielle 3vp Jeff 1vp Finals: I was the top seed, with 1 gw 5 vp. Oscar was next with 1 gw 4 vp. Shawn, Danielle, and Mike all also had game wins, but I do not know their VP totals. Todd Bannister had tied for 5th with one or more of them, but stepped out of the finals to go home to take care of family that were feeling under the weather. Since I was top seed, I got to choose my seat. It was the critical piece that enabled the eventual sweep. The perfect predator has infinite pool and no minions for offense. Since I knew that Shaun would prefer to draft Followers of Set, and I knew that I hadn't drafted any of the presence bleed in our draft round, that he was extremely dangerous. He was set to bleed Mike, so I sat as his grand-prey. True to my hopes, during one of his turns he bled Mike for 6 with 2 copies of Public Trust, and that effectively sat Mike on his heels for the rest of his game. I do not recall more than 1 or 2 bleed attempts from Mike the entire game, and there was only 1 bleed bounced to me with a Murmur of the False Will (for 2, that I took rather than block). The finals was also the only round where I was able to play a Grooming the Protege, as all other rounds I only saw one vampire of each clan in my uncontrolled region. Mike Perlman went first Me Oscar Garza weenie fest with Spell of Life & Tutu the Doubly-Evil One Danielle Shaun Whitt with Qufur, Julian Sands, and Gideon Fontaine big presence bleed The first turn was a pool gain fest. Mike played an Ascendance. I played an Instability. Oscar gained a pool for having the Edge. I brought out Vasiliy Vasilevich, Gitane St. Claire, and Zack North, with Zack only costing three because of a Grooming the Protege. Zack was later Minion Tapped for 4, on the turn that Oscar was ousted, to enable Angus the Unruled to enter play. Vasiliy would get bleeds thru with Earth Control after receiving a Protean skill card to make sure it happened. The Edge plus Gitane's primogen title ensured vote lock for me throughout the game, on my turn. I do not recall having a single vote fail, the entire day. I did have a few blocked, but not in the finals. Anarchist Uprising and Reckless Agitation were both called in one turn to do 10 pool damage to Oscar, but I still had to do 6 more pool in other turns to get him out. On the turn that I ousted him, Vasiliy bled successfully then called a Conservative Agitation to get the final 6 points. Gitane then followed that up with the other Conservative Agitation to put Danielle at 2 pool. A second Anarchist Uprising took Danielle out, and put Shaun at 2 pool. Vasiliy was able to take those pool the next turn, and I had 4 untapped minions when it came down to just Mike and me. Angus had just come out, so he took the honor of bleeding away Mike's last pool. I had given Mike 4 or 5 pool with an Ancient Influence to keep him out of Shaun's clutches. He had also passed a Consanguineous Boon (at draft) on his two clans in a vote that emptied everyone's hands of their stray votes. If Oscar and Danielle hadn't tossed their votes to give him those two pool, they might have been able to toss them against my votes that ousted Oscar. I was glad to see those votes go. Jeff 5 vp There were more than 20 minutes left when the game ended. Deck Name : Lords of the Final Nights Draft Author : The Lasombra Description : I thought I was going to have a lot more fortitude, animalism, and protean when I was drafting vampires. I was surprised at how little I ended up with. Basilia was the first vampire I drafted. Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 6 max: 10 average: 8.5 ------------------------------------------------------------ 2x Marcia Felicia Licinia 9 ANI CHI FOR THA dom Ravnos:5 1x Vasiliy Vasilevich 8 ANI CHI for pro Ravnos:5 1x Angus the Unruled 10 ANI PRO cel for pot justicar Gangrel:1 1x Basilia 10 ANI FOR PRO obf pot primogen Gangrel:1 1x Gitane St. Claire 7 ANI FOR PRO primogen Gangrel:1 1x Zack North 6 ani for pot pro Gangrel:1 1x Ysador the Foul 10 ANI DEM FOR OBF POT obt cardinal !Nosferatu:4 1x Greensleeves 7 ANI OBF for pot priscus !Nosferatu:4 1x Sheldon, Lord Clog 9 ANI AUS OBF POT for justicar Nosferatu:1 1x Laszlo Mirac 10 AUS DOM FOR cel obf vic bishop !Ventrue:4 1x Tariq, The Silent 7 AUS FOR OBF QUI cel Assamite:2 Library [46 cards] ------------------------------------------------------------ Action [5] 3x Army of Rats 1x Gramle 1x Rampage Action Modifier [5] 1x Conditioning 3x Earth Control 1x Leverage Combat [11] 1x Canine Horde 1x Dodge 1x Fists of Death 2x Gleam of Red Eyes 1x Lucky Blow 1x Quick Jab 1x Resilience 1x Save Face 1x Undead Strength 1x Wolf Claws Equipment [1] 1x Meat Hook Master [11] 1x Frenzy 3x Grooming the Protégé 1x Instability 1x Minion Tap 1x Protean 1x Trophy: Revered 1x Vulnerability 2x Zillah's Valley Political Action [9] 2x Anarchist Uprising 1x Ancient Influence 1x Can't Take it with You 2x Conservative Agitation 1x Free States Rant 1x Honor the Elders 1x Reckless Agitation Reaction [3] 1x Cats' Guidance 1x Instinctive Reaction 1x Rat's Warning Retainer [1] 1x Raptor Recorded with : Anarch Revolt Deck Builder. 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