Deck of the Month: March 2008: Quintuple A

This month's deck is the tournament winning deck played by Johannes Walch. The deck takes the already well-known Triple-A deck a step further by making a fusion of the classic Anson deck with an Toreador Grand Ball deck and a Triple AAA deck. Furthermore it adds "Ambulance" from the "Lords of the Night" expansion. Powerful as it might seem it is not so easy to play, good combo play and waiting for the right occassion is essentially for winning with this deck. "Parity Shift" and "Minion Tap" are used for pool gain, while "Aching Beauty" together with "Ambulance" and "Change of Target" punish blockers heavily.

Tournament Name: Swedish European Qualifier 2008
Location: Gothcon, Gothenburg
Date: 22nd March 2008
Number of Players: 41
Winner: Johannes Walch

Deck Name : AAAAA (Quintuple A)
Author : Johannes Walch <- Florian Prosper <- Matt Morgan Description : Anson, Alexandra, Anneke, Aching Beauty and Ambulance I got the original idea from Matt Morgan (called Love Doctor), Florian "Blondin" Prosper did some heavy tweaking to it once I sent him the list. So mad props go out to these two (really awesome) players. I made some final adjustments on the morning before the tournament (normal) and it worked pretty well, having 2GW 7.5VP in the prelims and 1.5VP in the finals. Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 7 max: 11 average: 9.25 --------------------------------------------- 1x Tatiana Romanov 7 AUS cel pre Prince Toreador:1 4x Anson 8 CEL PRE aus dom Prince Toreador:1 1x Klaus van der Veken 9 CEL PRE aus obf tha Prince Toreador:2 2x Anneke 10 AUS CEL PRE dom Justicar Toreador:1 1x Francois Villon 10 AUS CEL PRE chi obf pot Prince Toreador:2 3x Alexandra 11 ANI AUS CEL PRE dom Inner Circle Toreador:2 Library [75 cards] --------------------------------------------- Action [2] 2x Entrancement Action Modifier [11] 4x Aire of Elation 2x Approximation of Loyalty 3x Change of Target 2x Voter Captivation Action Modifier/Reaction [2] 2x Scalpel Tongue /* awesome card, both defense + offense */ Combat [7] 7x Majesty Equipment [3] 2x Ambulance 1x Heart of Nizchetus /* last minute addition, essential for 2nd GW */ Event [1] 1x Anthelios, The Red Star Master [30] 4x Aching Beauty /* once you have 2+ambulance people stop blocking */ 1x Coven, The 3x Direct Intervention 1x Fortschritt Library 1x Giant's Blood 2x Information Highway 2x Jake Washington (Hunter) 6x Minion Tap 2x Parthenon, The 1x Pentex(TM) Subversion 3x Toreador Grand Ball 4x Visit from the Capuchin Political Action [13] 1x Anarchist Uprising 1x Ancient Influence 1x Ancilla Empowerment 2x Banishment 6x Parity Shift 1x Political Stranglehold 1x Reins of Power Reaction [6] 2x Deflection 2x On the Qui Vive /* last minute addition, essential to all 3 GW */ 2x Telepathic Misdirection