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- December 2010: Obey Redux by Mike Zajac (USA) -- an Old School Malkavian Bleed & Vote deck.
- November 2010: True Power by Péter Botos (HUN) -- a True Brujah equipment Bleed deck.
- Oktober 2010: Snakes on the Plane by Ivan Marin-Rivas (SWE) -- a Followers of Set Set's Curse/Ilomba deck.
- September 2010: Eze like Sunday Morning by Matt Wedge (USA) -- a Guruhi vote deck using Aye.
- August 2010: Tryphosa Bleed/Defense by Erol Öngün (GER) -- a Kindred Spirits bleed deck with a strong defense with Second Tradition: Domain and Obedience.
- July 2010: Laibon Vote feat. Lutz by Kelly Schultz (USA) -- a vote deck focused on the Laibon Kholo titles and Lutz.
- June 2010: The World's Biggest Small Multirushers by Darby Keeney (USA) -- a rush combat deck based on the Tup Dog.
- May 2010: Il Fakiro d'Alessio by Francesco D'Alessio (ITA) -- a powerbleed deck based on Fakir al Sidi.
- April 2010: Singing in the Ground by Randal Rudstam (SWE) -- a Gangrel/Gangrel antitribu tap&bleed deck based on the Deep Song rush/bleed action and Codex of the Edenic Groundskeepers.
- March 2010: Paella au d'Erlette by Jordi Tomás (ESP) -- a hybrid deck of the Tremere Nephandus and Toreador Antitribu Palla Grande deck.
- February 2010: Wax On, Wax Off by Martin Schumacher (GER) -- a Guruhi bruise & bleed deck running on the Ashur Tablets & Liquidation engine.
- January 2010: The Rats in Sheep's Clothing played by Roger Carhult (SWE) -- an Akunanse deck using Tunnel Runners as bleeders and blockers.
4 comments:
2010 sure had a good picking of interesting decks!
HUH, WHA?!? Your stated standards don't much match some of your choices by a long shot! What's "original, (audacious), or crappy" about Keeney's Tupdog deck? Tupdogs were one of the biggest broken archetypes in the game BEFORE they got the extra love from Heirs to the Blood, which I think most players assumed was meant for the standard Gargoyles. (One of my pet peeves aboutt HttB is that cards like As The Crow should have sported, "...except Tupdog" clauses.)
I'll certainly give Darby credit for recognizing and extracting maximum mileage out of a group of power cards when he sees them - but I would _not_ call that deck "audacious" or "crappy". Meh!
You stated exactly the reason why I choose Darby's deck. He was the first one to see the potential in new HttB cards for the Gargoyles decks (and the Tup Dog deck in particular) and win a tournament with deck enhanced by this cards. In this sense I find the deck original (and interesting) enough to choose it for the Deck of the Month.
Well, OK - but I'm just pointing out that such a standard winds up sounding conterdictory to those you originally posted. When you talk about the "audicity to play such a deck in a tournament environment" or the "skills to pilot a crappy deck", I'm not expecting to see a deck that exploits a bunch of power cards maybe in a slightly new way. I'm expecting to see a deck that makes me ask, "Gosh, how did he manage to win with THAT pile of crap?!?"
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