Deck of the Month: January 2011: Samedi eat your brain

This year's January has the first tournament winning deck with a full Samedi crypt since June 2009. But wait there's not only one Samedi deck in the TWDA in January 2011, but there are two TWD both in January 2011 and back in June 2009! This sure has something to mean .. so here's Dmitriy Konstantinov's deck named "Samedi eat your brain".

I chose Dmitriy's over Robyn's Samedi deck because frankly I still cannot see how she won a tournament with it, while I can see that Dimitry's deck has considerable offensive strength. Dimitry's deck is a full blown Reanimated Corpse deck with Little Mountain Cemetery for pool gain and Freak Drive for multi-action.

Interestingly Dimitry's is really quite similar to the first TWD with a pure Samedi crypt, played by Ben Swainbank in 2006.

Deck Name: Summon Kindred: Samedi eat your brain
Author: Dmitriy Konstantinov (Snap)
Description:
Summon Kindred
Minsk, Belarus
23 January 2011
10 players
3 rounds + final

Crypt (Capacity min=5 max=9 avg=6.67; 12 cards)
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2x Baron, The 9 dom FOR NEC OBF THN Samedi:2
2x George Frederick 6 nec obf FOR THN Samedi:2
2x Jorge De La Muerte, The Agent 7 cel for nec OBF THN Samedi:2
4x Lithrac 5 for thn OBF Samedi:2
2x Reg Driscoll 8 aus pre for OBF THN Samedi:2

Library (90 cards)
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Master (16 cards)
1x Anarch Troublemaker
1x Blood Doll
6x Coroner's Contact
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Giant's Blood
1x Houngan
2x Information Highway
1x Jake Washington (Hunter)
1x Kaymakli Nightmares
1x Perfectionist

Event (4 cards)
1x FBI Special Affairs Division
1x Narrow Minds
2x Unmasking, The

Action (11 cards)
10x Little Mountain Cemetery
1x Putrescent Servitude

Ally (13 cards)
1x Carlton Van Wyk (Hunter)
12x Reanimated Corpse

Action Modifier (32 cards)
6x Cloak the Gathering
3x Elder Impersonation
5x Faceless Night
10x Freak Drive
4x Lost in Crowds
2x Spying Mission
2x Veil the Legions

Reaction (5 cards)
2x Delaying Tactics
3x On the Qui Vive

Combat (6 cards)
4x Dust to Dust
2x Rolling with the Punches

Combo (3 cards)
3x Swallowed by the Night

Created with Secret Library v0.9.3. (Feb 3, 2011 23:16:18)