This month's deck is the tournament winning deck "
Toreador Power Bleed" played by
Aleksi Nuora. The deck name is a joke with regards to
Andre LeRoux's special ability, because the deck is actually an
Enkidu multi-rush deck. Since Enkidu's rush is often at zero stealth the use of
Freak Drive (or
Forced March) is not an option you can rely on when trying to multi-rush with
Enkidu. So instead of playing the aforementioned cards is to enter combat with another minion, play an
Earth Meld in the first combat to untap and then play
Psyche! to start a second combat a hit for real. It's still not an easy deck to play, since you have to rush the vampires in the proper order to make your VPs and finally the GW and you have to avoid the table hate that is likely to come up (up to and including a
Pentex Subversion). One other feature to note is, that the deck has three options to bleed for 3 or more. First, the little Imbued module with
Beatrice and
Strike with Conviction. Secondly, you have the
Codex of Edenic Groundskeeper, which will takes it toll once Enkidu has taken care of your prey's minions. And lastly, the namesake of the deck, the Toreador
Andre LeRoux, who can boost his bleed to 3 or even more.
There's a somewhat similar deck played
Benoit Olivieri (from March 25th, 2006), but Aleksi's design is more radical in its approach and that's the reason why I have chosen his deck as the
Deck of the Month. And thanks to
TheRedDuke making me notice the deck again by playing a modified version of the deck in the tournament in Arnhem last weekend.
