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Liège 2011
| Submitted by: | Jhaelen |
| Submitted: | Nov 04 2011 09:11 PM |
| Last updated: | Nov 04 2011 09:30 PM |
| Category: | Call of Cthulhu Decks |
| Deck Name: | Liège 2011 |
| Deck Strategy: | This is the deck I played in the European Championship in Liège 2011. I made 9th place, barely missing the top 8. |
| Deck Contents: | Total Cards (52) Story (0) Character (29) Anthropology Advisor (Core) x3 Chess Prodigy (THBtS) x2 Museum Curator (TWB) x3 Professor Nathaniel Peaslee (Core) x2 Visiting Author (Core) x2 Dreamlands Fanatic (ItDoN) x3 Innsmouth Troublemaker (Core) x3 The Terror of the Tides (TTotT) x3 Descendant of Eibon (TTotT) x3 Julia Brown (TSotS) x2 Nodens (KD) x1 The Mage Known as Magnus (TWC) x2 Support (16) Blackmarket Artifact (CotJE) x2 Open for Inspection (Core) x2 Called by Azathoth (TSotS) x2 Khopesh of the Abyss (TSS) x3 Infernal Obsession (TAD) x2 The Guzheng (CotJe) x2 Snow Graves (AtMoM) x3 Event (7) Deep One Assault (Core) x3 Forgiveness? (TC) x2 Political Demonstration (Core) x2 Conspiracy (0) This is the deck I played in the European Championship in Liège 2011. I made 9th place, barely missing the top 8. The goal was to build a 'toolbox' able to deal with all kinds of different decks. It can be fast enough to work as a rush deck (transient resources, Advisor) but also has staying power (mainly through recurring characters) and sufficient means to neutralize and destroy characters and support cards to turn the tide in a game that starts badly. The central idea was to use the Museum Curator to search the deck for support cards. Originally the deck also featured Rituals from the Silver Twilight (2x Summoning, 2x Lance) and the Stone Calendar (1x) to combo with Peaslee, generating huge amounts of success tokens. In playtesting the deck I never quite managed to get the full combo into play, so I removed them the day before the tournament. Forgiveness? was added as an afterthought at that time but I never actually used it. Comments and suggestions for improvement are very welcome! :-) P.S.: The very first version of the deck also featured 2x Intruder From Beyond and 2x Stalking Hound from the Yog faction for a six-faction deck! Unfortunately, resourcing turned out to be too unreliable, so I had to remove them. |
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5 Comments
It played really well for me, but still not a top deck though. Just really annoying when the combo was pulled off.
I am surprised you didn't have resourcing problems with this deck even after you pulled Yog out. I need to spread my wings and play multifaction decks more and should build yours to give it a shot.
I think you need to contact Darksbane and ask him to change the deck name as thats the one thing about my decklists I cannot alter in the decklist forum after submission.
Resourcing works surprisingly well, since the two main factions are well represented with 16 and 17 cards, respectively. You don't really need more unless you plan on playing Loyal* cards or cards with several Steadfast icons. The Neutral characters (which effectively include the Terror of the Tides and the Dreamlands Fanatic) also help in that regard.
At Liège, there were quite a few tri-faction decks and at least one other four-faction deck (which made it into the top 8).
*: Well, Deep One Assault is Loyal, but since it's only there to target Support cards, you almost never need more than two Cthulhu resources at a domain.
To fix this, I'd remove the three Descendants of Eibon and add a third copy of Julia Brown, the Visiting Author, and either the Mage known as Magnus or the Chess Prodigy.
Since I didn't find the time to thoroughly playtest and tune my new deck I was 'forced' to play the updated version of this deck at the German Regional in Munich, too.
In addition to the replacements mentioned above (I picked the Chess Prodigy over Magnus), I also replaced The Guzheng with The Stygian Eye.
The deck still worked as expected, but most games were very close and exciting affairs, indeed.
I won the first game (vs. Mono-Hastur), tied in the second (vs. Mono-Cthulhu, winning by points) and third (vs. Shub + splash characters, losing by points), and unfortunately lost the fourth (vs. Silver Twilight/Shub).
Since I even felt I was in good control of the games I ultimately lost, I suspect the deck may be a bit too slow to deal with faster decks.
I think the most popular card at the tournament was probably the Master of Myths - a very potent addition to every deck.