Friday at Gloria Jean's Greenhills

I was able to playtest two decks last Friday, when the Methuselahs descended on Gloria Jean's in Greenhills.

The first was the "Angry Mob" disciplineless deck. While it was fun to play, it was still a little clunky. I'll be removing the Traps (it's not like 1 or 2-caps will come out of it alive anyway), and replace them with Autarkis Persecutions and another Info Highway. One of the other problems is the ratio of Concealed Weapons to weapons, and what sort of weapons I should be using. I've tweaked it, and I think this time, it'll fly.

My prey for the first game was Haig's Wynn deck, which has been retooled to be a light interceptor, but there are only so many minions Wynn can block. He finally decided to concede, because he predicted that it was only a matter of time before he got ousted anyway.

For the second game, we decided to play against the Nergal deck. This time, I used the Presence weenie voters. Apparently, the trick of ganging up on the Nergal deck works; I'm assuming the reason why Nergal is winning in the U.S. is because either someone decides to make a deal with the Nergal player, or the table is curious to see what the Nergal deck is capable of, and don't pressure it early on, to the table's detriment.

The presence voters were helped a lot by the fact that attention was spent on ousting the Nergal deck, which gave me time to tool and set up. By the time Nergal was ousted, I had about 6-7 minions out, which were hell for Dave's Giovannis and Louie's Brujahs. Louie had sacrificed himself so that we could get Nergal out, and was no match for a weenie horde on his back. We decided to stop after I had ousted Paul, Dave and Louie, so that another game could be set up. Looking back, I kind of wish that I had tried to oust Tonichi's !Nossie wall deck, just to see if I could.

After that, I let others play on the table, as I could feel the painful tendrils of V:TES Head beginning to creep up on me. I did get a bit of a good trade, trading an Absimiliard's Army to Paul for a Ventrue Justicar and about 4 Pack Alphas, and a future possibility, because Louie is looking for Govern the Unaligneds, of which I have a crapload.

I think the next game will be when the Legacies of Blood will come out, and I'll write about that sometime during the week.