V:EKN Caitiff Newsletter, November 1998



This month's offering is another winning weenie deck.  The following

weenie presence bleed deck was created by Mike Courtois and was played

to a first place finish in late October at Crusade: Los Angeles '98. 



Mike has won 3 of the last 5 tournaments in Los Angeles with two of

those victories coming from some form of this deck.  



Prior to the most recent round of rulings, Mike used Bum's Rush, Zip

Guns, and Dragon's Breath Rounds to attack and hopefully incapacitate

any potential blockers.  The deck was still quite successful but

sometimes seemed to lose its original focus as Mike would slowly revise

the deck to do combat better and better.



The revised version of the deck abondons combat altogether.  In a nod to

my Weenie Dominate deck, Mike chose to use Misdirections to get his

bleeds through rather than simply trying to outnumber his prey as he had

done in the past.  In theory, the Media Influences should be keeping his

vampires full and the occassional Tribute to the Master should be

keeping his pool high enough to continue to bring out vampires.  In

practice, Mike said that he seemed to have a Tribute in his hand

whenever he needed a Misdirection.  And his vampires rarely, if ever,

received a blood from a Media Influence played at superior.  Not that

this mattered much.  Mike won two of his three preliminary rounds to

advance to the final.  In the finals Mike made a couple of quick

(practically instant) oustings and then the game evolved into a

stalemate allowing Mike to take his lead to the game time-limit.



Here is his deck:



CRYPT:



Mariana Gilbert x2 

Gideon Fontaine x2 

Antoinette DuChamp x2 

Vasilis, The Traitor of Don Cruez x2 

Angela Decker 

Igo the Hungry 

Delilah Easton 

Frederick the Weak 



LIBRARY: 



Tribute to the Master x10 

Misdirection x10 

Blood Doll x6 

Media Influence x40 

Aire of Elation x10 

Majesty x14