David Tatu is now on his way back to the Land of the Free, and i hope he
enjoyed his stay with us as much as we enjoyed having him. He actually
managed to play in TWO tournaments while he was here, for which full
reports in due course. Sadly David didn't make it to the final of the
one on Saturday, but i did and so did Michael [aka Anklebiter], with 7
VP [both 0 in the final]. Here is the deck Michael used, designed with
the following constraints:

[a] Michael likes combat
[b] Michael does not wish to be remembered as a sleazy stealth-bleed
merchant
[c] Michael wants to win, at least the occasional game
[d] David had given me a box of Jyhad, and we decided to construct the
deck entirely from the cards in the box. Actually we cheated on one
card: there was no Warzone HG in the box, and we felt the deck needed
one. But we did not, for example, substitute the one Enchant Kindred for
a third Computer Hacking, though we would have liked to.

CRYPT [12 VAMPIRES]
Hasina Kesi
Nik
Uma Hatch
Yuri - The Talon
Hector Sosa
Black Cat
Bianca
Rake
Adrianne
Anvil
Tura Vaughn
Emerson Bridges

LIBRARY [88 CARDS]
16 MASTERS
The Barrens
Warzone HG
Potence
Blood Doll x 3
Misdirection x 2
Elder Library
Life Boon
Dominate
Minion Tap
Presence
Vast Wealth x 2
Celerity

16 ACTIONS
Bum's Rush x 3
Computer Hacking x 4
Social Charm x 3
Legal Manipulations x 4
The Fifth Tradition
Enchant Kindred

1 VOTE
Brujah Justicar

5 EQUIPMENT
Deer Rifle
Flak Jacket
.44 Magnum x 2
Laptop Computer

2 ALLIES
Arms Dealer x 2

36 COMBAT
Sideslip x 4
Torn Signpost x 2
Blur x 3
Thrown Sewer Lid x 3
Thrown Gate x 3
Infernal Pursuit x 4
Flash x 3
Undead Strength x 3
Acrobatics x 3
Nimble Feet x 3
Pulled Fangs
Majesty x 4

8 REACTIONS
Delaying Tactics x 2
Deflection x 3
WWEF x 3

4 ACTION MODIFIERS
Conditioning x 3
Seduction

This is a really fun deck in action and, as its results show, it is
highly competitive. Among its victims were some excellent players
including David himself, and Matthew Green, for example. It's possible
that an older player might have made even more of this deck - Michael
certainly fluffed the playing of a life-boon to keep his grand-prey in
the game, in the third heat, which would have given him a clean sweep in
that 5-player game. But some latitude is certainly due a little boy of
11 when it comes to technical perfection in the best and most complex of
CCGs, i feel. O, and did i mention that this deck has no more than 4
copies of any one card [but was played under the standard no-limits
rules], and that the box cost David Tatu 12USD?