The Dark Side

By Anil Das-Gupta April 29, 1997

1 Evil Twin
4 Sinister Priest
1 Thing with 1000 Tongues
4 Tortured Memories
1 Arcanotower Now
3 CHAR
1 Colonel Griffith
5 DNA Mage
5 Expendable Unit
3 Gnarled Attuner
4 Nerve Gas
1 Nirmal Yadav
1 Reinvigoration Process
1 Scorched Earth
1 Sergeant Blightman
1 Test Subjects
3 Vivisector
2 City Square
4 Discerning Fire
3 Fortress of Shadow
1 Fox Pass
2 Garden of Bronze
1 Inner Sanctum
1 Kinoshita House
1 Mourning Tree
5 Pocket Demon
1 Sacred Heart Hospital
= 61 cards

Stats:

BY TYPE
24 Characters
2 Edges
22 Events
12 Feng Shui Sites
1 Sites
BY COST
10 0 cost
16 1 cost
7 2 cost
3 3 cost
8 4 cost
1 6 cost
16 variable cost
1.71 average cost (excluding variable)
BY FIGHTING
13 1 fighting
1 3 fighting
6 6 fighting
1 7 fighting
2 9 fighting
3.35 average fighting (by character)
1.26 average fighting (by card)
BY FOUNDATION
4 Eaters of Lotus
6 Flesh Architects
PERCENTAGES
16% Base resource
20% Feng Shui
2% Site
15% Magic
21% Tech
BY SET
37 Limited
21 Netherworld
3 Flashpoint
BY RARITY
6 Very Common
32 Common
8 Uncommon
15 Rare
BY FACTION
10 Eaters of Lotus
30 Flesh Architects
21 Neutral

Notes:

This is the deck Anil used to win Flashpoint Finchley IX. It is Architect/Lotus, though the Lotus component is small, mainly there for its magic and the powerful Tortured Memories.
The Architects provide lots more denial - Nerve Gas and Expendable Unit - while the magic that both factions provide fuels the potent Discerning Fire. To complete this array of victory denial, the deck contains nearly a full set of the denial Feng Shui sites - City Square, Fox Pass, Kinoshita House and Mourning Tree - only Turtle Beach is missing.
To win, the deck has a good selection of mid-range fighters and one big hitter from each faction - the Thing and Sgt Blightman. The versatile Evil Twin can be used to copy either of these or any other big character in play.
Anil uses stylish, black-backed sleeves for his deck and these give his face-down feng shui sites a sinister, monolithic appearance. This, together with its evil nature, gives the deck its name.
Anil himself is only 13 - a suitably evil number of years - and, as our youngest winner, merits the subtitle of Dark Prodigy. His Indian/Polish ancestry continues the cosmopolitan tradition of our winner's circle. I expect we shall see a lot more of him at future tournaments - well done.

Last modified: January 16, 1998.
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