Match 1A - Legion of earth's Mightiest VS Hodge Podge

Legion of Earth's Mightiest Heroes
- Steph Mead
    VS
  Hodge Podge
- Josh McDonald




Steph wins the flip and elects to take odd initiatives.

        TURN 1 (Steph Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
Both players draw 2 cards

    BUILD PHASE

Steph sets a resource face down and recruits Galan into the front row before passing.

Josh sets a resource and recruits Rick Jones in the hidden area.

    COMBAT PHASE

Steph opts to gain endurance from Galan's effect.
Josh is forced to pass.

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        TURN 2 (Josh Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
Both players draw 2 cards

    BUILD PHASE

Josh sets a facedown resource and recruits natasha Romanoff, super spy visible.

Steph sets a resource, recruits Morg, discarding a second Morg to return Rick Jones to Josh's hand.
   
    COMBAT PHASE

natasha swings into Galen. Galen activates for another 2 endurance gain reinforced by Morg.

Both players pass

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        TURN 3 (Steph Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
Both players draw 2 cards

    BUILD PHASE

Steph sets and flips up Injustice for all and recruits Black Manta, Deepwater Denizen in the hidden area.

Josh recruits Captain America, steve rogers and forms behind natasha.

    COMBAT PHASE

Steph declares galan into natasha, once legal plays EomE from her row, discarding barracuda to grab another Galan and power him up. she passes.

Josh Passes. and Galan and natasha both stun.
Then steph sends black Manta into captain america and plays Crime Syndicate of america from her row before passing. Josh passes as well and cap goes down.
Then Steph sends Morg direct.

    RECOVERY PHASE

Josh recovers Cap, Steph recovers Galen.

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        TURN 4 (Josh Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
Both players draw 2 cards

    BUILD PHASE

Josh sets his 4th facedown resource and alt recruits Rick Jones discarding Hank Pym then recruits Apparition and Element Lad. He then removes Element lad's counter to alt recruit Jazmin Cullen taking care to form them to maximize Caps effect.

Steph sets a resource and recruits Dr. Light, blinding flash in the support row adjacent to morg. activating it. Steph puts Silver Surfer into play from her hand in her support row. Josh puts Sensor into play in his front row, leaving his hand now empty.

    COMBAT PHASE

Josh flips up Playroom and declares apparition into Galan. Steph activates galan for 2 more endurance gain before he stuns. The Josh sends element lad and Sensor (adjacent to cap) into Dr. Light. Steph passes and Dr. Light Stuns stunning back Sensor. triggering playroom for 4 endurance loss.
Josh reveals Spider man, New New avanger granting avengers affiliation to everything and sendsRick Jones and jazmin into Morg. Steph checks the endurance totals, and elects not to use Morgs effect and allows the mutual stun triggering playroom again. Then Josh sends Cap over Silver Surfer. Surfer activates fetching Scarecrow, Choroptophobic and Josh groans. Surfer goes down.

Steph swings Black Manta into Cap flipping up a Crime Syndicate of Amerika. Both pass.

    RECOVERY PHASE

Josh recovers Rick Jones
Steph recovers Dr. Light

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        TURN 5 (Steph Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
Both players draw 2 cards

    BUILD PHASE

Steph smiles slyly. "That's quite a few 2 drops you have there"
She drops Scarecrow. "Too bad I cant discard for his effect" Wistfully Looking at her single card in hand, she activates Dr. Light putting another Silver Surver into play behind Scarcrow. Josh cannot produce a 2 drop from his hand.

Josh sets a card and flips Past Present and Future to team up avengers and Legionnaires for a needed card draw. Then he recruits Carol Danvers from the row setting a card to replace her.

    COMBAT PHASE

Steph activates silver surfer placing Firelord, Harbinger of Havoc on top of her deck and declares Black Manta into Element Lad Both pass element lad stuns.
Then Steph sends Scarecrow into Carol Danvers. Rick Jones activates and returns to Josh's hand to reinforce.

Steph Passes.

Josh team swings Captain America and Apparition into Scarecrow and plays Legendary Battles fromthe row stunning Scarecrow and triggering Playroom.

    RECOVERY PHASE

Steph recovers Scarecrow leaving dr. light scarecrow and black manta
Josh recovers Carol Danvers, leaving carol, cap and apparition

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        TURN 6 (Josh Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
Both players draw 2 cards

    BUILD PHASE

Josh sets and flips Past present and future to draw another card and plays a second one from his hand for more draw then recruits spide-man from the row replacing it, he recruits rick jones and triad discarding foiled assassination and recruits the second triad as well before passing with all but the second triad formed around captain america/

Steph sets a resource, recruits Firelord in teh support row and flips Gang-up.

    COMBAT PHASE

Josh activates Apparition's effect removing a cosmic counter from a Triad allowing that triad to swing into the hidden area and does so, playing a Call to arms from the row in a mutual stun. Then Carol Danvers and the Other triad team swing into Scarecrow for the stun spinning him back to Steph's hand. He stuns back Carol. Playroom triggers.
Captain america then team attacks Firelord with an adjacent spider-man with a call to arms. Firelord stuns back Cap. Playroom Triggers.
Rick Jones and apparition can't get over Dr. Light though. Josh Passes COmbat.

Steph swings with Dr. Light onto Spider-Man. Rick Jones reinforces. Spidey stuns for 2.

Josh plays Foiled Assassination. returning Triad to the hand to recover Carol Danvers and manually recovers Captain America. koing spider-man and a Triad.

    RECOVERY PHASE

Steph recovers Firelord. And takes a deep breath.

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        TURN 7 (Steph Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
Both players draw 2 cards

    BUILD PHASE

Steph sets a resource and recruits Red shift, rift walker and Morg all in the support row

Josh doesnt set a resource. shrugs, and plays  Rick Jones and Jazmin. His visible area is a box formation, jazmin and triad in front of Carol and Captain.

    COMBAT PHASE

Steph sends Morg into triad. Josh realizes Morgs effect will send Rick Jones back to his hand and reinforces with him. The Dr. Light bowls over Captain America. Carol danvers is forced to reinforce. Firelord swings on carol then red shift bowls over jazmin for the game.

    RECOVERY PHASE

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        Hodge Podge Advances!


        POSTGAME THOUGHTS:

Steph Thoughts:
"Wow! I didn't think Galan would win this one for me!"

Josh Thoughts:
"My misplay on 6 pretty much cost me the game. I completely forgot to recruit Spider man after Carol. Drawing into another Cap on turn 7 was a shot to the nuts."