Match 1L - No Man Escapes Bastion VS ...and the horse you rode in on

  No Man Escapes bastion
  Pilot- Josh
    VS
  ...and the Horse you Rode in on
  Pilot- Aaron


Josh wins the flip and opts to takes even initiatives

Josh mulligans
Aaron Keeps






        TURN 1 (Aaron initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Aaron sets a resource, revealing Warskrull, koing it to set an act of defiant into his row before recruiting Black Bolt, enemy within in his hidden area.

Josh sets a resource and passes

    COMBAT PHASE

Aaron attacks with Black Bolt for 1

    RECOVERY PHASE

  No Man Escapes Bastion -> 49    ...and the Horse you Rode in on -> 50



        TURN 2 (Josh Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Josh sets a resource and recruits Hounds of Ahab in the hidden front row.

Aaron sets and reveals a warskrull, KOing it for a second Act of Defiance set in the row before recruiting Terra Man and flipping an act of defiance to team-up Skrull and Revenge Squad, then fliping the second to team-up Skrull and Sentinel.

    COMBAT PHASE

Josh is forced to pass, unable to stun Terra-Man.

Aaron swings direct with Terra-Man at 4/4 and Black Bolt at 3/3.

    RECOVERY PHASE

  No Man Escapes Bastion -> 42    ...and the Horse you Rode in on -> 50



        TURN 3 (Aaron Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Aaron sets a resource and recruits Wolverine, Skrunucklehead protecting Terra-Man.

Josh sets a resource and recruits Manhunter Soldier.

    COMBAT PHASE

Aaron sends Terra-Man into Manhunter Soldier, once legal playing mob mentality from the row targetting Wolverine.(Making Terra-Man 5/5 from the 3 face up ongoings) They mutually stun.
Wolverine attacks direct with 8. Black Bolt attacks direct with 3.

Josh passes

    RECOVERY PHASE

Wolverine gains a cosmic counter
Aaron recovers Terra-Man.
Josh recovers Manhunter Soldier

  No Man Escapes Bastion -> 26    ...and the Horse you Rode in on -> 48



        TURN 4 (Josh Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Josh sets a resource and recruits Sentinel Mk V behind Manhunter Soldier, then flipping up Forbidden Loyalties from teh row, discarding a Manhunter Soldier to place a +1/+1 counter on Sentinel Mk V.

Aaron sets a resource and recruits Maxima, empress of almerac in the front row.

    COMBAT PHASE

Josh sends manhunter Soldier into Wolverine for a mutual stun, and then sends Sentinel Mk V into the 5/5 Terra-Man stunning him. passing combat.

Aaron ponders a moment and passes.

    RECOVERY PHASE

Josh recovers Manhunter Clone.
Aaron Recovers Terra-Man and KO's Wolverine.

  No Man Escapes Bastion -> 23    ...and the Horse you Rode in on -> 43



        TURN 5 (Aaron Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Aaron Sets a resource and plays Mobilize from his hand, (Discarding Professor Emil Hamilton) to search out captain america, skrull imposter and put it into his hand. he then recruits Captain america in the front row, and recruits brainiac 13 into the hidden area and formas all characters into the front row.

Josh sets a resource and recruits Nimrod, mutant hunter protecting Sentinel Mk V, moving manhunter Soldier to the unprotected support row.

At the end of the build, Aaron flips up a battle for Metropolis and activates Brainiac 13's backup effect, targetting Nimrod, reducing his DEF by 4 for the turn.

    COMBAT PHASE

Aaron declares Maxima into Nimrod, Josh opts to reinforce with sentinel Mk V. Nimrod exhausts and removes his repair counter avoiding the stun, while Captain America protects his attackers from stunbacks.
Aaron then team attacks Terra-Man and Black Bolt into Nimrod for a total combined attack of 15. Nimrod Stuns. Then he plays Death of Superman from the row, exhausting Captain America to KO nimrod. Josh reveals his hand (Nimrod, Manhunter Giant, bastion) and the Nimrod is discarded as well from Death of Superman's ongoing effect.

Josh sends Manhunter Soldier into Captain America for a mutual stun.

    RECOVERY PHASE

Aaron recovers Captain America
Josh recovers Manhunter Soldier.

  No Man Escapes Bastion -> 15    ...and the Horse you Rode in on -> 39



        TURN 6

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Josh sets a resource and recruits Bastion protecting Sentinel Mk V.

Aaron sets and flips Executive Privelege, activating its effect to discard Maxima, revealing Blinding light and Warskrull, placing them both into his hand. Then recruits Warskrull in the front row protecting Terra-Man, while Maxima Protects Captain America. Brainiac activates his backup ability to reduce Bastions'd DEF by 6 this turn.

    COMBAT PHASE

Josh attacks his Manhunter Soldier into Maxima, discarding a manhunter soldier to power it up. Then flipping Reconstruction Program to return 3 Manhunter Soldiers to his hand and discarding 1 to bastion's effect targetting the manhunter soldier for 7 ATK.
They both stun.
Then Josh sends Sentinel Mk V into Captain America passing into a favorable stun before sending Bastion into Terra man, discarding 2 Manhunter Soldiers and a Manhunter Giant from his hand to his effect targetting himself. Narrowly avoiding the stunback.
Hounds of Ahab finish his turn suiciding into a mutual stun against warskrull.

Aaron Passes combat.

    RECOVERY PHASE

Josh recovers Hounds, Koing Manhunter Soldier.
Aaron recovers Maxima, KOing Terra-Man, Warskrull, and Captain America

  No Man Escapes Bastion -> 10    ...and the Horse you Rode in on -> 17



        TURN 7 (Aaron Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Aaron discards a Maxima from his hand to executive Privelege's effect, revealing Battle for Metropolis and Captain America netting them both. And sets a resource, playing Mobilize from his hand, (Discarding Blinding Light) To grab Atomic Skull, Joe martin. recruiting both A-Skull and Captain America and forming everything into the front row.

Josh sets a resource and plays reconstuction program from the row, returning three manhunter soldiers to his hand before discarding a hounds to a rowed Enemy of my Enemy, to search out Highmaster, recruiting it into his front row protecting sentinel Mk V.

At the end of the build, Aaron flips up Battle for Metropolis from his row and activate's Brainiac's Backup effect, reducing Highmaster's DEF by 7.

    COMBAT PHASE

Aaron declares a team attack with Black Bolt and Atomic Skull into Highmaster.(13 total attack) Josh plays Cover fire from the row and uses bastions effect, discarding his 3 army cards to give Highmaster +3/+3. (No cards left in his hand) Aaron responds chaining atomic Skull's effect, revealing Lex Luthor, nepharious philanthropist targetting Bastion for the stun. A-Skull's effect resolves first stunning Bastion leaving the cover fire to only grant +2 DEF. (12 total on Highmaster.) Highmaster activates, removing all 8 character cards in Josh's KO pile to Burn Aaron for 8.
Highmaster stuns unable to stun back due to Caps effect.
Maxima then swings into reinforced (ready)Sentinel Mk V for the stun, and Cap swings direct for 7.

Josh spite swings Hounds into Atomic Skull for a mutual stun.

    RECOVERY PHASE

    No Man Escapes Bastion -> -16  ...and the Horse you Rode in on -> 6


        ...And the Horse you rode in on advances!


        POSTGAME THOUGHTS:

Josh Thoughts:
"Where are the pumps? All game long I kept thinking, I sure could use a beatdown right about now. It was almost impossible to get Hounds online when the 2 drop entered into play at 4/4."

Aaron Mead:
"Cap saved the game for me. I kept waiting to see a turn of nothin but 2 cost manhunter recruits and a hand full of cover fires, but it never happened."