SEMFINALS - Match 4AC - Secret Six Burial Grounds VS Ultimate Fear

Secret Six Burial Grounds
- Mark
VS
Ultimate Fear
- Steph



Steph wins the flip and elects to take odd initiatives.

mark Keeps. Steph mulligans.

        TURN 1 (Steph Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Steph sets a resource and passes her build.

Mark sets a resource and recruits Dr. Polaris in the hidden area.

    COMBAT PHASE

Steph has no characters and passes combat.

Mark swings direct for 1.

    RECOVERY PHASE

    Secret Six Burial Grounds -> 50    Ultimate Fear -> 49



        TURN 2 (Mark Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Mark sets a resource and recruits Chemo in the hidden area.

Steph sets a resource and recruits Wasp. activating her effect to burn Mark for 3 (Removing 2x Clint Barton, quicksilver, Dr. Sivana and Liberation Day)

    COMBAT PHASE

Mark swings direct with chemo and polaris for 2.

Steph passes.

    RECOVERY PHASE

    Secret Six Burial Grounds -> 47    Ultimate Fear -> 47



        TURN 3 (Steph Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Steph sets a resource and recruits Dr. Sivana in the visible area.

Mark sets a resource and flips up Master Plan from his row, discarding Deadshot for Master Plan's effect before electing to recruit poison Ivy from his hand rather than recruit from his KO pile. he then exhausts Ivy to place Deadshot into his hidden area.

    COMBAT PHASE

Steph swings Dr Sivana into Poison ivy, passing Once legal. Mark responds powering up Ivy. Steph responds flipping up triskelion, and chaining the Underworld star (Discarding Shimmer) mark immediately activates Chemo's effect, KOing it to replace Triskelion. Steph responds playing Liberation day from her Row (Removing from play Clint Barton) and then chains another another Liberation day from her hand (Removing Thor) before finally chaining Triskelion's effect (Removing Cover Fire). The substantial chain resolves:
Triskelion grabs Clint Barton, Lib day grabs a Triskelion (It has the version Ultimates!) the other Lib day, grabs another Triskelion, placing it into her hand. Chemo's effect resolves, replacing Triskelion, and finally Underworld Star resolves, placing Dr. Sivana into her hand. where she powers up her attacker.
Mark has no follow-up and Ivy stuns.

Steph plays Clint from her hand, removing it from play and exhausting Wasp to remove Ivy from play. Mark passes.

    RECOVERY PHASE

    Secret Six Burial Grounds -> 44    Ultimate Fear -> 49



        TURN 4 (Mark Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Mark sets a resource and flips Hidden HQ, activating it (Sending Ragdoll to the KO pile) before playing his recently set Forced Conscription from his row (Sending Slaughter Swamp, Dr. Sivana and straight to the grave, returning Poison Ivy to his hand and recruiting her in teh visible front row.

Steph sets a resource, reservist recruiting Blade from her row into the hidden area protecting Wasp replacing the resource with one from her hand.

    COMBAT PHASE

Ivy puts Chemo into the hidden front row.

Mark attacks with Deadshot into Dr. Sivana, playing path of destruction from his hand. Steph passes and the both stun. Then he sends Polaris and Chemo direct for 2, before attacking direct with Ivy for 4.

Steph responds sending Blade into Chemo for an easy stun. playing Clint barton's effect from the hand, to remove Chemo from the game.

    RECOVERY PHASE

Mark recovers Deadshot.
Steph recovers Dr. Sivana

    Secret Six Burial Grounds -> 38    Ultimate Fear -> 40



        TURN 5 (Steph Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
Steph chains Wasp's burn effect to the draw,(removing iron Man, Lady Deathstrike, The Underworld Star, Forbidden Loyalties and Quicksliver) then chaining Triskelion (Removing Blade from play) placing Forbidden Loyalties into her hand.

Mark responds with HIdden HQ before the draw. (Sending Hidden HQ to the Ko pile)
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Steph sets and flips Forbidden Loyalties (Opting not to discard) teaming up S.H.I.E.L.D. and Fearsome Five. recruiting Shimmer protecting Dr. Sivana, and Nick Fury adjacent to Sivana inteh support row.

Mark sets a resource, flipping up Straight to the Grave (sending Black Manta and Path of Destruction to his KO pile.) And then plays a second one from his hand (Sending Chemo and Path of Destruction to the KO pile.) before discarding Chemo to Master Plan's effect, recruiting Black Manta from the KO pile. Forming it behind Poison Ivy.

    COMBAT PHASE

Ivy places Chemo into play in the hidden area.

Steph activates Shimmer, exhausting all five of mark's characters, he KO's Chemo spitefully replacing Triskelion. and declares Nick Fury into Poison Ivy. Once legal, using his effect (removing Forbidden Loyalties, 2x wasp, sleeper cells, and iron Man) to be unstunnable this attack. Stunning Ivy easily. Then Blade and Sivana Team attack Black Manta. Mark uses Black Manta's effect to place a Path of Destruction into his hand before stunning back Blade.

    RECOVERY PHASE

Steph recovers Blade.
Mark recovers Black Manta, KOing Poison Ivy.

    Secret Six Burial Grounds -> 23    Ultimate Fear -> 37



        TURN 6 (Mark Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
Mark chains Hidden HQ to the draw (sending Dr. Polaris to the KO pile)
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Mark sets a resource and recruits Poison Ivy protecting Black Manta, he discards Deadshot to Master Plan's effect, recruiting Chemo into his hidden front row protecting Deadshot.

Steph sets a resource, playing The Underworld Star from her row. (Discarding Bullseye) She then flips and chains Triskelion's effect (removing 0 cards) to place Sleeper Cells into her hand before resolving her search placing Dr. Light into her hand and recruiting him protecting Nick Fury.

    COMBAT PHASE

Poison Ivy places Chemo into Mark's hidden front row protecting Dr. Polaris.

Mark declares Dr. Polaris into Dr. Sivana. once legal, playing path of destruction from his resource row, chaining Chemo's effect KOing chemo to replace it for a +8ATK pump. Steph reinforces with Nick Fury and allows the mutual stun. Next Deadshot declares into Dr. Light. Once Legal, mark plays his final Path of destruction from his row, chaining Chemo #2 to replace it for a +10ATK pump. Steph thinks for a while before finally activating Dr. Light, targetting Black Manta. Black Manta responds, to fetch a path of destruction, and Steph plays Sleeper Cells exhausting Blade, Wasp and Shimmer to ready Dr. Light, activating him a second time to stun Deadshot out of the attack. Mark then sends Poison Ivy into Shimmer playing Path for +8.

    RECOVERY PHASE

Mark recovers Black Manta, KOing Deadshot and Dr. Polaris.
Steph recovers Shimmer, KOing Dr. Sivana.

    Secret Six Burial Grounds -> 14    Ultimate Fear -> 22



        TURN 7 (Steph Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
Steph chains Triskelion to the draw (Removing 0 cards) to place Thor into her hand.
Mark chains Hidden HQ to the draw. (sending Deadshot to the KO pile)
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Steph sets a resource and recruits Thor Behind Shimmer and passes.

Mark sets a resource and recruits Ragdoll and Catman. Exhausting Ivy to place deadshot into play from his effect.

    COMBAT PHASE

Ivy places Chemo into play in the hidden front row.

Steph activates Shimmer, exhausting Mark's Board and activates Thor, with 22 cards left in her deck and 20 cards removed from the game, Mark selects the RFP pile and burns for 20. Dr. Light activates to stun Black Manta. Nick Fury attacks Poison Ivy, Once legal, using his effect to be unstunnable. (Removing Iron Man, Wasp, Forbidden Loyalties, Lady Deathstrike and Dr. Light) stunning Ivy. Wasp then activates for 3 burn. (Removing The Underworld Star, Life Model decoy, Psimon, Bullseye, and Shimmer)

It's all over!

    RECOVERY PHASE

    Secret Six Burial Grounds -> -18    Ultimate Fear -> 22


        Ultimate Fear advances to the finals!


        POSTGAME THOUGHTS

Mark Thoughts:
"Being stuck playing evens, all I could hope for was Starving her from Triskelions, and hoping to see her missing Dr. Light on 6. It didn't happen though, and what could have been 28 ATK worth of Path of Destructions became 8. Funny story though, missing my teamups really didn't affect anything I wanted to do this game! Haha! Using the Liberation days to load up on Triskelion's was a pretty shnazzy way to play around Chemo."

Steph Thoughts:
"Normally I have fun playing this deck, but this game made my head hurt. I felt like the entire game was a chain and keeping that straight can be rough."