Thursday, January 11, 2018

Match 14: Neutron Stall VS Chess Press

Neutron Stall
Mark

-VERSUS-
Chess Press
Lee



Mark wins the flip and elects to take Odds.

Both players keep.


        TURN 1 (Mark Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Mark sets a resource and recruits Aunt May, golden oldie, searching out spider-man, the spider and passes.

Lee sets a resource and passes.

    COMBAT PHASE

Both players pass.

    RECOVERY PHASE

    Neutron Stall -> 50    Chess Press -> 50




        TURN 2 (Lee Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Lee sets a resource and recruits Dr. Minerva (revealing Penal Colony, Captain Att-Lass and Rook Control) placing Att-Lass into his hand and passing.

Mark sets a resource and recruits Black Cat protected by Aunt May, then flips up Bad Press and empire State University, exhausting Aunt May to its effect to score one of his top 2 cards.

    COMBAT PHASE

Minerva attacks and stuns Aunt May. Black cat reinforces.

    RECOVERY PHASE

Mark recovers Aunt May.

    Neutron Stall -> 49    Chess Press -> 50



        TURN 3 (Mark Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Mark exhausts Auntmay to empire state U to net a card,  tehn sets a resource, recruiting Spider-Man ultimates (entering play with 2 web counters) and forming it behind Black Cat before passing.

Josh sets a resource and flips Brother I Satellite (discarding Dr. Minerva) to search out Neutralization Protocol OMAC. He then reveals the OMAC to meet Ahmed's loyalty, recruiting Ahmed into the hidden area. He activates Ahmed (KOing a face down Enemy of my Enemy) To place Stargate into his row, flipping it up. He also flips up a checkmate safe house teaming up Checkmate and Kree before passing.

    COMBAT PHASE

Mark declares Spider-man into Dr. Minerva for an easy stun.
Black Cat swings direct.

Lee activates Stargate (discarding Lunatic Legion) to return Dr. Minerva to his hand and searches for Commander Dylon Cir and places it in his hand.

    RECOVERY PHASE

    Neutron Stall -> 49    Chess Press -> 47



        TURN 4 (Lee Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Lee sets a resource and recruits Minerva (revealing Cover Fire, shatterax and Sarge Steel) placing Shatterax into his hand.
He then presses Captain Att-Lass into play for 1 before pressing Neutralization protocol for 1. He then equps Universal Weapon onto neutralization protocol and he forms protocol behind Dr. Minerva and adjacent to Att-Lass before passing.

Mark sets a resource and plays Enemy of my Enemy from his row, (discarding Caliban) to search out Scarlet Spider, ben reilly. he reveals Scarlet Spider and recruits Spider-Man Zombie protecting aunt may (it has 2 web counters) and passes.

    COMBAT PHASE

Mark uses 2 web counters on Zombie spidey to exhaust Att-Lass, then uses 2 counters to exhaust Dr. Minerva before finally activating Zombie spidey. Lee chooses to exhaust Ahmed.

Lee sends Neutralization protocol into Black Cat, which exhausts for Empire state U netting a card. Mark reinforces with ultimate spiderman and both players pass.



    RECOVERY PHASE
Zombie spidey returns to play and gains 2 web counters.

Lee activates Stargate, returning Minerva to his hand (discarding checkmate safe house) to grab Admiral Galen Kor.

Mark recovers Black Cat

    Neutron Stall -> 47    Chess Press -> 47




        TURN 5 (Mark Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Mark activates Empire State University exhausting Aunt May to net a card. he then sets a card and flips up Underground Movement and recruits Neutron in his support row before passing.

Lee sets a resource and activates Neutralization Protocol, Stunning Att-Lass to generate a 6th resource for OMAC recruits this turn. He then activates Stargate, returning Att-Lass to his hand (discarding Lunatic Legion) to search for Annihilation Protocol.
Lee recruits Minerva for 2, att-Lass for 1 Dylon Cir for 1 Galen Kor for 1 and finally Annihilation Protocol for 1, recruiting a Universal Weapon onto Galen Kor.

He then forms Minerva protecting Nutralization protocol, Dylon Cir protecting Att-Lass and Galen Kor protecting Annihilation protocol.

    COMBAT PHASE

Mark Thinks for a moment before exhausting Ultimate Spiderman to exhaust neutralization protocol He removes 2 web counters to exhaust Att-Lass and then declares an attack with Neutron into Minerva.
Once legal, using Underground Movement to send him into the hidden area support row.

Lee flips up Hala activating it, giving minerva +5 ATK. Mark powers-up Neutron to avoid the stun. Lee activates Ahmed KOing Hala for a second Hala, activating it on Dr. Minerva for another +5 ATK.
COmbat resolves and both characters stun.
Lee activates Annihilation protocol, to exhaust Dylon Cir to KO Neutron.
Mark responds with Pathetic Attempt.
Undaunted, Lee exhausts Galen Kor to Annihilation's effect to KO Neutron.
Mark flips a second Pathetic Attempt from his row. negating it. With only Annihilation protocol ready, mark activates Zombie spidey to exhaust it. And sends black cat into Dylon Cir, moving it hidden and then evading it.

    RECOVERY PHASE

Zombie spider returns from the grave to torment us once more. (with 2 web counters)

Mark recovers Neutron.

Lee recovers Minerva.

    Neutron Stall -> 40    Chess Press -> 37




        TURN 6 (Lee Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Lee sets a resource and recruits Minerva, KOing the old one to uniqueness (revealing Cover Fire, Rook Control and Brother Eye) missing completely. He then presses into play a second Minerva, KOing the first (revealing Universal Weapon, Lietenant Kona-Lor and enemy of my Enemy) grabbing Kona Lor. He activates Star-gate (discarding Kona-Lor to return Dylon Cir to his hand, fetching himself Colonel Yonn-Rogg. He presses Dylon Cir infor 1, Yon rogg in for 1 and Shatterax in for 1. Forming all his characters into the front row, Lee passes.

Mark exhausts Aunt may for empire state U netting a card. He then sets a resource and alt recruits Aunt May for free (discarding Night Thrasher) she enters play searching out Spider-man Ultimates. mark then reveals Scarlet Spider in his hand, removing uniqueness and recruits an Ultimate Spider-man entering play with 4 web counters, and then a second Ultimate Spider-man, entering play with 6 counters, and then gets to work.

he removes 2 counters from Zombie spidey to exhaust Att-Lass. then removes 4 counters emptying an ultimate Spidey to exhaust Galen Kor, then removes 2 counters from the last ultimate spidey her recruted to exhaust dr. Minerva and  Dylon Cir. leaving 1 web counter on an ultimate spider-man. mark then plays Gift-wrapped, exhausting a front-row ultimate spidey to exhaust Yon-Rogg before forming both ultimate spider-men in his support row and teh third Ultimate spidey and Aunt May protecting them with Zombie off to the side.
Finally. both players pass to combat.

    COMBAT PHASE

At the start of combat, Mark activates Zombie Spiderman, KOing it to force Lee to exhaust a character.

Lee debates chaining Yon-rogg before being reminded that the start of combat phase and the attack step are different times, with the sttack step being later. Lee decides to exhaust Ahmed.
With only 3 ready characters there isn't much point trying to snipe Neutron so instead he opts for damage, Playing The Lunatic Legion from his hand (with a threshold of exactly 6 on turn 6) and sends neutralization protocol into the spidey protected by aunt may, Mark reinforces and spider-man becomes stunned.

Lee continues with Shatterax swinging into the other Support row Spiderman. Once legal playing Hala for +5 ATK.
Finally Annihilation Protocol attacks into the third Ultimate Spiderman for an easy stun.

Lee Passes.

Mark Swings Neutron into Minerva for a quick stun and passes unable to do more.

    RECOVERY PHASE

At the start of recovery, Neutron forces both players to KO a resource. (mark KOs gift-wrapped. Lee KOs Brother I Sattellite)

Zombie Spiderman returns to play gaining 2 web counters.

Lee recovers Dr. Minerva.

mark recovers the Ultimate Spider-man still holding a web counter, and KOs the other 2.

    Neutron Stall -> 9    Chess Press -> 29



        TURN 7 (Mark Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Mark activates Empire State U, exhausting Black Cat to net a card. Then sets a resource before shifting Spider-Man <> the spider with 1 shift counter and recruits Silver Sable behind Ultimate Spider-man before passing.

Lee sets a resource and passes, leaving all his characters in the front row.

    COMBAT PHASE

Mark sends Silver Sable into Yonn-Rogg.
Lee plays Cover Fire from his row for +16 DEF.

Mark then sends Neutron into Yonn-Rogg for a stun. He removes his remaining 3 counters to exhaust neutralization Protocol and swings Ultimate spidey into Minerva for a stun. Zombie Spideyman swings into Dylon Cir for a fast stun and mark is forced to pass.

Lee sends Annihilation Protocol into Zombie spidey, stunning it.
shatterax swings into Ultimate spider-man for another easy stun.
Lee tehn flips up Brother I sattelite, opting not to search, flips up a checkmate safehouse re-teaming Kree and Checkmate, and activates Ahmed, KOing cover fire and searching for Brother Eye.
Captain Att-Lass swings into aunt May for another favorable stun before sending Galen Kor into Silver Sable with a Brother Eye activation for +6 ATK  at 15/11.
Mark plays nasty Surprise on Silver Sable for the stunback, returning Galen-Kor to Lee's hand.


    RECOVERY PHASE

    Neutron Stall -> -20    Chess Press -> 8


Chess Press wins!


Thoughts:

Mark - If i could have prevented the stun on neutron on 5 then MAYBE i could have turned the corner. But 9 dudes on turn 7 is just too damn many.

Lee - He locked out plot twists, i dont need em. He locks out resources? I don't need those either.

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