Thursday, January 11, 2018

Match 16: COMBEX VS Horsemen Stall



COMBEX
JS

-VERSUS-
Horsemen Stall
Aaron



Aaron wins the flip and elects to take odd initiatives.

both players keep.

        TURN 1 (Aaron Initiative)


    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Aaron sets a resource and shifts Apocalypse, Mutant mesiah for 1.

JS sets a resource and passes.

    COMBAT PHASE

Both pass.

    RECOVERY PHASE

    COMBEX -> 50    Horsemen Stall -> 50



        TURN 2 (JS Initiative)


    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

JS sets a resource and recruits Black Thorn (revealing Ahmed in his hand for Loyalty-reveal) in his hidden support row.

Aaron sets a resource and recruits havoc in his visible front row.

    COMBAT PHASE

Havok exhausts.

JS sends BlackThorn into Havok for a mutual stun.

    RECOVERY PHASE

JS recovers Black Thorn.

Aaron recovers Havok.

    COMBEX -> 48    Horsemen Stall -> 48



        TURN 3 (Aaron Initiative)


    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Aaron sets a resource and plays Mobilize from his row (discarding Apocalypse, mutant messiah) to search out Mr, Sinister, famine, recruiting him in his hidden front row.

JS sets a resource and recruits Ahmed ih his hidden support row and passes.


    COMBAT PHASE
Apoc fails to stun.

Aaron sends Havoc direct abd Aaron passes.

JS sends Ahmed into Havok for 3 breakthrough, havok's effect prevents the stun. Then JS passes.

    RECOVERY PHASE

    COMBEX -> 45    Horsemen Stall -> 45


        TURN 4 (JS Initiative)


    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

JS sets a resource and recruits Siryn in his visible support row. he then flips up 31st Century Metropolis teaming up X-Men and Checkmate.

Aaron sets a resource and plays Call in a Favor from his row,(Aaron discards Abyss, JS discards Ahmed) It resolves and Aaron gets Cyclops while JS gets Blink. Aaron then recruits Cyclops protecting Havok and spends 1 resource to place a second shift counter on Apoc before passing.

    COMBAT PHASE

Havok exhausts.

Js declares Siryn into Cyclops. Before the attack is legal, Aaron responds playing Concussive force from his row, exhausting Cyclops to exhaust Siryn and Ahmed. JS responds, chaining Ahmed's effect. Aaron responds activating Mr. Sinister to negate Ahmed.

The chain resolves and Siryn's passive deals 2 damage to Aaron.

(using a power is not the same as resolving a power, therefore Ahmed triggers her burn even if he is negated.)

For spite Js uses Black thorn's effect on his teamup just to deal 1 more point of damg to Aaron before both players pass to recovery.

    RECOVERY PHASE

    COMBEX -> 45    Horsemen Stall -> 42



        TURN 5 (Aaron Initiative)


    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Aaron sets a resource and spends 5 resources to place 5 shift counters on Apoc maxing him with 7 and passes.

JS sets a resource, and recruits Mr. Sinister forming him in front of Siryn.
Before passing to combat, Aaron plays Concussive Force from his hand, targetting Mr Sinister and Ahmed for the exhaust. JS chains Ahmed's effect but again it is negated by Aaron's Mr Sinister. and once again, JS uses Black Thorn for an extra burn through Siryn.

    COMBAT PHASE

Mr sinister triggers.
Apoc triggers stunning Black Thorn, Ahmed, Cyclops, and havok.
Aaron passes combat.

JS swings direct with Siryn.

    RECOVERY PHASE

Aaron recovers Mr Sinister, KOing Havok and Cyclops.

JS recovers Ahmed, KOing Black Thorn.

    COMBEX -> 40    Horsemen Stall -> 24


        TURN 6 (JS Initiative)


    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

JS sets a resource and activates Ahmed. Aaron activates Sinister to negate (losing 2 endurance from Siryn) Then JS flips up Xavier's School for gifted Youngsters and activates it, readying Ahmed. Ahmed activates, (KOing pupped master) and fetches a 31'st Century Metropolis and sets it into his row.
Then JS recruits Black Thorn protecting ahmed, and uses her backup to ready Xavier's School. JS then uses the School to ready Ahmed again, KOing his face up #1st century metro to set Panoptichron. Then He recruits Blink hidden (rallying into another Blink, shifting it with 1 shift counter)
He then flips up his 31st Century Metropolis, teaming up Checkmate and Exiles and flips up and activates Panoptichron, shifting Black Thorn with 0 counters.

With three resources remaining, JS recruits another Black Thorn from his hand. using her backup effect (burning Aaron for 1 via Siryn) to ready Panoptichron. and using Panoptichron to shift out blackthorn with 0 counters but placing 2 shift counters on the previously shifted blackthorn.

JS shifts the other black thorn into play and declares an infinite burn Loop of:
Black Thorn + shifted blackthorn + Panoptichron + Siryn and a Checkmate/Exiles teamup.

Aaron agrees he has no way to interrupt this loop and JS elects to continue the loop 7,777,794 more times.
"Seven Sevens! Plus your current endurance total minus the stuns apoc will deal to you!"

JS passes to Aaron.

Aaron sets a resource and passes. There is literally no point.


    COMBAT PHASE

Apoc stuns Aarons Sinister, Blink, Black Thorn, and Ahmed.

    RECOVERY PHASE

    COMBEX -> 34    Horsemen Stall -> -7,777,777 (∞)


COMBEX wins!


Thoughts:

Aaron - Sinister bought me time but with no KO effects I couldnt ever threaten the Ahmed win condition.

JS - What a stupid stupid list. I was literally ready to go off on 4 if Sinister hadn't been played. Had to wait to naturally draw Xaviers School instead. Glad it didn't make me wait long.


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