Secret Society
Steph
-VS-
Hulk Smash
Lee
Lee wins the flip and elects to take Odd initiatives.
Steph Keeps.
Lee Mulligans.
TURN 1 (Lee Initiative)
DRAW PHASE(Both Players draw 2 cards)
BUILD PHASE
Lee sets a resource and shifts Vision with a shift counter, KOing it to draw 2 cards and passes.
Steph sets a resource and recruits Chemo, toxic waste hidden and passes.
COMBAT PHASE
Lee passes combat.
Steph swings direct for 1 with Chemo.
RECOVERY PHASE
Secret Society -> 50 Hulk Smash -> 49
TURN 2 (Steph Initiative)
DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)
BUILD PHASE
steph sets a resource and passes.
Lee sets a resource and recruits Miek, the unhived and passes.
COMBAT PHASE
Steph sends Chemo Into Miek and flips and activates Gorilla City (sending Dr. Polaris) for a mutual stun. Lee Removes Miek from the game, granting characters named hulk the ability to remove reinforcement from defenders.
RECOVERY PHASE
Steph recovers Chemo.
Secret Society -> 49 Hulk Smash -> 46
TURN 3 (Lee Initiative)
DRAW PHASE(Both Players draw 2 cards)
BUILD PHASE
Lee sets a resource and recruits Hulk, exile (discarding Mystique because she's Hulk... OBVIOuSLY) Lee passes.
Steph sets and flips Mobilize (discarding Charaxes) to fetch herself a Poison Ivy, intoxicating. and passes.
COMBAT PHASE
At the start of combat, Poison Ivy brings Dr. Polaris into play.
Lee declares Hulk into Ivy, and she stuns.
Steph passes.
RECOVERY PHASE
Steph recovers Poison Ivy.
Secret Society -> 43 Hulk Smash -> 46
TURN 4 (Steph Initiative)
DRAW PHASE(Both Players draw 2 cards)
BUILD PHASE
Steph sets a resource and plays Straight to the Grave from her hand (sending Chemo and Path of destruction to her KO pile) And then recruits Gorilla Grodd behind Poison Ivy and passes.
Lee sets a resource and recruits The Captain behind Hulk.
COMBAT PHASE
Poison Ivy triggers, bringing in a second Chemo.
The Captain triggers gaining the name Hulk, and drawing Lee a card.
Steph declares Grodd into Hulk, Once, legal, playing Agility to avoid the mutual stun. Lee debates his situation for a moment and passes as Hulk Stuns. Then Poison Ivy declares a team attack into Captain Hulk with the help of both Chemo's and threatens the gorilla city in case of a power-up. Lee passes and chooses to stun back Ivy in the mutual stun.
Steph is terrifying when she smiles while playing VS.
She follows up declaring Dr. Polaris direct. Once legal, she plays a rowed Path of destruction, immediately chaining a second Rowed Path of destruction, and then chaining Both Chemo's effects KOing themselves to replace the face up paths. The chain resolves and when the path of destructions actually resolve they check the KO pile seeing 3 "other" paths granting two +8 ATK buffs on the suddenly Supremely mighty Dr. Polaris.
Not done yet, She also activates Gorilla city (sending Black Manta to the KO pile) suddenly realizing she has 9 cards in her KO pile, she plays Mobilize from her hand, (discarding deathstroke)
The chain resolves and her mobilize nets her Doomsday, engine of destruction. and Gorilla City resolves with a +3 ATK buff as Dr. Polaris hits for 20 direct.
Steph Then flips up a rowed Remote Facility and activates it (discarding Doomsday) to grab herself Black Manta.
"You understand that;s what I'M supposed to be doing on turn 4 right?"
RECOVERY PHASE
Steph recovers Poison Ivy.
Lee recovers Captain Hulk, KOing Hulk, Exile.
Secret Society -> 40 Hulk Smash -> 17
TURN5 (Lee Initiative)
DRAW PHASE(Both Players draw 2 cards)
BUILD PHASE
After that ridiculous display, Hulk needed some payback. Lee sets a resource and recruits Hulk, grumpy green goliath protecting Captain Hulk and passes.
Steph sets and immediately flips Omnipotence.
"Oh you dirty dirty..." Steph's icy glare stops him short.
"You do mean things sometimes Steph."
Lee eventually passes, with no response to Her Omni.
Now it's Steph's turn to balk. Righteous Anger or Hulk Smash? After some considerable time in the tank and double checking their decklists (totally allowed for this tourney, for those curious) She makes a decision.
Steph calls Righteous Anger.
"Curse you and your fallopian tubes and... and whatnot!"
Lee literally takes a moment to walk it off.
Steph follows up recruiting Black Manta, triggering Charaxes effect, it enters play protecting Black Manta.
COMBAT PHASE
Poison Ivy triggers and our workhorse Chemo returns to play.
Captain Hulk triggers, gaining the name Miek, and drawing Lee a card.
Lee declares Captaun Hulk Miek into Charaxes for a 1-sided stun. Then the grumpy green giant takes a swing at Black Manta. Once legal his effect triggers placing a +1/+1 counter on him and Lee plays a Hulk Smash from his row and then a second from his hand and then Discards an Archangel for 3 more leaving a hulk awinging with 29 ATK. Steph thinks for a bit, and responds using Black Manta's effect to pay 3 endurance to get a Path of Destruction.
Not expecting a play for the long game, Lee flips up Avalon Space Station and activates it, (discarding Raven) to grab himself Archangel and Mystique. He uses Archangel's effect for another +3 (32 total atk)
Steph spends a few moments doing some math and doesn't like the results. She activates Gorilla Grodd and KO's her Black Manta to target herself (to draw 5 and discard Pathetic attempt, Gorilla Grodd, Dr. Polaris, remote facility and dr. Sivana)
Without a defender hulk readies and loses his two Hulk Smashes. Lee redeclares an attack into Poison Ivy gaining another +1/+1 counter when hulk exhausts and still retaining the +6 ATK from the two archangel buffs. Ivy goes down without complaint. After all, 17 is much lower than 32.
Surveying the board, Steph activates Remote Facility (discarding Remote Facility) to get herself Black Manta.
RECOVERY PHASE
At the start of the recovery Phase Steph KO's Charaxes to place Agility into her hand.
Steph recovers Poison Ivy.
Secret Society -> 14 Hulk Smash -> 17
TURN 6 (Steph Initiative)
DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)
BUILD PHASE
Steph sets a resource and Underdrops Black Manta in her support row. This triggers Charaxes and once again, the happy moth monster forms up protecting Black Manta. Steph passes.
Lee sets a resource and recruits The Captain in his unprotected support row. He also recruits Mastermind exello hidden immediately discarding Hulk, worldbreaker to his effect, drawing 2 cards. he then shifts Vision for 1 KOing it to draw 2 more.
Finally he passes.
COMBAT PHASE
Poison Ivy brings in a second Dr. Polaris in her hidden area.
Captain Hulk Miek gains the name Vision and draws Lee a card.
The Captain gains the name Hulk and Lee draws another card.
Steph surveys The scene and activates Dr. Polaris to exhaust Captain Hulk Miek Vision. Lee responds with a Pathetic attempt. Steph shrugs and KOs the other polaris to try it again. This one proves successful and the protected Captain Hulk Miek Vision exhausts.
Steph then declares Charaxes into grumpy Green giant with an expectant grin on her face.
"Let's see what you got then."
Charaxes echausts on the legal attack.
Steph plays Straight to the grave from her hand (sending Mr. Freeze and the final Path of Destruction to her Ko pile). Once it resolves, she plays a rowed Path of Destruction, Chaining that ever-familiar Chemo to its effect, replacing the resouce. Path resolves at seeing 4 "other" paths in the KO pile giving the moth monster a +10 ATK swing.
Lee discards a Mystique and Hulk, green scar to power-up the defending hulk to a 13/13 before activating Avalon (discarding another Mystique) to fetch two Mystiques, and powers hulk up 2 more times to a 15/15.
Steph shrugs and pays 3 endurance for Black manta's effect.
"Oh crap."
She grabs a Path of destruction and plays it from her hand targeting Charaxes. It resolves giving another +8 for a 21 ATK moth.
Lee passes, tapped out. his Hulk Splats into the Bugs windshield.
Black Manta swings into Captain Hulk for a 1-sided stun.
Gorilla Grodd swings into the exhausted Captain Hulk Miek Vision. Steph plays Agility to try to avoid the stunback. Lee responds playing enemy of my enemy from his hand (discarding archangel) to fetch Vision and powers up twice.
Steph responds activating Remote facility (discarding Gorilla City) to fetch a Grodd and power up. They both pass and he avoids the stun.
Then steph swings with Poison Ivy direct, activating Gorilla City (sending Dr. Sivana to the KO pile) for +3 ATk and passes.
Lee passes. Revealing three righteous angers in his row.
"Bat beats."
RECOVERY PHASE
Secret Society -> 12 Hulk Smash -> -13
Secret Society Wins!
Thoughts:
Lee - When a standard curve deck pushes more spike damage than Hulk, I have to concede that I was just as much to blame as the awkward opening draws. I can't even believe how much this game changes if I had taken evens instead of odds. Crazy. I'm sorry to those of you that were hoping for hulk.
Steph - it wasn't the "perfect" hand per se, but it was pretty damn good. dealing first strike into a hulk build for signifigant damage was just... so satisfying. I may need a smoke.
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