Match 30: Wolverine Direct VS Exiles

Wolverine Direct

Steph

- VS -

Exiles

Mark

Steph wins the flip and selects evens.

Steph Mulligans.
mark Keeps


        TURN 1 (Mark Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Mark sets a resource and shift mariko with 1 shift counter and passes.

Steph sets a resource and passes.

    COMBAT PHASE

    RECOVERY PHASE

    Wolverine Direct -> 50    Exiles -> 50




        TURN 2 (Steph Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Steph sets a resource and recruits Moonstar, and Hank Pym. (Hank Pym calls Agent of shield) Then steph passes her build.

Mark sets a resource, and recruits Proteus, Activating to place a shift counter on mariko. (2) he then passes.

    COMBAT PHASE

Moonstar activates and returns to Steph's hand (rallying into adamantium Claws, The "B" Team and a hank pym) scoring the plot twists for herself. she then passes.

Mark passes.

    RECOVERY PHASE

    Wolverine Direct -> 50    Exiles -> 50




        TURN 3 (Mark Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Mark sets a resource and shifts Timebreakers with 1 counter, playing a Finer World from his row (removing a counter from mariko) to fetch Blink. recruiting her in his hidden area. Blink rallys into mariko, Shifting her with a shift counter. Mark then flips up the Omniverse, teaming up Exiles and X-men, rallying for a card costing 3 or less, scoring a Panoptichron. he then activates Proteus to place a second Shift counter on Mariko. adn spends his final resource point to shift Sage with 1 counter.

Mark Passes.

Steph sets a resource and flips up Cannibal tech (discarding Lady Deathstrike) to search out a BPRD Signal device and recruits Wolverine, Agent of SHIELD (returning Hank Pym to her hand) and equipping the BPRD Signal device onto him and forming him in the hidden front row before passing.

    COMBAT PHASE

Mark sends Blink direct for 1.

Steph sends Wolverine Direct for 6


    RECOVERY PHASE

    Wolverine Direct -> 49    Exiles -> 44




        TURN 4 (Steph Initiative)

    DRAW PHASESteph pays 1 endurance for BPRD.
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Steph sets a resource and recruits Samantha Parrington in her visible area. She uses her backup ability to target wolverine and passes.

Mark sets a resource and activates proteus to place a second Counter on Sage, before exhausting Blink for Time breach to search out Longshot and Timebreakers (discarding Timebreakers)

Mark then recruits Longshot and Calls Bodyslide (revealing blink, a finer world and bodyslide) scoring a card. he then recruits Cable, secret avenger. He then shifts into play Timebreakers in the hidden front row and flips and activates Panoptichron, removing proteus shifted and placing 2 shift counters on Mariko, Flipping up a second Panoptichron, KOing the first to uniqueness. He then shifts Sage into play drawing 3 cards and mariko to burn for 8. he then plays a Bodyslide from his hand, removing mariko from play he activates, Panoptichron to shift out Sage and place 2 shift counters on proteus, Shifting Proteus back into play., then activating to place a third shift counter on mariko #2 shifting her into play to burn steph for 8 more. Mark finishes his turn playing a second Bodyslide on Mariko and passing.

    COMBAT PHASE

Steph declares an attack direct with Wolverine and once legal, Sam Parrington makes Wolverine a ready attacker. Steph plays 2x Adamantium Claws from her hand, a flying kick from her hand and then flips a rowed flying kick and a rowed crackshot. 23 total attack.
Then she swings again, playing a rowed "B" team (discarding Samantha Parrington) to search out Wolverine. She then powers up twice for 25 more direct.

Steph passes combat.

At the start of mark's turn both mariko's return to play dealing 10 Damage each.

Mark then declares mariko, Longshot, and timebrokers into Samantha Parrington for a mutual stun of his 3 into her 4. Then mark plays beak Saves on the stunned mariko, Shifting it with 2 counters, and plays A finer world from his hand, removing a counter on mariko to search for Cable.

Cable and Mariko team swing Steph Direct with a power-up for mariko and cable each. And passes.

    RECOVERY PHASE

    Wolverine Direct -> -4    Exiles -> -7


Wolvie Direct wins!


Thoughts:

Mark - I knew turn 4 was going to be a tough egg to crack but some lucky draws let be get close. I really don't like the cable 3 drop here as i would have won if the cable here was nathan Summers with his enter-play burn. And remember... If I had landed a warp shards, I'd be bragging my win. I feel like it is safe to say Exiles never really left with the cable engine applied vigorously.

Steph - Hmm A potential replacement for Smashy Smashy! Super easy to play and very fun!