Friday, January 26, 2018

Match 40: COMBEX VS Black Bamboo

COMBEX
JS

-VS-

Black Bamboo
Aaron



Aaron wins the toss and selects Odd initiatives.

JS mulligans.

Aaron Keeps.



        TURN 1 (Aaron Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE

(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE


Aaron sets a resource and recruits Black Bolt, enemy within in his visible support row and passes.

JS sets a resource and recruits Blink in his hidden support row (rallying into Enemy of my Enemy) failing. he then passes.

    COMBAT PHASE

Aaron sends Black Bolt direct for 1.

Js sends Blink Into Black bolt for a stun.

    RECOVERY PHASE


Aaron recovers Black Bolt.

    COMBEX -> 49    Black Bamboo -> 49




        TURN 2 (JS Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE

(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

JS sets a resource and recruits Puppet Master in his visible area.

Aaron sets a resource and plays Straight to the grave from his hand (sending Vision to the KO pile.) he then shifts vision for 1, KOing it to draw 2. Then he flips up We can rebuild him (discarding Wolverine, unleashed) to shift vision and ko for 2 more cards. The he plays yet another we can rebuild (discarding Sub-mariner) to draw 2 and somehow, unsurprisingly, plays a third We can rebuild (discarding Hypnotic Charms) to draw 2 again.

He then recruits Orb in his hidden support row, before finally passing.

    COMBAT PHASE

JS activates Puppet Master.
Aaron exhausts Orb. JS passes.

Aaron declares Black Bolt into Puppet Master. Once legal, playing Straight to the Grave (sending Green Goblin to the KO pile) and then flips up Hypnotic Charms, shooting Black Bolt to an 8/8 for an easy stun.

    RECOVERY PHASE

JS recovers Puppet Master.

    COMBEX -> 41    Black Bamboo -> 49




        TURN 3 (Aaron Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE

(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Aaron sets a resource and activates Orb's effect (discarding Caliban) to draw a card and then recruits Spider-Girl protecting Black Bolt and passes.

Js sets a resource and reveals Huntress to meet Blackthorn's loyalty requirements, recruiting her into his hidden area and flips up a rowed 31st century metro to crossover Checkmate and Exiles. He then passes.

    COMBAT PHASE

Js activates Puppet Master. Aaron exhausts Spider-Girl and then swings Black Bolt into Puppet master. Once legal, he plays Enemy of my Enemy (discarding Spider-Man, the spider) to search for Chemo, toxic waste.

Puppet master stuns to an 11/11 Black Bolt and Aaron passes.

Js flips and activates Panoptichron to shift out Black Thorn shifted with 0 counters. He then passes.

    RECOVERY PHASE

Js recovers Puppet Master.

    COMBEX -> 30    Black Bamboo -> 49




        TURN 4 (JS Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE

(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Js sets a resource and recruits Siryn protected by Puppet Master and passes.

Aaron sets a resource and recruits Dr. Doom, richards rival protecting Black Bolt. He chains a rowed enemy of my enemy to Doom's effect (discarding Spider-man, the spider) to grab Blade, independant contractor. Doom resolves and places a Have a Blast! on the top of Aaron's deck and Aaron then follows up recruiting Chemo hidden and protecting Orb. orb activates (discarding Blade) to draw a card. Aaron loses 1 from Siryn's effect.

    COMBAT PHASE

JS activates Puppet Master, almost arbitrarily at this point. Aaron exchausts Chemo And Siryn deals 1 damage from her effect.

JS declares Siryn into Dr. Doom, Aaron KO's Chemo to replace Panoptichron. JS chains 31'st century metro's effect to give puppet master Checkmate and Exiles affiliations and activates Panoptichron to shift it out, placing 2 shift counters on Black Thorn.
Panoptichron gets replaced. Doom stuns. JS passes.

Aaron sends his 14/14 Blck bolt into Siryn passing once legal and Siryn stuns. Spider-Girl then attacks direct for 5.

    RECOVERY PHASE

JS recovers Siryn.

Aaron recovers Doom.

    COMBEX -> 15    Black Bamboo -> 41




        TURN 5 (Aaron Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE


Aaron sets a resource and activates Orb I (discarding Black Bolt) to draw a card. Then he loses 1 from Siryn's effect. He then recruits ethan Edwards and forms with Spider-girl and ethan protecting Black Bolt and Doom respectively.

Js sets a resource, and plays Enemy of my Enemy from his hand (discarding Siryn) to fetch Ahmed and receals Huntress to recruit him hidden. He then plays a rowed enemy of my Enemy (discarding Mr. Sinister) to fetch Black Thorn and revealing Huntress, Recruits Blackthorn hidden as well. He then flips up and activates Panoptichron.

Aaron goes into the tank for a while planning out his options. he decides to evade Spider-girl targetting Siryn. JS responds with pathetic Attempt. aaron chains Have a Blast! from his row (discarding Enemy of my enemy) to replace Panoptichron.
Js laughs and chains Ahmed, KOing Panoptichron to search out...
um...
"There is only TWO?!?"

The chain resiolves and Ahmed sets a Brother I sattelite into his row, face down and Panoptichron resolves, Shifting Black Thorn and placing 2 shift counters on puppet Master.

"Unbelievable. It was OVER! All this deck needed was one more!"

He shifts Puppet Master and Blackthorn into play and releases a long drawn sigh as he forms them both in his visible characters in the support row.

"Go."

    COMBAT PHASE

Aaron declares Black Bolt into Siryn at 14/14 and Js flips up a second 31st century Metro, KOing the first to uniqueness and crosses over X-men and Checkmate. he activates the  location to grant puppet master x-men and checkmate and reinforces Siryn.

Aaron then swing Dr. Doom into puppet master for an unrequited stun before sending ethan direct with 22 ATK.

Both players pass.

    RECOVERY PHASE

    COMBEX -> -16    Black Bamboo -> 38


Black Bamboo wins!


Thoughts:


JS - unbelievable. I mean who designs a deck to be such a consistent infinite burn and doesn't run a playset of the essential components? I mean sure, yeas ultimately, Its on me and I should have remembered there were only two panoptichrons. But still...

Aaron - I'll have more commentary when my heart leaves my throat. That was nuts.

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