Match 5: Secret Avengers VS Doomsdays Boomday

Secret Avenger Rush

JS

-VERSUS-

Doomsday's Boomday

Aaron

Aaron wins the flip and decides to take evens.

JS mulligans.

        TURN 1 (JS Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Js sets a resource and recruits Iron fist in the front row, he rallies revealing Avengers Reassembled sending it to the bottom of his deck and passing.

Aaron sets a resource and passes.

    COMBAT PHASE

JS swings direct for 2


    RECOVERY PHASE

    Secret Avengers -> 50     Boomday -> 48




        TURN 2 (Aaron Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE
Aaron sets a resource and recruits Jarvis in the front row visible area.

JS sets a resource and recruits Echo in the hidden area.

    COMBAT PHASE

Aaron sends Jarvis into Iron Fist for a mutual stun

    RECOVERY PHASE

Aaron recovers Jarvis
JS recovers Iron fist


    Secret Avengers -> 49     Boomday -> 45



        TURN 3 (JS Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

JS sets a resource and recruits Black Panther, revealing Punisher, captain america and caron danvers, placing 3 +1/+1 counters on it and foring in  front of Echo in the hiden area.

Aaron sets a resource and recruits Professor Emil (Ruin), forming him in front of jarvis.

    COMBAT PHASE

JS declares Black Panther into Prof Emil, Aaron responds exhausting Ruin to play Tech Upgrade from the resource row fetching a War Machine Armor before passing on a stun. Ruins then KO's the tech upgrade to fetch a Forbidden Loyalties and set it in the row, flpping it up (discarding Metallo) to team up Avengers and Revenge Squad and placing a +1/+1 counter on Ruin.

JS then continues declaring echo into Jarvis, and Aaron triggers Jarvis' effect, returning it to his hand and fetching Spider-Man, secret avenger.

JS then swings echo and iron fist direct.

Aaron passes.


    RECOVERY PHASE

Aaron recovers Ruin.


    Secret Avengers -> 49     Boomday -> 35



        TURN 4 (Aaron Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Aaron sets a resource and recruits Iron Man, Mighty avenger forming him behind Ruin.

JS Reveals Carol Danvers from his row and recruits her, replacing the resource with a card from his hand he forms her behind iron fist.

Aaron flips up Empires end.

    COMBAT PHASE

Aaron sends Iron Man into Iron fist. Js thinks for a bit and reinforces with Carol. Then ruin swings into Carol Danvers For the suicide stun, chaining a rowed mobilize (discarding Metallo) to his effect then KOing it for Dirty Tricks setting it in the row. Mobilize resolves fetching Captain America, Champion License. and triggering Iron man's auto recovery.

JS sends Black Panther into Iron man. Aaron flips up his recently set Dirty tricks dropping all attack values on the board by 1. JS responds with Call down the lightning, revealing and replacing an Iron fist.
Aaron flips a second Dirty tricks, then passes and Iron Man stuns. Then JS continues with Echo direct for 0 and laughs.


    RECOVERY PHASE

Ruin autorecovers and gains a +1/+1 counter.
Aaron recovers Iron Man.
JS recovers Iron Fist.

    Secret Avengers -> 48    Boomday -> 24



        TURN 5 (JS Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

JS sets a resource and recruits Spider-Man, Secret Avenger, forming it in front of carol danvers adjacent to Iron fist in the front row.

Aaron sets a resource and ALSO recruits Spider-Man, Secret Avenger, forming adjacent to iron man in the support row. and then flips up a second Empire's End, dropping the fresh spidermen on each side down to 3 atk. (the ATK values of characters that entered play this turn are reduced by 4)

    COMBAT PHASE

JS ponders and then plays a flying kick from his hand targetting Echo and declares a team attack with Carol Danvers into Iron Man with 8 total ATK. Aaron Plays Mobilize from his hand (Discarding Jarvis) to fetch another Iron Man and Powers him up. Then he uses SPider-Man's effect on Carol Danvers Removing her powers and keywords (discarding War Machine)

Iron Man and Caron Mutually stun.

Next JS plays The Big Three from his hand, Boosting it (replacing Echo and Captain America) Targetting PLack Panther, Spider-man and Iron Fist with the pump. He plays a flying Kick on Black Panther and sends it into Spider-man for a stun. Then his Spider-man and Iron fist Team attack Ruin with 7 ATK. Ruin stuns back Iron fist and his effect triggers KOing an empire's end for a third Dirty Tricks.

    RECOVERY PHASE

Aaron recovers Spider-man Koing Iron Man and Ruin.
JS Recovers Carol, Koing Iron fist.


    Secret Avengers -> 43    Boomday -> 14



        TURN 6 (Aaron Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Aaron sets a resource, and uses Spider-man's effect (discarding Jarvis) targetting JS' Spider-man

"not much point to respond with one character in play"

Aaron then recruits Brainiac 2.5 Forming him behind Spider-man.

JS Sets a resource and recruits Punisher, secret avenger from his row, replacing it. then he recruits Captain america fromthe row, with an empty hand, unable to replace. Cap resolves rallying into Natasha Romanoff and cap forms in the hidden support row.

    COMBAT PHASE

Brainiac activates, KOing Spider-man, and Spider-man declares an attack into Carol, once legal he flips up a second Forbidden Loyalties (discarding prof emil) to re-team up and toss a +1/+1 counter onto Spider-man. Both pass and Carol Stuns.

JS pruses teh field and decides to pass (his 4 hidden characters offering a net 6 combined ATK)


    RECOVERY PHASE

JS recovers Carol


    Secret Avengers -> 39    Boomday -> 14



        TURN 7 (JS Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

JS sets a resource and recruits Dr. strange in the hidden front row. rallying first for a character, hitting a Black Panther. Next choosing plot twist, hitting Avengers Reassembled. "SCORE!" amd choosing location last missing on a harkeye placing in on the bottom of his deck. He then plays Reassembled, boosting it (discarding Natasha) and chaining a rowed SKREEE onto Spider-man to fetch Human Torch, replacingthe SKREEE and putting it into his row, then recruiting it and opting not to replace the resource. Human torch forms in front of Carol.

Aaron sets a resource and recruits general Zod. Forming him defensively behind Spider-man and adjacent to Brainiac and passes.

    COMBAT PHASE

JS rereads general Zod like 4 times shrugs and declares carol and captain America on a team attack into Brainiac. once legal, playing a rowed Megablast on Cap and a rowed Call down the lightning on carol as well, replacing a rowed dr. strange. Exactly 13 ATK on brainiac's 13 defense.
both pass and brainiac stuns stunning back Cap.
Aaron then chains to Carol's effect, activating General Zod, Koing brainiac as a cost to exhaust Black Panther. Js responds with Punisher, then realizes Zod Koing Brainiac is a cost. (Can't respond to a cost only the effect placed on the chain, so by the time Punisher could respond Brainiac is already in the KO pile, alas.) Unable to do anything more JS activates Human Torch, revealing Black Panther placing it on the top of his deck and burning Aaron for 3 before passing.

Aaron sends Spider-Man into Human Torch for an easy stun and passes (zod has no range)

    RECOVERY PHASE

JS recovers human Torch Koing Captain America

    Secret Avengers -> 32    Boomday -> 5



        TURN 8 (Aaron Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Aaron sets an Enemy of my enemy, immediately flipping it up (discarding Captain America) to grab Doomsday, recruiting it in his front row and equipping War Machine Armor onto it. He forms him protecting Spider-man and moves Zod into his front row as well.

JS sets a resource and passes.

    COMBAT PHASE

Aaron plays Meltdown from his hand to gain 2 endurance, then exhausts Doomsday to war Machine Armor's effect, discarding his hand (eye Of agamotto) to replace all JS's resources burn for 8 and Stun a character. JS selects echo. and Doomsday readies from his effect.

Aaron does this 5 more times clearing JS's board decking him out. On the 5th activation JS chains Human Torch to burn for 3 placing black Panther on top of his deck. before doomsday activates one last time for 8 more endurance loss.

Then General Zod and Spider-man swing direct.


    RECOVERY PHASE

    Secret Avengers -> -43    Boomday -> 4

Doomsday's Boomday Wins!

Thoughts:

JS - A bunch of weenies staring down -5Atk the turn they enter play was just dumb. I dug hard for better options and they never showed up. I'd have killed for an early game Natasha.

Aaron - I was waiting that entire game thinking ok NOW he's going to heroes in reserve me on a key defender. Bad beats.