Match 42: Secret Society VS Fantastic Fun 2.0

Secret Society

JS

-VS-

Fantastic Fun 2.0

Aaron

Aaron wins the flip and elects to take Odd initiatives.

After some deliberation, both players keep.



        TURN 1 (Aaron Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Aaron sets a resource and recruits Black Panther, vibranium vogue in his hidden area.

JS sets a resource and passes.

    COMBAT PHASE

Aaron sends Black Panther direct for 2 and passes.

    RECOVERY PHASE

    Secret Society -> 48    Fantastic Fun 2.0 -> 50




        TURN 2 (JS Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

JS sets a resource and recruits Dr. Sivana in his hidden area front row and passes.

Aaron sets a resource and recruits Namorita in his front row.

    COMBAT PHASE

JS activates Sivana to draw himself a card (discarding Charaxes, moth monster)

Aaron team attacks Namorita and Black Panther direct for 3.

    RECOVERY PHASE

    Secret Society -> 45    Fantastic Fun 2.0 -> 50




        TURN 3 (Aaron Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Aaron sets a resource and recruits Invisible Woman into his hidden front row, protecting Black Panther and passes.

JS sets a resource and recruits Poison Ivy in his visible front row. he then plays Straight to the Gracve from his hand (sending Chemo and a Path of Destruction to his KO pile)

    COMBAT PHASE
Poison Ivy brings Chemo into play in JS' hidden front row.

Aaron passes.

JS declares Ivy into Namorita for a stun and continues with chemo swinging direct. Once legal he flips up Gorilla city and activates it 9sending another Ivy to the KO pile) for +1 ATK. he then activates Sivana to draw himself a card (discarding a Black manta)

    RECOVERY PHASE

Aaron recovers Namorita.

    Secret Society -> 45    Fantastic Fun 2.0 -> 46




        TURN 4 (JS Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

JS sets a resource and plays a Straight to the Grave from his hand (sending Gorilla Grodd and path of Destruction to the KO pile) he then flips up remote Facility and activates it (discarding Unnatural Selection) to place Grodd into his hand and recruits it protected by Ivy.

Aaron sets a resource and recruits Mr. fantastic, reed richards protected by namorita. he then equips a Flamethrower on Namorita and flips up and activates New baxter Building to draw a card. he then activates Mr fantastic (revealing 2 Invisible Woman, a flamethrower and a child named Valeria keeping the flamethrower and sending the rest to the bottom of his deck. he then recruits the second flamethrower on Mr fantastic. and passes.

before the mutual pass, JS activates Sivana to draw a card (discarding The Riddler)

    COMBAT PHASE
Ivy triggers placing Riddler into his hidden area and immediately activates his effect. Aaron chains Child from his hand and Riddler sends a Pathetic Attempt to the KO pile.

Js then declares Grodd into the 6/4 namorita abnd activates Gorilla City (sending another Riddler) placing the 10th card in his KO pile for a +3 ATK pump for 7 breakthrough. He then activates Chemo to replace New Baxter Building and passes.

Aaron declares Invisible Woman and Black Panther into Ivy for a 1 sided stun. he activates Flame trap for 5 damage to JS and passes.

    RECOVERY PHASE

JS recovers Ivy.

    Secret Society -> 37    Fantastic Fun 2.0 -> 40




        TURN 5 (Aaron Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Aaron activates Mr fantastic (revealing Clash, mr fantastic, cosmic radiation and Fantasticar) scoring the fantasticar.

He then sets a resource and plays A Clash of Worlds from his row, calling out Mr. Fantastic for non uniqueness. Then re recruits Mr fantastic, stretch forming him in his support row protected by the 2 drop fanatastic he then flips up Pier 4 and equips Fantasticar onto the 2 cost Mr. Fan and forms Namorita adjacent to him. Aaron passes his build.

JS sets a resource and flips up a rowed Omnipotence Aaron chains the flamethrower on Namorita to deal 5 damage to JS and then chains Stretch's effect to pay 2 endurance and move Fantasticar onto him. Once that resolves, Aaron KO's Namorita to place Child into his hand. JS chains Riddler to send the top card of Aarons deck to the KO pile. The chain resolves and Ridler sends Mr fantastic, Aaron scores Child to his hand and chains it to the Omni. he then also Chains Cosmic radiation from his row to ready the 2 cost mr fan.
Then Omni resolves and JS calls out Cosmic Radiation.

JS then activates Remote Facility (discarding Dr. Sivana) to fetch Black Manta, recruiting it into play. and forming Poison Ivy protecting it.

    COMBAT PHASE
Ivy's effect brings out Chemo.

Aaron declares a team attack of Invisible Woman and Black Panther into Poison Ivy. and ivy stuns. He then activates the flamethrower on little Mr fantastic to deal 5 damage to JS and then declares his 5 drop into Black Manta at 13/11.

Js reinforces with Grodd and pays 3 endurance to Manta's effect. Grabbing Straight to the Grave. Black Manta stuns, and Aaron passes.

JS activates Dr. Sivana drawing a card (discarding a Gorilla City) And plays Straight to the grave from his hand (sending Mr. Freeze and the a third Path of destruction to the KO pile) and then he KOs ivy to grodds effect to draw 3 cards (discarding Agility, Black Manta, and Unnatural Selection)

    RECOVERY PHASE

JS recovers Black Manta.

    Secret Society -> 16    Fantastic Fun 2.0 -> 38




        TURN 6 (JS Initiative)

    DRAW PHASE
(Both Players draw 2 cards)

    BUILD PHASE

Js sets and flips a second Omnipotence. Aaron chains both Flamethrowers for 10 damage exhausting both Mr fantastics.

JS calls A Child Named Valeria.

Then JS activates Remote Facility (discarding Charaxes) to fetch Mr. Freeze and recruits it protecting Manta. it triggers Charaxes and Charaxes enters play protecting Grodd. JS passes.

Aaron sets a resource and Plays a mobilize from his row (discarding Invisible Woman) to search out Thing, Idol o millions. Recruiting it into his front row. He then recruits Human Torch, sparky, behind Thing and recruits Pogo Plane onto it (for free thanks stretch!) He discards an Eye of Agamotto from his hand and shuffles pogo plane into his deck to search out New Baxter Building. revealing it's terraform effect to swap it with a face down resource.

Then Aaron flips and activates Four Freedoms Plaza from his row to grab any card and place it into his hand. He then recruits a 0 cost Future Technology onto Thing and then forms Mr fantastic 2 drop behind thing the 5 drop.

Both players pass to combat.

    COMBAT PHASE

JS declares Charaxes into 2 cost mr fantastic with a gorilla city pump once legal. Aaron pays 2 endurance to move Flamethrower onto Human Torch before passing into a mutual stun. JS then sends Black Manta into Thing. Aaron exhausts thing to deal 3 damage from Future technology and Aaron chains 3 from black Manta to grab a Path of destruction from his KO pile. and Mr fantastic pays 2 endurance to equip Future tech onto Black Panther. and thing stuns. Next Aaron activates Black Panther to burn for 3 from future tech and pays 2 from stretch to move it onto Invisible Woman, who in turn exhausts to burn for 3 again. 

JS then declares  dr. sivana into HUman torch. Powering up sivana for the stun. Aaron responds, flipping up and activating new baxter building to draw a card and chains Human Torch's effect to burn JS for 6 Human torch stuns and is KO'd from flamethrower's effect in a mutual stun.
Js then declares Mr. freeze onto the 5 drop Mr fantastic avoiding the stunback and stunning and KOing the 5 drop thanks to flamethrowers effect.

Js then swings direct with Gorilla grodd, playing Path of destruction from his hand for +6 ATK. And then playing Mobilize from his hand (discarding Birthing Chamber) to fetch a gorilla grodd and power-up. hitting direct for 15.
Then he swings direct with Chemo for 1 and finally sends Riddler direct, playing his final Path of Destruction from his row, and KOing Chemo to replace it. he then flips up Remote Facility and activates it (discarding agility) to grab Riddler from the KO pile and power-up. after Path of destruction resolves, Aaron takes 12 damage to the face.

A tremendous turn, but Secret Society falls short.



    RECOVERY PHASE

    Secret Society -> -16    Fantastic Fun 2.0 -> -8


Fantastic Fun 2.0 wins!


Thoughts:

JS - all game long I'm thinking, "you know what this needs is an only Human or two". With nothing to mitigate the hidden invisible Woman's reinforcement of the main F4 roster there wasn't much more I could do.

Aaron - The double Omni sucked as I ended the game with a child and a cosmic radiation in my hand. Invisible Woman was by FAR the mvp today. Next to that clutch draw from my first new Baxter activation netting me the Child that let me keep my field on turn four.