Deck Doctor: Team Crime friends challenge!

 So as I await the final top 4 cut announcement for the winter event, Proposition Joe, had, er... a Proposition. Make Team Superman and Crime Lords work with a focus on Master Man and Wonder Woman, Deflection Diva. 

Challenge accepted.

Team Crime Friends sounds better than Racist Justice

When you know you are going to see a two team lineup, and you know they aren't going to lend themselves to any sort of consistent theme, the most difficult part is really setting out your curve. You want to hit both teams, your team-ups and your deck objective.

For this challenge, my first impressions seems pretty clear:

Nailed it.

So, first off. Is accommodating all this actually viable? And secondly, are there better options? is it worth fitting 3 redirects if it means no search? Not likely. So lets build our squad, and see where we end up.

So after some remakes and hard cuts here is the current list:

Toro!

Characters:
4x Roscoe Sweeny, Fixer
1x A.I.M. Agents, Army - A.I.M.

4x Kelex, Faithful Servant
2x Hiro Okamura - Toyman, Whiz-Kid
1x Yelena Belova - Black Widow, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. - HYDRA

4x Red Skull, Aleksander Lukin - Raid
2x The Guardian, Jim Harper

4x Master Man, Max Lohmer - Raid

4x Wonder Woman, Deflection Diva

1x Taskmaster, Mnemonic Assassin
1x Pyrogen, Supermen of America

2x Red Skull, Master of Creation

Plot Twists:
4x Forbidden Loyalties, Team-Up
4x Mobilize
4x Flying High
3x Reset
3x Desperate Sacrifice
2x Code White

Locations:
2x 31st Century Metropolis, Team-Up
2x Kandor, City in a Bottle

Equipment:
3x Armed Escort
3x Cosmic Cube

So here's the breakdown:
Roscoe has 1 job. live to turn 3 to fetch red skull. It doesn't matter if you under-dropped him on 2 or not, but that's his job. However, to tide myself over I gave him targets for 1 and 2 while he waits to you know, get to three, so he can DO HIS JOB. Our build is a cosmic cube variant, and beyond that red skull's burn is actually quite great in key situations.

On two I want to see Kelex. a big booty robot that will fetch whatever location i haven't seen yet prioritizing out team-up. I'm a big fan of Kandor in this myself. Our backup2  is Hiro, and Yelena is our search option for Roscoe if we haven't teamed up yet.

Turn 3 I almost didn't bother with a secondary drop. But Guardian can really shine, on offensive turn 4 turns. send a protected Master Man then Kandor him to safety for any counter-swings. Also fun things like deflection diva redirecting into something else, then activating armed escort on Master Man to redirect again for a fast double burn, double lifegain proc. among other entertaining combos.

Turn 4. Master Man. That racist overlord has a massive booty for bricking. I legitimately hate how much I like his mechanics. Once here though, we have a plethora of outplays.
Armed Escort keeps him ensuring getting face shots he so desperately wants.
Flying high, is a ridiculous cheap reset, (assuming you have teamed up) of course, Reset is present as well. A test of your opponent's sanity while they debate making any swings at all, or simply just passing combat. But its the Desperate Sacrifice, that your opponent won't see coming.

You know the one right?
No?
EXACTLY!

So once the mind games have begun, (Do they have flying high for master man? reset?) your opponent is gonna want to hit, say, Roscoe, hiding behind the massive 4 drop. or any of your other weak target options. Yeahhhh, about that...

Yeahhh, I'm going to need you to hit Master Man.

When we consider the implications of a face-up Kandor, the scenarios can get legitimately mind-numbing. Opponents may actually began to just stop all their swings altogether, making the deck legitimately a stall. This is completely fine with us.

On 5, we focus on Deflection diva, with a built in reverse Armed Escort, she's just magnificent to keep the swings coming at Master Man.

On 6 we split our options, either controlled swing potential via Pyrogen, or some scaling bricking from Taskmaster.

Finally on 7, we completely ignore any supermen in this team superman cross-over for a red Skull win condition. The primary target for our Code White. Welcome to turn 7 and surprise! If your curve is present and adjacent to him, stunned or not, you burn for 15! Yay!

This list has so much to like, from crazed defensive outplays, to some unique offensive combos, to the fact Superman isn't in this list at all! There is just a cornucopia of things to love!

Until next time!