By Carl Perlas
In a year where it felt like hobbies took center stage, VS experienced a renaissance. The Facebook VS Community Group experienced daily activity of discussion, trading, buying and selling at a scale not seen in close to a decade. To continue down this new found revitalization I wanted to thank Aaron Mead, Nick Fletcher and every body involved with bringing VS Remix to the loyal masses.
From the information released, the Remix set looks to be about 320 cards with 75% of the cards being reprints with some revisions from previous sets. The remaining 25% look to add additional Legend support while providing the teams with new versions of Hero’s and Villains to round out the set. In essence this is Marvel/DC Legends 2.0 and man oh man, right of the tails of the Doom Vs Darkseid hype train, it feels like perfect timing if you ask this content starved VS enthusiast.
It feels like 2007 all over again with new set card release spoilers that brings a smile to this old VS gamer. I cannot wait to see what is in store for my favorite team, Brotherhood. With the crutch of Lost City and The Next Brotherhood dominating the Golden Age format for so long I feel that these two cards will be balanced to give other strategies a chance to shine. With the success of the Disney+ Series WandaVision, I expected to see our favorite “Mutant” Witch spread her Chaos Magic!
Originally released in the MOR set, Scarlet Witch Wanda Maximoff, is a 9/10 5 drop that would punish opponents for using activated powers. She was a sold 5 drop but was outclassed over time with close to 20 VS sets being released. Remix has added a balanced “control” card for Brotherhood, though...
No More Mutants. This Scarlet Witch Legend Plot Twist, “Characters lose and cannot gain flight, powers and keywords during the combat phase this turn.” Basically an amped up team stamped Lex Luthor (editor's note: Mr. Sinister!) for the combat phase which definitely serves Brotherhood which relies more on brute force rather than mitigation. This will shore up their arsenal as they branch off the newer strategies that Remix provides.
Another Brotherhood card joining the fray is Scarlet Witch, Twin Sister, a 1 drop 1/1 that “when she enters play you look at the top 3 cards of your deck, put one into your hand, and the rest on the bottom of your deck”. An excellent filter card to keep your hand full for aggro rush style decks, or it adversely, can be used in combo decks to filter through your deck and get around good ol’ Caliban Pestilence *purely hypothetical!* since you are not actually drawing the card. Here 1/1 stats don’t look intimidating but with all the ways brotherhood is able to pump up their cards I am sure she will find a home in a multitude of decks.
Just thinking about new cards again after all these years has me fully on board the hype Train. Again thanks to Aaron and the team for all their efforts to bring us filthy casuals the content we so longed for. Now the agonizing wait until June 26, 2021!!
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