Remix First Look: The power of Friendship!

 

The early pitch for VS System was a pretty interesting idea, take 1 comic property and give players an opportunity to have it compete or even team-up with another comic property.

At the time the concept was pretty radical, but extremely difficult to bank on, considering IP use typically has some high costs with it. In fact, original VS only ever managed to visit three comic properties, Marvel, DC and Dark Horse. Say what you will on whether you enjoy upper deck's 2pcg content, but they are absolutely managing to mix MUCH more IP content than original VS ever saw.

 With Remix however, as a purely nonprofit fan continuation, we don't find ourselves limited with the same measure of scope. This berthed the TMNT and Power Rangers affiliations, but we were not prepared for the community vote results for our newest comic entity! 

We here at the Remix Project proudly present our newest upcoming expansion: 

Yes Friendship is indeed magic as we explore the avenues of Honesty, Kindness, Laughter, Loyalty, Generosity, and of course, Magic!

Travel with us as we explore a unique new keyword called Pacifist. Characters with pacifist do not engage in attacks. EVER. These characters could attack, if they ever wished to. But of course, they won't.

As a result of their desire to solve conflict with friendship, these characters, instead hold potent effects and defensive stat metrics. But be careful! some of these immensely potent stall tactics come at a high cost!

Many opponents also accept gold.

As you can see, it will benefit you to pack more than a lunch for your next Remix live event!

Next let's take a look at some featured legends!

Rainbow dash really goes far to secure your search options, You can flesh out your character curve or nab that defensive piece you need to extend the game! To help us with our search and board control, there is non other than the element of magic herself to lend us a hand!

If they say no and you hug anyway?
That's a felony misdemeanor.

Twilight is going to go FAR in helping us swarm out our board full of love and friendship! While her main target might be Rarity, Fluttershy is another solid pick! 

SHHHH!

As a MASSIVE 2/6 2 cost, you'll want to be careful of her unique restriction, or risk losing the game! Perhaps you should bring gifts for that Bystander too!

Meanwhile our resident strong pony, Applejack provides a wildly effective lockdown of effects at a very reasonable cost!

Take small bites during large events!

Then finally, we have laughter. And our very own Pinkie Pie goes as far as to borrow rules from another game entirely!  And that effect?
We got permission first.
I am confident we got permission first.
I think.
Probably.

WotC lawsuit inbound

But Onyx, what if I need to team-up with another affiliation to help me avoid conflict?

No worries there! The ponies have you covered! With some help as usual, from unlikely friends!

No idea ever, was better than this.

So by now you've got to be wondering, "OK, this is amazing and I can't believe the Remix team is THIS talented, but how am I expected to actually win with these ponies? Surely I don't just suddenly alt-win?

Well, friend. I am glad you asked. That's EXACTLY what you do.

Winning games and taking names.
The power of friendship.

So to clarify, to properly play these ponies, be prepared to mime, emote, shout, exclaim, and show physical affectations to a stranger! Beyond that, you'll also need supplies for optimal use:
- A multicolor shirt.
- Numerous meaningful gifts.
- At least 1 Apple.
- At least one innocent bystander.

Frankly when you think about it, it isn't really that much, since you already are used to packing dice, drinks, energy bars and endurance scoring gear, so we don't feel these things are unreasonable.

Regardless of how you play! We are certain that these ponies will propel your Remix gameplay to the next level! 

As usual, you can expect the Remix design team to deliver nothing but the best content possible for the players. And we are working hard to design and release the other teams that astounded us with their high votecounts, such as, our fall theme deck project: Teletubbies VS Predator!

 

Not as one-sided as you might think.

We here at Remix thank you all for your patronage, interest, and passion.
For the future. the sky is the limit!

Deck Doctor: Tastes Like Burning?

 

I was recently asked about a throwaway comment about a deck name I had referenced during an interview I participated in earlier this year. If you are curious as to that interview you can CHECK IT OUT HERE:

The deck? A little nugget named Venom Burn.

Venom burn is a potent mix on a unique interaction on an often overlooked game mechanic. That mechanic is Evasion.

“Evasion” is a keyword that represents a payment power on a character. That payment power reads, “Stun this character >>> At the start of the recovery phase this turn, recover this character.”

 The interesting interaction with this mechanic is when you evade a character, recover it somehow, and then evade it again. You end up with TWO recovery effects pending at the start of the recovery phase. This stackable recovery chain can prove to be very useful when you look at cards like Johnny Blaze <> Ghost Rider, Damned.

Regular? Or extra Crispy?

 

 

 

So with this thought it mind, Venom Burn was born. we needed the ability to ready Johnny multiple times, as well as a means to recover our selected target multiple times for a frankly ridiculous amount out of combat, non-negatable (he doesn't target) endurance loss. Even better? The deck's first appearance was the MTU release City Champs. which means we found a way to reliably pull it off within a single set.

 Lets walk through our combo pieces to fuel this Ghost Riding list that seeks to burn harder than Uncle Ted's story about Saigon:

What we needed was some solid trickery to ensure each needed element was met. And Marvel Team-up Delivered!

Readying Tricks:

 

Recovery Tricks: 

And Consistency Tricks:

       

So this took us to a 3 team list. Spider-friends, Underworld and Marvel Defenders. This ideal setup firing properly on all cylinders allowed us to live the dream of A Johnny Blaze activating multiple times, on a 5 drop Venom, promptly evading and recovering with either Strange Love or Undead Legions and then chaining evasion to each recovery trigger at the END of the turn for an UNGODLY amount of high value burn. To put it in perspective, 2 ready tricks and a SINGLE recovery trick will inflict 60 Endurance loss to an opponent. since you will burn opponents for 15 endurance per stun twice, then twice again at the start of recovery trigger.

While there is ABSOLUTELY a list that is likely going to do this better, smarter or faster by moving to Golden-Age options, I'll leave the single set list to allow for some ambiguity. (and to make the readers do SOME of the work!)

So lets have at it, shall we?

BYOS Venom Burn

CHARACTERS
4x The Dwarf, Soul Broker
4x Wong, Mystical Manservant

4x Black Cat, Nine Lives
2x Night Thrasher, Dwayne Michael Taylor

4x Umar, Sorceress Sublime

2x Blackheart, Black King
2x Johnny Blaze - Ghost Rider, Damned

4x Venom, Lethal Protector

PLOT TWISTS
4x Ritual Sacrifice, Team-Up
1x Stark Tower, Team-Up
4x The Order
4x Strange Love
4x Undead Legions
4x Death's Embrace
3x Consulting the Orb

LOCATIONS
4x Empire State University
3x New Baxter Building

EQUIPMENT
3x Ego Gem, Unique * Infinity Gem

 

As you can see the list focuses entirely on setting up with almost no thought outside of the burn engine. Dwarf will help ensure our team-upsa re live early. Wong helps pad out curve options optimally. Black Cat provides hand fixing as night Thrasher also locks in our needed affiliations. and Blackheart and Johnny finish things off. Blackheart is a solid turn 4 play if the aim is protecting your characters. On your kill turn, it also makes for a great sub target for Johnny.

Ego gems, New Baxter and ESU all serve to provide key needed cards as well as fuel your hand for the wild amount of discards this deck needs.

Missing a key card? Roll the dice on Consulting the Orb. So many games have been locked in by landing that recovery trick you were missing, or the order.

What hurts this list:
Resource hate. Period. Gotham Knights can also tax your payment effects with some bully negates in a pinch. But clutch team-up removal just turns this deck off. So buyer beware! Want to deal 100+ damage while laughing at your hapless opponent? This is the deck for you. Will it make your playgroup diverse? give options for outplay, Make for fun multiplayer, or generally make players love you?

No chance in hell. But the list does one thing and it does it faster and safer than many other options.

Just ask Uncle Ted if the Herpes was worth it.