As we exit swiss rounds, the standings are presently:
CHARACTERS
1x Silver Banshee, SKREEE (GOD-DRAW)
4x Iron Man, Model 45
2x Atomic Skull, Joe Martin
4x Rocket Raccoom, Big Guns
3x Ruin, Power Armor
4x Maxima, Empress of Almerac
2x Star Lord, Peter Quill
4x Doomsday Unshackled
1x Rocket Raccoon, Friends in Low Places
1x Eradicator, Earth Assault
1x General Zod, Dru-Zod
1x Groot, We Are Groot
1x Doomsday, Armageddon Creature
PLOT TWISTS
4x Combined Arms
4x United in Hate, Team-up
4x Guardians, Team-up
4x Battle for Metropolis
3x Death of Superman
3x Kneel Before Zod
3x Primal Power
EQUIPMENT
3x Xarthian Quantum Cannon
2x Power Armor
1x The Milano
Silver Banshee is accidentally the greatest god draw card in the format.
Alfred? dead
Alpha? dead
Boris? dead
Chemo/Riddler/GCPD/Dove insert clutch 1 drop play here?
DEAD. It is truthfully the only reason my list did so well.
My plan was, simple:
Me like Rocket
Revenge Squad makes Rocket BIGGER with Battle for Metro and Primal Power (Pseudo nasty surprise!)
Bigger Rocket stun up curve. Use overstatted Squad filler to administer beatings to face.
Turns out Silver Banshee pretty much guaranteed that was the type of game I get to play. Nifty!
CHARACTERS
12x Currs, Army
1x Alfred Pennyworth, Faithful Friend (GOD DRAW)
4x Commissioner Gordan, James Gordon
4x Barbara Gordon - Batgirl, Babs
1x Blastaar, Living Bomb Blast
1x Catastrophus, Captain of Annihilation
5x Seekers, Army
2x Annihilus, Antimatter Master
2x Thanos, Manipulative Ally
PLOT TWISTS
4x All Serve Annihilus!
1x Negative Space
2x Wave of Destruction
2x Bat-Signal
4x The Hook-up, Team-up
LOCATIONS
2x Negative Zone, Non-Unique, Annihilation Wave
2x Negative Zone, Non-Unique, Killing Fields
4x Negative Zone, Non-Unique, Prison 42
2x GCPD Headquarters
2x Gotham Central
EQUIPMENT
2x Batplane, Unique, The batwing
1x Utility Belt
Cesar has a secret lab under his living room where he concocts some of the wildest decks I've seen in recent memory. Fusing Seekers with The Hook-up to turn it into a +2 on top of a babs and then dropping mass boosted currs swinging for 4+ each?
*slow clap*
take a bow good sir. that is glorious.
CHARACTERS
1x Alfred Pennyworth, Faithful Friend (GOD-DRAW)
1x Commisioner Gordon, James Gordon
2x Spoiler, Wildcard
4x Dick Grayson - Robin, First Robin
4x Barbara Gordon - Bargirl, Babs
2x Batman, Founding Member
4x Wonder Woman, Ambassador of Peace
3x Superman, Metropolis Marvel
4x Barry Allen - The Flash, Founding Member
1x Azrael - Batman, Knightfall
PLOT TWISTS
4x Bat-Signal
2x The Hook-up, Team-up
4x Fury of the Amazons
4x Mightiest Heroes
1x New Era
4x Bring it on!
3x Indestructible
4x Details Matter
3x Terminal Velocity
LOCATIONS
4x Hall of Justice, Team-up
EQUIPMENT
1x Utility Belt
This deck tells you flash is going to gut you for game, and then just, dares you to do something about it. Hilarious. Effective. And CONSISTENT when alfred is a guaranteed turn 1 play.
CHARACTERS
1x Chemo, Toxic Waste
3x Riddler, Riddle me this
4x Dr. Sivana, Mad Scientist
3x Captain Cold, Injustice League
1x Charaxes, Moth Monster
4x Lex Luthor, Injustice League
2x Poison Ivy, Intoxicating
4x Bizarro, Subject B-Zero, Injustice League
2x Black Manta, Underwater Marauder, Injustice League
1x Deathstroke the Terminator, Killing Machine
1x Lex Luthor, The Superman, Injustice League
1x Doomsday, Engine of Destruction
1x Darkseid, Dark God
PLOT TWISTS
4x Straight to the Grave
4x Path of Destruction
2x Heat Breath
3x Shattered!
3x Mobilize
2x Flying Kick
2x Savage beatdown
1x Have a Blast!
1x Total Anarchy
1x Flametrap
1x Political Pressure
1x Strangulate
LOCATIONS
4x Slaughter Swamp
1x Satellite HQ
1x Birthing Chamber
EQUIPMENT
1x Mother Box, Property of Lex Luthor (GOD-DRAW)
Norman loves Secret Society.
No really. He wallpapers his son's room with images of Black Manta and Lex Luthor.
Some call this obsessive.
I'd lean more towards, Good Parenting.
I can always tell when Norman cant quite decide on what to play when he throws a Secret Society Variant at me. The Mother Box God-draw is actually a really scary pick and can force opponents to focus his Lex while he drops a fake-out play with underdrops, or, with decent initiatives (evens) he can just set up the old Bizarro swing stun fiesta and go hard into KO control. Adversely, lists like this have a remarkable access to resource hatred. Beware revenge squad purists!
CHARACTERS
1x Archangel, High Flyer (GOD DRAW)
4x Silk, Cindy Moon
4x Black Cat, Nine Lives
4x Daredevil, Fearless Hero
1x Toxin, Patrick Mulligan
1x Spider-Girl, Daughter of Spider-Man
4x Venom, New York's Anti-Hero
1x Spider-Man, TSSM
4x Wolverine, Secret Avenger
1x Human Torch, Friendly Rival
1x Kaine - Scarlet Spider, The Other
1x Agent Venom, Capital Punishment
1x Spider-Man, Stark's Protege
1x Dr. Strange, The Good Doctor
PLOT TWISTS
4x X-Men United!
4x Berserker Rage
4x Calling all X-Men
4x Healing Factor
4x X-Men Together, Team-up
LOCATIONS
4x Empire State University
4x X-Corporation, X-Corp
1x X-Corp: Island, X-Corp
2x Parker Industries
The following is an absolutely True Story.
Me: "Oh hey is Andre playing in this event?"
Everyone: "yes and he's going to play Venom and Spider-man."
And low and behold, there they sit, living the dream under an x-men United Recover engine!
Solid form sir. Solid form.
CHARACTERS
4x Big Barda, Female Fury
3x Desaad, Royal Torturer
4x Darkseid, Apocalyptian Tyrant
3x Sweet Leilani, Female Fury
3x Bernadeth, Female Fury
2x Stompa, Female Fury
4x Darkseid, Destroyer of Life
3x Granny Goodness, Female Fury
1x Darkseid, The Great Darkness
PLOT TWISTS
2x All Hail Darkseid!
3x Darkseid Undenied
2x Die for Darkseid!
3x Thank Granny Goodness
4x Created from Hate
2x Omega Beams
2x No match for Darkseid
LOCATIONS
2x Ancient Throne, Seat of Power
EQUIPMENT
2x Time Gem
2x Space Gem
2x Soul Gem
2x Reality Gem
2x Power Gem
2x Mind Gem
1x Infinity Gauntlet (GOD-DRAW)
FINALLY! Thie First ever Remix Event to feature the Darkseid's Elite affiliation!
Finishing swiss with a respectable middle of the pack finish, this list went for shock and awe with an infinity gauntlet Special Surprise! I hope to see some more dark horse picks like this!
CHARACTERS
4x Sydney Leach, Human Metal Detector
4x Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, Creator of the Apocalypse Army
2x Professor Bruttenholm, Father
4x Herman Von Klempt, Head in a jar
4x Hellboy, Anung Un rama
4x Abe Sapien, Ichthyo Sapien
2x Conqueror Worm, Ultimate Destroyer
1x Johann Kraus, Free Spirit
1x Hellboy, The Right Hand of Doom
1x Grigori Rasputin, The Mad Monk
PLOT TWISTS
1x Total Anarchy (GOD-DRAW)
4x Something is Coming
4x Pancakes
4x Break off the Horns
3x Project Ragna Rok
1x Have a Blast!
4x Mobilize
2x Savage Beatdown
LOCATIONS
4x Cavendish Hall, Team-up
4x B.P.R.D. HQ, Non-Unique
EQUIPMENT
3x Nth Metal
Wesley Is known to give me migraines with some of his deck decisions. Not that he is bad or untalented, more than he somehow does what is regarded as inefficient conepts, only to have them work flawlessly. (no search JLA bro, I am STILL tilted!) Regardless this Hellboy list was expecting a meta full of curves and hellboy's sustain is a solid metric to get there. With no access to BPRD Signal Devices several games were lost due to untimely KOs as not finding protection for Hellboy In a meta surprisingly loaded with removal turned out to be a bad time.
CHARACTERS
4x Winslow Schott - Toyman, Tinkering Genius
1x Silver Banshee, SKREEE
4x Mercy, Lazarus Protocol
2x Atomic Skull, Joe Martin
2x Mr. Mxysptlk, 5th Dimension Imp
4x Ruin, Power Armor
3x Lex Luthor, President Lex
4x Maxima, Empress of Almerac
4x Doomsday, Unshackled
2x Brainiac, Vril Dox
1x Eradicator, Earth Assault
2x Lex Luthor, Victory Assured
1x Doomsday, Armageddon Creature
PLOT TWISTS
1x Chilly Reception (GOD-DRAW)
4x Mobilize
2x Have a Blast!
3x Kneel Before Zod
4x Death of Superman
4x Battle for Metropolis
1x Strangulate
2x Political Pressure
3x Primal Power
1x Hidden research
1x Total Anarchy
This list is so close to optimal it is painful. The God Draw selection unfortunately proved inefficient into the meta, and the deck lost some heartbreakers during swiss. I do like the danger of Lex on 3 as an off drop over doomsday. This list planned for everything and is no slouch.
CHARACTERS
1x Alpha-5, 01100001 01101001 01100100 (GOD DRAW)
4x Bulk and Skull, Duo Dynamic
1x Black Ranger, Zack Taylor
2x Blue Ranger, Billy Cranston
2x Yellow Ranger, Trini Kwan
2x Green Ranger, Tommy Oliver
2x Pink Ranger, Kimberly Hart
2x Red Ranger, Jason Lee Scott
2x Sabre-Toothed Tiger, Zord
2x Triceratops, Zord
1x Mastadon, Zord
2x Tyrannosaurus, Zord
2x Pteradactyl, Zord
1x Dragonzord, Zord
2x Turtle Megazord, Zord
2x Dino Megazord, Zord
PLOT TWISTS
4x Go! Go! Power Pangers!
4x Morphing Grid Upgrades
1x Front Line Warfare
1x Teleport!
1x Fearsome Power
4x Flying Kick
4x SKREEEEEEE!
2x Stryker's Island
4x Savage Beatdown
4x Against all Odds
LOCATIONS
1x Command Center, Home Base
Don't let this decks placement fool you. This event had the untimely fortunes to intersect with JIm's family vacation, and as such saw him forced to cencede several rounds. That said, Power Rangers can be a tour de force, And with a guaranteed Alpha on 1, things can get out of hand quickly.
CHARACTERS
4x Riot, Insanity Multiplied
4x WInslow Schott - Toyman, Tinkering Genius
3x Mercy, Lazarus Protocol
3x Atomic Skull, Joe Martin
4x Doomsday, Arrival
2x Lex Luthor, President Lex
3x Maxima, Empress of Almerac
3x Metallo, John Corben
3x Doomsday, Unshackled
2x Hank Henshaw - Cyborg, Wish for Mortality
3x Lex Luthor, the Superman, Injustice League
1x Lex Luthor, Victory Assured *GOD DRAW*
1x Doomsday, Armageddon Creature
PLOT TWISTS
4x Battle for Metropolis
4x Primal Power
2x Hidden Research
2x United in Hate, Team-up
LOCATIONS
2x Slaughter Swamp
4x Gorilla City
EQUIPMENT
2x Power armor
2x Mother Box
Gio Arguably had a bit TOO MUCH of a focus on a super focused Lex themed list, however duplicate lexes at 6 and 7 caused some issues. Otherwise this this threatened to drop any swarms finding themselves in the late game for good ole accidental game wins!
