The 2023 VS Online Championship Invitational!

 

 The invitational for 2023 has been split into two separate deck-building challenges!  As a result each round of matches will alternate between the formats!

CONGRATULATIONS to Jim  Bishop for pulling out the victory crowning himself the
VS 2023 League CHAMPION!

Wild 8 DECKLISTS

This format was dictated by each player's selection of a top set to use. In addition all banned cards were clear to play without restrictions. The 8 final sets are:

MAV
MEV
MOR
MTU
MXM
DCR
DGL
DJL

Alexander Hancock - Bosom Buddies
Andre Castillo - Multiple Man Turbo Syndicate
Norman Halimsetiawan - GLEE
Jim Bishop - TNB Reservist
Cesar Rodil - The New Syndicate
Ankit Kavi - No Skill Exiles
Aaron Mead - Florinfinite
Wesley Nichol - Combex

Ordered Monk DECKLISTS

A simpler format, all submissions can't include cards from MEV, nor can they use common cards. All applicable banlists apply.

Alexander Hancock - Sniper Shot
Andre Castillo - Multiple Man Syndicate Rush 2.0
Norman Halimsetiawan - Counterpunch Control
Jim Bishop - Secret Society Utility
Cesar Rodil - TNA
Ankit Kavi - Trinity
Aaron Mead - TNA
Wesley Nichol - Money.dec

Wesley Nichol - Money.dec (Ordered Monks)

MONEY DOT DEC

CHARACTERS
4x Tim Drake - Robin, Titan in Command
3x Ragman, Patchmonger

2x Batman, Problem Solver
4x Batman, Founding Member

4x Wonder Woman, Ambassador of Peace
2x The Captain, Can't Remember His Real Name

4x Superman, Metropolis Marvel

3x Batman, Cape and Cowl

1x Barbara Gordon - Oracle, Inside Information
1x Superman, Founding Member

1x Martian Manhunter, The Last Martian

PLOT TWISTS
4x Bat-Signal
3x Carrying the Torch
3x Indestructible
3x From the Darkness
4x Savage Beatdown
4x At Their Finest
4x Marvel Team-Up
3x Brains and Brawn

3x Only Human 

LOCATIONS
2x The Watchtower 

EQUIPMENT
2x Lasso of Truth 

Wes is just a nifty nifty fella. However he often builds lists that I'm sure he submits just to make me crazy. Once again electing to submit a list I find myself VEHEMENTLY disagreeing with on search options.
You are killin me here, Wes. God dammit you could have had everything. In what universe do you choose bat-signal in a list that's KNOWN for it's crazy use of Wonder Woman? you cant fetch any possible 4 drop in a JLA money.dek list without a team-up? I mean dude is Batman even worth it?

You do this EVERY SINGLE TIME. We talked about this. You said you'd do better. Clearly you aren't putting as much into this relationship as I am. Why even run a team-up to "enable" a sub-par searcher? You could have just slotted 4 JLA fetchers, skipped the teamup and had *GASP* a CONSISTENT LIST. OMG whats the worst thing that would have happened there? It'd Get you WINS. Missing the boat on Bring it on and supplementary searchin an aggro format?
This weekend binge drinking while deckbuilding has to stahp.

God dammit you could have had it all, Wes.
Fuck.

Wesley Nichol - COMBEX (Wild 8)

COMBEX 

CHARACTERS
4x Blink, Earth-295

4x Black Thorn, Elizabeth Thorne
4x Puppet Master, Philip Masters
1x Gambit, Le Diable Blanc
2x Caliban, Pestilence

4x Ahmed Samsarra, White King

4x Siryn, Sonic Scream
1x Jean Grey, Jean Grey-Summers

1x Scarlet Witch, Wanda Maximoff

4x Huntress, Reluctant Queen
1x Strong Guy, Guido Carosella

PLOT TWISTS
4x Enemy of My Enemy
4x Straight to the Grave
1x Divided We Stand, Team-Up
1x Here Comes Tomorrow, Team-Up
4x Null Time Zone 

LOCATIONS
3x Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
3x Panoptichron
1x Slaughter Swamp
1x Avalon Space Station
4x Brother I Satellite
4x Checkmate Safe House, Team-Up 

Phoning it in, Wes abandoned all hope of an exiles-level competitive Hellfire club or Underworld list and nabbed an infinite contender. The good? Huntress to tech against warp shards. The bad? Needing a duplicate Black thorn shifted. In a typical combex this would be achieved with the a finer world after an early teamup with blink and checkmate. But Wes elected to do it the hard way. Meaning, turn 5 at the soonest. Assuming puppet master can allow it to live that long. Should be interesting to see how things shake up.

Alexander Hancock - Sniper Shot (Ordered Monks)

 Sniper Shot

CHARACTERS
4x Dagger, Child of Light
4x Black Widow, Femme Fatale
4x Punisher, Judge

2x Punisher, Secret Avenger
4x Professor Emil Hamilton - Ruin, Power Suit

3x The Captain, Can't Remember His Real Name
1x James Barnes - Winter Soldier, Out in the Cold

1x Spider-Man, Secret Avenger

1x Human Torch, Herald
1x Holocaust, Nemesis
1x Human Torch, Fiery Friend

1x Punisher, Angel of Death

1x Ghost Rider, Danny Ketch

1x Galactus, Devourer of Worlds

1x The Beyonder, Inhuman

PLOT TWISTS
3x Enemy of My Enemy
4x Wild Ride
4x A Clash of Worlds
1x Superhuman Registration Act, Team-Up
2x Omnipotence
1x Underground Movement, Team-Up
1x Teamwork
3x Uncertain Legacy
4x Sniper Shot
1x Crisis on Infinite Earths, Team-Up
4x Carrying the Torch
2x Gah Lak Tus!, Ultimates
1x State of the Union 

Do you like MURDER? 
Do you want to eat curve decks for breakfast?
Do you want to laugh as your opponent stops curving ENTIRELY just to pray they can keep something on their board?
Well is this the deck for you!
a standard turn 4 is just a WILDLY inappropriate amount of punishers to hit that threshold of 3+. This enables 1 ko per turn for the rest of the game and every 3rd turn, 2 KOs that turn.
Once the KO train is set up Gah Lak Tus! starts forcing you to shred your resources while your opponent tosses one of their many 1 drops. This is a great list.

Alexander Hancock - Bosom Buddies (Wild 8)

 Bosom Buddies

CHARACTERS
4x Moonstar, Danielle Moonstar
4x Blink, Earth-295

4x Cable, Soldier X
4x Caliban, Pestilence

4x Deadpool, Earth-5021
4x Vision, Earth-10101

4x Cable, Dayspring

PLOT TWISTS
4x Black Box 
4x Enemy of My Enemy
4x Flying Kick
4x Bosom Buddies
4x Windstorm
4x Techno-Organic Virus
4x We Can Rebuild Him
4x Cutting Loose 

Bro, uh.... mistakes were made. This list has no team-ups.
Making this a Deadpool/Cable Bosom Buddies team attack deck THAT CAN'T TEAM ATTACK.
It just doesn't work as intended. However the sheer mass of those pumps could hypothetically carry it into a win. So go uh, with God my friend.

Andre Castillo - Multiple Man Syndicate Rush 2.0 (Ordered Monks)

Multiple Man Syndicate Rush 2.0

CHARACTERS
4x Lizard, Voracious Predator
2x Mendel Stromm, Robot Master
2x Tinkerer, Phineas Mason
1x Basilisk, Basil Elks
1x Tombstone, Lonnie Lincoln
1x Speed Demon, Whizzer
20x Multiple Man - Jamie Madrox, Army

1x Answer, Aaron Nicholson

4x Carnage, Psychopath

PLOT TWISTS
4x Charge!
4x Spider Hunt
4x Legacy of Evil

LOCATIONS
4x Ravencroft Institute
4x Doc Ock's Lab
4x Birthing Chamber

The only thing better than bringing a list once, is bringing it twice. but as you'll see Andre Inceptioned the hell out of that statement, bringing this list THREE times. All in on the Multiple Man Syndicate Train, it'll be interesting to see if he falls into any tougher pairings or if he can ride "gofast.dek" into the sunset.

Andre Castillo - Multiple Man Turbo Syndicate (Wild 8)

 Multiple Man Turbo Syndicate

CHARACTERS
4x Lizard, Voracious Predator
4x Slyde, Jalome Beacher
1x Basilisk, Basil Elks
1x Vulture, Aerial Stalker
1x Razorfist, Sociopathic Mercenary
1x Fusion, Markley
20x Multiple Man - Jamie Madrox, Army

4x Carnage, Psychopath

PLOT TWISTS
4x Charge!
4x Trial by Fire
4x Spider Hunt
4x Legacy of Evil

LOCATIONS
4x Ravencroft Institute
4x Birthing Chamber

Andre submitted this exact list (almost) in an earlier event. It goes real fast. like REALLY. But apparently he had like... stuff to do and opted to submit it again. fair play considering of all the contenders, i half expected Andre to cave and just run spider-exiles.