It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood…

You know how sometimes you just get this idea nagging in the back of your head and you can’t make it stop until you just go and do it? Well, I’ve had that problem ever since I scanned through some of the old Spider-Friends cards recently and came across an old friend of mine.

Yeah, it’s Spider-Man. But it’s not just any Spider-Man. It’s the “Friendly Neighborhood” edition and boy does he get friendly with his neighbors. Ol’ Spidey comes with a built in Overwhelming Force as long as he’s attacking. How nice is that? Whenever Spidey’s attacking, no stuns for anyone on your side. Go ahead and swing everyone up into Galactus, he can’t touch you.

Now, normally, I’d think about mixing him with, say, Teen Titans. The ability to attack over and over again with Titans Go and not needing to worry about drawing your Overwhelming Force or Follow The Leader cards is very tempting. Or what about the Outsiders? I’m sure they’d love to be able to avoid any and all stunbacks. However, I’m a mono-man at heart. I prefer to do things as “in-team” as possible. So, I’ve decided to venture into a rarely entered zone.

Spider-Friends team attack.

The Great Vs. Resolution: The Fantastic Four

Welcome back to Vs Resolution, the blog series in which I try to build and play a mono-deck for all 57 affiliations in Vs. System by the end of the year. If you need a quick refresher on the rules:

All characters must share a printed affiliation, at least 50% of non-character cards must be team or character-stamped, remaining cards must be from the same universe as the affiliation for the deck, deck must be in as recent of a format as possible.

Today, I will be discussing my Fantastic Four Modern Age deck.

There are many routes one can go down with Marvel’s First Family. However, the rules of this challenge helps to limit these options. I can’t go back and do Fantastic Fun since the deck must be Modern Age since that’s the most recent format that Fantastic Four has been featured in. Human Torch abuse won’t work since that requires off-team cards like Punisher or Random.

Fortunately, I had already decided to build a different deck when this affiliation came to mind. An unwritten rule of this Vs. Resolution is that a deck should be as thematic as possible. What could be more thematic for the Fantastic Four than a Family of Four deck? I personally can’t think of any. So, that is the deck I built.

The Great Vs. Resolution: Introduction

This past New Year’s I decided I wanted to make a New Year’s Resolution for once. However, I didn’t want to make a boring one like everything else. So, I went ahead and made one based on Vs. System.

What I did was lay down a challenge for myself. That challenge was to use MWS to build a deck for every single affiliation in Vs. System, play the deck, and then blog about it. By my count, there are 57 affiliations in Vs. System if one counts the unaffiliated. That alone is a challenge to build and play (needing a deck every week) but I’ve decided I want to make it even more fun by adding a few other guidelines.

Here are the rules that the decks for this challenge must abide by:

1. All character cards must have the affiliation for the deck printed on them. (AKA Mono decks only)

2. At least 50% of the non-character cards must be team-stamped or character-stamped to a character that has the printed affiliation.

3. All cards must be of the same universe as the affiliation of the deck (X-Men deck can only have Marvel cards, etc.)

4. All decks must be legal in the most recent format possible as of the time of the building (Teen Titans or Underworld must be Modern Legal since they are featured in Modern Legal decks, Sentinels or New Gods must be Golden Legal)

Written Unwritten Rule. Decks should be as thematic as possible and should use at least one of the affiliation’s primary themes.

If anyone would like to join me, let me know and we can trade notes or something .I have already started building decks although I haven’t been able to play many of them. If you ever see me on MWS (remember, username on there is Grievous) and I ask to play GA, remember this challenge. I won’t be building anything broken, I won’t be netdecking, so there is no need to fear if I ask for GA. You’ll also be helping me complete my challenge which should make you all warm and fuzzy inside.

With that all said and done, let the challenge begin!