Archive for April 20, 2008

Puzzle Pieces #1: Not the Sonic Gun! Anything but that!

Posted in Vs. System on April 20, 2008 by kaleeshwarrior

In an attempt to get content onto this site for the day without kicking my younger brother off the only computer in the house with my Kree decklist on it, I’m going to go ahead and start a new semi-regular column. Hopefully this one sticks around longer than Game of the Galaxy (which I’ll get back to eventually).

Puzzle Pieces is all about putting together a bunch of random cards in order to do something fun and/or stupid. It’s all about random jankiness and all that other cool stuff.

So, we’re going to start out Puzzle Pieces with what is probably my absolute favorite jank combo. I would call it “Growing Man” but there’s already a character named that so it’d be confusing. Instead I shall call it “Weight of the World Crushing Your Head”. I love it in ways that are difficult to comprehend. This puzzle has 4 major cards that go into it and I’ll be listing them starting… now.

Josten is the central component to this combo (and the reason this combo and article have their respective names). He gets pretty big just by himself, going from 2/2 to 3/3 to 4/4 to 6/6 on and on. None of the other Thunderbolts characters I can think of have +1/+ counters as a power> However, there is an on-team way to speed Atlas’s growth.

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