The Great Vs. Resolution #16: Sinister Syndicate

After the past couple of happy fun time days of choosing and tweaking a deck for the Team Marvel vs. DC BYOS Modern tournament, its high time that I return to the meat and potatoes of this site which is the Vs. Resolution.

I’ve always been up front about one thing with me and comic books and that’s the fact that I don’t read ‘em. I rent the movies, I watch the television shows, I pick up the TPBs six months to a year after the comics are originally printed, and I research via the internet but I believe I can honestly say I’ve never picked up and skimmed an actual comic book.

One of the television shows I most remember watching back in the day was the old Fox Spider-Man cartoon that was on every Saturday morning. That show was great. You had all the classic Spider-Man villains, occasionally there was a neat crossover like when Punisher or Blade showed up, and there was always a big cohesive primary plot that tied through most of the episodes of each season.

Now, the thing I personally remember most about the Spider-Man villains was that they rarely worked together barring the times that the Sinister Six was chasing after ol’ Spidey or when Kingpin was hiring them to break poor Parker’s legs.

That’s why I never quite understood the rush theme of the current Sinister Syndicate. It involves swarming out with a bunch of guys, killing your own resources for pumps, and then burning yourself. I don’t see how that makes any sense (although the burn makes sense for the Symbiotes, no one else). The Spider-Man villains usually had some pretty tricky plots to catch Peter in their web and they usually didn’t just go and stab themselves to try and get at their nemesis.

That - along with a desire to do something off the wall - is why I built a CURVE Modern Age SinSyn deck. That’s right. Curve. Yes, I’m an idiot. However, does this idiot have a plan? Well, sorta.