Illuminati, House Metagame, State of the Site, and other ramblings

I haven’t posted one of my ramblings in a while so I figured I’d do so now since I don’t have any decks I want to talk about and I don’t get to unveil my preview until this Friday.

Oh yes, my preview. How I did jig when I found out I was getting a preview and how hard it was to keep quiet and wait until they actually sent me the scan. In fact, merely having the world find out that I’m getting a preview has caused my site hits to explode. 53 hits due to my blog being linked in Monday’s preview article. 53! On a day with no new articles other than my Inhumans from Sunday! Combine that with my standard readership of 40 or so hits a day and I’ve already made it to 100+ hits with 12 hours left in the standard WordPress “day”. Freaking awesome.

Anyways, Illuminati. I’ve always loved the Illuminati. My first major post on this blog was devoted to them. How they are being handled in Marvel Universe with at least one version each sharing the Infinity Watch affiliation (that is going to help my Resolution SO much when I build that team), there isn’t any need for team-ups to get them all together. The “shared legend” setup is incredible and awesome. The “exhaust X Illuminati members” ditty isn’t abusable with Clash of Worlds since it requires each exhausted member to have a different name, forcing you to at least run a few different members in your deck. Also, their uncommon search card is insanely awesome. Do you want Mightiest Heroes or Bat-Signal? The choice is yours. Oh, and Infinity Gauntlet is sweet.

Another thing that makes me incredibly happy about the Illuminati are the following announced characters and their costs: 1-drop Black Bolt (Black Bolt legend FTW!), 1-drop Professor X, and the 2-drop and 4-drop Dr. Strange. Strange now has a drop on every turn from 2 through 8 except for turn 3. Also, he was announced as getting a new plot twist “Essence of Zom”. Dr. Strange legend is totally going to be playable post-Marvel Universe and I know I’m going to do it the instant MUN is posted on MWS.

On an utterly different note…