League of Negatives + Aqua-Mystique Goes Off Big!

I’ve recently taken advantage that neil04 of Darkseid Revenge has put all the previewed Marvel Universe cards into an MWS set and have begun building decks with the 1/5th or so MUN cards we have access to. In particular, I’ve built the following crappy Negative Zone/League of Assassins deck.

Double Negative

League of Assassins/Negative Zone

Silver Age

Characters:
4x Alpha Primitives – Army
4x Novice Assassin, Army

4x Hassim, Loyal Retainer

4x Thanos, The Mad Titan
2x The Mad Dog, Rabid Killer

4x Merlyn, Direct Hit Man
2x Syphonn – Energy Leech

4x Annihilus, Anti-Matter Master

3x David Cain, World Class Assassin

2x Blastaar, The Living Bomb Burst

Plot Twists
4x Enemy Of My Enemy
4x The Demon’s Head

Locations:
4x Mountain Stronghold, Non-Unique
4x StarkTower – TEAM-UP
4x Unstable Ground
3x Negative Zone, Non-Unique<>Prison Alpha
2x Negative Zone, Non-Unique<>Gateway
2x Negative Zone – Shadow Dimension

Short version: Play Thanos, use Merlyn/Cain’s effects to replace Unstable Ground, bring another Unstable into play via Thanos, begin looping for roughly 8 burn a turn. This is just a real rough thing that justs uses the two MUN Negative Zones that have been released. It’s unlikely to last past the 10th .

On an unrelated note, check out what happens when you get a decent draw with Roguer’s Aqua-Mystique deck I talked about awhile ago.

85 points of attack on turn 6 FTW!

Actually, to be honest, I lost that match. Stupid free reinforcement from Invisible Woman and stupid bricked attack into Doctor Strange… The 85 attack points were gained by recruiting 3-drop Magneto and three Sea Creatures followed by double Genosha. This left me with the following amazingness: 3x Common Bond (with the required three 2-drops for max effect), 3x The Next Brotherhood, and 3x Forward Assault. That’s 60 points of attack pumps.

And I still lost. Hurray for me!

Congratulations to Vs. Hero(es) of the Month!

After just getting done reading the announcement in this preview article. Just wanted to send out a big “Congrats” to the men behind The Ring Has Chosen podcast: Cliff and Squire. While I’ve admittedly fallen out of practice listening to the shows since the Chicago Megaweekend episode, I know they totally deserve this award. No one works harder for Vs. System than these two. Great work, guys!

On a side note, apparently this blog is good enough to get a mentioning in the runners-up list for last month. Seriously? Thanks a ton to TBS and whoever else decides this award. I personally think there are many better blogs out there but, hey, I’ll take props and free advertisement.

Lastly, Fin Fang Foom. Awesome janky card. Now if I can just figure out a combo with him… (note: 8-drop Dr. Strange doesn’t work. I tried.)

The Great Vs. Resolution #20: New Gods

Bah! I should have had this up yesterday. Oh well.

New Gods. A name that strikes fear into every Vs. System player’s hear— wait. That’s not right, is it? From the top.

New Gods. A name that strikes laughter into every Vs. System player’s heart. Introduced in the Superman: Man of Steel set (widely considered one of the worst sets ever), the New Gods pretty much never saw any real competitive play. Why is that?

Here’s why: No. Freaking. Theme. The New Gods actually have some pretty nice cards in there bag of tricks. However, there is no true cohesiveness to the team and that is why they often fail. That, and most of their cards are just plain average at best which, combined with lack of theme, makes them fail. No wonder DC has killed all these guys off…

But there’s a twist to this article and the deck list you’ll see below. A twist I never anticipated while in the building process. A twist that most likely can be attributed to sheer luck but is quite the twist nonetheless. A twist I didn’t believe until it happened not once, not twice, but three times in a row: The New Gods can win.