Man i just cant get over how crazy the build is...
or maybe i've simply become so accustomed to seeing r-squad being a whole big pile of SUCK for so long i just dont want to stop the feeling.
We'll go with option B.
Anyhow, here's the list. (and yes it's golden age)
TaskForce: Revenge
Characters: 32
2x Winslow Schott <> Toyman, Childs Play
2x Hope
4x Sue Dibny, Charismatic co-ordinator
2x Ted Kord <> Blue Beetle, Heir of the Scarab
1x Brainiac 13, mental Giant
4x Terra Man
2x Booster Gold
2x Mr. Mxyzptlk, Fifth Dimension Imp
1x Atomic Skull, Joe Martin
2x Maxwell Lord, Financier
4x Professor Emil Hamilton <> Ruin
2x Joseph Jones <> General Glory
2x Maxima, Empress of Almerac
2x Martian manhunter, J'ohn J'onzz
Plot Twists: 28
4x justice League Task-force, Team-up
2x Dimensional Deal, Team-up
4x Battle for Metropolis
4x Toy Soldiers
4x Mob Mentality
2x In Evil Star's Evil Clutches
4x Executive Privelege
4x UN General Assembly
Now let me paint a picture for you.
...oh god, Here it comes
no, Not THAT picture.
Anyways, it's turn 4, your initiative. you have 1 Prof emil you salvaged from last turn, a Task-force team-up, a battle for metro and a mob mentality. You set, say, toy soldiers.
So you throw down a boosted booster gold, then recruid Sue dibny, flip the team-up and fetch terra man, and then recruit him, and then finish off with mr. Mxyzptlk for free. And then you form up completely in the front row. Battle for ,metro is that good!
Anyways, You just threw down 4 characters on turn 4 and one of them thinks it is a 4 drop. So your first swing is the obvious one, emil into the opposing 3 for a stunback, heck maybe a 4 if there is a mob mentality in hand, either way, its mutual stun and he trashes the face up mob in your resource row for another Toy soldiers, flipping it up.
Now your 2 drop terra man swing on the opposing 4, at... 9/8. if you avoid the stunback its all money, then mr mxy takes a bit out of the 2, and in most cases decks dont run a 1 drop, assuming this, your sue and booster will team swing direct for 12 damage from a 1 and a 2 drop. Oh yeah, and you potentially did it all with only having 1 character stun.
This is also assuming you get blown out on turn 3 with only 1 piece of board presence.
We like to call that RESILIENCE.
(for those taking notes, resilience is good!)
this isn't event best case scenario, i've had instances where i was able to stack my row with a team-up, a toy soldiers and 2 battle for metros with 7 characters in play on turn 5. (thats +4+1 on my offense to all attacking characters for a guanranteed minimum of +28 attack staring you down and a +5+1 on each team attacker for even more pain.) and unlike faces of evil, these pumps apply to all my characters regardless of drop.
Since the premiseof the deck is "turn my dudes sideways" i'm hoping i've combined simplicity and effectiveness for sucess in the summer of love. But in the end i'm most exited not to have doom in my bracket, AND i don't think i've seen any Flametraps in ANY of the builds submitted.
WOOT!
I'm just overexited at 6am and cant sleep.
Till next time.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Sunday, August 10, 2008
DCU Preview: Deadshot, Twisted
Hey all! Remember me?
Who?
...har har. funny.
Nothing pulls my lazy back-to schoolin ass back into the blogosphere like a preview! Sure its for the custom DCU set I played a little part in. But it doesn't feel any less exiting!
Who loves curve killers?
Oh I do! I do!
Heh, thought so. I recall people scrambling to abuse divinity back in the day, Even now, Punisher, guns blazing is a mainstay in the silver-age lineup. More recently, after the arrival of the Silver surfer's surfboard I've seen a rise in decks abusing a morg/silver surfer turn 5 to clean out the opposing field, And now ladies and gents, I give you the BOMB-DIGGITY of the KO world.
Seriously.
Meet Deadshot.
...dear sweet tubby cheeks of Buddha!
erm... yeah. that was pretty much my impression too. Without the Buddha part though.
So lets take a look at some ways to abuse him. The first thing I notice is that his wording reads WHENEVER. Now to me it might as well read:
"I DARE you to break this card. Really. I frikkin DARE you. I'll bet you cant make everyone refer to a deck named after me! hahaha! Go ahead and try!"
...or something like that anyways.
Wow. Distracted much?
Hush now strange voice.
So lets say we managed a teen titans crossover for him to have a bit of fun and games with say, a teen titans go, and maybe an overwhelming force? That's two dead victims there officer. I mean even with the heralded Punisher, we needed 2 equipments on him for his effect to go online, Deadshot only needs the discard. And in the DCU card pool KO is now spelled D-E-A-D-S-H....
Oh get a life. of course they know the joke. you're literally spelling it out for them.
Oh yeah. his natural stats stun most 5 drops, at the cost of a low defense.
I was going to say that. Stupid frikkin voice in my head. Low defense barely matters though. He's a concealed-only character. HA! Beat you to that one.
Congratulations, you outwitted the voice in your head. Here's a cookie.
mmmmmm.... chocolate chip....
Fine, you take it from here. So anything to consider if you want to run this card?
Well be aware that it has a Loyalty-Reveal keyword. So that can get sticky sometimes. Plan accordingly.
mmommph choomp ommm nom... *gulp* tell them about Underground movement.
*sigh* Obviously players can skirt loyalty issues by running Crisis on infinite earths, Underground movement and similar team-up cards that grant character cards you OWN a particular affiliation. Wich in my opinion would make Deadshot One of the most sought after splashes ever to see cardboard.
Well, except this is a custom set, so he won't ever actually SEE cardboard. Anyway, Once this is all ready to rock, I'll be looking for the rest of you to rock this set with me on Magic Workstation sometime this fall! Perhaps this was just what I needed to get my mildly schitzophrenic self posting regularly again! Take care everyone!
HA! he said Mild! Yeah ok, we'll go with that. MILD. Don't worry thats MILD cyanide sir. My old dog? No she's just MILDLY dead...
Oh shut up already.
Pwnt.
...whatever.
Peace guys! Enjoy the card!
Who?
...har har. funny.
Nothing pulls my lazy back-to schoolin ass back into the blogosphere like a preview! Sure its for the custom DCU set I played a little part in. But it doesn't feel any less exiting!
Who loves curve killers?
Oh I do! I do!
Heh, thought so. I recall people scrambling to abuse divinity back in the day, Even now, Punisher, guns blazing is a mainstay in the silver-age lineup. More recently, after the arrival of the Silver surfer's surfboard I've seen a rise in decks abusing a morg/silver surfer turn 5 to clean out the opposing field, And now ladies and gents, I give you the BOMB-DIGGITY of the KO world.
Seriously.
Meet Deadshot.
...dear sweet tubby cheeks of Buddha!
erm... yeah. that was pretty much my impression too. Without the Buddha part though.
So lets take a look at some ways to abuse him. The first thing I notice is that his wording reads WHENEVER. Now to me it might as well read:
"I DARE you to break this card. Really. I frikkin DARE you. I'll bet you cant make everyone refer to a deck named after me! hahaha! Go ahead and try!"
...or something like that anyways.
Wow. Distracted much?
Hush now strange voice.
So lets say we managed a teen titans crossover for him to have a bit of fun and games with say, a teen titans go, and maybe an overwhelming force? That's two dead victims there officer. I mean even with the heralded Punisher, we needed 2 equipments on him for his effect to go online, Deadshot only needs the discard. And in the DCU card pool KO is now spelled D-E-A-D-S-H....
Oh get a life. of course they know the joke. you're literally spelling it out for them.
Oh yeah. his natural stats stun most 5 drops, at the cost of a low defense.
I was going to say that. Stupid frikkin voice in my head. Low defense barely matters though. He's a concealed-only character. HA! Beat you to that one.
Congratulations, you outwitted the voice in your head. Here's a cookie.
mmmmmm.... chocolate chip....
Fine, you take it from here. So anything to consider if you want to run this card?
Well be aware that it has a Loyalty-Reveal keyword. So that can get sticky sometimes. Plan accordingly.
mmommph choomp ommm nom... *gulp* tell them about Underground movement.
*sigh* Obviously players can skirt loyalty issues by running Crisis on infinite earths, Underground movement and similar team-up cards that grant character cards you OWN a particular affiliation. Wich in my opinion would make Deadshot One of the most sought after splashes ever to see cardboard.
Well, except this is a custom set, so he won't ever actually SEE cardboard. Anyway, Once this is all ready to rock, I'll be looking for the rest of you to rock this set with me on Magic Workstation sometime this fall! Perhaps this was just what I needed to get my mildly schitzophrenic self posting regularly again! Take care everyone!
HA! he said Mild! Yeah ok, we'll go with that. MILD. Don't worry thats MILD cyanide sir. My old dog? No she's just MILDLY dead...
Oh shut up already.
Pwnt.
...whatever.
Peace guys! Enjoy the card!
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