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We're Traveling through time - a NH tournament report
Topic Started: Aug 23 2010, 03:52 PM (395 Views)
Orange_Soda_Man
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Hey guys, just thought I'd let you know about how my get together went. We had 6 people, including two new people! Many of my regulars from previous years who expressed great interest in attending couldn't attend.

The agenda was to play Golden Age with 8 proxies and to have the DSM-2 Draft afterwards. Unfortunately, mail service wasn't flash-like and I had to make my own gametext. Double-unfortunately, there was no place around that would print at 1 in the morning. So I had to wait until 9am to do this in time for a noon GA start time and afterwards would be draft so if I managed to finish games quickly I could continue working on it.
Didn't happen.

So, Golden Age. First, my decklist:
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4 Boris MVL
1 Black Thorn
2 Beast MEV
2 Mimic 2-drop
1 Dr. Doom MHG
4 Mr. Fantastic MUL
1 The Captain
1 Abyss MAA
1 Dr. Doom, DG
1 Garth, Tempest
1 Black Manta
1 Batman, Cape and Cowl
1 Dr. Fate <> Hector Hall
2 Galactus
1 The Beyonder

4 Underground Movement
4 Enemy of my Enemy
4 Mobilize
4 Pathetic Attempt
1 Have a Blast!
1 Omnipotence
1 Time Thief
1 Electra Situation
1 A Proud Zinco Product
2 Mystical Paralysis
4 Carrying the Torch

4 The Triskellion
1 Panoptichron
1 New Baxter Building

3 Time Platform
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Round 1 vs Scott Hamilton running DiG
If you've been keeping up in the deckbuilding forum, you might know that I've been trying to rework the deck. I honestly think I got it. First round was against Scott, and he was playing DiG (Doom/Injustice Gang). Sexy Lexxy bogged me down a little, but the bigger problem would have been if I hadn't Have a Blast!ed his team-up because Doom preventing me from using plots would suck. If he hadn't pointed out the lack of doom friends on his board when he went to disrupt my combo, Meltdown-ing a Time Platform. I wouldn'tve realized it. I managed to get the Time Platform on Doom with me at 5 endurance and him at 50 on turn 5. I did this for the next three turns as well. He finally found someone who can do damage to me out of combat, and he lowered me to zero before my recruit step on turn 8. Incoming Jank-Combo!:
I play Time platform, noting my endurance at zero to his 50. I zinco away my time platform to go to 2. I triskellion time platform back, re-equip it, shift mimic into play and use triskellion twice in a row before resolution of either instance to end up with Beyonder and Galactus in my hand. If it weren't for timing out, Galactus would have come out on turn 10 but because turn 9 was the final turn Scott had the Pathetic Attempt for him.
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Round 2 vs Christian Carman running Fan4 Origins
The engine was on full cylinders this game, with multiple Pathetic Attempts in the ready for opposing Have a Blast. I won the roll and chose evens so that if he dropped thing that I could re-recruit on 7. That's exactly what happened, his other thing was in his resource row and he couldn't figure out a way to kill his own Thing. I love playing decks that make people change their perspective on how to win the game - against what other deck could ko-ing your own guy make any sense? Like if he had an Avalon Space Station to get him back and re-use him on 7.
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Round 3 vs Alex Lasky running Moloids Zazzala
He killed me the turn I set up, but I had no way to find Beyonder. He burned me pretty bad with the +1/+1 counter ongoing card and tattooed man DGL with Zazz in play.
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Honestly I feel like it wasn't an issue with the deck running, so that is a major improvement from the games I've played before with the deck.

Metagame:
1 Time Platform
1 Moloids
1 DiG
1 Fan4
1 Hulk
1 Spider-Man/Moon knight
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After Golden Age, we went a few doors down for some Chinese buffet. Barring some of us acting like 5 year olds about lobster balls and other potty talk, we managed to vote on drafting Heralds and we did that 4 packs each.

1st pick 1st pack, foil wolverine 3-drop vs Elemental Converters
I wish I took Skranucklehead, but Elemental Converters seemed like the stronger card should I go Heralds.

I then found out the two seats to my right went Heralds, the seat to my left went Inhumans, their left went Kree and Alex Lasky built what might as well have been his constructed deck from earlier.

I ended up playing Infinity Watch/Inhumans. Gamora 3-drop seemed really good, and I got 3 of her. Also got Karnak, Armageddon, Doom 6 and the 7-drop rare that lets you re-play plot twists. Should I survive the midgame it seemed pretty good that I would be able to have a strong lategame. I died in the midgame every round >_<

Also Sub-Mariner 4-drop is much better than I ever imagined, especially when the drafter gets 6 moloids, plenty of the army 2/3-drops and a playset of armies of doom.
Edited by Orange_Soda_Man, Aug 23 2010, 04:29 PM.
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Thanks for the write up even if the games didnt go your way. Your deck sounds like a hole in one deck. Things may not always go your way but you have fun playing it, and when its running on all cylinders and you get that "hole in one" man are you having fun
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My Name is Happy Gillmore lol
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