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Golden Age Deck Discussion and Tier List
Topic Started: Mar 19 2013, 10:57 PM (3,694 Views)
SuperAzn
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Hey everyone, I'd like to start a new thread that give people decklists and information about decks in GA. The decks are in no particular order.


S+ Tier aka Broken Tier- a deck that is truly broken, generally these are only combo decks that are no longer possible due to bans and or erratas.

The Nick Fury Deck - most broken deck of all time. Allowed a player to effectively burn their opponent(s) to death on turn 3 with deadly consistency. This deck is no longer possible playing with post UDE Council rules. Nick Fury has received an unofficial errata and now can only target an opponents character.

Light Show - use Dr Light from DGL to make some sort of loops to gain infinite life or make infinite +1/+1 counters around turn 3-4. This deck is no longer possible, aside from bans, because Dr. Light has received an official errata and now can only activate his ability once per turn.

S Tier - these decks are generally the best since they can be played in a GA tourny with bans.

TNB(The New Brotherhood) - curve aggro - Brotherhood.
Crisis Doom - curve control - Doom - Dr.Doom Legend.
Exiles - curve - Exiles
Turn 4 Hulk - ??? - ???.
Turbo Thing - combo - Fantastic Four main, various splash.
Child Lock - combo - Fantastic Four main, various splash.

A Tier - great decks but they have a couple really tough matchups. Also may have specific cards that hate towards the decks goal such as Pathetic Attempt to TTG!

TTG(Teen Titans Go!) - curve toolbox - Teen Titans.
Spider-Stall - curve stall - Spider Friends.
AGL rush - curve aggro - Anti-Green Lantern.
X-Faces - off curve aggro - Xmen/Thunderbolts/Masters of Evil.

B Tier - and average deck that when the right cards are drawn makes it seem like A tier or above but really, these decks need far better opening hands and draws to come out with a win.

Xmen-tal - curve control - Xmen main, various splash teams.
The Brave and the Bold - curve toolbox - Teen Titans & Gotham Knights.
Sentinel Curve - curve - sentinels main, magneto/genosha splash possible.


C Tier - in a perfect world you would always draw a perfect hand, that's these decks. They're have many shortcomings and bad matchups with upper tier decks but they can pull out win if they draw the right cards.

Edited by SuperAzn, Mar 31 2013, 06:14 PM.
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It is hard to judge individual teams in a tier list since there is a huge variable in how they are built.

A good example is Titans. Old titans is a strong deck that loses to Pa/Omni/Lex.

Titans rebuilt for today with Only Human, Omnis, PAs, and Death of the Dreams is a tier higher.

Titans instantly loses to Omni, PA, and Lex if it doesn't deck answers and none of these cards are in "certain" decks they are splashed.

I like Ukyo'z Tier list. He has the teams teir'd but if they play any of these silver bullet cards it is instantly bumped to the top tier. So you don't tun into a fun Future Foes deck that mains 4 Omni haha.


Edited by Wallywest1988, Mar 20 2013, 04:05 AM.
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If your just listing for competitive gameplay than we can just assume every deck is playing Omni's and row hate if they go past turn 5.

GA Top tier -
Bosom Buddies (all the TOV/Black Box variants)
Crisis Doom
Migga City
Wolverine Direct
Quick Voltage
Spider-Stall

Just to name a few.

imo C tier would be teams like...
Legionnaires
Future Foes
Horseman of Apoc
Marauders
Starjammers
Runaways
Weapon X
Emerald Enemies

There a ton more I am forgetting and I am not sure if you planned to tier the teams that didn't get full features like Fearsome Five.

Just a start here though.




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Exiles S tier !!
Super legend A tier
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Hulk turn 4 kill s tier
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Mar 20 2013, 04:43 AM
Hulk turn 4 kill s tier
IMO Hulk was never at the highest tier. His killfast big swing was easily disrupted by anyway to bounce/KO/Stun/etc. the guy he swung on.

Any game you miss Miek or he gets KO'd b4 effect you won't ever attack something without reinforcement.

Just my 2 cents on it he would be in the tier below.

Even if it did get the big swing off. I am pretty sure Wolverine Direct can do the same amount of damage if not more on a double swing and a regular swing the turn before while being harder to disrupt.




Edited by Wallywest1988, Mar 20 2013, 05:54 AM.
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Wallywest1988
Mar 20 2013, 04:04 AM
It is hard to judge individual teams in a tier list since there is a huge variable in how they are built.

A good example is Titans. Old titans is a strong deck that loses to Pa/Omni/Lex.

Titans rebuilt for today with Only Human, Omnis, PAs, and Death of the Dreams is a tier higher.

Titans instantly loses to Omni, PA, and Lex if it doesn't deck answers and none of these cards are in "certain" decks they are splashed.

I like Ukyo'z Tier list. He has the teams teir'd but if they play any of these silver bullet cards it is instantly bumped to the top tier. So you don't tun into a fun Future Foes deck that mains 4 Omni haha.


This list is for competitive builds only, decks should be assumed they are playing silver bullets as well as bullet answers. I placed TTG in A tier based on ukyo's build playing all the answers, yes a few cards will change based on meta but again all decks should be assumed they are being played to the highest potential in an actual field of the best decks. Any other version should be considered C tier since its more of a casual build.
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Mar 20 2013, 04:12 AM
If your just listing for competitive gameplay than we can just assume every deck is playing Omni's and row hate if they go past turn 5.

GA Top tier -
Bosom Buddies (all the TOV/Black Box variants)
Crisis Doom
Migga City
Wolverine Direct
Quick Voltage
Spider-Stall

Just to name a few.

imo C tier would be teams like...
Legionnaires
Future Foes
Horseman of Apoc
Marauders
Starjammers
Runaways
Weapon X
Emerald Enemies

There a ton more I am forgetting and I am not sure if you planned to tier the teams that didn't get full features like Fearsome Five.

Just a start here though.




I'm more trying to tier decks, I only mentioned the ones I did to start the tiers and because they were quite easy to tier. Tiering teams is near impossible since so many teams go in so many directions. Some are great as splash or while teamed up while others are just better solo. No, this list is for GA decks.

Your top tier list is good but your C tier is just teams? Can I assume that these teams are just solo team decks? Or are you just saying these teams are C tier in general?

Also I'm unfamiliar with migga city and wolverine direct? Can you direct me to some list or write ups about them?
Edited by SuperAzn, Mar 20 2013, 12:10 PM.
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If we could get lists for these decks, I'd appreciate looking at them.
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I'll second what MrMaul said as I'm not familiar with the various names of decks or cards that are in them but I do enjoy putting them together and playing them against each other with the missus.
A link would be great and UKYO's blog obviously has an excellent deck list and how to play them that will cover a few of them, I'm sure a few have been mentioned and listed in the decks/strategy section.
Cheers Dave
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Mar 20 2013, 12:34 PM
If we could get lists for these decks, I'd appreciate looking at them.
I will work on getting lists for each deck as i update.

Thanks for the input!
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Mar 20 2013, 01:30 PM
I'll second what MrMaul said as I'm not familiar with the various names of decks or cards that are in them but I do enjoy putting them together and playing them against each other with the missus.
A link would be great and UKYO's blog obviously has an excellent deck list and how to play them that will cover a few of them, I'm sure a few have been mentioned and listed in the decks/strategy section.
Cheers Dave
I can def add links from ukyo's blog. As for how to play, hopefully each link will also provide a discussion of the deck, I don't want to jam a million things into this thread since its mainly just a list of decks and not an in depth breakdown of each deck within the list.

Worst case, we start discussion in this thread haha
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Mar 20 2013, 12:07 PM
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Mar 20 2013, 04:12 AM
If your just listing for competitive gameplay than we can just assume every deck is playing Omni's and row hate if they go past turn 5.

GA Top tier -
Bosom Buddies (all the TOV/Black Box variants)
Crisis Doom
Migga City
Wolverine Direct
Quick Voltage
Spider-Stall

Just to name a few.

imo C tier would be teams like...
Legionnaires
Future Foes
Horseman of Apoc
Marauders
Starjammers
Runaways
Weapon X
Emerald Enemies

There a ton more I am forgetting and I am not sure if you planned to tier the teams that didn't get full features like Fearsome Five.

Just a start here though.




I'm more trying to tier decks, I only mentioned the ones I did to start the tiers and because they were quite easy to tier. Tiering teams is near impossible since so many teams go in so many directions. Some are great as splash or while teamed up while others are just better solo. No, this list is for GA decks.

Your top tier list is good but your C tier is just teams? Can I assume that these teams are just solo team decks? Or are you just saying these teams are C tier in general?

Also I'm unfamiliar with migga city and wolverine direct? Can you direct me to some list or write ups about them?
The C tier was mostly just teams but realistically Future Foes doesn't go with anything to make it better than C tier so you can just put them in C as Future Foes.

Here is a list for Wolverine Direct, one of the more boring decks to play and play against.

// Creatures
1 [MUN] Blade, Independent Contractor {MUN}
4 [MUN] Speedball <> Penance, Painmonger {MUN}
4 [MUN] Life Model Decoy, More Human Than Human {MUN}
4 [MUN] Hank Pym <> Yellowjacket, Initiative Instructor {MUN}
4 [MUN] Lady Deathstrike, Opportunistic Killer {MUN}
4 [MUN] Wolverine, Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Hydra {MUN}
4 [MEV] Moonstar - Danielle Moonstar {MEV}

// Spells
3 [MCG] Pathetic Attempt {MCG}
4 [MVL] Adamantium Claws {MVL}
3 [EHB] B.P.R.D. Signal Device {EHB}
2 [MEX] Call in a Favor {MEX}
3 [DWF] Crackshot {DWF}
3 [EHB] Flying Kick {EHB}
4 [DOR] Mega-Blast {DOR}
4 [MVL] Mobilize {MVL}
1 [MHG] Cannibal Tech {MHG}
4 [MVL] Savage Beatdown {MVL}
4 [MUN] Trouble With Dinosaurs {MUN}

Throw attack pumps on Wolverine and attack twice on 4. This list probably needs a Samantha Parrington or two to help consistency and it would allow the deck to attack 3 times on 5 if needed.

Here is Migga City
// Lands
4 [MOR] Avalon Space Station {MOR}
3 [MOR] Lost City {MOR}
1 [MVL] Underground Resistance {MVL}
1 [DJL] Slaughter Swamp {DJL}
3 [MTU] Stark Tower, Team-Up {MTU}
1 [DCR] Dr. Fate’s Tower {DCR}

// Creatures
4 [DWF] The Penguin - Crime's Early Bird {DWF}
1 [DWF] Sondra Fuller <> Clayface - Mud Pack {DWF}
1 [DWF] Mad Hatter - Mad as a Hatter {DWF}
1 [MOR] Scarlet Witch-Wanda Maximoff {MOR}
4 [DJL] Poison Ivy, Deadly Rose {DJL}
3 [DOR] Harley Quinn-Dr. Harleen Quinzel {DOR}
3 [DOR] Mad Hatter-Jervis Tetch {DOR}
4 [MEV] Mystique - Raven {MEV}
1 [DGL] Two-Face, Split Personality {DGL}
1 [MOR] Magneto-Master of Magnetism {MOR}
1 [MXM] Anne-Marie Cortez-Acolyte {MXM}
1 [DCR] Jaime Reyes <> Blue Beetle - High-Tech Hero {DCR}
1 [MXM] Sabretooth-Savage Killer {MXM}
1 [MXM] Mystique-Freedom Force {MXM}
1 [DJL] The Joker, Headline Stealer {DJL}
2 [MOR] Blob-Fred Dukes {MOR}
1 [MVL] Juggernaut, Walking Disaster {MVL}

// Spells
4 [MCG] Pathetic Attempt {MCG}
4 [MXM] Enemy Of My Enemy {MXM}
4 [DJL] Straight to the Grave {DJL}
1 [DCR] Cloak Of Nabu - Fate Artifact {DCR}
2 [DWF] Usual Suspects {DWF}
1 [EHB] B.P.R.D. Signal Device {EHB}

It is pretty much the best Lost City variant. Combining the card recursion and Poison Ivy from arkham to make it a power house. Against other combat oriented decks this will usually win. It won the Golden Age King tournament beating TNNB. Pretty good.
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Mar 20 2013, 08:36 PM
I can def add links from ukyo's blog. As for how to play, hopefully each link will also provide a discussion of the deck, I don't want to jam a million things into this thread since its mainly just a list of decks and not an in depth breakdown of each deck within the list.

Worst case, we start discussion in this thread haha
I would say that knowing how to play a deck is just as important as knowing what goes in it. If you don't know what your deck is trying to do/what you need to be searching for/what your mulligan condition is/why you chose the cards you did you might as well not be playing the deck.

I ran a few games with mrmaul using the decks he's built for his history of golden age project and there was an ancient "gotham/doom control" deck list that I couldn't figure out for the life of me. I was familiar with Gamma Doom, Evil Medical School, and New School but this deck wasn't like any of those. Without knowing the direction that the deck wanted to go I might as well have been playing with a random pile of cards.
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I ran a few games with mrmaul using the decks he's built for his history of golden age project and there was an ancient "gotham/doom control" deck list that I couldn't figure out for the life of me. I was familiar with Gamma Doom, Evil Medical School, and New School but this deck wasn't like any of those. Without knowing the direction that the deck wanted to go I might as well have been playing with a random pile of cards.
Think I recently read an old PC report with that deck being played. If it's like Alfred+Boris first few turns, then basicly mono doom later turns till Psimon orso (not sure). But got a great setup of plot twists from the first turns. Seemed abit random to me too, but there are alot of decks that seem random or weird combo's in the first golden age events :D

Id even argue that knowing your deck is more important than the stack of cards itself. Specially if the deck has allot of options/awnsers/variety of plays. Some decks are ofcourse more simplistic and can be played propperly after one glance at the cards.
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