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NYC Mega-Weekend
Topic Started: Apr 13 2013, 06:29 PM (1,430 Views)
Nazrat
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Under way with 11 people.

Decks played:
2 Avengers Reservist
2 Clown College (basically random punks EMS)
1 Squirrels Gone Wild
1 X-Faces
1 Morlocks
1 SinSyn Rush
1 Chicken Supreme
1 Manhunter Soldiers
1 Marauders

I'll get deck standing when the tourney is over!
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Nazrat
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After 4 rounds, we cut to top 4.
Top 4 decks:
X-Faces
Clown College
Avengers
Marauders

X-Faces vs Marauders
Clown College vs Avengers

The Clowns took the Avengers to school.
X-Faces ran out of steam and the Marauders went on a massacre.

In the end the Marauders burned down the college.

Marauders FTW!!
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Congrats, dude! A friend of mine told me you won with Marauders. We Marauders have to hold it down and stick together lol.
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Indeed! X-Faces went 4-0 in Swiss rounds, but didn't play me until top 4. It was very well put together! I can post the list for marauders later, ad I'll try to get at least top 4, if not all, the deck lists.
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Had a blast! Will def be around other tournys I can make.

Suprise suprise I was the X-Faces player lol.

4 beetle armorsmith
4 yelllowjacket Rita demara
4 archangel angel
1 green goblin insanity unleashed
1 speedball <> penance painmonger
1 blizzard frosty friend
1 forge the maker
1 Sunfire rising sun
1 speed demon whizzer
1 speed demon second chance speedster
1 longshot hero of mojoworld
1 cyclops slim
1 sage Xavier's secret weapon
1 sage earth 610
1 Melissa gold <> screaming Mimi Mimi Schwartz
1 Melissa gold <> songbird sonic carapace
1 joystick Janice yanizesh
1 iceman snowman
1 Dallas riordan mayoral aide
1 Nathan <> black knight corrupt crusader
1 cannonball blast field
2 blackbird blue
4 faces of evil
2 xmen united
3 invasion plans
4 losing the argument
4 pathetic attempt
3 death of the dream
4 birthing chamber
4 xcorp Amsterdam


Shoutouts at Iceman snowman. Death of the dream was the wrong tech, fastball special would've swung the marauders matchup more evenly, I saw 2 DotD's while playing but I also got lucky with how many pathetic attempts I drew. Other than that I would change the 1 drop speed demon and 3 drop sage if I brought this deck out again.


Pleasure to meet everyone.

Edited by SuperAzn, Apr 14 2013, 02:40 AM.
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Well, here it is folks!

Marauders!

4x Tempo
4x Mystique
2x Vertigo
4x Unuscione
3x Senyaka
4x Riptide
1x Blade, MUN
4x Random
4x Joanna Cargill
1x Invisible Woman, MUN
1x Harry Delgado,MXM

4x Sinister Disciples
4x Sovereign Superior
4x Nasty Surprise
4x Air Strike
3x Meltdown
3x Apokaliptian Hospitality

3x The Kyln
3x Construction Site

In hindsight, I should have run Stamford Incedent over Meltdown, but I was expecting people to bring Fate Suit, and that's a bad match up for me without them.
Edited by Nazrat, Apr 14 2013, 04:10 AM.
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The name Clown College is a play on the name of the deck that inspired it: Evil Medical School. We had been working on another random punks stall deck that had a turn 9 Dr. Light win-condition, but we felt that deck was far too slow and fragile so we wanted something that more proactively locked down your opponents characters. Robot Sentry and Shimmer seemed like the logical place to start. There ended up being some pretty massive changes made to compensate for the loss of all the rares (hence the Clown name), but the spirit of the deck remained the same: Doctor Doom, Doctor Light, and a supporting cast gang up to make your opponents characters turn sideways when they don't want to.

I piloted the version that missed top 4 (the mirror match did me in), but I'm fairly certain this is the list that my friend was playing:

CLOWN COLLEGE

Characters:

4x Moloids - Army
4x Robot Sentry-Army
4x Shimmer-Selinda Flinders
3x Silver Surfer - Skyrider of the Spaceways
2x Puppet Master-Philip Masters
1x Lacuna-Media Darling
1x Commissioner Gordon-James Gordon
4x Dr. Doom - Richards’s Rival
1x Dr. Doom - Sorcerous Savant
3x Dr. Light-Arthur Light
2x Aquaman, King of the Seven Seas
1x Dorma - Atlantean General

Locations:

1x 31st Century Metropolis - Team-Up

Plot Twists:

4x Vicarious Living
3x Mystical Paralysis
4x Press the Attack
4x Origin Story
3x Omnipotence
3x Marvel Team-Up
3x The Underworld Star
2x The Stamford Incident
2x For Great Justice!
1x Death of the Dream

My version of the deck had 5 Robot Sentrys and no DotD. This version was supposed to have 5 Sentrys as well but one got lost. My friend probably would have cut a Moloid in favor of the fifth Sentry since he wanted the option of resource destruction.

Our tech choices left a bit to be desired. In earlier builds we ran a copy of 5 drop Koriand'r from DCL as extra weenie hate, but somewhat fearful of the downside of including another large, off-team character we felt that the two Stamfords would be enough to get by. My friend missed her presence on at least one occasion. And, as mentioned earlier, nobody was running a fate suit so the Commissioner Gordon was a dead card.

This is a stall deck so it is reactive and has something of a fluid game plan based on what your opponent is playing. Ideally you want the odd initiative but you can survive if you get evens. The Robot Sentrys lock down your opponent's low drops on and off initiative. On init you exhaust their field with Shimmer. Off init you exhaust it with a combination of Puppet Master and Mystical Paralysis. On later turns you can stun your opponents characters with Dr. Light and Press the Attacks. Aquaman is your superstar finisher as he can get back anything at the start of combat. Ideally you get multiple Presses back, exhaust their field with Shimmer, and plow through their low drops that you've kept around this long by swinging multiple times with Aquaman and Press.

You should be able to eat curve and short curve decks alive with this deck, but swarm is more of an issue since you can't always exhaust all their guys and you need to keep your field around to be effective. Stamford is very valuable if they are reliant on a lot of 1 drops. You don't mind discarding your entire hand as long as you have a Silver Surfer on the board to set up your draw for the rest of the game. If you're worried about something running lots of 2s you'll have to find space for a Koriand'r.

The other tech is pretty basic. Use Omni to lock out their best character/plot twist if you recognize the type of deck they're playing or just call PA/DotD if you're worried about them negating your effects or messing with your row. For Great Justice! is if you end up against some sort of burn deck (or a rush deck you fail to contain initially). You can pretty easily gain 5 or 6 endurance off of one of them which can sometimes buy you an extra turn or two.

Your biggest weaknesses are out of combat stun, row disruption, and deck manipulation. Cards like Hawkeye and Riptide (especially Riptide) can make your life miserable by stunning your Shimmer off initiative or making your Surfer lose his counter. Riptide is the #1 reason this deck loses to Marauders. Usually you can deal with Hawkeye by calling him with Omni without too much of a hassle. Row hate hurts you by blowing up your Omnis and also because you run the old school Marvel Team-Up so you can tutor it with Lacuna. Since it is not technically a team-up card, it's vulnerable to pretty much everything under the sun. Lastly you have cards like Prankster and Manhunter Clone that can destroy your plans of stacking your deck with Silver Surfer. This sucks because Surfer is how you plan to stockpile Presses and hit your higher drops (especially your off-team win condition Aquaman).

In spite of its flaws, this deck should give you a pretty good matchup against the decks we see as the non-Ratcather based "Big Three" in this format: TNNB, Avengers reservist, and No Hand Squadron. It also has the slots and tricks to deal with a good number of other decks if you have a good sense of what your meta will be. Hopefully you all enjoy this deck, we had a fun time building it.
Edited by OMB, Apr 14 2013, 06:35 AM.
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I had fun yesterday guys. Brought back some good old memories. I really wanted to play you Nazrat with my morlocks deck. But it got so crowded at the end and you guys left already.... Looking forward to the next event!
Edited by kevmac3685, Apr 15 2013, 01:28 PM.
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We should do something like quarter yearly box tournaments. Get 8 people to pitch in for 2 boxes of something and we just meet up and play.

18/12/6/4/2/2/2/2 = 48 for prizes
Or
12/7/4/3/1/1/1/1 = 30 for prizes and 18 for draft.
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Speaking of 8 people tournaments. If there are 7 others willing to do something crazy and you got about an extra $103 laying around/willing to part with, I have an awesome proposal. PM me for details
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@Kevmac
Sorry about that.. I wanted to play, but it was getting to crowded, and we had a long drive home.. Plus I wasn't feeling too good. Next time though, and we can use rares if you want! I warn you though, Marauders was built to massacre Morlocks.. Lol

@Superazn
PM'ed, and if we can't get a turnout for these "Mega-Weekend" tournaments, and people don't pre-reg until the last second.. I don't know if we'll have any luck getting people to do this quarterly.. Even if its just 8 people, that would probably be more localized than a big tourney...
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Hey everyone, this is Brian, who took avengers reservist to top 4 at the mega weekend! The tournament was a blast, and i defended my home as best as i could, but couldn't do it well enough it seems. my losses were to x-faces (misplay on my part) and to Clown College. so, without further ado, here is the deck.

4 Rick jones 1 drop
4 iron fist 1 drop
4 captain america 2 drop
4 natasha romanoff - black widow
4 black panther
4 quicksliver 3 drop
4 carol danvers - warbird
4 hawkeye 4 drop
3 sub mariner 5 drop
1 she hulk
4 wonder man 6 drop
7 hercules (marvel avengers one)

4 heroes in reserve
4 call down the lightning
4 the big three
4 no mans escapes the manhunters.

And, thats the deck, in a nutshell. any questions about card choices, feel free to ask.
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@kevmac, beserkerbob and crunchy
Can you post the lists you guys played at the tourney, so everyone can see what was played?
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A dozen in NYC?

So for those of you who didn't attend this well planned in advance event, I ask why, and not to be nasty, really just to understand what happened is happening.

Is it time of year? Location? Transportation? Lack of disposable income? Lack of interest, cards, decks?

I live 3000 miles away, not a great excuse but its all I have.

It looks like it was great fun for those who made it, and I love the deck lists, I'm being inspired to build a few more treats for my friends.
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A dozen in NYC?

So for those of you who didn't attend this well planned in advance event, I ask why, and not to be nasty, really just to understand what happened is happening.

Is it time of year? Location? Transportation? Lack of disposable income? Lack of interest, cards, decks?

I live 3000 miles away, not a great excuse but its all I have.

It looks like it was great fun for those who made it, and I love the deck lists, I'm being inspired to build a few more treats for my friends.
QFT

I'm currently going through a really tough time with my wife, my mortgage, my oldest son (major health problems at 5 years old, and already had brain surgery..). In addition my boss dropped his job in my lap for last week and this coming week, which means I had full responsibility for everything that happens in the store for those 2 weeks, and the employees there are either brand new (still don't know how to do a lot) or aren't that good at their jobs.. And that doesn't say anything about my own major health problems, and the fact that I broke a tooth the day before the event and was in terrible pain from an exposed nerve in my mouth all day Saturday...

I planned this tournament a good 6 months in advance, give everyone ample time to test, and free your schedules.

I'm planning one more tournament in the fall. I'll have an exact date by the end of the week (need to talk to the shop owner). It will be held at Games and Stuff in Glen Burnie, which is just south of Baltimore. If the turn out there is just our play group plus 4-5, I'm going to be done planning and organizing these tournaments. I go through a lot of work to set these things up, and spend time I dont have trying to promote it everywhere I can. So I you truly love and support this game, live in the Mid-Atlantic area, and want this community to grow, I believe that you should be attending these tournaments. I would like to thank Brian from New York, as he's been a great help in trying to get the New York group together, as well as my play group here in MD for having my back and helping me get these things running.

Here's where I end my rant. Sorry for the wall of text, but I was extremely disappointed with the turn out yesterday.. I was expecting almost double what we had..
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