So, I am thinking. I am never going to get around to posting the rest of my DHQ set in preview style, so here it is.

The raw, unedited (totally, like from the first draft) of DHQ. So, be warned, some of these will be powerful.

http://s147.photobucket.com/albums/r313/lordoflimbo/DHQ/?start=0

Ok, so two weeks left.

In just two whole weeks I will be able to play a deck that I have wanted to play since MHG.

MONO INFINITY WATCH.

Now, if your a regular reader, you will know about how I feel about this deck.

So, you must understand how it upsets me so that I will not in fact be able to make it to the tournament.

Correct.

I am working, and there is LITERALLY nobody who can swap shifts with me. My only hope is that I can get a new job, and I start, before next Friday. Which is … unlikely to say the least.

So, there is no need for me to keep my decklist a secret anymore. So here goes.

My Black Bolt deck now has a record of 7-1!

Last Night the endurance totals were…49 to -11 On turn 4!!!

The most current list of it looks like this

Black Bolt.dec:

Originally Posted by lordoflimbo 1x Alpha Primitive, Army 1x Apokoliptian Zealots, Army 1x Bette Kane <> Flamebird, Reflex Action 4x Black Bolt, Enemy Within 1x Bumblebee, Sonic Sting 1x Cammi, Annoying Sidekick 1x Cheetah, Feral Feline 1x Chemo, Toxic Waste 1x Crippler, Carl Striklan 1x Dawn Granger <> Dove, Avatar of Order 1x Destiny, Doomsday Diarist 1x Doctor Faustus, Johann Fennhoff * RAID 1x Duela Dent <> Harlequin, The Joker’s Daughter 1x Dum-Dum Dugan, Howling Commando 1x Frank Drake, Nightstalker 1x Green Goblin, Insanity Unleashed 1x Halo, Gabrielle Doe 1x Haywire, Suicidal Lover 1x Iron Fist, Secret Avenger 1x Lady Blackhawk, Zinda Blake 1x Lockjaw, Inhuman’s Best Friend 1x Klaw, Sonic Construct 1x Mad Hatter, Mad as a Hatter 1x Maggie Sawyer, Gotham Central 1x Professor X, Mutant Benefactor 1x Ray Palmer <> The Aton, Tiny Titan 1x Slyde, Jalome Beacher 1x Surveillance Pawn, Army 1x Terry Sloane <> Mr. Terrific, Golden Age Gold Medalist 1x Uatu the Watcher, He Who Watches 4x The Hook-Up, Team-Up 4x The Illuminati 2x Losing the Argument 4x Superhuman Registration Act, Team-Up 4x Teen Supremes 2x Mind Gem, Infinity Gem * Unique 4x Quantum Bands, Unique 3x Birthing Chamber 1x The Great Refuge, Non-Unique

It has been crazy fun to play. I am playing with 2 proxies of Superhuman Registration act, but I am almost there with gettin those.

I don’t often like to blow my own trumpet, but as Captain Spud said “This deck is full of win.”

What’s that? MORE good news?

My mono Infinity Watch is currently unbeated at 6-0!

Thats right. MONO INFINITY WATCH. It is lacking some serious cards, like a Thanos 6 and a decent finisher, but as of yet I don’t have anything past Adam Warlock. The most impressive thing is, is that it doesn’t run any Illuminati plot twists other than Secret Government.

Currently it has beaten:

Squadron Supreme

HOG/NZ/LOA out of combat stun/location abuse deck.

Secret Avengers

Young Avengers

Avengers/Shield Concealed

Black Bolt.dec (Iron Man says win)

I have not been this happy with my latest decks for a long long time.

I was supposed to write about a few more DHQ cards yesterday, but life got in the way, and it could be a while before I put them up.

I should expect them, alond with various other cards from the set in a few days time.

Also, quick side note. I have updated the Black Bolt list, and it is hella fun to play.

So, sorry for the late post today, I was working while 0100…TIRED.

So, today I have two more cards from the DHQ exclusives set.

Yeah.

Hmm.

I wanted an INSANE effect, without being an insanity effect. She is insane, but not you know. Insane. Is that enough insanes for you?

I don’t think there is much I can really say about this. Other than she will be the finisher for the deck. Unless you want to wait for £&$^(%&£ … Hmm, I wondered what happened there? You’ll just have to wait and see who else you could finish with.

Ok, I know the wording of him is a little funky. But since Carrying the Torch is around I wanted to make sure that I put another to stop him from being able to reset himself.

So, I wanted a Joker that showed how expendable Harley is to him and that he doesn’t really care for her, but he does give her strength and drive.

One thing you may notice about this The Joker is range. Every time we see the Joker he has a gun, or something that lets him attack from a distance, and he should. Have. Range.

I really like the synergy that this card allows with some of the other Harleys that will be revealed over the course of this month, and this is one of my proudest creations.

So, check back tuesday for some Ivy goodness that I know you have been crazing for.

So last night was doubles night.

Me and my best friend Phill played in the Golden Age Legend doubles tournement over in loughborough, with us we took Multiple Man and Captain America. We drove down with Chewitt and Rob who were taking Punisher and Kang.

So we get there I manage to get 2 SRA’s putting my total up to … 2, but only two to go.

So we go into game one. Against Scott and Dave(Bungo_Underhill). My partner Phill says “So, how does this doubles work?”

…

There is about a minute of silence.

…

I had thought we had played a few games of with him. Turns out, not so much.

Damn it! Turn one Boris and SHIELD Agent Hits play. In testing we were weak against rush, because we couldn’t build up a sufficient enough board to be able to do out thing. Dave goes on to play nothing until turn 4, where as Scott plays a few more Agents, Cape Killers and of course Squirrel Girl. Turn 5 an Dave plays Abra Kadabra… Ah…DIG, though I don’t worry as we pounded him for 30+ endurance on turn 4. Turn 6 and Phill has his Captain America building up a surprising amount of concealed characters, Dreadnought tank seriously decreases out board, and doom Pystically Paralyses Nightcrawler. Grr. Well, it’s to be expected. A Legendary battles later, and quicksilver clears up with the help of lots of Multiple Men.

1-0, and since I was expecting reign and MP to ruin my day, we did surprisingly well.

Game 2. This time we are at a disadvantage from the get go. Out game to a long time. A LONG time. People were crowded around, so EVERYONE knew what we were playing. So, we go in blind. Blake and Fumo(What is real name is I have no Idea). Early turns reveal a Ra’s / Iron Man Legend. SHITE, I was expecting extremis upgrade to make my cry. Well it didn’t. We pound them for a surprising amount on turn 3, and then turn 4 is just a reinforcement rectangle.

We go in to turn 5 with a LARGE board, and I have Nightcrawler, Wasp and 2 Legendary Battles. I am feeling rather confident and in the space of a second I want to cry, shit myself and hit Fumo. Tower of bastard Babel,(In hindsight I do not know how I didn’t see this coming) I honeslty can think of ANY time(not with rob) that I have wanted to punch somebody quite so much. We lose this game. In style.

1-1

So, we go up against the Husband of Wife combo, Derek and Le-wen. TUUUURRRD. They’re both playing Avengers. What there legends were I still don’t know. We exchange a few Natasha Stuns, a few very awkward turns, then it comes. Out initiative. Turn 5, 3 legendary battles in hand, and both Nightcrawler and Quicksilver on the board along with a Wasp and a playroom just for fun. Then, before they even lay their resources, I think back to the last game. Turn 5 is when we get shafted, and giving that I got a sneak peak at their decks at the end of the last round while they were finishing, I remember Spider-Man. This guy could really upset me. They talk. A lot, and we have no idea what they are planning. They seem to have this very complex plan abrewing. Le-wen annouces Spider-Man’s ability, target Wasp? That’s right, I could have lent over and kissed her (if her husband wasn’t there), I play 3 legendary battles and we manage to get them from 30-Something, to minus 62? I think? Phill did the maths, and I trust him on it.

2-1. Boom.

I was hoping for another round for me to kick some ass in, but it was not to be.

Who won it? Not Dave!!! Blake and Fumo, Iron Man and Ra’s Al Ghul win the tournement.

I also have a few little things to say, not on the doubles.

They caught one of the dudes that mugged me and he is in the clink for at least 2 years for armed assault. YAY!

So, as part of Arkham Month I will be putting up part of my fantasty exclusive set. 27 cards, like the previous DCX and MAA.

This set will revolve around my favourite DC character Harley Quinn.

Let’s get on with the first card shall we?

Since this is the first card I figured I would show you one of my favourite cards. Home Again.

So home again, lets look at it from a flavour perspective.

When our Harley gets caught she gets sent lock up again in arkham, and you never know which Harley will re-emerge. Will it be Mr. J’s Girl? Will it be the best friend of Poison Ivy? Will it be the Clown Queen of Crime?

I would like to go into much detail, but there is very little I can say about this card.

Next card then I suppose.

That’s right, legendary Poison Ivy, because lets face it. She has earned it.

I like this as it is very reminiscant of the World’s Finest cards, and while I dont like the deck. I really liked the way that they worked together.

This clearly, shows the support that a friend can give you in a time of need. I pondered over what the threshold for this should be, and I am still a little unsure as to whether this is a reasonable level. Maybe it should have been a 3? To be perfectly honest though, if you have Harley and Ivy out by turn two, how much difference is one recovery going to make on turn 2?

Next card. Yes that’s right, today as it is the first day, you get a BONUS card. A whole other card for your pleasure.

See you saturday for two more cards!

So. Since they announced the Illuminati I have been dying to try a Black Bolt deck, legend or no.

The Enemy Within is without a doubt my favourite Black Bolt.

I have been looking at him today, and have tried to build a deck. Though I am not sure how it will work … yet.

My plan is to play the Superhuman Registration Act and as many one drops as I can. Though my plans were somewhat thwarted when I re-read ‘I Got ‘Em All’ all the way through the planning stages I was planning on using this to ready him.

Now, I could adjust my deck to run plenty of 2’s as well. But that would make him smaller, as I wouldnt be able to play as many characters as I wanted.

Or i could go with sleeper cells. I have only built the rough list for the Sleeper Cells variant. It is a few cards over, and at the moment I am drawing a blank as to where the 3 extra cards are.

Black Bolt, The Enemy Within:

4x Black Bolt, The Enemy Within 1x Professor X, Mutant Benefactor 1x Klaw, Sonic Construct 1x Wild Child, Age of Apocalypse 1x Shadowcat, Phase Shifter 1x Elongated Man, Stretchable Sleuth 1x Doppelganger, Killer Clone 1x Winslow Schott <> Toyman, Child’s Play 1x White Lotus, Supermen of America 1x Toad, Court Jester 1x Mad Hatter, Mad as a Hatter 1x Lockjaw, Inhuman’s Best Friend 1x Jazmin Cullen <> Kid Quantum, Hero of Xanthu 1x Jacob Lee, Knight 1x Iron Fist, Secret Avenger 1x Howard the Duck, Master of Quack-Fu 1x Dum-Dum Dugan, Howling Commando 1x Duela Dent <> Harlequin, The Joker’s Daughter 1x Dream Girl, Nura Nal 1x Domino, Neena Thurman 1x Doctor Faustus, Johann Fennhoff * RAID 1x Crippler, Carl Striklan 1x Count Vertigo, Werner Vertigo 1x Cheetah, Feral Feline 1x The Penguin, Gentleman of Crime 1x Terry Sloane <> Mr. Terrific, Golden Age Gold Medalist 1x Mary Marvel, World’s Mightiest Girl 1x Harvey Bullock, Bishop 1x Hank Pym <> Yellowjacket, Initiative Instructor 1x Surveillance Pawn, Army 1x Speedball <> Penance, Painmonger 1x Slyde, Jalome Beacher 4x Superhuman Registration Act, Team-Up 1x Battleworld 4x Great Refuge 3x Birthing Chamber 4x Blind Sided / Savage Beatdown 4x Sleeper Cells 4x Invasion Plans 4x Quantum Bands, Unique

So, mulligan hard for the team-up.

I know there are two very important cards, in the team-up and the quantum bands. But before testing, the way I see it is that with Birthing Chamber/Invasion Plans drawing, I should get the Bands, and with the Superhuman Registration Act helping me to thin my deck as well, I see no reason that I shouldn’t be able to get them.

Now of course, i don’t have all of these cards as of yet. And until I can get the monies together to purchase the remaining cards this will be a casual (heavily proxied) deck only sadly.

This week could be really awkward.

I pushed for a doubles legend tournement at our local club. There was a little online mini-argument.

I have been looking forward to it for a long time, and then yesterday something happened.

Since I got back from university I have been looking for a job, and yesterday I got one. The problem is, is that my new job is in a pub. And I have the terrible bad luck so as I could end up working on friday, meaning that I couldn’t actually go.

So, what would I actually play?

I don’t know. I have been wanting an excuse to play Kang since it went golden, and I thought I found it. Then I saw him.

I played silver Multiple Man Legend at the Sheffield elite series and had a blast. Since this is golden I found a new love in Madrox. Let’s just say that legendary battles can do all kinds of damage. Quicksilver and Nightcrawler clear up, then lots of 3/2’s team attack to the FACE!

I recently got my friend back into the game for over the summer, and he loves sentinels, so we were talking about him using wild vomit, because that would be one hell of an attack to the face after my crew clears the board.

Too Janky though. I have a thing where when I take the sensible deck I don’t have much luck, and little fun. Where as when I take Jank it craps out on me and I don’t have fun. Take Thriller for example.

In testing, we just stopped. That’s right, we stopped testing because it won almost every game, and the games it didn’t were due to having record breakingly shite hands. I went to one of the elite series’ and I didn’t see a two drop all day, and considering that I was running 8 of the bastards I was a little pissed off.

Or when I went to the loughborough games and comics day took my insanity deck that single handedly beat galactus down while my friends decks funbled around trying to rectify terrible draws. We were playing it the night before and I had a really terribly shit draw. An Ivy underdrop on 4 with a San allowing the tricks to begin, won the game for me. Bat-Mite with Talia+Crime Doctor worked really really well. I take it the next day it goes wrong, I get a win against Alec’s X-Men and fumble a win against UK Champion Felix playing a shadowpact deck with ALL the shadowpact cards in it. Them’s some brass testes.

So, what I am saying is that I think I will end up playing Kang. 7 searches with no discards needed. Uncertain Legacy was made for Kang. It just was, Origin Story was made for Army and Legend decks, Uncertain Legacy was made for Kang. With the name, even Kang artwork could have made a lot of sense.

The problem I am having is trying to survive the early turns. Since my three drop is hidden, and my back-up three hides himself, my four drop doesn’t arrive till turn 5. The thing is, I don’t like to use my defence pumps before turn 5. Then I like to brick all the attacks then SMACK! So I have a tendency to take a lot of damage on turn 4. Though on turn 5 I can (depending on which 2 I play) have a rediculous board. With a 6/6 two a three drop a 10/10 four and a five it can get a little hectic.

So, thems the dilemmas.

Next on my things to talk about.

I don’t really like X-Men, but they are fun to play. I usually lean towards Jank/Combo/Tricksy/Control decks, but the other week I played with a curve X-Men deck and it was just fun. With no tricks it makes the game a lot more fun, so I have been looking for a curve deck that I can have fun with.

I would really like to make a curve S.H.I.E.L.D deck that has lots of KO effects, but…it just doesnt really work for me. Based on the fact that I have only gotten 2 boxes of Universe I just don’t have enough for it. I tried it but ended up having to steal characters from the Avengers/Thunderbolts/Crime Lords. I would try crime lords, but I really hate them. I have tried, i have tried to like them, but other than the Hand I cant bring myself to like them.

On my Monster army article, I brought up windslow schott and cut off one head… and I have been working on it.

Over, but most definately not out.

P.S: I am really hungover right now, so please forgive any Spelling/Grammer mistakes.

So, we have our new modern age.

In this, the current modern age we will have 25 different army characters. So, with the influx of army in this set, does army stand a chance in modern?

Lets take a look at our options shall we?