An gals, if I have any female readers. Anyways, sorry I couldn’t get to the computer yesterday. Since coming home I have found it a lot more difficult to get time to sit down and blog like I want to.
Good news is, yesterday I managed to pick myself up the 2 remaining echo’s I needed for my BYOS deck. I also managed to pick the first issue of Angel: After the Fall.
I only found out about it last month, and have since been hunting down the first issue, so I can start reading. I managed to pick a copy up, which means I can get my comic fix. Even though I already knew roughly what happened(thanks to wikipedia) I still really really enjoyed it. My love for Joss whedon just keeps a-comin.
Yesterday on the tram on the way to the gaming store me and Rob ‘RD52169′ were discussing quickfate and how quicksilver himself isn’t the problem, as much the turn long pumps and the fate artifacts. When I started to think about the new quicksilver from MVL, and how he could be used. So, lo and behold.
Quick-nofate
Characters - 16
3x Frank Drake, Nightstalker
4x Forge, Inventor Extraodinaire
4x Quicksilver, Mercurial Speedster
4x Barbara Gordon Oracle, Hacker Elite
1x Rhino, Unstoppable Force
Plot Twists - 36
4x Enemy of My Enemy
4x Savage Beatdown
4x Sibling Support
4x Blinding Rage
4x Path of Destruction
4x Thanagarian Invasion
4x Death from Above
4x Combat Reflexes
4x Flying Kick
Locations - 3
1x Earth 2
2x New Baxter Building
Equipment - 5
3x Mind Gem
1x Ego Gem
1x Power Gem
This was draft one. The ideal play is quicksilver, barbara, then all the resource points you can spend on turn 4, and a swing for the win. It looks a little shaky, and i’m not certain that I would even be able to go on my curve. But it will be tested.
The second draft of the deck looks a little like this.
Characters - 19
4x Frank Drake, Nightstalker
2x Forge, Inventor Extraordinaire
4x Quicksilver, Mercurial Speedster
4x Barbara Gordon Oracle, Hacker Elite
1x Dr. Doom, Richards’s Rival
3x Dark Martian, Mockery
1x Rhino, Unstoppable Force
Plot Twists - 32
4x Enemy of My Enemy
4x Savage Beatdown
4x Blinding Rage
4x Path of Destruction
4x Crackshot
4x Flying Kick
4x Combat Reflexes
4x Mob Mentality
Locations - 3
1x Earth 2
1x Stryker’s Island
2x New Baxter Building
Equipments - 5
3x Mind Gem
1x Ego Gem
1x Power Gem
This is, as you can see. VERY similar, with the exception of turn 4 play. This it where Dark Martian came in, though why he came in I have no idea, because this just wont work. At all.
So, I abandoned ship on the idea of quicksilver. The problem is, I need a character that can be tutored for, and on a 2 drop it can’t be done within reason. So dark martian it is.
Marvin the Martian
Characters - 16
2x Forge, Inventor Extraordinaire
4x Speed Queen, Female Fury
4x Barbara Gordon Oracle, Hacker Elite
1x Dr. Doom, Richards’s Rival
4x Dark Martian, Mockery
1x Rhino, Unstoppable Force
Plot Twists - 36
4x Enemy of My Enemy
4x Created From Hate
4x Pathetic Attempt
4x Savage Beatdown
4x Blinding Rage
4x Path of Destruction
4x Dark Fury
4x Combat Reflexes
4x Flying Kick
Locations - 3
1x Stryker’s Island
2x New Baxter Building
Equipments - 5
1x Mind Gem
4x Ego Gem
This is where the decklists start to look a little saner, with 8 tutors, I am almost garunteed to get a dark martian. Hopefully, speed queen with an ego gem should be able to draw into plenty of pumps and tutors, added with the new baxter building. That is a lot of cards, so I will hopefully be able to draw into everything I will need for the win.
I should get some time to goldfish these over the weekend, so I will report back with any additions, changes or whether I am going to just scrap the idea. Thought I would put this out there, in case anybody has any input.
