So I may have told you, but we have a new player.
WOOOT!
Since he is just getting into the game he is playing mostly from when he can get from CoolStuffInc from the legends sets onwards. Two weeks ago we built him a random punks X-Men curve deck.
It has since been named ”Sexy X-Men”, as for some reason it just wins. All the time.
There is nothing more annoying than a Turn 2 turnabout + finishing move from blink on your Black Cat, Nine Lives. Especially when she is the main draw engine for your entire deck…
1- Blink
2- Gambit-Sunfire
3- Wolverine/Cable
4- Iceman/Archangel
5- Cyclops/Psylocke
6- Cable/Storm
7- X-Man
And it packs cards like
Death Trap
Finishing Move
Turnabout
Commanding Nature
Nasty Surprise
Simple. But very effective.
Last week we branched out and we built an MK/F4 equipment deck. This has also been kicking arse. Even though this does have rares, he has most of them on the way.
In order to continue the weekend pattern we built a deck for him last night. A thunderbolts short curve, but this one we only got to play once, and it lost. But I would be lying if I was saying if wasn’t because of B****** worldship and Red Shift killing your board and nuking all your counters.
MUN. I got it. I finally got to open mine on friday. At about 23:30 I busted 23 packs and got some cool rares. No real money rares, but cool ones.
Then about 01:10 we started a little friendly sealed, at which in my first pack busted a foily TWDinosaurs, and a My Name is Slim Shady… This is when I realized soemthing.
There are TOO many teams for sealed. Draft is fine, because for the most part you can get the team you go for. In sealed I had like one or two characters per team at each drop, and one/two support cards from each team.
Urgh. I ended up with some kind of united front thunderbolts thing…
Most importantly. I am there, in the draft. I open my second pack, and there it is. FOIL Collect them All. Awesome first pick you say, but then…I find the other rare. Dr. Strange, Secret Avenger. We are keeping what we draft. ARGH!
I am drafting thunderbolts, and I know no-one will trade me for the Collect them All so I take it.
I am trying to trade my cousins Kidneys for a foil Dr. Strange, which NOBODY has. My cousin is not pleased by this by the way.
I am drafting, and behind the money cards another one of my obsessions comes around. Ultron, Ultron Prime, and I pick him over some kick ass cards. What. A. Pick.
This guy is the nuts in draft. I played 4 games, the two games I got him, I won with EASE. He makes things easy, except against thunderbolts. Who the hell do you give the counter to? Grr.
I am busting packs, and I keep saying, there is a Dr Strange in this pack. As it turns out 19th time is the charm.
And there he was. All shiny and … shiny. There may have been a little scream. I don’t want to talk about it though. Now he is being played, NEVER. He being kept safe in a safety deposit box. Because if movies have taught me anything, it is that banks cannot be stolen from.
Friday night was the night of success. Within 5 hours of the draft starting I had my playset of ultrons.
Nice.
