FCOTW #1

So I’m a huge fan of the new Blue Beetle, as I’m sure you can tell from some subtle hints I have on the site. I would really love to see VS give him a team if his own, and as such, some of my fantasy cards are inspired by the new run by Rogers is pretty much awesome. As such, I’ve obviously run the fanboy route, and come up with some cards, this one being a small preview;

(Ok, so just to clarify real quick, I’ve edited his stats and they’re 2/3, the problem being that photobucket is lame, and will not link the appropriate pic.)

So I think Team Blue could be really awesome. The Blue Beetle just begs for legend treatment, and with 3 different identities available, theres a lot of place you could go with them. Add to this the awesome cast of characters from the new run, and you have yourself a team that could be fairly competitive, and lots of fun.

As for the card, I felt that this was a fun and flavorful representation of the new Beetle. Jaime is obviously full of trick weaponry from the get go, but it only comes on-line when he’s in danger, hence his need to be in combat. The endurance loss is an obvious drawback, and the fact that it becomes less so is a reflection of his slowly growing control over his newfound abilities. And as for his equipment limit, while I don’t mind him having 2 equip, he’s the Jaime Reyes<>Blue Beetle, not Jaime Reyes <>Dr. Fate.

Building on a Budget…why BYOS is your best friend

The main goal of this blog, as I’m sure some of you are aware about, is playing VS on a budget. While I will admit that my cardpool is fairly large, it mostly consists of older sets, no longer silver legal, and is in no way as complete as many others happen to be (I will admit that at one point, I heavily invested in DLS, but still only came out with 1 copy of Mobilize). While a limited cardpool may make it difficult to put together those awesome Tier 1 builds you always hear, you can still get a lot out of those cards, and out of the boxes that now go for as little as 20 dollars.

UDE has sanctioned in the past, and will hopefully do so again on the future, the BYOS format. It’s my #1 favorite format simply because I’m able to get the most use out of all my cards, and also, really makes you think up some new and interesting combo’s that you may not truly have seen before. I know I myself have had that happen to me on more than one occasion. A classic example would be when I was building my Who’s exhausted deck. While searching for some “for the turn” atk modifiers, I came upon a gem of a card that was within the set and that I remembered scoffing at before because, 1) it had slightly odd art, and 2) I had neglected to read the whole card, and just noticed the +2 atk, instead of;

Flight, range, and +2 atk for the turn. Yes please!

And thus, I challenge all my readers. Pick a set, or even just your favorite team, and see if you can’t come up with some awesome stuff that doesn’t need so much legacy or rare support, and rather is just a bit of ingenuity taken a long way.

Hope you guys come up with fun stuff.

Good things are brewing…

So I’m excited that our new hobby league was successful in interesting new players. I’m also excited that my girlfriends little brother, who came to watch us play this last week, expressed interest in the game. Its great to get new blood into the game, and now my task is to hook him into the awesomeness that is watching your favorite superhero’s go toe to toe with your opponents favorite’s, and feel that shock of victory when you find yourself triumphant.

With this in mind, I asked him what superhero’s he would like to play with. Among the teams he mentioned was X-men, and though I don’t have the greatest assortment of cards available, I put together some Golden Agey madness that I imagine will often hurt opponents:

Chuy’s X-deck (I’ll try and come up with something more clever, I promise)

Characters:

4x Multiple Man<>Jamie Madrox, Army

3x Jubilee, Mallrat

4x Dazzler, Allison Blaire

4x Bishop, Lucas Bishop

4x Cyclops, Slim

4x Nightcrawler, Kurt Wagner

2x Gambit, Swamp Rat

2x Forge, Inventor Extraordinaire

3x Wolverine, Logan

2x Cable, Nathan Summers

Locations:

3x Danger Room

3x Muir Island

2x X-corporation

3x Birthing Chamber

 Plot Twists:

4x Nasty Surprise

4x Battle Tactics

4x Fast Ball Special

3x Blinding Rage

This is currently a rough sketch of the deck, but I feel it would have a fairly aggressive feel to it. It should be able to dominate in the early turns, and with Battle Tactics, Cyclops, and Fastball Special, it shouldn’t have too much of a problem dealing with larger characters in the later turns.  I plan to test it out for a few games to see how it works, and if all goes well, hand it over some Chuy can have some fun, and lead his X-men army to victory.