Yay for funnage!
We have a brand spanking new player, Jeremy, whose card collection consists of a less than a dozen packs and a whole bunch of donated spares, so tonight was pretty much an anything-goes night.
The decks:
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Spud – Injustice Gang Off Init
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Christine – Superclones
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Jeremy – Juggernaut Beats
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Myself – Morlock Evasion
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Pablo – War Paint
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Carrie – X-Weenies
First round I paired off against Pablo, and I tell ya, if I’d drawn one more pump… ONE MORE! In the end the burn is what killed me, but it was delightful watching his brow furrow in the face of Last Stand.
Second round, Pablo’s wife Carrie. This was a singular delight, not because of the game, but because I spent the majority of this round and the next holding baby Emma – less than a month old and snuggly and smelling just like a little baby should. I’m a clucky git, I freely admit it, but it was such a nice feeling holding a sleeping baby… and beating her mother at VS at the same time 
The X-Men put up a valiant fight, I admit, but in the end they just weren’t up to the enormous stats of Marrow and her pals. Retribution, Bums Rush and Shrapnel Blast were just gravy.
Round three, Spud’s hidden Injustice Gang goons. I had free swings to his face, he had huge stats for the return swing…. but then, I had Caliban and Sewer System. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. He flipped a duplicate location (Earth 3?) to move Owlman visible and get a Def boost to dodge a stun, but I had the powerup and it went through anyway… and then just beat on his hidden characters. My being one-up on the curve and being to attack him when hidden pretty much tolled doom for him and another victory for the Morlocks.
We called it there after three rounds, and I walked out with a Hush and an Espionage, and promptly traded for about half a dozen SecSoc rares. Good times, good times.
I rounded out the evening with a casual game against Jeremy’s Juggernaut deck, and this was a great game for me in that it was the first time EVAH I’ve been able to get the Infinity Gauntlet into play. I was playing a curve Infinity Watch deck, all the gems, the gauntlet, and some random other malarkey. Monster Island proved a real pain in his butt, but what did him in in the end was bouncing his Juggernauts with Soul Gem (costing him the helmet), and Cosmic Order. Sure, it cost me the chance to attack his 2-drop with my 3 and 4, but by leaving him with only Juggs stunned, he had no choice but to KO the big fella.
Shiny happy fun. Next week, Random Punks.
