March Madness - Some more rnd 1 results
March 21, 2008
Ah, the joys of Good Friday being a holiday here in Canuckland… Spud and I were able to knock some more games over.
As mentioned earlier, Team Superman trounced those horrid nazis of the Thule Society. The game was played by the Eponymous Pablo and Babymama Carrie, so at this stage we have no comments on the game.
Negative Zone wins over Infinity Watch
Infinity Watch missed their 2 and 4, while the Negative Zone tossed out Alpha Primitives and Syphonn with wanton abandon. Negative Zone flipped two Forged In Crisis, clearing off Gamora and Drax, further weakening Warlock’s troops. In the end it all came down to turn 7, where Blastaar and Annihilus mess it all up getting a stun on Adam for free. Despite missing drops the Watch still knocked the NegZoners to -5, but without maintaining board presence, the hidden Syphonn and Blastsaar whack through once Annihilus cleared the board, putting the Watch at -17
JLA win over Shi’ar
Shi’ar put up a valiant effort, including getting Soldiers to as much as 11 defense while they tried to fend off the JLA onslaught, but with their imperator absent, Gladiator was at a loss against the combined thwompiness of Batman, Aquaman, Green Arrow, Gypsy, Hawkman and even the Elongated Man. The bird folk still managed to drag it out until turn 7 before caving before Earth’s Mightiest, but in the end, this match was pretty much as predictable as the ending to Titanic. Not drawing Lilandra made for a sucky performance.
Emerald Enemies win over Darkseid’s Elite (Furies)
The Furies must have discovered a new show on the Home Torture Network – at no point in the game was there more than two of Darkseid’s femmes on the board, while the Emerald Enemies were blowing up their own resources for an array of effects. Despite entering turn 7 with 5 resources, the lack of drawing Kara Zor-El meant that the Furies were underdropping too, and after blowing themselves down to 2 resources, Major Force brickwalled Darkseid and powered through Bernadeth for the win.
As usual, the bracket has been updated at this link.
More of Spud’s comments!
NZ vs. Infinity Watch: I’ll do a deck check for the Zoners tomorrow, it’s surprisingly solid. The deck does the 4-6-7-8 curve it can muster, but the focus of the deck is on the massive number of Alpha Primitives it can get on the board. The deck runs a full three copies of each of Airborne Assault, Forward Assault, and Charge!, as well as Forged in Crisis to make the swarmy stuns stick. I drew into two Forges early, which decimated his board, and then later on I got multiple board-wide pumps, which let me smash in for huge numbers on 7. I was tempted to just let it run until 8 and smash in with The Void, but I fell to temptation and had to close it early.
JLA vs. Shi’ar: This wasn’t the blowout everyone expected, at least. The Shi’ar deck was running an insane amount of DEF pumps– Cover Fire, Men of Steel, what have you– and they were just getting their DEF values to obscene levels, managing to brickwall several attacks. Sadly, missing Lilandra meant Gladiator was essentially a blank understatted 5-drop, and the JLA were just able to smack in for too much.
EE vs. DE: Ugh, I really wish I’d lost this one. I really don’t enjoy the EE’s resource-nuke theme, but in the end it proved that it is, if not fun, at least pretty powerful. On turn 7, it came down to him swinging his 12/12 Darkseid into my 11/11 Major Force. I flipped Empire of Tears, falling to two resources, and activated to pump up to 14/14, stunning Darkseid, and leaving Force ready to swing into Bernadeth for the win. All that, after not having any recruit on that turn (I was one discard short of paying for Goldface thanks to my hand full of plot twists). I pumped in with Golden Death, a powerup, and Myrwhidden’s power (KO a resource for one attack! GENIUS!
) for enough to put him just under 0. If Darkseid had successfully pulled the attack off, I would’ve entered the next turn with one non-stunned character and not enough resources to recruit anything, and would’ve been painfully violated. So, yeah. An intense game, and I find the EE theme really stressful to work under, so it wasn’t much fun, even when winning.
BOO-URNS! SOMEONE KNOCK EE OUT OF THE RANKINGS!
The Avengers should be able to take care of that for you…