Sunday Night VS: Monkey vs. Robot
May 12, 2008by Spud
Hmmm… it’s Monday morning, I don’t feel like working yet, and Gday’s slacking on the Monday post. Sounds like a recipe for some Sunday Night VS Recap action!
The highlight of the evening: a dull-off between two of the most hardcore stall decks in the game– Golden Doom vs. Golden Spider-Friends. On turn 6, we had some hints about how long this was going to go– we were both in the 40s. On the Doom side, I had Puppet Master, Doom, and some Entangles fuelling the no-fight-fest. On his side, it was Spidey, Spidey, and Spidey– with a little 6-drop Torch action to lock down my lowbies. On 8, he locked down my little guys and Sentried my Latverian Monarch. With little left to do in the attack department, I decided to finish things out in the best way possible: with monkeys.
Doom couldn’t stun anything (since he had no ATK), so I nuked him to Grodd to steal a 7-drop Spidey. On 9, he brought out a new 7-drop Spidey, which I matched with a Lord of Latveria to turn down a bunch of dodges and Mysticals. My monkey then stole his second robot of the match, KOing Doom to steal Spidey. Another turn went by with little action. On 10, I stalled out with two Borises and two Diabolic Geniuses (exhausting his big guys), and also nuking a Doom Tank to steal his Venom.
On 11, with both of us still in the teens, Gday got sick of this stupid, stupid game, and we had ice cream. 
We also tried out Marvel Ultimate Battles last night– so far, it seems pretty fun. Stars of the show so far seem to be high-speed heroes with a decent attacking stat (Nightcrawler, Cap, Surfer ally), and heroes with two high combat stats that require a specialist to take them down (Iron Man… DAMN YOU, IRON MAN!).
On the other hand, guys with one heavy combat stat and one weak one (Hulk, Wolvie) didn’t make much impact at all, usually falling to a half-assed attack on their weak stat. That said, the one-dimensional guys are much better if you’re packing “fight-type-switch” action cards– declaring Nightcrawler into Hulk with a mind fight, and then having Hulk switch it to physical, kinda sucks for the attacker.
That’s about it for last night– we played some other games of VS, but I can’t remember much about them, so they can’t have been very interesting. 
A note on tomorrow: I didn’t get much writing done on the weekend, so instead of delaying my article by a day or two, I’m probably going to split it into two articles, and post whatever I can write by tomorrow, and then the rest later in the week. We’ll see how it goes.
We are keeping Gday hostage in our email this morning by asking pointed questions about decks that may or may not exist, hence his lack of appearance as of yet.