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Answering the Call: The Takeover

September 6, 2008


You know, I’m really quite enjoying this. Aaron’s mind works differently than most, possibly due to the influences of Teh Steph, who knows – but I know I wasn’t expecting THIS take on Xorn’s Takeover! – Gday

Well this challenge was not on the side of easy. When looking to abuse Xorn’s Takeover, the first place you look is to the home team… Brotherhood. Unfortunately, with a modern age limitation that evasion keyword was severely lacking, and all my brotherhood related versions simply seemed to have a “Win More” condition. Winning with the Takeover sure… but my opponent was typically already far into the negatives to begin with.

Armed with these discoveries, I decided to scrap the Brotherhood team and look into the modern-age teams with toolbox team-ups. That gave me:
-Marvel Knights
-Warbound
-S.H.I.E.L.D.

Of the three, the knights had the fastest and most consistent field control, but few ways to get their own characters stunned or off the field. However, even with all this gong for them, they lose hand size really fast. The discard to Xorn is more often, backbreaking.

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