Answering the Call: X-Factor

Continuing with the introduction of nifty little head icons, Aaron “Onyxweapon” Mead has decided he wants to get in touch with his dark side… going forward, you can expect Aaron’s posts to feature Darkseid’s ugly mug.

This week we started a series of challenges, seeing what Aaron can come up with that reeks of niftiness for the new affiliations from Marvel Evolution. This week, X-Factor.

Okay first thing? I hate kidney stones. So, I apologize for the lateness of this. At first, I hated X-Factor because I couldn’t tell what the team was trying to do but after sitting down and playing them for a week, they may possibly be one of the most powerful teams in this set. And what makes them so good you ask?

RESET.

So I submit to you:

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CHARACTERS
4 Layla Miller – Butterfly

3 Beast -Wild and Woolly
4 Forge – The Maker

4 Iceman – Jack Frost
2 Sabretooth – Reformed Killer

4 Jean Grey – Alive Again
2 Cyclops – Man of Action

4 M – Monet St. Croix

3 Polaris – Back in the fold

2 Jean Grey – Jean-Grey Summers

2 Cyclops – Mutant Messiah

PLOT TWISTS

2 Call in a favor
4 Mobilize
4 Reset
4 Dirty Tricks
4 Empire’s End
2 Omnipotence
2 Death of the Dream

EQUIPMENT

4 Med Kit

Basic premise of this build was originally spam Forge. And then I realized the hilarious interaction with energize + reset but it wasn’t quite enough to slake my lust for win. And then I stumbled across the decklist that Tommy Ashton ran at Worlds with his use of Med Kits in a Fantastic Four
build to stall.

DEAR GOD

Remember how frustrating it was to play against Glock? The insane life gain to a solid late game? Yeah….between dirty tricks, empire’s end, reset and med kits this deck brings the rain.

The survivability of this deck is astounding. Because of all the attack value redux, opposing characters are going to need every pump they can play making reset just sick good. And allowing you to abuse the energize readying for the best possible value out of all your activated effects. (since almost every character is energize)

You’d expect with all the damage reductions you would have a hard time closing out the endurance gap until it goes to a later game than you can handle.

Did I mention Forge is king pimp? He has this great habit of pumping other characters you control far beyond their curve stats.

Aside from the life gain it’s all about getting to the Mutant Messiah himself…

Cyclops.

(it’s worth noting you can activate his effect targeting a character that’s already exhausted to still cash in the burn)

The hardest cut to make was eliminating War Room as it consistently found itself to be several savage beatdowns in the course of an average game.

Well time for me to pass out from the copious amounts of morphine that I’m on. (stupid kidney stone) Also, my girlfriend rocks (as I am dictating this right now to her.) MWAHAHAHAHA

That said, feel free to improve on this build but I’m convinced that a variant of this template is flat out Tier 1. Kudos.