Got a call from an old friend…

Looks like I spoke not a moment too soon – already, Lost Hemisphere’s newest resident has an article for your perusal! Please join me in welcoming KaleeshWarrior to Lost Hemisphere.
With our family expanding, it’s my intention to post an icon in each post to let you know just who’s responsible for the dribble you’re wading through. For myself, I’m returning to my roots and adopting Stilt-Man’s majestic mug. Kaleesh, naturally, bears the proud and noble visage of a Kaleesh… well, warrior. Happy reading!
- Gdaybloke

We used to be real close. Said he couldn’t go on the American way. Closed the shop, sold the house, bought a ticket to the West Coast. Now he gives them a stand-up routine in L.A.

When one thinks of classic pairings, quite a few come to mind: Laurel and Hardy, Sonny and Cher, Donnie and Marie, R2-D2 and C-3P0. If you go into comics, you of course have the Dynamic Duo of Batman and Robin or the World War II heroes in Captain America and Bucky amongst many other similar pairs.

Before MEV, only one duo had a set of legend cards showing their strength as a pair and that is the World’s Finest: Batman and Superman. Now that Marvel Evolution has been released, another two characters share a delightfully powerful plot twist. Sure, these two aren’t on quite the same amiable terms as Bats and Supes (although those two have had their fair share of spats), they are still quite the formidable foe. You probably know who I’m talking about by now…

If you asked me, the Cable and Deadpool cards in MEV were made for each other for one simple fact: Cable is on evens, Deadpool is on odds. That means you can alternate back and forth between the pair in order to make sure you always have them inplay to take advantage of the craziness that is Bosom Buddies.

Now, the downside to cycling back and forth between Cable and Deadpool is that it’s likely you’ll lose drops to uniqueness. That’s bad. However, not only can Cable cheat uniqueness with Bodyslide but there is a reason that A Clash of Worlds exists. Between Cable, Soldier X’s rallying, Psimitar’s card draw, and Merc With A Mouth’s “another swing or let me draw”, one can rely on hitting either Clash or Slide on important turns.

But enough talk about the cards that make the deck run, let’s just check out the deck.

Like Tom Hanks In Drag

Characters (30):

2x Malcolm Colcord – Director of Weapon X
2x Moonstar – Danielle Moonstar

3x Cable – Soldier X
1x X-23 – Laura Howlett
1x Deadpool – Independent Contractor

4x Deadpool – Earth-5021
2x Domino – Probablility Manipulator
1x Iron Man – Earth-2020

4x Cable – Dayspring
1x Sauron – Energy Siphon

3x Deadpool – Chatty Cathy
1x Hezbipah – Mephitisoid

3x Cable – Temporal Traveler

1x Deadpool – Party Pooper

1x Cable – Mutant Messiah

Plot Twists (28):

4x Bosom Buddies
4x Merc with a Mouth
4x Call in a Favor
4x Mobilize
4x The Select, Team-Up
4x A Clash Of Worlds
2x Bodyslide
2x Extended Monologue

Equipment (2):

2x Psimitar

The concept of the deck should be obvious by now. Play Cable and Deadpool, Bodyslide/Clash to avoid uniqueness, draw some cards, and then use Bosom Buddies for massive damage.

However, there’s the little problem with the occasional missed team-up or character. In those cases, I have some random “just in case” drops until turn 6 when you REALLY should have The Select up and running.

Malcolm and Moonstar share the 1-drop spot. Malcolm can try and help you hit Deadpool while Moonstar is incredibly helpful for hitting your all important plot twists. Also, on the odd occasion you have to shift a Cable due to a missed drop, you can play her when you shift them in to make use of the excess resource points.

Cable and Deadpool share the 2-drop slot along with X-23. X-23 helps to ensure you get a team-up running by turn 3 so you can Mobilize. Cable is your preferred 2-drop, though, so you can Bosom Buddies on 3 if you like. Deadpool can also be played on 2 if you wanted to.

Turn 3 is the first turn that Bosom Buddies can feasibly be played. Your preferred drop is obviously Deadpool. Alternately, you can play Iron Man who can then drop in whichever of the Buddies you didn’t play on turn 2, allowing you to Bosom with Soldier X and Independent Contractor at the same time. Oh, and Domino is in here because she rocks and I wanted a panic button in case I have to Mobie with only X-Force on the board.

Cable 4-drop, duh. Alternately, Sauron. His health recovering ability can keep you around going into turn 5 and 6 which is very nice since those are your kill turns.

More Deadpool action on 5. Notice that you can make Cable AND Deadpool invincible? Kinda cool synchronized cards there. Probably done on purpose since UDE’s R&D are geniuses (this compliment required by contract due to getting a preview, also required signing away your soul although I heard some got away with offering their firstborn). Alternately, my most misspelled character name ever Hezbipah (I’ve done every possible placement of z, b, and p with her name plus other assorted letters). She’s in there for assorted reasons including her anime-ish art, Yoda-ish flavor text, and, most importantly, her text that basically says “no plot twists during combat with her”. Can easily hold off up-curve swings and make opponent’s play fair while you don’t.

Cable again on 6. Should win you the game by flipping down a used Bosom Buddies.

Deadpool on 7 and Cable on 8 because… I dunno. I felt like it.

Plots all have obvious reasonings. Really wish it wasn’t so I could babble more. Extended Monologue > Infinity Gauntlet, Runaways, and a whole host of other targeting nastiness.

Quiet Deadpool!

One note on Bosom Buddies: Can be used while attacking directly. Wanna turn 12 points of attack into 30? BB is where it’s at! Two BBs direct on turn 4 ends the game immediately.

My opinion on this deck is simple: Stupidly awesome. You get to run around with tons of Deadpool clones (Flavor!) and Cables from multiple timelines (Flavor!!) which do well while in combat together (Flavor!!!). The deck can be stupid good at time such as defeating a Hulk Control deck, after Hulk, The Green King had gained invulnerability and dual recover, BY TEAM ATTACKING. Sure it required three copies of Bosom Buddies plus a reuse by the 6-drop Cable but it happened.

It also nearly took down Illuminati (despite having missed Weapon X chars until turn 5-6… didn’t help). It handily beat mono-X-Force with only one Bosom Buddies. And I believe it defeated an Exiles variant but my memory is all fuzzy. I’ve been tweaking this deck as I’ve ran it through its paces and it appears to be quite solid.

It can also be changed to use relatively few rares. Most of the character rares are the alternate drops which you really shouldn’t have to be playing anyways. Do that and the only required rare character is 3-drop Deadpool. Merc With A Mouth is the only really “must-have” rare plot twist outside of the search cards. Bodyslide/Clash are incredibly helpful but the deck can work around them just fine.

Overall, Bosom Buddies is one of my favorite decks to come out of Marvel Evolutions thus far. Cable and Deadpool both have solid character cards on their own and then you throw them together with a plot twist that basically says “run opponent over” and you have a deadly combination. Like sodium and water… or Mexican food and a long car ride.

Ha! I made it through the entire article without comparing Cable and Deadpool to peanut butter and jelly! … Darn it!

I don’t need you to worry for me cause I’m alright
I don’t want you to tell me it’s time to come home
I don’t care what you say anymore, this is my life
Go ahead with your own life, and leave me alone

“Don’t even think about singing that stupid theme song!” Too late!

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I just wanted to close this article with some brief thanks to gdaybloke for letting my jump onto his Lost Hemisphere boat. I hope to provide quality posts to his blog and not, you know, get kicked off as a stowaway . Thanks many times, gday. It’s an honor to be on-board.