well, I'm back after a 3 day power outage ...

am I one of the moreso? if gift-wrapped were any hint then yeah id be!
inquest in 3 weeks is good, but what about Hellboy? can we expect anything that could help?

Welcome back OSM,

I really can't comment, but I've been really happy with the testing so far. Even eternal, with his undeniable pessimism, will have fun with MTU.

I never received the Hellboy list, though I'm assuming I'll get DWF in a month or so.

CC

Sniffle, I'm so proud.

I think I'm going to buy a lot of MTU cards/boxes...

Hey megatron,

Can you elaborate on the Doom-Crisis match-up?

Thanks,

CC

Against the DoomCrisis deck:

1) HAB! their Crisis team-up on 4 so they have to KO their 3-drop Doom. If you can't, blow it up on 5 to avoid Garth. If Garth is the only 5-drop they can get their hands on, this really screws them. Sometimes they have another team-up to flip anyway, but mostly they don't; they use their other PT searches for Reign, Mystical or Enemy. After they already have Garth, don't worry about Crisis, just blow up their Doomstadt.

2) Ricochet is awesome. No Reigns or Mysticals on your evasion guys. It's not too hard to keep him unstunned at critical times; they have odd inits and cannot stun him to use reign on turn 4. Their early drops also do not have flight (except Surfer); this is a big advantage. They still might hit Nova with a Mystical, but they can't do enough damage to you with all your Entangles and Pleasant Distractions.

3) Make safe attacks. Cover fire and Doomstadt can become a problem when you are attacking, but it helps when they can't Mystical you because of Ricochet.

4) You usually have enough stall tricks to live till turn 7. Once you get there, you're in control with Amazing on the board. Exhaust their board as normal. Try to stun Carnage to get that damn counter off him. Many times you can't and he'll take the initiative on 8, but you can exhaust their board before Ra's hits the table. Play Cosmic showing Scarlet, he gets one attack with Ra's, but no flight, so keep Cosmic protected. Attack back with unstunnables and win!

5) If the deck is playing the Frankie engine (which is a good bet), hitting Political Pressure is key. If you do, they have clogged up their Doom engine with alot of extra, and now useless crap (Frankie, Phantom Stranger, Ivy, etc.), which can make it much easier for you.

Comments welcome.

Good job megatron. I might try to make this deck. I always liked Ricochet

I'm going with the final megatron build and swapping out the 2 locations for the 2 recursion plot twists.

Full PCQ report to follow.

CC

cosmic is nice. Its a shame the SSS variant of spider-stall can't use silver surfer instead ...
what about ghost rider? esp. against the big doom deck. seeing all their effort buffing up the diobolical genius go up in smoke is priceless.

bored..i wish we get a cloack & dagger in mtu thats like hawk and dove

I would think the marvel knights would get them over us. SF cards that are confirmed in MTU:
Bagman
Giftwrapped

how can they affect the team?

Just from those two:

- I wouldn't play Bagman over Peter Parker, unless there are cards in MTU that justifies it. Peter Parker, right now, is waaay better than Bagman.
- Gift Wrapped is Entangle on steroids. With 4 of these, and a few Entangles, you can just watch Spidey stall until turn 7.

well, it's character specific. it wouldn't be effective in SSS, but it would be good in something like my clones deck.

Well, yeah... Maybe 4 Entangles and 3 Gift Wrapped...

Mystical Paralysis and Reign of Terror only worked for Doom, and those were pretty effective (yeah, I know, Boris can look for them but still).

mystical>giftwrapped
the reason it works for doom is because he can exhaust ANYONE.
I wouldn't have any concern if it allowed spidey to tap anyone, but since it's restricted to </=, its really just a way to deal with rush. don't get me wrong, we needed that.
I pretty much agree. maybe 2 or 3 copies.