They need to make the +3/+3 Lost City gives a replacement to any other power modifications.

Example:

Discard 2 cards to power up? Still get +3/+3...

the only reason why brotherhood is in alot of the top eights is because about 80 percent of the people play them. Mostly newbies because it the easiest deck to run and there like 95 percent all the same deck. But i am happy to admit that i haven't lost to a single brotherhood deck yet. Doom is the only deck that give me problems

Or some of us non-"newbies" run it because it's the most consistent deck in the environment. I can tell you the guys making top 8's with the deck are doing so because they know how to play the game. If you haven't lost to a Brotherhood deck I suggest you find a better playtest group...

that would ruin the card competely.

It is the easiest deck to play.

oh I have never lost to a brotherhood deck in tournament play.

Sure you don't. ;)

It certainly wasn't meant as a degrading comment. I'm just mentioned what I understood from the games (and why I never played them). I like War, and its exactly what I described.

You quoted 2 people.

SonofVader-I know you weren't going for a degrading commment, but anyone who plays YGO wouldn't like that remark.

This type of statement is pointless because only you know the true abilities of your opponents. Considering Brotherhood decks have swept the top 2 slots of the two largest tournaments, you have to concede it's the best deck RIGHT NOW. That's not to say it will continue to be after DC is out, but simply because you've beaten scrubs playing inferior versions of the deck or flat out playing it poorly is no indication whatsoever of the general strength of the deck.

Hmmm....yeah b-hood really hurts all decks. I use FF and got raped by a cookie cutter b-hood the other day. It was just brutal. They sit there and flip over 1-4 new brotherhoods and give there already strong characters uber power boost and just beat you down like crazy. When they get to the 5th initiative, they smack down 1 last resource and make you think TNB is over and play magneto and when you attempt to attack, they flip over genosha and just laugh in your face. Its crazy. Countering it is even harder. I tried to deck in relocation and it didn't really help. WoW! I got control of there savage land even when they got field control already. Also, kaboom and foiled just help them and slow you down. Why UDE made it uber powerful is beyond me. Lets just hope the future will have no b-hood support (lol, it would be the g-keeper of marvel then) or let dc origins have better cards to counter it.

Did Jim really beat you that bad?

Lol, yes. Its cuz he went and saw the #1 deck from the phily 250k tourney and went out and got 3 boxes and started to slowly copy it.

I'm a YGO player and sTaRsCrEaM's right... but we're not here to talk about YGO ;)

Anyways... throughout this entire discussion, XMen strategy gets mentioned once... ugh. There's more to XMen than just "XMen recovery." For example, I play a fairly fast, swarming Xdeck. Most of my character cards are in the 2 and 3 drops. (Bishop[2],Cyclops[3],Nightcrawler[2] at the 2 and Havok[1],Banshee[2],Wolverine[4] at the 3) The reason for this is because the XMen are weak mid-game. What do I do to remedy this? BLACKBIRD! hehe... If I don't have that puppy in my hand, I use Forge's ability to get it. Then BAM! All XMen get flying. (well until some meanie stuns the equipped XMan :cry: )

But yeah... my deck has had success against a Doom control as well as a FF beatdown... but I haven't gone against a brotherhood deck yet, still... can I get some X-love? :grin:

p.s. although i never faced a brotherhood deck... i use cards like cover fire [most of the xmen i use are ranged] and burn rubber, will this help?