Why did he answer the phone?

I have no idea. His name's Thanos (I kid you not). I'm not questioning anyone named Thanos.

Really? I'd mess with 'im more.

I just got home from a sealed for the black lantern.

Pulled:
Diana Prince - 32
League Assassin - 22
Checkmate Pawn (White) - 19
Amazon of Bana-Mighdall - 19
Wonder Woman - 108
Talia (BatSoup) - 86
Phillipus - 84
Inertia - 66
Talia al Ghul - 67 (needs more purple!)
Mister "Too Tall" Miracle & Oberon - 115

I pulled a SR so I'm a winner already. I went with a weird team looking at what I pulled now:

MM&O
Batsoup Talia
Diana Prince (with the WW AE option)
The Amazon
The Assassin
The Pawn

It felt weird putting away only three pieces.

I was worried about not having a flyer but I figured if both of my main attackers could ignore hindering and I had the fodder to tie people up, it could work. And work it did. I managed to gum up everyone's works with the meat shields and MM&O did the rest. He tore it up. Talia would ping away with the two TA's and outwit (mean). I never got to use the AE swap on Diana (my plan was to mastermind the damage to her from Talia). That never happened. Though I did push her a lot to heal (and sometimes not). I managed to win the lantern so I'm pretty happy.

What would you have played?

I have yet to open a booster!

I think I would have played the exact same team. I love that Diana Prince AE.

I ran a 300-point sealed for the Black Lantern tonight. I cheesed it up for the bye rounds with:

Black Flash 150
Max Mercury 71
Max Mercury 71

292 points

Two different guys ran the Flashes SR and I ended up playing one of them during the second-round bye. Max is very nice for the points and very pushable.

hoping to go get my case here in a couple hours, then open it after dinner tonight so I can get some sleep but going to call first to see if they got them in -_-;

Alternate Team Abilities: Alternate Team Abilities are now considered a different thing from Feat cards. ATAs are a part of the Modern Age of game play, though there are some differences from when they were considered Feats. Mechanically, ATAs will no longer replace existing team abilities – they will be additional abilities that the qualifying characters can use. As we started with Hammer of Thor, ATAs will be keyword driven rather than based on team symbols. What’s more, we will be going back through all of the existing ATAs and over the course of the next few months, making them available through print-and-play with revised, keyword-driven, additive mechanics. All of this requires some slight changes in order to balance things out a bit. As you’d expect, these pre-existing ATAs will be modified so that they cost a little bit more than they did before. Another balance will be that a force can only have one ATA assigned to it. Finally, wild cards will be allowed to use these team abilities, just like they can use any other team ability on your force.

LOL, so Talia will get Sups, Bat, and LoA Ta's it doesn't replace the other TA's anymore it seems...though the new wild card stuff sort of doesn't make sense/sucks...

I think I might pick up a couple of boosters when I pick up my comics tonight. Might be able to play some new hotness in our game Sunday night...

maybe you can get a chase

Huh. I may reconsider my stance on Talia.

Nobody in my venue has pulled a chase yet! (Or at least they haven't admitted to doing so...)

Highly unlikely given the fact that I'll probably only get 3 boosters, max. I've had my share of chase figures, so I'm channeling all of my will into the cosmos to strengthen your chances of pulling one, Wade.


Edit: Apparently I didn't channel hard enough. I picked up 3 boosters and pulled Nekron out of the third one. Sorry, Wade.

Blarg basically Jean didn't get me a case according to the guy that was working the store as I didn't preorder (though she mailed me saying she had) and the other place said they didn't have an unopened case but they have 2 bricks so I am not sure what to do

Well, there's the chance you don't pull a chase. I haven't heard anything about duplicate bricks, if that's your main concern. I pulled the same booster today that another guy had last night, though. I don't know if the boosters had come from the same brick or case, though. Yeah, it was Extant, one of the Parademons, SR Green Arrow and Green Lantern, and -- I don't remember the rest, sorry.

Ok I got my case she did have one for me the worker called me back. They just want the upc's for brick program right? Opening it now btw will update when done but bought an extra booster there that I opened had Bruce and ollie