This guy has always been my second favorite Metagame writer, even before we lost Hunter Thompson. Someday he might even be better than Rian Fike.

The combo is just sick, meaning good. My kind of meal. When a card slips through like that, does the R&D boy that made it have to wear a funny hat for a week?

Bah. They did this on purpose. It didn't "slip" through. This is all propaganda =)

Am I missing something?

There doesn't seem to be any cards that give Intergang the Marvel Knights affiliation

I meant to add - so Punisher's Armory wouldn't work, cause it only gives the bonus to Marvel Knights.

(long time lurker, first time poster)

Intergang text reads:
Exhaust a location you control -> Characters named Intergang get +1 ATK and +1 DEF this attack

Punishers Armory reads:
Pay 3 endurance -> Ready Punisher's Armory.

Activate -> Target Marvel Knights attacker gets +1 ATK this attack.

They are not talking about the second effect of Armory.
Just build an Intergang Army and recover and exhaust Punisher's Armory as many timeas as you can to put the smackdown on any poor sap by turn 2 or 3.

Say you take odd initative. By turn 3 you can ready and exhaust Punisher armory 16 times to give 3 of your Intergang Agents 17 Attack 17 DEF each. 17 x3 =51. Now if you only lost one Intergang Agent in the previous turn you should have 5 Intergang Agents at 17/17. You do the math....quite ingenious!

Only drawback is if you do not draw Punishers Armory in the first 3 turns (dont forget you can mulli) you are S.O.L.!!

I of course just realized if you take even Init and have all 3 Intergang agents you could win the game in 2 turns. So even better.

Also a good counter might be Suprise Attack.
If you get hit for 1 in turn 1 you will be at 49 endurance.
Turn 2 you do your Intergang Magic leaving you at 1 endurance.
If you also stunned your opponent s 1 drop your opponent should be at -2 after Intergang Attack
If your Intergang team control no support row characters Suprise attack will hit you for 5 leaving you at -4 and a big loser.
If Intergang do control support row characters Suprise attack will guaranteea draw at the very least!

Thanks for that. I haven't really got into the depts of VS myself yet (believe it or not my friends and I are still mucking about with the starters.) I thought there was something I was missing

I just realized too that Intergang Agents start at 0/0 wich means you would be at 16/16 x3 which equals 48 attack so I have to revise my equations.

I guess it would be better to take odd initative and kill em on turn 3 . That way you have 5 Intergang agents at 16/16 some high number like that. If you wait to turn 3 you also get to avoid any suprise attack shenanigans. Still ingenious!

Ok this is why i hate math......cause I $uck at it! The first activation of Punishers armory is free so you can do it 17 times and pay 48 endurance so yes turn two kills will work.

Math hates me too....:(

doesn't Intergang's ability only last for one attack?

How do you manage it if opponent has 2 guys by turn 3?

Well, Mr. Mxy, Megablast, Nasty Surprise and Overload could still pull it off... But I kinda think it's time to scoop 9 out of 10 in that situation.

BTW Surprise Attack will never do more than 3 against this deck. Intergang always go in the back because they have range and it gives you the option of playing Megablast if you have it. Same for Mxy.

-Mike

All Intergang Agents have the same text so as long as you keep exhausting locations you get the +1 for each one.
If your opponent has two characters (even 3) you should have 5-6 Intergang Agents ready to go. Thats 5-6 17/17 characters by turn 3.
Lets say you have to attack 3 characters on turn 3 and you have the initiative, who is gonna last against a 17/17 character especially on turn 3?
Lets say your opponent reinforces, they can only reinforce one guy (if they can reinforce them all you are in trouble) the rest is all break thru.
Did that make sense?