How many people have started testing for silver age already?

Are you testing regardless of infinite crisis or are you waiting to see it first before testing begins?

Man, I've been writing articles on this. :p lol Right now, there's a pretty close running in our testing for several decks, and we've got some new ideas we're starting to test. IC isn't a huge concern, since it won't likely play a major part in the PC, barring singles or an auto-busted deck build coming out of the set. ^_^

Coming off a win at the PCQ in Montreal, there are now three people in our 'group' that are qualified ... so, considering there is also a 10K in our area that's running Silver Age ... we decided we are going to 'go for it' and try to playtest our way into some silver age goodness.

We're in the early stages of the process, basically looking over the three Modern Age formats, as well as seeing what decks in the current format translate easily to Silver Age.

We'll likely not start testing 'in earnest' until Infinite Crisis hits.

Not to mention, it's still unknown what the draft will be ... X-Men or IC.

As fun as it was playing Jank in Indy [although admitedly, my jank did include Dr. Light] I'd rather go in with a deck I feel confident can make day 2 ... because I am confident in my limited skills enough that if I can make day 2 I'll probably be able to get a little cash in my pocket.

But so far the only Silver Age deck I've conciously built was a Morlocks/Society mill deck that leads to Emperor Joker ... just so that I can keep track of how 'viable' the deck is at any given time. It's much more solid than previous incarnations ... I'm considering going Golden with the deck though, because the addition of Last Stand would increase it's defensive capabilities by a lot. [Although, it was Golden Age stuff that beat it ... a Child Lock getting all four of their Flame Throwers early and a Titans deck using Garth to double Betrayal because I wasted my extra teams up earlier to mill ... made it to turn 7 both games at least ... even pulled off a trick with Healer, Storm, and Good Samaritan to gain an extra endurance by evading, then recovering a character more than once.]

IC won't have as big an impact on Silver Age as X-men on Modern ... but we're going to see the "day the spoilers come out" as the start of your serious playtesting.

As an added bonus, it's also the end of my exams, and the start of my work schedule, meaning that I have more time to work nights and weekends on playtesting :)

They said in Atlanta that the draft will be X-Men (which only makes sense).

Of course, all we need to see is "the new Flame Trap" and it changes things significantly. The Silver metagame right now is predicated on a lack of serious weenie hate in most decks beyond maybe splashing in Mikado and Mosha. A new weenie-hate card that's worth playing (IE, significantly better than H'ronmeer's Curse) dents Faces and AGL and Squadron significantly.

We have developed what we believe to be the deck to beat for PCSF. Batting at an incredible 80% against Squadron, Faces and Avengers. IG and Glee/Glock only about 60%.

Still having trouble against the Morlocks though.

My talks hjave included MK as a big contender along with spider friends.

Swan dive is looking to ba a big winner from the sounds of it though.

stun a 4 to destroy a 1 and a 2 in a swarm, after the 4 has attacked?

looks like good field control, too :)

i cant imagine IG being playable, with the expected field being faces agl and glee (among others) who would love to draw more weenies and simply flip a faces every turn.

As for me im testing everything thats not the superman set ... and superman robots!

So far I'm liking GLEE and JLI or JLI / JLA, I'm not quite sure which is better. It will be interesting to find out what of the MMA decks will be playable.

just wait, Darkseid will prevail!!









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Cheer up!

Darkseid should do amazing against the field full of reservists :)

burn burn burn!!

lol

Wouldn't it be great to source your opponents faces of evil? Perhaps a Vykin?

actually I'm tinkering with a Parademons/Insectiod Troopers deck to burn out and Infestation-win on 4 to screw with reservist decks, but it's still in the beginning stages (I don't have enough Parademons!)

Right now, I'm just doing testing among the Modern Age decks. A few modifications here and there. Right now, at least with my testing XXXXXXXXX X X XXXXX is on top.

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Hey! Who blocked it out?? Oh wait, I did it

Something with Midnight Sons.