Hey

I dont if this topic is up already but what is your top 5 Silver Age deck after Heralds becomes legal.

1. Checkmate/ Villains Deck
2. Herald Deck
3. Good Guys Deck
4. Secret Society Deck
5. Faces Of Evil Deck

What do you guys think?

Thanks

I think you're wrong on all 5 accounts particularly #2

I do quite like Good Guys though for #1
I'm very surprised a MHS variant isn't on your list.
It's all about the unrestricted beats for SA seeing as the one true combo deck is dead and dead.

I think Xstatix Villians could be considered here as well. They only lose Terrax and Spiderman whilst gaining Adam Warlock (unsure about his viability but it's auto win vs some decks).

I also wouldn't call any Faces deck that runs off Chimp a Faces deck. Should be properly refered to as "Chimp/Dr Light Weenie deck" I think.

Society in SA.....

Kree
Heralds
whatever
whatever
whatever

as much as i love Faces (i consider Chimp Faces a Faces varient), they dont have what it takes to be a top 5 deck

as for X-Statix/VU, i dont know if they still have what it takes to be considered top 5 with the loss of Spider-Man, he is a key to that deck, but that is to be seen.

The Secret Society deck definatly doesn't work in SA. EVERYONE, will be packing multiple meltdowns. That deck could win because of the fact that the Fate Artifacts were invincible and no one was running KO. It was a good metagame choice, not a great deck.

Glock is still one of the strongest decks in silver and is even stronger now that bizzaro world has changed again.

I'm not going to go into much detail (because it's the week before Columbus and I'm going), but:

Losing Flamethrower hurt MHS a *lot*. There's no comparable equipment card to fill the slot, and Haywire's a combo card, not a rush card.

Actually, toolboxing curve decks of various stripes are very, very strong. The only really explosive fast beats deck is Fate Squad.

Warlock is good, but Deathstroke is frequently better. Between the two, though, you're usually poised well enough to deal.

Has Fate Squad ever been good?

Well, here is the list of the deck that was 1st in Day 1 of PLSF:

Gabriel Willman
Characters
2 Albert Gaines ? Nuke, Atomic Powerhouse
4 Ape X, Xina
1 Beetle, Armorsmith
1 Firestar, Hellion
4 Golden Archer, Wyatt McDonald
1 Hawkeye, Clinton Barton
4 Joystick, Janice Yanizesh
4 Lady Lark, Linda Lewis
4 Melissa Gold ? Songbird, Sonic Carapace
4 Shape, Malleable Mutant
1 Silver Sabre, Freedom Force
2 Ted Kord ? Blue Beetle, Heir of the Scarab
Plot Twists
4 Answer the Call
2 Enemy of My Enemy
1 Fate Has Spoken
2 Other-Earth
4 Panacea Potion
Locations
3 Dr. Fate's Tower
Equipment
4 Amulet of Nabu
3 Cloak of Nabu
1 Flamethrower
4 Helm of Nabu

It's record was 9-1.

Do you still think Fate Squad ain't good?

A good choice walking blind into a completely unknown PC meta doesn't make it actually a good deck. It put a total of one copy in the Top 8s of 10Ks Hamilton and Charlotte, and the Hamilton Top 8 was likely due to the massive skewing effect that Ivy League had on the meta for that tourney (invalidating a lot of the slower decks that take Squad to pieces.)

Remember, Glock, of all decks, also went 9-1 on day 1 of PC:SF, and Glock has been a terrible deck in Silver Age from as soon as the format became established.

And just to put the nail in the coffin, there were 34 Squadron decks at Charlotte, compared to 19 Deep Green and Checkmate/Villains combined. In the top 8? No Squadron, two Deep Green, one Checkmate/Villains, one Checkmate/Mental.

imo, Checkmate/LoA(Deep Green) is better than Checkmate/Villains.

What ever happened to Glock? I had considered it to be a top deck, but it doesn't seem to get any love any more.

IMO, and in no particular order:

-Glock (being able to gain life again puts this back in)
-Good Guys
-Deep Green variants
-X-Statix/VU (Loners United!)
-Kree Press

Others: Fate Squad, Chimp/Light Show

With no Political Pressure, I think Kree has to be right up there. In fact, I'm predicting it to show up a lot at Columbus.

I'm failing to see how because faces runs chimp, it is not a faces variant. Maybe I'm just partial to it since my team wa the ones to run it at 10k Charlotte.

Well after colombus we will see what was the top deck then we will all switch gears for golden