I posted this deck on our team's forums about a week ago. It is by far the most consistent Secret Six Victorious deck I have ever piloted (including those before Fiddler was banned). In the write up I explain the turn five 'god draw,' which is highly unrealistic and unpredictable. However, the turn six win is very consistent, and happens every game you hit a turn two Black Rose and get a Death's Embrace.
The deck basically auto wins against any deck without disruption whos kill turn is six or later, but auto loses against everything else. This means that it should beat nearly all Checkmate curve builds assuming they cant set up double Transmutation, all those weird new SpiderFriends/Heralds decks popping up, and most casual decks. If you want to make changes to the deck, I would suggest cutting some copies of Netherworld Gift, as multiples of the card tend to be dead. Unlike the Series of Tubes decklist though, this decklist is very tight with little wiggle room. I could see maybe cutting the Slaugter Swamps as you occasionally wont have the luxury to row them, but other games they are game winners (I have actually considered switching the Swamps out with Return of Donna Troy because I was only using Swamp a maximum of two times per game).

Questions/Comments/Improvements?

"Ongoing: At the start of your recruit step, if you control exactly six characters with the printed Secret Six affiliation, you win the game."

I was under the impression that all your characters in play must be printed Secret Six and you can only have 6 characters in play to win with SSV. Since I can't dig up the FAQ on me, can you clear this up for me.

I like the deck. I'm just wondering cause Umar is in play.

I have never read the card that way and there is nothing the FAQ about it. Anyone more affluent with the rules care to chime in?

To work like you say, it seems the card would have had to read;

"At the start of your recruit step, if you control exactly six characters and they have the printed Secret Six affiliation, you win the game."

It says "exactly 6 characters with the printed Secret Six affiliation" not "only 6 characters, all with the printed Secret Six affiliation" which is a big difference. You can control other characters as long as they don't have printed S6.

-Mike

In the past, I have always seen S6 decks designed in order to have any characters that aren't S6 be able to remove themselves from play. With things like Captain Boomerang and Plant Man. I guess I'm probably just reading too far into it.

As a friend told me, "Maybe we should ban Batow. After Hager, of course."

I think you are. I understand reading it like that, but VS is pretty explicit about excess restrictions and things like that. Like look at the original double loyal characters. You could cheat the regular loyalty still because it didn't spell out "Recruit only if you control a character of This-Other-Affiliation". And my interpretation of this is the same. You can't have 7 Secret Sixers, but you can have 7 characters.

BTW, Tim, thanks for posting another really cool deck, man. I know it's not secret tech, but still very cool of you. And they seem to bring up interesting rules discussions so often. LOL

-Mike

These days... we love Tim Batow because he thrusts zany and oddly satisfying decks on the public...

<3

Dang Tim, I've been pondering over this deck since before Sydney and you beat me to it. Well-done sir!

Heh, Jason isnt only the best deckbuilder in the game, but he is also one of the top five best players. In my opinion, Jason Hager is the most impressive all around card player of any TCG.
Yeah, I am always checking the CRD to make sure some of my deck ideas work. It still ticks me off I didnt come up with the Mxy/Attend or Die loop for San Fran. I have a really good, different deck I plan to bring to my City Champs, but I am afraid R&D might not choose it because it is a mutt deck that uses alot of overused cards (in different ways) that dont seem to appeal to any of the R&D member's tastes (aside from perhaps Yip and Antonino). So, I keep coming up with ideas like this and the Tubes deck, hoping they will be competitive enough to bring, but I wouldnt be able to stand playing a deck that just auto loses to Quickfate. Even if I cant make these ideas high level tourney competitive, I am hoping someone else can take them and do it.

Interesting choice of words....

Tim Batow.....giving the power back to the people.

Tim,

Thanks a lot for putting the awesome back in deckbuilding. Without the secrets and hiding ideas this game's community gets a lot stronger. I really enjoy seeing your amazing ideas and playing around with them. It's downright inspirational and that's +4/+4.

You're awesome.

Damn you Tim!

I have built mono Underworld and Underworld/Morlocks.

Underworld/SS Victorious was next on my list and here you go and build it first (and probably better).

Now I have to come up with a new next project!

It may have to be Underworld/Hellions :p

In limbo loves "You may KO and..." effects :D

Tim nice deck man. I love the zany type decks you make.