Strangely, It Doesn’t Run ‘Heroes of Two Worlds’…

Mightiest Heroes and Avengers Reassembled are the best of times, and the worst of times. They don’t allow you to draw the card you searched for, but they do allow for search. AR lets you replace a resource you control. Avengers have reservist as one of their themes, so this makes sense. JLA, though, also has Reservists. 6 in fact, and they rock out on turn 1, 2, 5, and 6.

Spider-Man, New New Avenger is a 2 drop Reservist that you can reveal from your resource row to crossover Avengers and whoever. The fun thing about New New Avenger is that Avengers Reassembled will put him into your resource row if you pay your pound of flesh. That’s nice, as it allows you to have a team-up out without having it face-up and therefore a target for Batman, Founding Member. It also lets you crossover JLA and the Avengers on turn 1. Not often an issue, but one to be aware of.

Then we go into Captain America(Who, after 60 years as an O-3, probably should’ve been picked up for major by now). Here we find the crux of our deck. With 3 tutors(Avengers Reassembled, Mightiest Heroes, Mobilize), and a curve that runs through 7 (that’s right, 7) we can get to work.

Now, turns 1-3 are kinda strange. We’re going to start off with Aztek and blackbird, you’ll see why in a bit. From there we move into 2 sporting Captain America, The Patriot mixed with Gypsy, Operative. On 3 we hit Katar Hol, Hal Jordan, Founding Member, and Batman, Founding Member. 4 gives us Captain America, Champion License drops, with Wonder Woman, Ambassador of Peace as backup. 5 Drops Batman, Justice’s Shadow. 6 brings us Captain America, Living Legend, ending with Hal Jordan, Fearless.

The way the deck is set to run you hit your curve with Katar Hol being the first important drop. On 4, Champion License goes infront of Kator Hol. The shield goes on the Captain, and he swings into a soft target. Then the shield pops to exhaust another one of their people. When their last guy gets an attack, he either swings into Captain America, or he swings into Captain America via his ability. An auto-Power-Up makes Cap a 9/8. If you’d played a stalwart defense earlier, he becomes a 9/10 against their attack. Batman, Founding Member drops to give Captain America the ability to swing into the opposing 5 drop. A Charging Star turns him into a 9/12 for the attack. The Shield keeps exhausting an opposing character while Steve Rogers draws the big attacks to himself.

The finisher involves Hal Jordan, and a good mix of Fearless, Assorted Alias, and Savage Beatdown, if not Armageddon(yes, I said Armageddon) swinging into their softest target for 25+ ATK, which should finish them on turn 7. The proactive stall should keep whittling their board and endurance throughout the turns.

The last card important to the deck, and really the crux of the deck, is SRA. Superhuman Registration Act allows you to immediately recruit the guys you search our with Avengers Reassembled and Mightiest Heroes. That adds the little bit of speed you need to get the necessary edge for a proactive stall deck like this.

The decklist is going to change quite a bit over the next two months, but I think the general idea is going to remain the same: Mix Avengers and JLA for consistency and pumps, using Captain America to draw in fire from the opposing board while exhausting an opposing character every turn. It’s going to be a tightwire to walk until we get some more Avengers love. Even as is, it’s a delightfully frustrating deck to play against… at least in a game of Mental Vs.