Tek Upgrade

One of the many notable people I’ve met and consider friends from my time in the Vs community is one Rian Fike. While I lost his address and need it again, with multiple apologies, so his Wild Childs can be sent out, I’m still happy to speak with him on most matters. We disagree fundamentally on some things, but I believe we both agree on the most important issues, namely: A person cannot relinquish their fate to the ideas of another. Self empowerment is as fundamental to one’s existence as breathing. At least, that’s how I see our interactions.

Empowered he has been, through his own very vocal love notes and song to the girl with the wood rats. It seems for at least ten minutes, probably longer, Rian has longed for a Squirrel Girl card. A few hours, it dropped like an S bomb, blowing away rush and army deckbuilders. Of course Squirrel girl would have an army related ability. That’s what makes sense. And it’s that army ability, combined with the new nick fury that we’re going to look at today. Rian, today’s such a monumental day for you that I’m going to post a deck idea that LITERALLY has 20 ATK printed in the whole deck. That’s right. Some 8 drops have printed attack equal to your whole deck. The fun part is that no more than 5 printed attack will be on the board at any given time.

The basis for the deck is Squirrel Girl, and Nick Fury. Squirrel Girl keeps the cards from going to the KO pile, while Nick keeps them coming hard and fast. But let’s face it, burning for two every time that you drop someone isn’t going to win you the game. It’s going to keep you alive with artificial reinforcement, though! And that’s where things start to get silly.

Proletariat Uprising is comprised of a Dozen Novice Assassins, and Ten SHIELD Agents. By crossing over LoA and SHIELD you can have two new assassins every turn. Also, with LoA you can use tower of Babel to cripple Team stamped plot twists, and abuse locations like Mountain Stronghold, and Flying Fortress. The only thing you have to worry about is keeping cards in your hand. Luckily, Doreen makes it so your Army Characters don’t really die. They just get dropped again next turn. The twist? You don’t run defensive plot twists outside Burn Rubber, and maybe Poker Night. You should have sufficient board presence to reinforce anyway. You run things like Savage Beatdown, Flying Fortress, Crackshot, and the like. You make it so your SHIELD Agents clear a path and then your Novice Assassins take care of the rest. The impossible Game?

Turn 1 Squirrel Girl+SHIELD Agent. She swings, they’ve lost 3 Endurance.

Turn 2: 2 Novice Assassins, flip the Multiverse. A Crackshot from the resource row lets your SHIELD agent take down their 2 drop, and 4 goes to your opponent’s face(7 total lost)

Turn 3: Nick drops in, played by himself, not David Hasselhoff. He puts two more assassins into play. A crackshot on squirrel girl takes down their 3 drop. 4 assassins swing in for 16 Damage.(23 Total Lost without adding in stun damage)

Turn 4: However you pull it off, 4 assassins drop. 3 take out their 4 drop, Nick takes their 3 out, and you swing to 25 to the face. That’s game. And you only ever had 5 ATK printed on the board.

Proof positive that with Squirrel Girl on your side, you don’t need to be big. You need to be smart, with a lot of dumb friends. These friends bring the most refreshing sauna, though. With that lovely sauna your opponent can attack Squirrel girl directly to stop her power from activating, then you recover her mid attack on another army character. That’s a lot you can do with the deck, methinks. I can’t wait for more SHIELD stuff to drop.