Throw Away Youth

So then it came to pass that Superhuman Registration Act was previewed today. It team stamps everyone with the Pro-Registration affiliation, makes you play with the top card of your deck revealed, and allows you to recruit the person you revealed that way if you haven’t recruited anyone else with that name this turn. Going back into my renewed interest in Reservist, I’m drawn to this.

I thought of using it as loyalty abuse, but CaptainSpud gave me a well earned slap in the ‘OMFG OLD!’ when 3 plot twists and two locations do the same thing(Well, that I can think of off the top of my head). It allows you to recruit people without taking a hit in the hand size. Rush deck? methinks yes. Titans are Kings and Queens of Team attack Rush. It accentuates their current build a good bit.

But there’s an interesting angle to this whole thing. What if you don’t like or need the card on top? That’s when we gamble. Tutors like Mobilize, Straight to the Grave, and Heroes of Two Worlds cause you to reshuffle your deck, yes? Now let’s look at a few other things in regards to gambling:

Cerebro: You look at the top two cards of your deck, put X-men in your hand, the rest on the bottom. This gets you a new top card.

Damocles Base: Name a character, top two card(or three if you named Kang). Copies of the named character go in your hand, the rest on the bottom of your deck.

Underground Resistance: Discard a brotherhood card to look at the top three cards of your deck, pick one and put the rest on the bottom of your deck.

Mr. Fantastic, Critical Thinker does the same thing without the discard. Forge lets you look at the top card of your deck and put it in your hand if its cost is less than the number of cards in your hand. A lot lets you move the top card of your deck if you’re not a fan of it. X-Men seems to be the best at it, between being able to run Forge, Cerebro, Damocles Base, and Domino using the predetermined card to protect herself and cable. Using the gamble with those people, statistically you’re going to be able to rush and force the odds to get you the card you need. New life for X-Babies perhaps?