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This week I have recorded it just waiting for youtube to finish the upload.

Testing for BYOS went well on Friday. My build of Fantastic Four won all four rounds to take me to first place (out of 10 players). Lord of Limbo came down for the event and although we didn’t meet in the tournament we did play a couple of casual games and his deck looks pretty good. Unfortunately he ran into some problems on the way home which you can read about here:

But thankfully he is okay!

Now onto the matches:

The first round was a close fought battle Vs the Hellfire Club, Matt had a powerful deck, but Invisible Woman’s reinforcement saved me enough breakthrough early in the game for Human torch’s direct burn to win the game for me on turn 7 Despite the fact my opponent recovered his 16/16 6 drop after I’d had thing take him down.

The second round was a little more one sided. My opponent was playing DCL secret society but missed his one and two drop and was forced to play Floronic Man (rather than Ivy) on three. His early played Forced Conscriptions only managed to drop plot twists into his KO’d pile. The final nails in the coffin were when on my opponents initiative turn 5 I managed to bounce black manta’s attack into thing with a family of 4 and some power ups,  leaving Felix Faust unable to do anthing except feel Thing’s wrath and the attacking Mr. F and invisible woman to the face. When the only 6 drop my opponent could pull out on 6 was Deathstroke I was able to do around 40 damage leaving him on -29 if I remember correctly. This game could have been a lot closer but my opponent seemed only able to mill plot twists.

My third game was against Derek’s (MOR) [New] Brotherhood deck I knew this deck could dish out a lot of damage but thankfully I hit invisible woman on 3 and a suited Mr. F (11 def) the turn after. When Derek started KO’ing/not playing resources and I finishing moved his Sabretooth I knew I was in control despite being 20ish endurance behind. My big numbers and combat pumps carried me through for a turn 6 victory.

The fourth game was against another great deck (MVL) Marvel Knights. Big defense don’t cause your opponent to many problems when Cloak ships your guys off to the hidden area. I can’t remember the exact details of this game because we played a friendly straight after the main game but I know I switched from my usual Luke/IW/Mr.F/Thing/Torch curve to Mr.F/IW/Torch/Thing/Mr.F.  for the main game so I was able to deal with a hidden 2 drop Punisher who had been equipped with an M60, which made him quite a threat (both to my endurance and board presence).

With 8 tutors I managed to hit Invisible woman in every game I played but most of my opponents had no way to deal with her – I think I need to test against a deck that packs hidden hate (or at least reign or terror/Terra/Blackheart).

This Thursday I was a little lost for inspiration for my 13 so forgive me if you don’t want to read about 13 Vs cards beginning with Q but here we go anyway. 

1. Query and Echo: As you may have gathered by now I am quite a fan of the inmates. With the random discard effects from the Worlds Finest set I think there is scope for a recusion deck that uses characters as its plot twists. Slaughter Swamp and Avalon Space station allow you to both put guys back in your hand and control what discard you want to make. I think I might work on a punks deck exploiting this Idea in the near future.
2. Quentin Carnival: Being able to put an Amulet of Nabu onto a character mid-attack seems like it could be a pretty good combat trick. Attacking up the curve with your power gem weilding character trading stuns and then dropping the same gem onto your next drop to do it again is even better.
3. Quicksilver, Inhuman by Marriage: I don’t think there is much I can say about this guy that hasn’t already been plastered all over the forums needless to mention being able to ready for effectively free and still cause breakthrough is a very powerful ability.
4. Quadromobile: I really wish this card had been reprinted in DCL. I love the society and this card helped get you the occasions you needed once you binned them from your deck. Putting one of these on a 1st turn manhunter clone always felt like cheating.
5. Qward: I never got around to building the Qward deck – I didn’t really start buying Vs in any great volume until Avengers was released. I’ve always loved the idea behind this deck though and I think Nova blast abuse continues it’s spirit well.
6. Quicksilver,Terrigenesis Rebirth: Similar to the two drop this guy allows you to effectively swing twice with a big character and cause lots of breakthrough. Of coure waiting till turn 6 to do it makes this guy a little more stomach-able for your opponent.
7. Queen Lilith, Den Mother:I have always been a fan of recursion, I liked flashback and dredge in magic and the underworld and Society teams in Vs. definitely tickled my interest. The problem with the early card though was that you often had to choose between being aggressive and filling your KO pile. Lilith allowed you to do both and increase you draw quality for the next turn! Whats not to like?
8. Quinjet:An interesting card that never really saw much use. Avengers reservist had no room for equipment cards and Rick Jones did the reinforcement job at least as well if not better than this card. Flight across the board is powerful though and this card combos well with itself – perhaps if we see a reprint it will find a home in a crimelords/avengers team up in Marvel Universe.
9. Quicksilver, Speed Demon:The original attack twice speedster. Unlike his more recent incarnations this guy is understatted for his drop and cost a card to be readied. This Quicksilver though was in the same environment as Lost city which allowed for +3/+3 power ups to keep him unstunned and dish out the damage.
10. Quick Kill: Finishing move was one of the most powerful cards to come from MOR and was put to great use in the teen titans deck because it often would have spare ready characters thanks to TTG! But like Lilith Quick Kill allows you to keep attacking and still be able to stunt your opponents board presence.  
11. Q Field: I don’t even remember encountering this card before searching for Q cards for this article. I imagine it could be useful shifting a Xallarap with a Sinistro ring to the visible area would give you a Thing sized defensive body on turn 3! Perhaps this card has now been surpassed by Earth-3 the extra +2 def and re-usability is probably better than drawing a card.
12. Quicksilver, Mutant Avenger: When Avengers first came out I remember, like so many others, trying to build the best Avengers team attack deck. Unfortunately it turned out that the reservist build was much stronger and hank pym, wasp and friends were stripped from the deck. Quicksilver only really kept his place because of the reservist keyword with black pantha being the usual play of choice.
13. Quagmire, Jerome Meyers: Squadron Supreme has one of the most interesting mechanics in the game. You are rewarded for having an empty hand. This guy allows you to play extra one drops to keep up the early aggression without worrying about him clogging your hand later on.