09.24.04 

Hey all, and welcome back to the VS Deck Garage! Sorry I missed out on the last week; school managed to catch up with me, so I was spending a *ton* of free time working on stuff like the exciting world of Business Law.

Anyways, since I don’t think any of y’all have had a reminder over the last week or two – if you want to see your deck in the VS Deck Garage, drop me an e-mail at Hagan0001@aol.com, and don’t forget to include all of the information you think I should know. What Characters do you want to keep? Which can go away? What Plot Twists were you thinking about adding? What decks are giving you the most trouble? Tell me everything, and I’ll see what I can do for you.

Anyways, this week, I received an e-mail from a Loyal Brotherhood Supporter, who has proclaimed that he will continue to play Brotherhood, even though friends are telling him it ain’t no good no more. Let’s see what we can do to help! Here’s the e-mail…


this is my TNB deck, haven't had much help from anyone because they say that brotherhood are going down the tubes, but i am loyal and have decided to stick with them.
here's my decklist:
4 Lorelei (1)
4 Phantazia (1)
4 Pyro (2)
4 Toad (2)
4 Quicksilver (3)
4 Rogue (3)
4 Blob (4)
4 Sauron (4)
1 Feral Rage (4)
4 Magneto, Eric Lehnsherr (5)

4 Lost City
2 Avalon Space Station

4 Acrobatic Dodge
4 Flying Kick
2 Surprise Attack
4 TNB
3 War on Humanity

I have seen you do wonders before with other people's decks, please help me here!
If you suggest Quicksilver, Speed Demon (5), I will buy 4 off [an online auction site], otherwise Magneto will just have to do.

Another thing, this deck is centered around powering up my characters AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, and savage land is not so good. But Lost City works REALLY WELL with Avalon Space Station. Do you agree or disagree, please help me out here.

what should i change in order to ATTACK AS FAST AS POSSIBLE AND DEAL TREMENDOUS AMOUNTS OF DAMAGE?

my friends have been whoopping me with big brotherhood and sinister syndicate control. PLEASE HELP ME!!!


The first thing I want to do is get rid of Lorelei and put in Destiny. Lorelei has a decent ability, but nothing spectacular. Meanwhile, Destiny allows you to start going nuts with endurance loss extremely early in the game. We won’t mention what happens when a Sabretooth, Feral Rage gets onboard with an active Destiny.

-4 Lorelei, Savage Land Mutant
+4 Destiny, Irene Adler

Next, at one point, I would have said that Phantazia belonged in the next slot, but with the release of Web of Spider-Man on the horizon, I think there is a new 1-Drop in town: Thornn, Feral Hunter. You have a free pump by discarding *any* card in your hand, and she can be swinging for five on first turn with an active The New Brotherhood. Sounds good to me, so…

-4 Phantazia, Eileen Harsaw
+4 Thornn, Feral Hunter

I have zero complaints regarding our contributors’ (y’all have to send me at least a first name, I feel bad not giving credit to a name for a deck!) choice of 2-Drops and 3-Drops, so I won’t change those. However, I think we can get away with only playing six 3-Drops, so why don’t we lose a couple of Rogue, Anna Raven, especially since we’ll be making good use of Quicksilver and Lost City. I don’t think we really need nine 4-Drops hanging out in the deck, so I’m going to cut a copy of Sauron.

-2 Rogue, Anna Raven
-1 Sauron, Dr. Karl Lycos

I understand that Sabretooth, Feral Rage can be a pain to get, so I’m assuming that is the reason this deck only has one copy. However, if not, then I would suggest pulling *all* copies of Sauron in favor of the house-like Sabretooth.

I would normally recommend Post, Kevin Tremain out of Web of Spider-Man for the 5-Drop slot, but since our contributor is running Lost City, I think Quicksilver, Speed Demon is a better call. We’ll let a couple of Magneto still hang out, though.

-2 Magneto, Eric Lehnsherr
+4 Quicksilver, Speed Demon

Next, I completely agree with a full set of The New Brotherhood and, since our contributor really likes it, Lost City. The two Avalon Space Station should come in handy, but I don’t really think more are needed. I would recommend, however, that we throw in a couple Genosha, especially with Magneto in the deck.

+2 Genosha

Under Plot Twists, I think this deck really should be going for the throat. Thus, I say we get rid of Acrobatic Dodge and add in Mega-Blast. The reason I say that over Savage Beatdown is, again, price limitations (see: Sabretooth, Feral Rage above). Also, you’ll notice that a lot of Brotherhood characters are only average or less on the backside, meaning more often than not, if your opponent wants them stunned, they will be.

-4 Acrobatic Dodge
+4 Mega-Blast

Finally, I’ve come to believe that War on Humanity is not too useful, especially since all of the Brotherhood guys have a small backside (see above). In its place, why don’t we try to keep the playing field level with Ka-Boom! The only decks it shouldn’t be effective against is Fantastic Four and Spider-Friends, so be careful in those match-ups.

-2 Surprise Attack
-3 War on Humanity
+2 Ka-Boom!

That about wraps up work on this deck, so let’s check out what the finished product looks like…

CHARACTERS (36):
4 Destiny, Irene Adler
4 Thornn, Feral Hunter
4 Pyro, St. John Allerdyce
4 Toad, Mortimer Toynbee
4 Quicksilver, Pietro Maximoff
2 Rogue, Anna Raven
4 Blob, Fred Dukes
3 Sauron, Dr. Karl Lycos
1 Sabretooth, Feral Rage
2 Magneto, Eric Lehnsherr
4 Quicksilver, Speed Demon

LOCATIONS (8):
2 Avalon Space Station
2 Genosha
4 Lost City

PLOT TWISTS (16):
4 Flying Kick
4 Ka-Boom!
4 Mega-Blast
4 The New Brotherhood

I hope that helps in the good fight against Big Brotherhood and Syndicate!

That about wraps up this week’s VS Deck Garage. Remember, if you’d like to see your deck in the Garage, drop me an e-mail at Hagan0001@aol.com, and I’ll get back with you as soon as possible.

Until next week – happy gaming!