The Team(s) I fell in love with-Part One

I am very new at this, so please give me a little grace for the first few weeks!

In the game of Vs certain people are drawn to certain archetypes and teams, and to start my blog, I thought that I should share some of my favorite teams. Hopefully this will help you to get to know me a little better, and hopefully you won’t think that I am an idiot after this. So here we go, into my favorite teams, actually, first a little history. Well, I started playing this wonderful game of ours when the most current sets were DC’s Justice League of America and Marvel’s X-Men. This was a great jumping on point for me, because I was already a huge X-men fan, and who can’t like all of DC’s most powerful characters being put into one team. Anyway, so I started buying some cards, and got really anxious to actually play. My first opportunity to play came at a PCQ at a local store called Gathering Ground, this was back when they were still having both constructed and sealed events at PCQ’s. Seeing as I didn’t have enough cards to make anything semi-viable, I opted to play in the sealed format. I received bad beatings in the first and second rounds, because I had no idea what I was doing, but here comes the third round, and as my opponent sits down across from me, he says that he had seen me get beat in the previous rounds and asked me if I was interested in actually learning how to play the game, needless to say, I jumped on that opportunity. So with the help of a very nice player, I learned how to play vs, and there has been no turning back ever since. Anyway, after the PCQ, I looked for cheap decks that I could build from either the X-Men or Justice League set, and what did I find? None other than my first “Team that I fell in love with” THE MORLOCKS!  

The Morlocks were the first team that I ever built a deck around, and to this day I love them to death. For those of you who don’t know, the Morlocks are a team that have two basic ways to build a deck. The first being using characters that have large amounts of attack and low defenses to try and beat as much face as possible. The second and much more popular way to build a Morlocks deck is to use the characters with the very powerful keyword “Evasion.” As most people, I opted for using evasion. For those who don’t know, evasion allows you to stun your own characters, and then recover them at the start of the recover phase for free. When I first looked at the Morlocks, I thought that evasion was kinda stupid, I mean why in the world would I want to stun my own characters? I found the answer to that question in the powers and plot twists that come along with the Morlocks. Once I realized that, I knew that I had to build them, so what did I do? The obvious thing, I made a deck, I used only cards from the X-Men set, seeing as I then thought that they where the only ones with evasion, or anything use-full that could be done with it. So with my mono-Morlocks deck in hand, I went to Hobby League. I had high hopes for this deck, and what happened, I got beat every game that night. As you can imagine, this was very disappointing, but I was not willing to give up on the Morlocks quite yet. That night after Hobby League, I did some research, and what did I find? None other than one of my favorite Vs cards of all time, Last Stand! As soon as found Last Stand I was like,”Well, ,I might as well throw it in there, the deck can’t be any worse.” So, I put four copies of Last Stand in my deck. For some reason I  thought that Last Stand would be enough to take my deck from last to first. So I once again take the deck to Hobby League, and if I remember correctly, I manage to win one game! Surprisingly, most of my loses weren’t coming from playing errors, but rather from a lack of card draw, so once again I go home and research. That night I happened to stumble upon The Creeper, Jack Ryder. I happen to have a couple of copies of him, seeing as I had bought some Justice League, and while he may not be a Morlocks character, he does have the team affiliations of each character I have, so his not being Morlocks did not really matter. You might be asking, even if he has a way to get the morlocks affiliation, why are you throwing in just another 3 drop character. the reason being that his text reads, “Whenever The Creeper recovers, draw a card.” This power mixed with his ability to evade, was the answer to my draw card problem. So, with Creeper thrust into the Morlocks, I once again went to Hobby League, while I did not go undefeated, I did manage to only lose one game that night. While I think that a couple people might have let me win, I didn’t care, I had done well with a deck of my own design. Pumped up and excited that the Morlocks were viable, I slowly but surely made the deck better and better, and while I am sure that somebody had done this way before me, I was not smart enough to check. So, with the Morlocks having been my first real “winning” deck, I fell in love with them! The ability to have your opponent think they have you on the ropes, but then being able to give +10 defense to your last unstunned character is simply amazing. That card interaction, with Last Stand is one of my favorites ever in the game of Vs. I never get tired of stone-walling an attack with my Morlocks.  Ever since that time, I always pack Morlocks just in case someone is wanting to play some Golden-Age. Also since then I have played the Morlocks in a couple actual tourny’s. The most notable tournament being the “Mega PCQ” in Collinsville, Illinois. The Morlocks were able to perform fairly well that weekend, however I am not crazy enough to think that they are tier 1 golden age. They are just one of the most fun decks to play. So I bid you all adieu. This has been the first installment of The Teams that I fell In love with, next time on The Emo Side of Vs…..The Outsiders!  So, I figured I should probably leave you with my decklist for mono-Morlocks, or as I like to call the deck…Morvasion! 

Characters
4x Tommy, Runaway
3x Artie, Arthur Maddicks
3x Electric Eve, Live Wire
4x Tar Baby, Adhesive Ally
4x Leech, Inhibitor 
4x Creeper, Jack Ryder
3x Caliban, Mutant Bloodhound
3x Storm, Leader of the Morlocks
2x Marrow, Gene Nation
1x Callisto, Morlock Queen
1x Ape, Metamorph
Plot Twists
4x Last Stand
4x Bloodhound
3x Mobilize
2x Backs Against The Wall
4x Bum’s Rush
4x Retribution
4x Shrapnel Blast
Locations
4x The Alley  

~ by brokenbyme on March 1, 2008.