Thinking Outside the Box

We're well past the 1-year mark when it was learned that the VS System game was no longer going to be produced by UDE. And I'm happy to say that things are still going strong for our hobby league. Our players are having a good time in our weekly tournaments and we've seen some cool new decks arise from the themed formats I've been setting up in our monthly schedule. Last week's Ban-10 tournament saw some pretty interesting decks hit the table such as Secret Society, Speed Force, Team Superman / Crime Lords, League of Assasins, and Avengers. I know I'm forgetting Will's deck in there, but I didn't play against him so I'm not entirely certain what kind of dirty tricks he was using this time around. One of the things that I realized was just how good our players are at building decks. Even without 50 of the most disliked or powerful cards being available to build with, people still come up with excellent combos and interesting effects. Jordan's...

Ok I'm really late with this, but the card lists have all been available since Sunday in the comments for the last post. Here's the list in easy readable order, and keep in mind that ALL version of a card are banned if it has been reprinted in any other sets: MOR-105 The New Brotherhood MOR-101 Lost City MOR-112 Dr. Doom Victor Von Doom MOR-183 Cover Fire MOR-189 Flying kick MOR-210 Press the Attack MSM-109 Bamf! MSM-130 Devil's Due DGL-024 Sinestro Green Lantern of Korugar DJL-049 Guy Gardner Egomaniac DCR-017 Michael Holt Mr. Terrific DLS-187/MVL-258 Mobilize MVL-029 Bererker Rage MVL-045 healing factor MVL 204 Dr.doom diabolical genius MVL-217 Mystical Paralysis MVL-267/MOR-214 Savage Beatdown MCG-039 Pathetic Attempt MEX-013 Silver Surfer's Board MAA-003 X-Men Assemble! MAA-019 Holocaust Age of Apocolypse DCL-065 Beast Boy, Freak of Nature DCL-141 Earth 3 DCL-144 Crime syndicate of Amerika DCX-023 Superman/Batman Robot DCX-026 A Clash of Worlds MUN-026 Spider-Man...

There have been villains, and heroes putting themselves on the line to stop them. Well VS System is no different. With the end of UDE's set releases the fan community has taken things upon themselves to continue the game with fan sets, ban and card wording updates and other suggestions. With our local group adding fan sets on our own schedule I will be maintaining the following "age" list. Modern Age: - Marvel Factions - DC Universe - Marvel Universe (includes MEQ and MUL) - DC Legends (includes DCX) Silver Age (includes Modern Age sets) : - Marvel Legends (includes MAA, Coming of Galactus and MEX) - World's Finest - Marvel Team-Up (includes Hellboy) - Legion of Superheroes Golden Age (also includes Modern and Silver Age sets) : - Heralds of Galactus - Infinite Crisis - X-Men - Justice League of America - Avengers - Green Lantern Corps - Marvel Knights - Man of Steel - Web of Spider Man - DC Origins - Marvel Origins - Marvel Evolutions As you'll see, Evolution...

Ok it's been a few days, but our first constructed VS System event for 2010 has come and gone. I was really happy to see an increase in our attendance to a total of eight players! Round 1 put me up against Jordan's Avengers deck. He had a great start with 2-cost Captain America in the hidden area complete with Captain America's Shield. I was playing my JSA-Lobo deck. When the 4-cost Iron Man arrived to bolster Cap and Black Widow things weren't looking too hot for my lonely visible Atom Smasher. I did have the Mr. Terrifics hiding and making him mean, but things weren't looking good...but the shield's exhausting effects were starting to help more than hurt at that point. On turn five I was able to bring out the 5-cost Carter Hall. I got some choice stuns and was able to avoid triggering Iron Man's effect, only to have my Hawkman stolen by a timely-played Switching Sides! Drawing into another 5-cost Hawkman actually proved to be the game-breaker, and ...

Hey hey hey kids! Things are looking up for us this year. I'm very excited about the move to weekly tournaments. With this change you might have noticed the little monthly schedule on the right panel, which replaces the bi-weekly tournament information. It's easier and more practical to post the schedule for the entire month, as it gives you a chance to plan your gaming in advance. Our first tournament of the year will be sealed Marvel draft. The set hasn't been determined yet, so you'll just have to come down and see what we've got. The schedule will follow the pattern you see there *points to the right*. The first Friday will be a sealed event of some kind, for as long as I'm able to get sealed product to play with. The second and fourth weeks will remain as Golden Age constructed events, and the third will be different a themed event each month. Should we end up with a fifth Friday in the month...well I'll come up with something! On a different bu...

Greeting gamers! It seems that Fantasy Flight games has a gift for us in the New Year: "FFG will be changing the collation of our monthly packs, adopting an approach that both existing and potential LCG customers have been requesting. Once fully implemented across all of our LCG’s, your monthly packs will include 60 cards, consisting of 20 unique cards in triplicate copy!" No longer will we have to buy multiple packs in order to get three copies of that one super-awesome card needed for our decks. I love the living card game model, and this upcoming change makes thing even better. The change to the new pack model will come into effect for each LCG with the start of their next pack phase. For Call of Cthulhu this will be after Dreamlands . For Warhammer: Invasion the changes will take place after the final pack of the Skavenblight cycle. Excellent news makes me happy.