VS PREVIEW MEV-249 THE STARJAMMER.

By Joe Corbett

The Star Jammer is the base of operations for the Star Jammer’s. Some of Marvels finest to pilot the Star Jammer include Christopher Summers, Havok & even Thor. These pilots braved in epic battles across the Cosmos of the Marvel Universe. Depending on the story arc they battled everywhere from the Shi’ar empire to the great Brood home world itself. However, as exciting & spell bounding as these missions were I believe this Vs card previewed here today is one of the most intriguing & unique Vs cards I have ever seen.

 

So let us just get to the preview.

VS SYSTEM MEV PREVIEW: HYPERION EARTH-4023

By Joe Corbett

Hi! My name is Joe & this is my first preview.  First I want to thank everyone @ Ude especially TBS for giving us some previews here @ the Inky Blot. I also want to thank everyone that actually reads this article. I appreciate all three of you.

 

 Those of you that know me well know that I am a huge DC Comics fan. It has touched my heart considerably that Ude let me have Hyperion as my first preview. Especially, since Hyperion was loosely created to identify one of thee major players in the JLA. I will give you all a hint. It is not THIS ONE*:

 

 

Breaking Ground: A Clinical Examination of Insanity – Part 2

“Paranoia!  Paranoia!  Everybody’s coming to get me!”

 

- Harvey Danger

 

 

 

 

In the last article, we discussed the properties and merits of an aggressive Insanity deck; affectionately called “Dementia”.  In this article, we’re going to look at another facet of Insanity.  If the aggressive version of Insanity is “Dementia”, then the combo control variant must be “Paranoia”.

 

 

 

Breaking Ground: A Clinical Examination of Insanity – Part 1

By Michael (Cuckoo) Barnes

 

 

 

One of my current favorite deck archetypes is Insanity.  To be certain, it is not the most competitive of deck types.  Even the sheer stupidity of the power levels provided to cards with Insanity text can’t make up for the lack of consistency.  But Insanity decks are almost always guaranteed to be fun to play.

TAWC GEN CON MODERN AGE CHAMPIONSHIP REPORT!

By Michael Barnes

This story begins with a thread posted on these very Realms.  One week before the VsSystem World Championships, I was reading Yoel Izsak’s tournament report of Mega Weekend New York.  Of particular interest to me were Yoel’s impressions of Marvel Universe from a limited perspective.  While I fancy myself a decent limited player, I willingly admit that there are players out there (such as Yoel) with far better understanding of the limited side of Vs. System.  Considering Yoel’s prior success with the Vs. System limited format, I figured that I could learn a lot from his comments.

 

ZACH’S ATTACK ON TAWC!!!

Defending The Empire

by Zachary Thorp

Inspiration strikes in the most amazing ways. Sometimes it can start from the smallest thing, like seeing a plastic bag be blown into trees. Sometimes, it stems from larger things, such as one person’s dream of greatness. In this game, however, it is most often inspired by cards and by the characters behind them.

Or maybe inspirtation can come from what is in an Unstable Molecular Suit?

TAWC BYOT MARQUEE HOBBY LEAGUE REPORT.

By Joe Corbett

On July 26, 2008 we had our first crack at The Bring Your Own Team format @ our local gaming store. The Marquee was held at The Gatekeeper in Topeka Kansas. I love this format. Depending on what teams your opponents play almost every team could be viable. Unfortunately, we only had 6 attendees including myself. 

 

We went ahead & played a round robin style tourney so everyone got to play everyone. After 5 Epic Rounds Tom Cox, brother of Reid Cox playing in his first tournament for VS, “Hulk Smashed” the competition with a 4-1 record with his Warbound control deck.

 

Hulk Smash!

 

 

TAWC Online VS MUN Sealed Tournment Report.

Online MUN Sealed Tournament Top 8.

By Reid Cox

 

To start off I want to throw a big thanks to Flashback for hosting an incredible online sealed tournament.  One of the things I miss most in VS. is the limited play opportunities.  It is easily my favorite format. 

Now on to the show….

Two of your Inkyblot hosts were able to pull in 3-1 records in the swiss rounds to secure spots in the Top 8 this week, Shane “Inkedlawyer” Wiggans and myself. Early on in the tournament visions of a TAWC Final danced in my head, however now we will just have an epic battle of the bloggers Semi-Final and you can full well expect another recap on here for your enjoyment. 

Flashback polled the members of the Top 8 in regards to play out the Top 8 and it was decided to do a new sealed for the best 2 out of 3 matches in the Top 8. 

Phantom Phone Booth 2008

Phantom Phone Booth 2008

For the Bring your own team format

By Joe Corbett

 

 

 

 

Mom made this costume! Me @ 3.

My favorite set is the Superman set. Go ahead & laugh. I know it is the worst set in VS. (Hopefully it will remain that way). I like DSM because of the teams in the set. I am a huge New Gods freak & have an enormous crush on Big Barda. I also have adored Superman since I was 3 years old. (Thanks for making the suit Mom.) Infact I actually was born & still live in Kansas. So Superman has always been one of my favorite Superheroes for a multitude of reasons.

 Does anyone remember Superman Matt Meyers? He was Superman’s biggest fan back in the day & nobody worked harder to make Team Superman more viable then Matt. Matt ended up in 12^th place just 1 win shy of top 8 @ a 10k in Phillipsburg NJ January 15^th 2005. He was a member of Team Realmwork & briefly a member of TAWC. One of his big contributions to Vs was The Phantom Phone Booth deck.

 

 

TAWC World’s Golden Age Win A Box Report.

Punisher/Batmobile Abuse

Joe Corbett

I was talking with Michael Barnes over the phone a few days before World’s & he mentioned he was going to participate in the Golden age win a box at Columbus. I was just planning on drafting that whole day in side events but after some contemplation I thought it would be allot of fun to play my old school Punisher abuse deck. Mike ended up playing Torch & Thing Vomit btw but that will have to be in another article for another time.

I came up with this deck originally after PCNY 2005. At the time I wasn’t having any fun playing against Curved Sentinel’s. I began desperately searching for some original deck I could play that could pawn on the Curved Sent’s. What I came up with was Punisher Jury abuse via old school Batmobile.