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Friends gravity feed(read: box) for World's Finest finally came in, despite coming out in March. Wuht. And with nothing to do on a hot Sunday we decided to pop it open and have some fun.

There's three major factions in this set, Villain, Bat Family, and Team Superman(ugh, even his faction is boring). The dice are lined up in a rainbow and I'm scanning it before picks start. Villains are the strongest faction in this set and it looks like there is a ton of them that will be going around. Team Superman has a decent showing, but since they tend to be more powerful, higher cost dice they don't draft exceptionally well. Lastly there's the Bat Family with a solid showing, but if anybody else tries to draft it beside me than I am screwed, so I decide to try and make Villains work. The great thing about Villains in this set is that since you have them from both Superman and Batman's stories there is a solid variety and the Superman villains synergy become my target.

My team for the day:
Kryptonite x3 (2Bolt): An action die that takes up one of my 8 slots, but only I can buy it. Allows me to ignore a target characters' text for the turn and can cause a Team Superman character to be unable to block for the turn.

Poisin Ivy x1 (3Mask): Kills anything she damages at the end of the attack step(essentially Deathtouch)

The Riddler x1 (4Bolt): When fielded does X damage to all sidekicks where X is his attack value. As an aside, there are characters that have the ability "Ally" which lets them be treated as sidekicks when fielded. This makes makes different effects count towards them, good and bad. This set has 2 allies in it, Alfred and Lois Lane.

Carmine Falcone x1 (4Fist): When fielded sidekicks deal no combat damage.

Superwoman x2 (5Bolt): Has an alternate fielding cost of 3 Bolts and a global where I can spend an energy to let me spend other energy as is they were bolts.

Mister Freeze x2 (5Bolt): When fielded he removes a character from the game until the end of the turn.

General Zod x2 (5Bolt): When you uses a non-basic action die he gains Fast(read: First Strike) until end of turn.

Ultraman x2 (5Bolt): When you use a Kryptonite die, gains +4/+4 until end of turn.

My basic actions don't matter, I didn't use any of them.

So my team build was pretty simple. Use Kryptonite avoid annoying abilities and try to spam bolts to get to my 5 costs, which half of them get benefits from them being used. I ran into the issue I've had in the past where I didn't have a ton of cheap early characters as unless I got lucky with my roll even Super Woman's alternate cost would still put me on the line for 4 energy. Yeah, I had tons of Kryptonite, and those are cheap, but they don't make bodies.

Game 1
Played against a quasi Villain/Team Superman setup. He started with Clark Kent, trying to get to a quick Superman which would have been a real hassle to deal with. My answer was Poisin Ivy. Using his Bane's global ability, I was able to continuously force Clark to attack me on his turn, block him with Ivy, and KO through her ability. After a while he forced Ivy to attack with Bane's global onto an empty field to stop the stall tactic and then he started lining up sidekicks. Luckily my Riddler wasn't far away, who demolished the field meager defenses that he put up and dealt a solid blow combined with a Superwoman. I was now decidedly in a lead when Krypto and Bane were fielded against me along with a reappearence of Clark. I forced Clark to take another quick exit at the hands of Ivy. On my turn I got a Kryptonite and an Ultraman into play. The goal was to make Krypto unable to block and use the buff on Ultraman from using Kryptonite to either force a block from Bane to KO him or force lethal. Due to a timing error on my part he was able to just block with Krypto and no fun was had. Either way on my next turn I was able to send out a Mister Freeze, remove Bane from play, and then outflank for the win
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Game 2
There really isn't much to say about this game. My opponent was largely Villains but had a Batgirl that is unblockable by sidekicks and villains. Literally everything I had was a sidekick or villain except Kryptonite, which as I said early doesn't make bodies. My only hope was that I'd RNG into Batgirls rolling onto their energy sides and I could fast ramp into big stuff and end the game. Instead he drew the Batgirls from his bag early and often and they always landed on a character face. After a few attacks I just conceded since I knew there was nothing I could do at that point.
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Game 3
Opponent forfeit because he always loses against me when we play one on one unless I'm playing with a joke team... and even then. Maybe he should just git gud. Was kind of sad because he drafted the Black Lantern Green Arrow and it looked pretty sick.
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What did I learn? I can't skate by on cheap actions replacing cheap characters. I should have noticed Villains drying up pretty quickly since 3 out of the 4 of use where at least half if not entirely villains. I lost a few dice from the rainbow because of it. Due to DM drafts being 2 packs of 12, it's hard to change gears and instead of focusing on signals I need to read the rainbow better. I'm pretty sure the Batgirl passed me once. Lastly, this needs to be a best of 3 moving forward. The first draft it was a matter of time, this one my because my opponent was being a little bitch.

Should be the last draft for a while. The GreenArrow/Flash set based around the TV shows doesn't come out until August. There may be a Yugioh Dice Masters one some time between then though. Or maybe an Age of Ultron one. We'll see.

Draft 1: Civil War