Aspect Expressions (Junkerman's Marvel Champions Blog)

She Hulk - Aggression + Groot - Protection vs Klaw Pairing: I want to say that these two weren’t as good together, but Klaw can really get rolling sometimes.  This game, I think the Villain had a good game.  I played She Hulk with the home rules --but they were too much on the ropes to throw an early Gamma Slam in the middle of thwarting three schemes and killing off groups of minions.  They controlled the main scheme for a while, then Groot had to flip for growth counters, and got triple boosts on the scheme.  Then the encounter card: the villain schemed.  That flipped the scheme –bringing out a 3rd minion.  They flipped Klaw, which put another minion on the board for a total of 4 minions and 3 schemes out.   She Hulk was down to 4hp.  I looked at the board.  Groot had one defense card, and four attack cards.  Groot came up with 15 damage (with 5 growth counters), and She Hulk just went for it – Gamma Slam for 11, Attack for 4, Coun...

Extra She Hulk News:   So I tried a game with my She Hulk Home-Rules.  Most people home-rule her to just have a 5-card hand size.  That makes sense, and probably solves most of her problems.  But she has two cards that I hate: Gamma Slam, and Legal Practice. Proposed Changes: 1. Gamma Slam is an upgrade which you play on setup (still requires 4 resources to activate, then you set it aside like Valkyrie's Death Glow ). Now you can take damage and manage risk with some sense of gaming sanity. I want to have fun with that stupid card. I want to work She Hulk into a spot where GS is an awesome move ==> "The villain does 4 damage to you..." "...Hah! Just making me more angry..." 2. Legal Practice has an extra kicker: if you discard all 5 cards, you replace Gamma Slam . Now when you sacrifice your whole turn to thwart, you can prepare a later attack. This makes that goofy card more fun. Result:  it totally worked!  I actually had the opportunity to use Lega...

Spring Break 2024 Black Widow - Justice + Valkyrie - Aggression vs Green Goblin Mutagen Formula Pairing:   What a team!  Wow!  All Natasha has to do is thwart, and make sure Val doesn’t get stunned.  Natasha has so many prep cards (I added a few extra in her deck).  For slamming on Green Goblin (GG) it was a slow build.  But in terms of controlling the board, right out of the gate, Val killed both minions (they’re out in setup), and Black Widow cleared all the threat.  The whole game was like that.  GG would throw a ton of crap at us, BW would discard half of it with preps, then clear threat, and Val would kill all the minions –all while building up for the big battle. Maybe it was just BW and Val, but they didn’t need any Protection or Leadership.  These two just owned the board.  GG Mutagen Formula brings out lots of minions, so that’s what drove my pick for Val.  BW reminds me of how Captain America doesn’t need the Protection a...