With two wins under my belt I was feeling pretty darn cocky. I was a little worried since my opponent has Corvus Glaive + Reality Gem & Proxima Midnight who sound super scary.
My opponent Von streamed the game if you prefer to watch.
Preparation
- I won priority
- I picked Secure Crises
- I, unfortunately, threw out Gamma Shelter which was my preferred crisis because my opponent couldn’t’ fit in Corvus & Proxima.
- I picked Deadly Meteors as my backup scenario
- My opponent picked Extract Crises
- He picked Panic Grips City
- He picked the board edge
Turn 1
- Valkyrie moves up the left side, grabs a citizen, and flips the origin bomb
- Loki moves up the right side, grabs a citizen, and flips the origin bomb
- Black Panther moves up the center and flips the origin bomb
- Thor moves & throws a hammer to shock Black Panther
- Hawkeye moves and fires on Black Panther. He damages him & slows him.
- Proxima Midnight uses Rocket Boots + Drop Off with Corvus (and Reality Gem) on my right side.
- Nebula moves last and does 1 damage to Proxima
- Corvus does 1 damage to Loki and grabs a citizen
- Note that Corvus went last because he didn’t have / didn’t want to spent the power on Proxima Midnight to activate Corvus due to Loki’s ability
- Scores
- He got 2 I got 5
Turn 2
- Loki activates first and beams both Proxima & Corvus. He rolls well doing 1 damage to each which applies Slow to both of them.
- Proxima & Corvus take control of the origin bomb and dazes Nebula
- Valkyrie throws Shuri into Okoye and dazes Shuri with a Strike
- Hawkeye plinks Corvus. No wilds unfortunately so no status conditions.
- Thor Throws Black Panther off the objective and flips the central origin bomb
- Scores
- He got 1 and I got 5
- I have 10 and Von has 3
Turn 3
- Corvus does 8 damage to Nebula & dazes Thor after a free move
- Proxima almost killed Loki
- Von then played Wakanda Forever and Okoye & Shuri both got an attack on Valkyrie dazing her
- THREE of my characters were dazed
- Hawkeye pinked and applied Shock to Corvus
- Black Panther tries to flip the origin bomb and fails!
- Loki ran (still holding his Citizen)
- Scores
- I got 1 and my opponent got 5
- I have 11 and Von has 8
Turn 4
- Thor strikes Shuri and damages her & throws towards Valkyrie.
- This dazes Okoye & Throws Black Panther into Corvus who played Brace for Impact to save themselves
- Black Panther moves long to get a Citizen and flips the left hand origin bomb
- Valkyrie throws Black Panther off objective and flips it back
- And KOs Shuri
- I spent too much on Dragon Fang and I couldn’t pick up the citizen
- Hawkeye flies over Proxima Midnight who is chasing down Loki to flip the origin bomb
- Corvus flips my origin bomb
- Scores
- I got 1 and my opponent got 5
- I have 12 and Von has 13
Turn 5
- Corvus annihilates Thor!
- I rolled poorly a few times which didn’t help.
- He chain activate Proxima Midnight who KO’s Hawkeye and flips the origin bomb
- Valkyrie picks up a citizen and flip the origin bomb
- Okoye KO’s Valkyrie and flips it back
- Scores
- I got 1 and my opponent got 6
- I have 13 and Von has 19
What I Learned
- I had a feeling Corvus & Proxima would be a problem and boy were they.
- Try to play objectives that are far apart against them. If you can force an opponent to leave Proxima sitting on a point that’s hugely helpful
- Loki can be helpful to make their chain activations harder to pull off
- Any counters to Proxima & Corvus need to have some hit points. Otherwise, they’re going down fast.
- I predict 50% of the top tables at the end of this tournament will use Corvus & Proxima.
- Wakanda Forever is great. In one turn I had 3 characters dazed.
- I can use my Asgardian leadership better by activating a healthy character and using the leadership ability on a different character.
- Valkyrie did great against Shuri & Okoye.
- Using Thor to put strategic Shocks on key characters is amazing
- Origin Bombs is great for Asgard. A few times my opponent couldn’t flip the origin bomb back.
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