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This is the deck I played at the 1998 OverPower Nationals where I won
Second. On Saturday I included Flash's Tapping the Speed Force. The
only change I would make is to remove the "Hideout Discovered"
event and include the X-Babies Lil Iceman.
 

Deck Listing for:

David Marotta   OP-1532

Marauders       7 7 3 2 (19)
X-Babies        5 5 4 1 (15)
Scarlett Witch  7 3 2 5 (17)
Flash           6 6 4 3 (19)

Any Heroes (8):
   leech, bastion, web head, angel, confusion, gamma terror, savage land
   fortress,

Specials (29):
Marauders (12)
   vertigo x6, arc light x2, block buster x2, malice, harpoon
X-Babies (7)
   li'l longshot x3, li'l collossus x2, li'l dazzler x2
Scarlett Witch (8)
   hex power, change outcome x3, witchcraft (ad) x2,
      spontaneous combustion, sorceress slam
Flash (2)
   reap the whirlwind x2

Teamworks (4):
   6e, 7e, 6f, 7f (none with strength followup)

Mission: Dark Phoenix Saga
Events (3):
   Reshuffle (New Lease on Life)
   Event: Discard all Universe cards, none can be played (Hideout Discovered)

Power cards (13):
   E: 7 7 6 6 5
   F: 7 6 5
   S:
   I: 2 1
   N:
   M: 4 4 3

Total cards:
   Any Heroes:    8
   Specials:     29
   Teamworks:     4
   Powercards:   13
   Events:        2
TOTAL CARDS      56

Other possible options to include:
__ remove Event: Discard all Universe cards, none can be played (Hideout Discovered)
__ include X-Babies' Lil Iceman
__ death from above
__ sorceress slam (2nd)
__ reap the whirlwind (3rd)
__ No Universe cards (Battle on the Moon)
__ Event: Remove 1 hit from permenant record of heroes with Inherant Ability
__ include Flash's tapping the speed force
 
 
 
 
 

There are only 13 power cards and 4 teamworks. With attack moving cards the winning decks have changed to specials
because instead of heroes being awake only 56% of the time they are awake 100% of the time. If they are KOed, you have
lost the battle. As a consequence, most of the reserve heroes had nothing that they couldn't play from reserver.

The event "New Lease on Life" doesn't usually make your opponent's activators unusable, but it does make them have
activotors where they have used all their best specials. Many of my opponents kept looking under their battle site with the
expression "Is that all there is left?" In addition, the reshuffle event helps make certain that you won't enter the power pack.
Entering the power pack with only 13 power cards is a little dangerous.

The strategy against Other Marauder and X-Babies decks is to negate their Vertigo and still have a negate left to defend your
own. If you have two negates and a vertigo bet 4 as they will either have to conceed or lose the Marauders.

The strategy against FF Plaza decks is to start by attacking the battlesite if you get an Arc Light. This will make your opponent
start using the best defense from their battlesite (avoid, negate). Your opponent will most likely conceed to save their battlesite. If
you get discard one place card use it to make your opponent discard his defense. Make them discard the avoid that you have
seen two of, as most players have two of each avoid. Leave the other to possibly duplicate later. Making them discard their
avoids is better than high hits which you can just shuffle around to whoever you want. Many battles they will be winning, but
have to conceed or lose a character.

Don't fight the battle unless you have a Vertigo. You have six Vertigos, you need to get one to fight. If you have one, don't
shun from fighting if there is any chance one of your hits will land.

Try to avoid letting them defend with power cards. Try to make all their power cards end up as hits on the X-Babies. Use
delaying tactics to achieve this. Let specials hit and decide later if there is an advantage in negating them. Remember that FFP
has no negates themselves, and hence Can't stop your Vertigo.