The Overpower Dojo

May 22. I played in Natrona Hgts, Pa this weekend. I was almost laughed out of my own van when I told everyone what deck I was playing on the trip out. White Queen, Brianiac, Deathlok and Prof X in reserve. Why Deathlok? He SUCKS! and a few choice other comments were made. I've wanted to play deathlok since Classic came out but, as you know, his specials aren't all that good. At least that's what I thought until I came across the dual JW deck idea. He matched the 6 Intellect of the other character's and if one JW is tough, two is even better. Well, I had a tough time with the deck. I won my first game (The way the tournament seating is set up, I always draw a low ranked player. I don't like it. I want to play the best everytime.) but my second and third games were tough. Game two was a loss to Scott Flint. Scott's a real good player who hasn't played in a lot of tournaments since last year's National. Game three was the best game I've ever lost. I was playing a guy named Josh, who was playing in his first tournament. After the first two hands, things looked bad for Josh. But, the third hand started turning things around for him. He wasn't placing any cards and after the second hand, I convinced him to start placing. He was playing with Onslaught's Cidatal as his battlesite and in hands four, his battlesite took over. In hand five, he ventured for the game and locked me out. I put my hand out to shake hands and he was so excited he almost didn't stop shaking my hand. It amde his day and for the rest of the tournament he kept going around saying "I can't believe I beat him!" He was so happy that that's one game I happy I lost. I hope I never say that again. I won game four and somehow managed to make it into single elimination with a 2-2 record. My next game was a rematch with Scott. It was an ugly game on the parts of both of us. I won and that's all I'll say about it. Game five was against Brian Hildreth. In the last hand, he had Spawn and Reavers left while I had Deathlok (He's the man, remember.). We were both totally in our power packs and I had a run of six with the level three power card placed. He had three discards and I thought my day was finished. I mumbled something about if he had a level eight to just place it and he'd win. He said he wasn't placing and the look of astonishment on my face probably lit up the mall where we were playing. I looked at my missions and saw that I needed three for the game. I felt like I had nothing to lose, so I ventured three for the game. He drew another dupe, a level three power card. Deathlok had two hits on him, a strength and a fighting. I played a level one on Reavers and he took it. He played a three on me and I defended it. Thinking now that he had no seven, I played my six. He took it. He showed me his hand and every card in it would knock out Deathlok! All multi- power cards, nothing above a five! He knocked out Deathlok but I won venture and the game. The second tournament in a row that I had beaten Brian this way. My last game was against Phil Kefffer and it was nothing worth mentioning. He beat me in three hands. Ah, but revenge would be sweet!
May 23. Spent Saturday night at Gary Martin, JR's house and got up Sunday to play in his tournament there in WV. I didn't want to play the same deck as Saturday because I knew it wasn't good enough to beat Phil, who also spent the night at Gary's.
I played a Beyonder deck but I've made changes to the Deathlok deck and may play it again at Gary's on June 19th.
I won game one but game two was another lose to Scott Flint. Game three was against Kevin Stalkner, who was playing a Muir Island deck. I had played him before and really didn't want to play him. I beat him before but he had made changes to the deck that improved it. It was a long, hard fought game that Kevin eventually won. I won game four and again, made single elim with a 2-2 record. I drew Kevin in round four and beat him in the power pack by hitting Shadowcat (his last hero) with level seven power cards, then conceding. Three hands of that and she was gone. It was a tough game, though, and I don't like playing Muir Island decks. Next up was Gary, who I hadn't played all weekend. Dupes did him in early and it was over in four hands. Now the rematch I had wanted, me against Phil Keffer. It was a fairly good game but he was duping a lot on activators. Finally, I drew my event, No cards with the word teammate may be played this battle. He had to discard two teamworks that he couldn't place because he already had teamworks placed on those hero's. He also discarded two activator's. I ventured five for the game and won. Phil showed what true sportsmanship is during that game and I was very impressed with him. I was 1-1 against him for the weekend and we had played for the championship both days. Overpower tournaments don't get any better than the two I just played in!

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