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[skuffd]

Just shooting out a quick Hi on the forum, now that I got the approval. I live in Vegas, played the game since day one back when I was a freshman in high school and had to raid my piggy bank to buy booster packs. I'm only about 20 cards away from a complete collection (yes, this includes the nigh-impossible inserts and holo-cards). Love the game and keep at least two decks in my case at all times. Currently I'm running fluff decks for Fantastic Four and Mutant Hunters (Sentinels, Reavers, Donald Pierce and Bastion). Curious to see how it goes out there. Maybe when I get some more time I'll throw up a deck list, but I'm also interested in talking deck building strategy. I also find it interesting that OP was one of the only games where a 60 card deck just seems impossible. I'm probably wrong in this, but I have only ever built one deck under 90 cards.
I heard about the fan print of the Marvels set late, so I missed it but I do have a list of the cards/images so there is proxy potential in the future. I'm wanting to make sure that I don't miss another opportunity should another fan set print be discussed.
Anyhow, enough about me. Hope to see what the board is all about.

[breadmaster]

good to see ya skuff

I used to have a tough time getting my decks leaner too

a great tip (and I fought it as well!), is to treat all specials as opds, unless they can defend the whole team.  there are exceptions, but it's a good rule of thumb

[AO user]

Welcome, skuffd

I spend a lot of $ on sleeves cuz my decks are too big!  I like the opd approach, Breadmaster!

[skuffd]

Good tip. I've been leaning that way for about half of the specials, but it's worth trying. I'm also trying to figure out the best way to work in power cards based on character grids, without a high duplicate ratio, but it needs some serious testing.

[BasiliskFang]

For power cards, I think bread told me to only have 2of each number. 1of each tw and ally.

[chuu]

usually I use the following:

1x2, 2x2, 3x2, 4x3, 5x3, 6x3,

7s and 8s depend on how many eligible characters are on the team.

[steve2275]

5 L 8 s power
4 L 7 s power
very few discards....prolly because i dont place those

wow  cant believe i havent been here since april 21

[Carlos7195]

The biggest deck that I would eve run is 64 cards equal to 8 hands.  I concur with the special rule that bread plays with, it avoids getting duplicates in battle.