The X-Men

I have been spending the past few days watching the old X-Men cartoon series that I've borrowed from Amerell. i never realized that it was sooo old (aired from 1992-1996)! It's 5 seasons long and I found the story to be surprisingly good, even by today's standards. I also enjoyed playing 'spot the character that has a VS card' with myself whenever a new character appeared. It was fun to learn the story and flavor behind each character, too. The big downside was the show's final 6 episodes which had atrocious animation quality because Marvel filed for bankruptcy at that time and had to contract a cheaper studio to do it. I fast-forwarded most of these episodes because they disgusted me.

With that aside, I started watching X-Men: Evolution. I was rather surprised when I realized that the main characters had become high school kids/teenagers. The only adults were Xavier, Storm and Wolverine. Sabretooth looks cool with his clothes straight out of the movie, but some of them has undergone major re-designs and seem very very wrong. Avalanche is a cool-looking delinquent; Magneto is portrayed as being very sinister and evil. It's all very weird, yet very cool at the same time. All the characters have a cutesy look. I can't imagine how Apocalypse or the Sentinels looks like (provided they appears in the series).

Today is Thursday. It has been weeks since I have been to Midpoint Orchard for their Thursday VS tournaments. Today, I went with Amerell. We had dinner at Burger King to satisfy my craving for Taro Turnover. Incidentally, they had a choice of a free side dish with any deal, so I got my taro for free today. It was very filling and I felt my tummy almost bursting.

When it was time, we went up to the shop (whose name I still don't know cos' they don't have a signboard). I was rather surprised to see Bahamut, Orchi and Jeffrey there, and Kyo joined us later. I was using my TNB Blitz deck today instead of the usual Common Enemy because I did not want to stress myself out too much. Playing TNB is great fun; I think I am beginning to like these bad guys. I guess it probably had something to do with all the X-Men cartoons I've been watching.

I shall conclude my blog entry here, but I'll leave the VS game snippets for those who want to read it below. Penguin signing off.

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Match 1: Vs. KelvinSoh (Curve Sentinels)
I joked with him that I was using his old deck (he used to play TNB, too) cos' Magneto wants revenge for abandoning him for Sentinels. He replied, "I still play with Magneto; he's just bigger." Nimrod on the 5th turn was rather difficult to handle; I ended up having my entire board stunned in an attempt to stun Nimrod and the Mark V. I popped Genosha 3 times without any Magneto in play and I died a natural death when his 'bigger Magneto' came out. I'm gonna add Flying Kicks next time; Sentinels formations gives me problems in my attack.

Match 2: Vs. Timothy (Sinister Syndicate/Crime Lords)
He was using a Modern Age deck, so I couldn't consider it a fair match. I had 2 "TNB"s in play by turn 2 and he joked, "If you flip up a 3rd one, I'm calling the judge." I thought I was in great trouble when he got Latverian Embassy out. I kept pondering over it before I stupidly realized that I cleanly forgotten about Avalanche's ability. His Geraci Family Estate kept me at bay for a few turns (I felt I was in trouble when he still had 40+ life on turn 3), but I managed to win.

Match 3: Vs. Orry (Rigged Elections)
Now I finally know who Orry is; his nick on VSRealms is so similar to his real name. Before the match began, I suspected that he was playing Rigged Elections already because KelvinSoh told me about an opponent who played such a deck at CharKwayTeow last weekend. During the game, I Not-So-Fasted his Wild Ride. He asked me why did I choose to counter it and I replied, "It's probably the only thing in your deck that can be Not-So-Fasted." He was like, "Damn, I was gonna search for Mikado & Mosha". I discarded The Mutant Menace for it, which I kinda regretted later. It was hard to damage him through battle, so any extra burn would've helped. Anyway, I attacked as much as I could, but he won on turn 6 during his Build Phase.

“I would like to thank the voters, who have made their choice clear.”

Match 4: Vs. Reno (Teen Titans)
He Overloaded me on the 2nd turn which got me worried that he had more while I didn't draw any Not-So-Fast. Nothing exciting happened. I only remembered using Destiny, Savage Land and Sabretooth. Played normally and won on turn 5.

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TNB Blitz is fun. At first I thought it'd be another one of those '30-minute' decks I make, but right now, I am considering playing it as main.