Five go mad in Maidstone

“With lashings and lashings of Bombadier!”

My Fatal Five deck finally gets a run out in tournament play this Monday. I’ve been sleep tuning the deck in the early hours on MWS. A few changes have been made. A few changes have been tried and discarded.

The Maidstone monthly event is the event in which I’ll be running it and it counts towards the Player of Year race, which is close. My money is still on Jack to win the POY, mainly due to the fact he’s less likely to run jank than either Amy, James or myself.

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed playing this deck online as I have running Gary’s Golden Age Queenpin deck, which I seriously considered running on Monday as well. In the end I flipped a coin, Fatal Five or Crime Lords. I wonder how many players go into tournaments with those options.

As far as the metagame is concerned I expect to see some Checkmate at the event, James is bound to be running something fun and original, Cam something comic related, Vince = Brotherhood, Jordan = Squad Supreme.

The turn out for the event is expected to be our best yet for a Monday event with 11 confirmed and 6 possibles. Should be great, especially now they have Bombardier on draft, hence the Comic Strip presents references.

Anyway here is the deck as it now stands.

1 Emerald Eye, Sentient Artifact
2 Shadow Thief, Umbral Burglar
3 The Riddler, Riddle me This
3 Emerald Empress, Fatal Five
1 Deadshot, Floyd Lawton
1 Charaxes, Moth Monster
3 Tharok, Fatal Five
1 King Shark, Jaws of Death
1 Dr.Psycho, Demented Dwarf
3 Mano, Fatal Five
1 Sinestro, Yellow Lantern
1 Fatality, Okaaran Warrior
1 Validus, Fatal Five
1 Darkseid, Destroyer of Life
1 Black Manta, Underwater Marauder
1 The Persuader, Fatal Five
1 Deathstroke the Terminator, Killing Machine
1 Doomsday, Engine of Destruction

2 Gorilla City
2 Strykers Island 

4 Unnatural Selection
3 For Khundia
4 Removed from Continuity
4 Shadow Strike
3 Chain Lightning
3 Enemy of my Enemy
2 Fatal Five Hundred
1 Flying Kick
4 Truth and Justice - Team Up
2 Forced Conscription

The changes made were to increase the 1 drop count, switch in Truth and Justice for Multiverse (Thanks T-Man), add Dr.Psycho for his weenie help, improve consistency with added search (Fatal 500) and 1 extra KO card.

The event on Monday is Golden Age so I’ll probably look at what can be added/subbed in for the one off tournament. Any suggestions?

I tried out Internal Injuries and felt that in a straight Fatal 5 build it would be great, it just didn’t quite work with this. Also Fatality has been a star, especially when you hit a couple of early Unnaturals. She was only in the build originally because I didn’t want to run Grodd in 2 consecutive decks, however when she hits 14 ATT on turn 5, who wouldn’t love her.