Deck & Commander Strategies
Doctor Octopus, Master Planner
Focuses on boosting the power of other villain creatures, creating a strong board presence through incremental buffs and synergy among villains to overwhelm opponents.
J. Jonah Jameson
Utilizes menace and combat damage triggers to generate treasures and incremental value, pressuring opponents with evasive threats while ramping for bigger plays.
Norman Osborn // Green Goblin
Centers around a madness and discard engine to fuel mayhem costs, create treasures, and generate incremental advantage through discarding and recurring threats.
Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector
A jund-style value deck that casts large creatures with cost reduction effects, then sacrifices them to draw cards and cheat into the battlefield smaller creatures, maintaining card advantage and board presence.
Gameplay Insights
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Norman Osborn’s discard triggers and treasure generation provided a steady ramp and resource advantage, allowing him to play threats ahead of curve and apply pressure.
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Eddie Brock leveraged the sacrifice and cheat mechanic from Venom’s flip side to cycle through cards rapidly and cheat creatures into play, creating a formidable card advantage engine.
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Doctor Octopus’s ability to buff other villains significantly increased the threat level of the board, making combat decisions more punishing for opponents.
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J. Jonah Jameson’s use of menace creatures combined with combat damage treasure generation helped maintain consistent mana and incremental advantage, enabling aggressive plays.
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Strategic use of tapping and stunning creatures, such as through Alchemist Slayer Bots, disrupted key threats and slowed down opponents’ tempo.
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The players carefully navigated combat phases, often blocking or avoiding attacks to preserve key creatures needed for synergies and combos.
Notable Cards
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Norman Osborn // Green Goblin
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Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector
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Doctor Octopus, Master Planner
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J. Jonah Jameson
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Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
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Cabal Ritual
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Lightning Greaves
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Patchwork Banner
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Cover of Darkness
Gameplay Summary
The game featured a tense and thematic battle among four Spider-Man villain commanders, each leveraging their unique villainous mechanics and synergies to gain an advantage.
Early turns focused on setting up mana bases and deploying key villain creatures, with players quickly establishing board presence.
Norman Osborn’s deck capitalized on madness and discard strategies to generate value and treasures, while Eddie Brock’s deck focused on casting and then sacrificing large creatures to draw cards and cheat creatures into play, creating a powerful card advantage engine.
Doctor Octopus enhanced other villains with buffs and incremental benefits, increasing the overall threat level of the board.
J. Jonah Jameson’s deck leveraged menace creatures and treasures from combat damage to generate resources and pressure opponents.
