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The Sentry™
Card# MTU-017
While his stats aren’t much bigger than those of the average 7-drop, Sentry’s “Pay ATK” power can drastically hinder an opponent’s attacking options in the late game.
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| Round 3 Round-Up |
| Jason Grabher-Meyer |
| April 16, 2005 |
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Table One: Olav Rokne vs. Eric Wood 
Rokne was playing Evil Medical School against Eric Wood’s teched-out Big Brotherhood. Though Wood didn’t draw an Avalon the entire game, he admitted that it wouldn’t have helped much. “It could have given me a bit of an advantage, but it’s not really that important in this matchup. What really killed me was Have a Blast! on my Lost City on turn 8. Doom Swung into Magneto, and after a war of power-ups, he came out on top.”
That’s how the game ended. Backed by four exhausted characters, Dr. Doom, Lord of Latveria attacked, retrieved Press the Attack, and attacked again over and over.
“I was tempted to drop Shimmer and just exhaust you down,” mentioned Rokne.
“Yeah, I was wondering why you didn’t do that and go to 9, take  me out with Light.”
There was a brief pause.
“Yeah, but, ye know infinite! Infinite is my favorite number!” Rokne grinned, and both men laughed before going their separate ways.
Match Win: Olav Rokne
Table Two: Matthew Hilderman vs. Kenneth Stasiuk
Stasiuk was playing Curve Sentinels with Hounds of Ahab and Micro-Sentinels tech. Unfortunately for him, Hilderman was running a Common Enemy deck that was teched against Sentinels.
“I didn’t get any Betrayals,” Hilderman remarked. “But he didn’t get any Magnetos, so that was fine.”
Stasiuk grinned, eager to recoup his loss and making wisecrack after wisecrack. “We pretty much all hit our drops until Bastion was replaced by a Mark V and a Boliver Trask . . . and then Magneto was replaced by a pair of Mark IIs. In case you’re wondering, Sentinel Mark V and Boliver Trask are not a good replacement for Bastion!”
The game ended on turn 8 with Silver Surfer—Stasiuk conceded.
Match Win: Matthew Hilderman
Table Three: Mike Bodey vs. Chris Olsen
 Olsen was playing a very odd Sentinels variant. “Don’t call it Curve Sentinels! Don’t insult me!” Ninety-five percent of me realized he was laughing. The other five percent thought he might actually snap and slap me if I said he was running Curve Sentinels. With luck, he won’t read the metagame breakdown where I did just that. Bodey was playing Curve Sentinels loud and proud, and he took the game because of Have a Blast!
“I got his Prime Sentinels on turn 4.” “Yeah, so instead of taking 12, he only took 6,” maligned Bodey, albeit good-naturedly. “Pretty much from there it was just drop my big guys and pound through his little guys.” Olsen was running Wild Sentinels to get the most out of some of his key synergies—definitely a valid move, but one that cost him in this specific match. After blowing away Olsen’s lynchpin card for the game, Bodey only need two more turns to seal the deal, curving out ideally with the exception of a turn 5 Mark V with boost.
Match Win: Mike Bodey
Table Four: Jack Garrett vs. Joel “Eekamouse” Eddy
Jack Garret won $10K Long Beach and was hoping to repeat his performance here, again running Curve Sentinels with Hounds of Ahab. Joel Eddy, also known as Eekamouse on VsRealms.com, was playing TNB Blitz.
Eddy had the game in the bag right off the bat. Over the course of the game’s five turns, he flipped three copies of The New Brotherhood and dropped a pair of Surprise Attacks. Both players curved out, with Garrett even hitting Boliver Trask on turn 1, but there was just nothing to be done against Eddy’s super-powered horde. The use of Hounds over Sentinel Mark III, usually a great decision, resulted in an even bigger pummeling for Garrett than other Curve Sentinel players might have taken.
Match Win: Joel “Eekamouse” Eddy |
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