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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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| Deck Profile: Tony Barda |
| Nate Price |
| August 06, 2005 |
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 I love staying on the lookout for fun decks. Ever since I saw the list for the Fantastic Four Starter, released earlier this year, I’ve been drooling over Invisible Woman, Protector. And I don’t mean drooling over her the way I drooled over Jessica Alba. I really enjoy when a card is printed that makes another card reach new levels of absurdity. Tony Barda came to $10K Wizard World Chicago with a deck that makes aggressive decks beg for mercy.
His deck is based around the interaction between Invisible Woman, Protector and A Child Named Valeria. The deck gets Mr. Fantastic, Reed Richards into play, hides him behind Invisible Woman, and then plays as many copies of A Child Named Valeria as it can between turn 3 and turn 8. It manages to eke multiple uses out of this amazing plot twist by using Dr. Doom, Diabolic Genius to flip it back down in the resource row. Boris, Personal Servant of Dr. Doom is also very useful at making the river of Childs never dry up.
To win, the deck uses a combination of Human Torch, Hotshot, Volcana, Marsha Rosenberg, and Cosmic Radiation to burn opponents out. It also uses the stall engine to play the waiting game, where Apocalypse takes control. Barda said that the deck came out as a bit of an evolution from the initial Fantastic Fun deck Dean Sohnle is given credit for. He and his grouop came to the conclusion that the deck would work really well with a splash of Doom to help get the engine rolling. The addition of the new Invisible Woman to the deck also allows for a brand-new avenue of victory.
Barda said the deck’s best matchups are the non-aggressive ones like X-Stall, where there’s nothing to prevent the deck from doing its thing. It also has a pretty good matchup against Curve Sentinels, since they aren’t really able to break through the A Child Named Valeria shield. The only matchup they’re particularly worried about is the Teen Titans match. Terra can be a real problem for the deck, especially when combined with Finishing Move to break the first family apart. No Child equals no win against the aggressive Teen Titans.
Tony Barda Characters
4 Mr. Fantastic, Reed Richards 3 Invisible Woman, Protector 1 Invisible Woman, The Invisible Girl 1 Human Torch, Hotshot 1 Apocalypse 1 Thing, The Ever-Lovin’ Blue-Eyed Thing 4 Dr. Doom, Diabolic Genius 3 Boris, Personal Servant of Dr. Doom 1 Rama-Tut 1 Valeria Richards 1 Volcana Plot Twists
3 Common Enemy 4 Cosmic Radiation 3 Reign of Terror 1 Have a Blast! 1 Tech Upgrade 1 Salvage 4 A Child Named Valeria 1 Signal Flare 1 Meltdown Locations
4 Antarctic Research Base 3 Doomstadt 1 Avalon Space Station 1 Coast City Equipment
3 The Pogo Plane 4 Unstable Molecules 3 Personal Force Field 1 Power Compressor 1 Advanced Hardware
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