With the fallout of $10k Philadelphia still burnt into memory, many Vs. pundits were calling for the head of Dr. Light, Master of Holograms. One week later, it seems that the call hasn't subsided, even though the information in the metagame seems to be telling us that the combo menace isn't the huge problem that was predicted. With just under 90 players here today, Curve Sentinels still dominates numerically. The robots represent just under a quarter of the field. The Sentinel decks have adapted, just like their robotic counterparts—most are running a combination of Total Anarchy and Search and Destroy in order to give themselves a fighting chance against the Idiocy from the 30^th Century. Nearly all decks that can afford the card slots are packing Have a Blast!, although the new Green Lantern/Emerald Enemies deck being run by the New Zealanders—dubbed “Kiwi Fruit”—is running the Construct version, Breaking Ground.

The combo decks themselves have evolved, and nearly all of them are running Dr. Doom, Diabolic Genius and Robot Destroyer for the mirror. There is all manner of different silver bullets that have been brought out of the Vs. tech closet, though, from Scarlet Witch, Wanda Maximoff to the even more obscure Dominus, Tuoni.

The deck that has jumped the most in popularity is Jason Hager's New School, presumably due to its resilience against Dr Light. As the third most represented deck in the format, the New School contingent has remained fairly true to the version that Hager played to a second place finish in PC: New York.

The other usual suspects are present, but they all have their own special brand of technology for this metagame. Stay tuned for more details of this very interesting Golden Age tournament!

Deck Breakdown:

Dr. Light/Rama-Tut combo - 12
Curve Sentinels - 22
New School - 10
Teen Titans - 8
Gotham Curve - 6
Green Lantern/Emerald Enemies - 5
Brotherhood variants - 4
Common Enemy - 4
Spider-Friends - 4
Gamma Doom - 2
Team Superman - 2
Unaffiliated -1
Other Decks - 8