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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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Drafting with Vidi Wijaya

Anand Khare

September 10, 2006

For the top 8 draft, I’ll be covering the best player on the planet, Vidianto Wijaya. In previous drafts, the Kree decks more or less blew out the competition, so I think that we can expect an inordinate amount of Kree drafters here. Vidi, of course, is certainly one of those players who prefers to take Kree. This should turn out to be an interesting draft. The first card listed on each line is Vidi’s pick. The others are interesting cards he passed.

Pack 1

Dr. Minerva, Extended Family, Kindred Spirits

Captain Att-Lass; Captain America, Skrull Impostor; Battleworld

Sworn Enemies, Penal Colony, Divinity, Arsenal of Doom

Pressed into Service; Mind Gem; The Herald Ordeal; Sub-Mariner, Illuminati

Universal Weapon; Silver Surfer, Skyrider of the Spaceways

Warskrull, Conquered Planet, Attilan

Supremor

Remnant Fleet, Intergalactic Summit

The Power Cosmic Unleashed, Planet Weapon

Ethan Edwards

Cosmic Necessity

Alpha Primitives

Moondragon, Nega-Bomb

Mr. Sinister

Vidi’s first- and second-pick press characters certainly indicate that he wants to go Kree, but the remaining cards he picked up don’t really make it seem like he’ll be able to go that route.

Pack 2

Armageddon; Hala; Dr. Doom, Richards’s Rival

Hala, Nahrees, Warskrull

Paibok, Technarx

Improper Burial; Magneto, Acts of Vengeance; Elite Doom Guards; Sintariis

Kree Public Accusers; Destroyer, Harbinger of Devastation; Adam Warlock

Destroyer, Soulless Juggernaut; Battleworld

Kree Soldiers, Mind Gem

Destroyer, Harbinger of Devastation

Taskmaster

This pack seemed to be particularly poor after the first four picks, yielding Vidi neither the press cards critical to a Kree archetype nor any tricks to speak of. At this point, it seems that Vidi is solidly Kree/Skrull/Heralds—an interesting combination.

Pack 3

Admiral Galen Kor, Interstellar Offensive, The Kyln

Gamora, Pressed into Service, Sworn Enemies

Wolverine, Skrunucklehead; Relentless Onslaught

Kree Soldiers; Ronan the Accuser, Supreme Public Accuser; Ronan the Accuser, Starforce

Arsenal of Doom; Conquered Planet; Human Torch, The Invisible Man; The Punishers

Mar-Vell ◊ Captain Marvel, Soldier of the Empire

Luna Maximoff, Cosmic Order, Ethan Edwards

Destroyer, Harbinger of Devastation; Penal Colony; Kree Public Accusers

Red Shift

The Punishers

Galactus, The Maker; Intergalactic Summit

Ronan the Accuser, Supreme Public Accuser

Dinu

Mask of Doom

Vidi: “I dunno . . . I think I was forcing too hard. I should have switched to Heralds ASAP. I guess I just wanted to go Kree. There was just nothing coming . . . lots of support stuff, but no characters for Kree. If I were Heralds, my deck would have been the nut high.”

On picking up a Warskrull: “I guess I took this guy too high. I was hoping to get an Act of Defiance, but it just didn’t happen.”

Hala: “This card is Rann in my deck.”

As Vidi assembled his disaster of a deck, he continued to lament not being in Heralds. “I could have had maybe five of these, with all the copies of Galactus I need, as well,” he said, pointing out Destroyer, Harbinger of Devastation. There’s not much else to be said about Vidi’s deck—it is what it is.

Characters

Mar-Vell ◊ Captain Marvel, Soldier of the Empire

Wolverine, Skrunucklehead

Gamora

Ethan Edwards

Stardust