For those of us who have been playing Vs. for a while, it's easy to shrug off the unlikely comic book combinations that frequently show up in the top tier decks. However, for players like Zvi Moshowitz, who picked up the game recently enough that every set is “the new set,” these bizarre combinations still cause a bit of surprise.

 

“There should be a card called ‘Improbable Movie Plotline' or something that lets you do cool stuff if your opponent has a deck that doesn't make sense,” quipped Moshowitz.

 

For the rest of the weekend, it is my mission to find plausible storylines for all the major decks in the format.

 

Sentinels are a tricky one. Magneto is clearly the man in charge here, exerting his magnetic influence on a whole mess of robots long before he deems opponents worthy of actually facing his presence. When he does come along, he brings all of the resources he requires to flat out win the game.

 

Things get even harder when one looks at Evil Medical School. Technically, many of the doctors concerned in the deck are not medical doctors (though Dr. Doom's father was a gypsy healer), but it's probably reasonable to assume that all of them have at some point used the “trust me, I'm a doctor” line in a feeble attempt to see girls naked. This is clearly the sort of thing that corrupts, and along with power, they get corrupted absolutely. This sort of thing creates a natural fraternity that clearly carries over into the noble work of trying to take over the world. How the Gotham City Police Department got involved, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps one of the doctors has them in thrall via the medium of a withheld repeat prescription.

 

X-Stall running Gravesite I can only presume is some sort of homage to the fact that the X-Men don't ever appear to die in a permanent manner. While they might technically be clinically dead at some point or other, they have a nasty habit of using time travel, or of being possessed with Phoenix energy, or cheating death with assorted other conveniently improbable means, even after the fact. Naturally, they look to hang out with the gravestones.

 

Now I just need a way to explain mirror matches.

 

I leave you with this thought. Movies aren't meant to be probable events. Probable events are boring. Movies should be the most entertaining collection of improbable events that moviegoers can stomach. And one way or another, Pro Circuit New York will not be boring.