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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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				Andrew Yip

		Marvel Team-Up Design: Revenge of the Terrible Twosome (Plus One) - February 12, 2007
		In the interest of maintaining the American spirit of continual escalation, today’s design article features not one, not two, but three authors.

		Marvel Team-Up: Return of the Kid - January 24, 2007
		The Sensational Spider-Man exemplifies the “old meets new” flavor of Marvel Team-Up.

		Hellboy Preview: Project Ragna Rok - January 17, 2007
		The scope of Project Ragna Rok necessitated a novel design.

		Legion of Super Heroes Preview: Dark Firestorm - November 20, 2006
		In its rawest interpretation, substitute gives you a bigger window to hit a critical character.

		Galactus Design Diary: An Introduction - September 04, 2006
		While it may not be immediately apparent, each mechanic and team was carefully designed with Galactus as a central figure.

		Heralds of Galactus Preview: Colonel Yon-Rogg - August 16, 2006
		Yon-Rogg is just an example of the powerful effects that the Kree harness to further their ends.

		Heralds of Galactus Preview: Creation of a Herald - August 10, 2006
		Not only does Galactus matter, but his power and hunger also influence the game from the very first turn until the turn when he arrives.

		X-Men Preview: Firestar, Hellion - February 02, 2006
		The Club uses its members as game pieces, moving them when appropriate and killing them off once they’ve served their purpose.

		Best of 2005, Editor's Pick: Deck Clinic: Sin City - December 29, 2005
		Even though Andrew is always occupied making Vs. System exciting and balanced for us to enjoy, he still finds the time to drop in every now and then and write a quality article.

		Justice League of America Preview: IQ/Criminal Mastermind - October 20, 2005
		The Injustice Gang is all about providing you and your opponents with good effects, but then they punish your opponents for having the very same bonuses that you just gave them.

		Deck Clinic: Zero - October 10, 2005
		The idea of Zero is simple enough: play like a traditional curve beatdown deck until you reach a point where you can safely or easily discard the remaining cards in your hand to turn on several effects, including Whizzer, Nuke, and Panacea Potion.

		Deck Clinic: Sin City - September 26, 2005
		In terms of other deck archetypes, SinCity is most easily described as a twisted hybrid of Jason Hagar’s Evil Medical School and William Jenson’s Four Freedoms from the very first $10K event.

		Sealed Deck Exercises: Avengers - August 01, 2005
		Unlike Booster Draft, Sealed Deck focuses on deck building and exploiting small synergies among cards that you normally would not think about playing together.

		The Avengers Preview: A Day Unlike Any Other - July 18, 2005
		It’s rare that R&D releases a generic card that is strictly better than an existing card.

		The Light of Draft: Manhunters - July 04, 2005
		The Manhunter team offers a unique draft pattern because of its lack of willpower.

		The Light of Draft: Green Lantern Draft Primer, Part 1 - June 20, 2005
		As promised, today begins a series of Green Lantern Corps oriented Draft articles written by my unfortunate nemesis Ben Seck and me.

		Green Lantern Corps Sealed Pack - May 23, 2005
		As many have pointed out, Green Lantern Corps presents a Sealed Pack experience very different from previous expansions.

		Fantastic Four Starter Deck Preview: Mr. Fantastic, Leader - May 09, 2005
		As the Fantastic Four’s headline character, Mr. Fantastic not only tops off their starter deck curve, he also fulfills several other, more subtle design objectives.

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