Emerald Light illuminates Indianapolis this weekend as the Pro Circuit returns to Gen Con! Out of the 348 players comprising the powerful field, 241 decided to run some version of Green Lantern/Emerald Enemies—that’s just under 70% of the field. This figure does not really give the full story, as there seems to be significant deviation in the specific cards represented. The GLEE decks can generally be broken down into 3 types: the Shock Troops/¡Ole! +ATK Pump version, the Emerald Twilight/Sweeping Up KO version, and a more traditional Curve strategy (usually headlined by Krona and Sinestro, Green Lantern of Korugar at the top of the curve).
Among the 107 brave souls that decided to take the road less traveled, the most popular deck represented is the Anti-Matter Shadow Creatures deck. This deck attempts to use Rain of Acorns, Sector 2841, and the namesake Shadow Creatures en masse in order to stall the game out till turn 9, when the nearly unstoppable Anti-Monitor cleans up the rest of the board. The members of Team Realmworx are heading the charge with this deck, with Ryan Jones and Vidi Widjaja choosing the Concealed team. The other significant deck in the field is the Team Superman–based “Blue Abuse” deck, which teams up with New Gods in order to take advantage of the one cost Soldiers of New Genesis and their Cosmic counters.
The Indianapolis Crew seem to have “called an audible” and changed last minute to a deck which they call “GLAM!”. The deck looks like they shuffled a GLEE and a Shadow Creature deck together, then added the spicy tech of Harlequin and Sleeper Agent to the mix in order to give them a better late game in the inevitable GLEE matchups. Time will tell whether it was a terrible call or a stroke of genius.
The most interesting deck that I have come across is the Superman Robots/Soldiers of New Genesis deck, which uses The Kent Farm or Supercycle to create a literal “Army” (using Armies of Qward) of characters on the table. It’s certainly a deck to keep an eye out for.
So did anyone break the format? Or will the Green Lanterns and their Enemies emerge victorious in what is possibly the most dominant showing of an archetype in any format? Stay tuned to the coverage to find out!
GLEE Pumps – 139
GLEE KO – 70
GLEE Curve– 32
Anti-Matter/Shadow Creatures – 27
Superman Blue Abuse – 21
GLAM! – 11
Zero Hour – 9
Robots and Soldiers – 8
New Gods/Darkseid’s Elite w/ General Zod – 5
Hidden Anti-Matter Curve – 4
Anti-Matter/Anti-Green Lantern – 3
Emerald Enemies Short Curve – 3
Superman/Emerald Enemies Kent Farm – 1
Superman Curve – 1
Green Lantern/Revenge Squad – 1
Kent Farm/Superman Robots – 1
Green Lantern/Anti-Matter Curve – 1
3 Team Willpower Curve – 1
Revenge Squad/New Gods – 1
Manhunter Curve – 1