Masami Ibamoto is a professional trading card gamer from Japan who is sitting at 3-1 with his Squadron Supreme deck. David Frayer is a California player with two $10K Top 8s who is credited as one of the original designers of the Squadron Supreme deck that team Realmworx played at $10K Orlando. David is also 3-1 with a mixed bag deck that plays a lot like the Fantastic Fun combo deck. He also added Team Tactics as an alternate win condition in case his opponents can stop his A plan.
Turn 1: Frayer started the game with the odds. Ibamoto played Quagmire after Frayer passed with no recruit. Frayer could only watch as he took 1 point of endurance loss.
Turn 2: Ibamoto led with a Foxfire, while Frayer once again recruited nothing. At the end of the turn, the endurance totals were Ibamoto 50, Frayer 46.
Turn 3: Frayer recruited Thing, Ben Grimm and played a Tech Upgrade to get Unstable Molecules. He then flipped Antarctic Research Base, recruited the Unstable Molecules, and sacrificed it. A flipped Salvage returned the Molecules to his hand, letting him recruit it again. After drawing two extra cards, he finally passed to Ibamoto, who recruited Shape and used Foxfire to make Frayer sacrifice his Antarctic Research Base. Fryer couldn’t attack, since his Thing was exhausted to play Tech Upgrade. Ibamoto also chose to pass with his Shape and Quagmire.
Turn 4: Ibamoto recruited Golden Archer with a Dual Sidearms on it and used Foxfire during the recruit step. Frayer had another Research Base to sacrifice. He then paid 4 endurance to flip Salvage down and used it to return one of the Research Bases to his hand. Frayer sacrificed his Molecules and recruited Flamethrower to deal 5 to Ibamoto. He then sacrificed his Flamethrower to stun Ibamoto’s Quagmire with Thing’s ability. Frayer recruited Mr. Fantastic, Reed Richards and with another Tech Upgrade, got a Framistat to go with him. Multiple Salvages and a Marvel’s First Family played from his hand combo’d with Unstable Molecules to let Frayer go through his deck and finally find an Invisible Woman, The Invisible Girl. He exhausted her to put Framistat on Thing, making him an astounding 9 ATK/18 DEF. Ibamoto used Golden Archer to deal 5 to David, and they both pass for turn 5. Endurance totals were Ibamoto 49 to Frayer 41.
Turn 5: David used Mr. Fantastic, Reed Richards and found nothing. Ibamoto, a little confused, read the cards that David revealed, Team Tactics being one of them. Frayer then played Signal Flare for Mr. Fantastic, Stretch. He Salvaged for Molecules and sacrificed it to play Advanced Hardware on his Stretch. He then played The Pogo Plane and sacrificed for a second Antarctic Research Base. After putting a Flamethrower on Invisible Woman, he passed the turn. Poor Ibamoto was left facing down a 10 ATK/13 DEF Mr. Fantastic. With no fear, he recruited Albert Gaines ◊ Nuke and put a Dual Sidearms on him. Ibamoto put Foxfire, Albert, and Shape in the front, with Golden Archer and Quagmire in the support row. Frayer continued picking on Ibamoto’s Quagmire with Thing’s ability. He exhausted Invisible Woman to deal 5 to Ibamoto with Flamethrower, and then paid 2 endurance to move Advanced Hardware onto Thing and dome Ibamoto for 3. The Flamethrower was then passed to Stretch, who was sent after Foxfire. Before the attack resolved, Frayer played Cosmic Radiation and Team Tactics to move around his Advanced Hardware and deal 6 more to Ibamoto. He then played a second and third Cosmic Radiation and a second Team Tactics to have a 48 ATK Mr. Fantastic against a Foxfire that could not be reinforced (since Quagmire got stunned). After a little math, Ibamoto decided he’d had enough and extended the hand.
Ibamoto was quick to point out all the mistakes he made playing against cards he has never seen or read before. To be fair, the Japanese are at a slight disadvantage, since the first Japanese language set was released was Avengers.
David Frayer wins.