The terror of Dr. Light in Golden Age Constructed is gone, but the designer of the archetype is still quite happy to play the namesake of The Light Show in his Sealed Pack decks. I walked over to where Your Move Games member Craig Edwards was building his deck and heard the following exclamations:
“Solomon Grundy! Chops and Light Armor! Dr. Light, Master of Holograms! Two . . . Two-Face, Split Personality! This deck just got very good.”
“When trying to build a GLC Sealed Pack, you start with Green Lanterns and Emerald Enemies, and only if you figure out that doesn’t work do you look elsewhere.” When trying to figure out what cards he wants to play, Edwards is actually far more organized than most players I’ve seen. He separates his pool by team and drop. He puts all the plot twists into KO twists, offensive twists, defensive twists, and other, and this gives him a very good overview of the strengths and weaknesses of his deck. Make no mistake—there is a ton of strength in this pool, but there are also gaps (for instance, most of the Green Lanterns are not the side of the Corps that makes you ecstatic to play them), and he doesn’t really have a star 6-drop in the bunch. While Craig was building, he kept counting up the willpower of his team, decrying, ”My willpower is awful!” thus making it much harder to use some very good plot twists like Uppercut and Emerald Twilight.
“I always worry about Legion. Sometimes he helps and sometimes he just helps you lose.” In the end, the robot made the cut, while Kreon won over Carol Ferris ◊ Star Sapphire in the fight for the last 3-drop slot. Edwards continued to make cuts, and Rot Lop Fan and Alan Scott went away. Craig actually spent a long time thinking about which 7-drop to cut. Krona and Two-Face were obviously making the deck, and then it came down to Ultraman vs. Alan Scott. Edwards decided there was nothing he was stalling for, and Ultraman is ridiculous with Thunderous Onslaught, so he threw Alan Scott to the side. This is what the final curve looked like:
1-drops: 1
2-drops: 3
3-drops: 4
4-drops: 3
5-drops: 3
6-drops: 3
7-drops: 3