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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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| Round 8 Feature Match: Sam Kwang vs. Alex Brown |
| Enchante Chang |
| April 23, 2005 |
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 Sam Kwang, a local from Wellington, is up against the Teen Titans specialist Alex Brown. Both have had a great run today, going 6-1, and are looking for their next win to secure a spot in the Top 8. A two-dollar coin flip was won with a call of tails from Sam and he chose the odd initiative. Both players mulliganed and drew new hands.
Sam played the curve, swinging with Roscoe Sweeny on turn 1. Alex had Hannibal King and Sam had Iron Fist, Danny Rand. Hannibal King swung into Roscoe and Sam paid 1 endurance to thin his deck of The Hand. Iron Fist then attacked Alex directly.
Sam had Daredevil, while Alex had Kingpin, Wilson Fisk. Daredevil traded stuns with Kingpin and Iron Fist smacked yet again for another 3. When Alex got to attack Roscoe with his Hannibal King, Sam used Missed Drop, pitching Saint Anna to save Roscoe.
Alex had the devastating drop for this turn in Moon Knight while Sam searched for Saracen with Roscoe Sweeny. Moon Knight went after Daredevil, putting him into the face-down position. Alex followed up the endurance-swinging attack with a flipped Midnight Sons to use Kingpin and Hannibal King to team attack Saracen and that resolved, with no attacks back declared by Sam. Alex had now moved into the lead with 37 endurance to Sam’s 30.
With Sweeny, it was hard for Sam to miss a drop, and he got out Elektra, Agent of The Hand. Alex made a painful little squeal as she hit the board. “Sure,” was the reply from Sam when Alex made Jigsaw a part of his growing arsenal.
Formation from Alex was Jigsaw behind Moon Knight and Kingpin beside Jigsaw. Elektra came after Moon Knight. Reinforcement from Alex and two power-ups from Jigsaw made it seem like they would trade in stuns, but Sam trumped him with No Rest for the Wicked. Saracen then finished off Kingpin. Alex finally got to attack after watching his army get decimated. Hannibal King swung into Sweeny with a Punisher’s Armory, but Sam flipped up the Hand Dojo to make Alex pay 3 endurance, which he did and Sweeny was not sweet at all. Endurance swung back the other way and now Sam was in the lead with 26 endurance to Alex’s 23.
Kirigi was a very nice play on Alex’s side, and yet again Roscoe Sweeny was causing Sam to pay endurance to get out drops. This time he got out Jaime Ortiz ◊ Damage. Sam’s formation was Roscoe Sweeny protecting Jaime and Saracen beside Jaime. Hannibal King attacked Sweeny and both players cracked up when Sam asked if he wanted to pay for the Dojo, for which Alex did not wish to pay.
Alex needed about a minute of thought on the next attack. With Saracen out, it made it difficult for Alex to make a correct play. Alex paid 5 endurance so his characters could attack hidden characters before Kirigi attacked Jaime, chose not to pay for the Dojo, and used Punisher’s Armory for extra damage. Both traded stuns. Moon Knight attacked Elektra and those characters traded in battle. Jigsaw had been angry at Punisher for a long time and took his frustrations out on Saracen, and Alex chose to pay for the Dojo so Jigsaw would survive. Sam was at 6 endurance after than and Alex on 3—the game was looking to end on turn 7.
With the initiative, Sam didn’t drop a 7-drop character and instead threw down Spider-Man, The Spectacular Spider-Man. Alex went deep into thought as that was the spectacular play. He was contemplating whether or not to even play a drop and that’s what he did. He didn’t play a resource or a character and just passed the turn back to Sam. Elektra swung into Kirigi  after Spider-Man told all of Alex’s characters to go sideways. Pitching four characters to Kirigi via jigsaw seemed like a very good play from Alex, which reduced him to a single card in hand. Elektra stunned and he went to 1 endurance.
With one card in hand, Alex had no plays. He had kept the wrong drop in his hand. Alex didn’t drop any characters on turn 8 as well, and when Sam dropped Daredevil, Guardian Devil, out came the handshake from Alex.
Sam Kwang wins.
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