It's round 7, and only two decks remain undefeated. I’ll give you one guess what those two decks are. Yes, Teen Titans and Curve Sentinels are still on top, representing a vast majority of the decks at the top tables. There are five Sentinels and five Titans decks with only one loss. The only other decktype with more than one deck in the one loss bracket is New School, with Josh Wittanen’s variant (which I am calling Nü School, despite the difficulty of finding an umlaut on Microsoft Word) proving strong against the field. Check out our Community Profile on Josh for more info on that deck. The remaining decks at the top tables are one GLEE deck, one New Brotherhood, and the Superman Robots deck played by Raymond Purnama. Check out his Round 5 feature match for more information on that deck.

Unfortunately, as of writing this, Raymond took his second loss from Vs. superstar Ryan Jones. Turn 6 saw Raymond with only a Longshot in play and no characters in hand. After Raymond’s activation of Longshot was negated by Ryan’s Mark II, there was no hope left for Raymond.

This match drew the attention of Vs. R&D members Ben Seck and Patrick Sullivan, who spent the 20 min. after the match commenting on how Raymond could have won that match if he had played correctly. Raymond kept naming Bad Press and Superman Robots when he used Longshot, in a situation where it seemed that Bad Press was nearly useless. Raymond could have named Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, which would have been a lot more helpful on turns 4 and 5. In fact, many are arguing whether Bad Press does enough work in this deck to be included at all. While it is often easy to critique a player after the fact, this debate has left a lot of people wondering whether with a little work the Superman Robots could become a new powerhouse in Golden Age. Only time will tell.