There are a few things in Versus that I still have a soft spot for.  For instance, Team Superman was the first deck I ever built back in the days of DSM, so I’ll always hold them dear to me.  Kyle Rayner was also my favorite comic book hero, so you better believe I played Glock and/or Glee until DGL rotated out of Modern/Silver.  But my biggest soft spot was always for Crime Lords.  You see, even though DSM was the first set I ever purchased, Marvel Knights was only a week or so away from being released.  That means the first tournament I ever played in was a Marvel Knights hobby league.  I was taken in by Crime Lord’s counter-intuitive strategy of doing all their ‘damage’ on the defense (my roomate Martie, at the time, was equally entranced by X-Statix’s counter-intuitive ‘loner’ theme!).  The problem was, while they were OK in Modern when teamed up with Underworld, they were generally Tier 4, maybe worse.  Try as I did, I never made a very competitve variant.  Even their reincarnation in MUN, while better, still never made much noise outside of being splashed in other decks.

The crew behind Marvel Warzone apparently could not take the injustice any longer, because you’re about to see some suh-weet Crime Lords cards.  First off, let’s start with the man behind the curtain… READ MORE »