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Valeria
Richards – Daughter of Doom
Today we are
going to look at a powerful new card for
Fantastic 4 – Valeria Richards.
Actually what
I probably should have opened with is, “Does
Common Enemy really need another powerful card
for it’s arsenal?”. I think what happened is
this: someone at UDE is very partial to Common
Enemy, so when the presence of CE decks waned at
PCQ in favor of sentinels, they decided to add
another powerful card to the CE line up make CE
once again the favorite of all cookie cutters
out there*. I can’t wait to see if CE becomes
the ever popular deck again. At that point you
can probably expect another powerful Sentinel
card since the UDE guy that is partial to
Sentinels will want his deck type on top
again.
*I realize
that may have sounded harsh so I would like to
apologize to all cookie cutter deck builders out
there.
Hmm…maybe I
should go ahead and review the card? Valeria is
simply an evil card designed to give CE the only
thing that they might be lacking. After all, CE
has search capabilities, control, etc. Now they
have draw power to add to their long list of
perks. The good thing about this card is that
it does have major restrictions in the form of
“control Dr. Doom” otherwise this card would be
completely broken (I still maintain that Loyalty
should have been added…come on, worse 1-drops
than her have it!). Forget her stats, you are
only going to use this card for her draw
ability. Just think about it this way… the
golden 4 for any tournament worthy VS deck is
the following:
1.
Search
capabilities
2.
Draw power
3.
Control
4.
Endurance
gain
Given that CE
now fulfills 3 of the ‘golden 4’ traits, I think
we will see a reemergence of this deck in the
future…at least in GA.
Ratings:
Modern
constructed – 0.0/5.0 …Without Doom, this card
becomes great kindling.
Golden Age
constructed – 4.5/5.0 …I would give it a 5.0/5.0
except for the fact that you have to control Dr.
Doom or else this character will get stomped on.
Limited –
1.0/5.0 …See Modern Age.
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