Palatinus' OverPower Forum

Haha, man I did almost the same thing after I pulled an 8A in a pack:  Captain America - Spawn - Invisible Woman

                                                                                                               3 stat Spider Woman
Good times indeed!

I think I vaguely remember that tournament.  I spent more time destroying Metro Hall with her youngest daughter (can't remember her name) than I did playing overpower, but I did beat Tyler Betrand before he was Tyler Bertrand, haha!  That was also the tournament Cathy Probe gave me a stack of 25ish Beyonders, and a stack of the Hideout Discovered! any mission.

My dad had the intellect deck of that era.  I can't remember if it was a Mr./Mr. with Dark Beast and Robin, or if it had Doom or Neron.  He did beat Cherie Briggs with it at the Canada vs U.S.A match, he put in a Brilliant Deduction at the last minute just for her if I remember correctly, and when he played it she freaked (he removed all of her 8's and crushed her in the power pack).

The decks I remember the most from that time used a lot of energy characters, such as:  The Ray, The Flash, Superman, Prof X, Magneto, White Queen, Doc Strange, Scarlet Witch, Holocaust, Onslaught, Banshee, Human Torch, Invisible Woman, Sentinels and Shadowcat.  After that initial energy bonanza people started going with intellect and fighting.

It was really an awesome time for the game now that I think back on it.  There was just so many playable characters after JLA came out.

Yeah I'm dumb for forgetting The Ray, here is the best JLA Energy deck that doesn't put an emphasis on intellect:

Ray, Prof X, Holocaust, Onslaught

I remember that deck, I had a deck with 3 of those minus Prof X, I can't recall who I had in there instead of him.

There was also the really annoying Onslaught lock decks with Invisible Woman and/or Blue Beetle, NightCrawler and some other placeholder.  I only played those decks a few times but I wasn't very amused afterwards.

Getting close to finished now...

Wow. That's looking really nice. I was actually taking pictures of some of the early promo sheets tonight and all you need in there is Spiderman's hand and you'll have captured the look of the early days:

Haha, look at Spidey holding hero cards in his hand, that's not how you use them Pete! Unless...he knew about activators in advance...

That image reminds me how attractive the retail displays were. I'm not even sure if CCGs even have little pop up images on booster boxes anymore.

Dude! Venom was a 1-5-6