In the Lab-Jedah Dohma

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Does this S-Class Darkstalker have what it takes to fight in the S-Tier? 

Void of Hagakure

The Blade Flashes Red
The Armor Demands More Blood
I am Bishamon

Greetings fellow Ring vets and rookies it's time for Rider Kick to toss out another deck to everyone. This time we look at the demon samurai Bishamon, who through the symbol of void I hope to convey Hagakure while playing him.  Hagakure is sometimes said to assert that bushido “The Way of the Samurai” is really the "Way of Dying" or living as though one was already dead.   

Road to Gencon Part one: Competitive deck building.

Today I start my first article on helping players prepare for Gencon.  The hope is that both new players showing up, and veterans of UFS and Gencon itself will be able to take away at least something from this article.

Alright, you've bought your badge, gotten your hotel room with your friends.  Now for the most important step, what do I play?!  There are many ways to approach this question and I'm going to go through them as best I can.

A deck I won't be playing for California and why

For the past two months I have been utterly demoralizing my local playgroup with the following stack of cards, and up until the banning of Mourning the Lost it was my go to deck for the Scotts Valley PTC:

Deck Don’t Matter #2

My next two segments of Deck Don’t Matter are focusing on the newly designed/reformatted extended format.  The removal of power errata in that format has cause quite a change up in the character selection for the format.  A character that wasn’t even on my radar for extended a few months ago is now back in the scene and I think she is ready to swing for the fences.

Skullman: The Grim Reaper Of Discard

Death. Death comes for us all, even in UFS. This time around we tackle the Grim Reaper of robot Masters, Skullman.  The one robot master forcefully built entirely for the sole purpose of destroying Mega Man is now in the game. We look a just what the macbre master of the dead is like as he comes for your hand. So hit that link and be ready, he's coming for you.

Deck Don't Matter #1

  

     Well with the new set now out everyone has been searching for the new “IT” deck and being excited for the post rotation format.  I decided to start out with a single card theory thanks to a great player and friend Brett Hillmann.  This plans to be the first of many articles that aim to focus on a single card strategy or a themed styled decks.  Some will have tournament level playability, and others will be just for the fun of it.    First of all, lets take a look at this single card.

The Master of Magnetism himself!

To round out the week, we have one of my favorite characters from the set, the Master of Magnetism!

(Totally the same guy)

Ah if only.  Instead, we have the other Master of Magnetism, Magnet Man, who's just as awesome to play as.

Snakes on a plane!

Here comes the dark horse of the set, Snake Man!  Anyone who's enjoyed abusing the lack of low blocks and essentially playing lows and throws over the years, this guy is for you!  Lets dive in and see what I think about him.

Dr. Wily - Making you fear Matairiku

So, how was everyone's prereleases this weekend?  Hope everyone had a blast cracking open Mega Man, which so far I'm finding to be a very fun set.  I unfortunately did not get to play in my prerelease because I was working at a convention to help grow UFS, but I got to grab some starters and what extras my friends got from drafting and got to sling around a few decks the off hours of my weekend.  Luckily I get to play in two events next week with our pals in Poughkeepsie.

Check Like An Egyptian

Greetings, today we look at the wonders of Egypt in this article. We explore the mysteries of a land that has given us the Pyramids, British vampires from the Victorian era, and of course Robots. So grab your sun block and water your Camel, it's time to hit that link and punch an annoying little blue kid!

Ring Man: or (The Unexpected Life Beatdown)

                                              

Well, I guess it is my turn to spill the beans on what a certain Robot Master can do and why you should fear him.  Ring Man feels like the next big attack tempo deck for UFS.  Between his symbol spread and card access he is designed to cheat is hand size as much as possible between his response to draw a extra card on your opponents turn and multiple other free draws that are available to him. And yes I understand that this man could be better as “Geyser Man” but my objection was not to prove that he is good with 1 attack but is great in a well-designed toolbox styled deck.

Blue Bomber has taken off his helmet, and is ready to fight!

Welcome back everyone, hope you enjoyed my first article. Today we have the blue bomber himself, Mega Man.  He's our first of the two starter deck characters, and he packs a wallop.  His symbols plus his two abilities allow for a pretty diverse number of ways to build him.  For today, I'm going to show you a build off Order, because I like a lot of the toys King of Fighters gives him in that symbol, and we already saw a Void deck yesterday.

Metal Man!

Hello and welcome to our first of many UFS articles!  Before I get started talking about our first character, I want to talk a bit about plans for Total Justice Gaming.  In addition to our weekly stream Thursday nights at 9pm eastern, we plan to start up a twitch stream of us playing against people on OCTGN.  This will hopefully start as we get closer to Gencon and we want to talk about deck ideas for people to experiment with/defend against coming up at worlds.

Mega Man Set Review!

We're back with another site update, it's been a long time too! But we return and we brought the whole crew back! So join Matt, Slam, Jesse and myself as we tackle the entire Mega Man: Rise Of The Masters set.  So hit the jump  to  charge your buster and teleport in to action!

Check us out on Youtube!

We've got a ton of new videos so hit that jump and just see what's been going on!