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====Items I am missing====
 
====Items I am missing====
 
From the [http://overpower.ca/checklists/collectibles.txt collectibles checklist] I am missing the following:
 
From the [http://overpower.ca/checklists/collectibles.txt collectibles checklist] I am missing the following:
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* $5000 OVERPOWER KICKOFF TOURNAMENT! CARDS
 
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** Large 6 3/8"-by-7 15/16" cardstock, long advertisement text and some art on mostly yellow front, uncropped Spider-Man vs. Wolverine artwork on back. (Gen Con version)
 
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* OVERPOWER PROMOTIONAL FLIERS
 
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** THE REINFORCEMENTS HAVE ARRIVED Tall 4"-by-9" fold-out flier
 
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* OVERPOWER GAME GUIDES (Comic book size and format)
 
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** No. 1 CLOBBERIN' TIME "special pre-released edition"
 
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* BOOSTER DISPLAY BOXES
 
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** MARVEL OVERPOWER Original Base Set ( 24 packs, 17 cards each ) (August 1995)
 
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** POWERSURGE Marvel Expansion ( 24 packs, 17 cards each ) (December 1995)
 
 
* OVERPOWER DISPLAY STAND
 
* OVERPOWER DISPLAY STAND
 
** Big Wolverine/Venom/Gambit die-cut artwork, thick cardboard, slots to hold Booster/Starter Deck Display Boxes, Game Guides and Promotional Fliers
 
** Big Wolverine/Venom/Gambit die-cut artwork, thick cardboard, slots to hold Booster/Starter Deck Display Boxes, Game Guides and Promotional Fliers
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* COLLECTOR'S GIFT SET
 
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** 2 Random Original OP Starter Decks & 4 Original OP Booster Packs in black slide-top carrying box with exclusive Wolverine vs. Spider-Man artwork
 
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* DUAL STARTER DECK COMBOS (2 Original OP Decks in peg-hanging black box)
 
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** LETHAL ALLIES VS. DEADLY FOES (sealed)
 
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* OVERPOWER POSTERS 16"-by-20"
 
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** SPIDER-MAN VS. WOLVERINE No text
 
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** VENOM BATTLING GAMBIT No text
 
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** STORM MET THE THING No text
 
 
* OVERPOWER FILE FOLDERS
 
* OVERPOWER FILE FOLDERS
 
** SPIDER-MAN VS. WOLVERINE Plain OverPower logo
 
** SPIDER-MAN VS. WOLVERINE Plain OverPower logo
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** LOGO PIN Small rectangular enamel, OP logo on white background
 
** LOGO PIN Small rectangular enamel, OP logo on white background
 
* OVERPOWER LEGION NEWSLETTERS
 
* OVERPOWER LEGION NEWSLETTERS
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** THE MONTHLY VENTURE No. 1 March 1996
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** [[The Monthly Venture Issue 1|THE MONTHLY VENTURE No. 1 March 1996]]
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** THE VENTURE Vol. 2 Iss. 1 September 1997
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** [[The Venture Volume Two Issue 1|THE VENTURE Vol. 2 Iss. 1 September 1997]]
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** THE MISSION STATEMENT Vol. 1 No. 1 (November 1998)
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** [[The Mission Statement Volume 1 Number 1|THE MISSION STATEMENT Vol. 1 No. 1 (November 1998)]]
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** THE MISSION STATEMENT Vol. 1 Iss. 2 (March 1999)
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** [[The Mission Statement Volume 1 Issue 2|THE MISSION STATEMENT Vol. 1 Iss. 2 (March 1999)]]
 
* LOST PROMO CARDS
 
* LOST PROMO CARDS
 
** TACTIC: ARTIFACT 6I 5A AVENGER'S ID CARD Hulk & Wasp
 
** TACTIC: ARTIFACT 6I 5A AVENGER'S ID CARD Hulk & Wasp
 
** UNIVERSE: TEAMWORK 6A AA +0+0 Capt. America, Spider-Man, Wolverine
 
** UNIVERSE: TEAMWORK 6A AA +0+0 Capt. America, Spider-Man, Wolverine
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From the [http://overpower.ca/checklists/promotions.txt promotionals checklist] I am missing the following, mostly sealed items.
 
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* WOLVERINE FIGHTING 6 PROTOTYPE CARD
 
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** ''Ventura Magazine Vol. 2, #2 (Mar./Apr. 1996)''
 
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*** I have the magazine but the card wasn't in it
 
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* WARLOCK HERO CARD
 
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** Inquest Gamer Magazine #52 (August 1999) (sealed)
 
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* DC ANY CHARACTER CARDS
 
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** THE BATCAVE
 
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*** Combo Magazine #23 (November 1996) (sealed)
 
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** DEAL WITH THE DEVIL
 
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*** Tuff Stuff's Collect Magazine (November 96) (sealed)
 
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* UNIVERSE: CAPTAIN UNIVERSE CARD
 
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** Inquest Magazine #14 (June 1996) (sealed)
 
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* AGE OF APOCALYPSE MUTANT REBELS HELD CAPTIVE! EVENT CARD
 
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** Wizard Magazine #57 (May 1996) (sealed)
 
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==What decks I like running==
 
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The main types of decks I like are decks that are heavy hitting, mostly with high damaging cards like [[AR]] or [[HN]].
 
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===H1N1===
 
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The deck is named after the special code that's prominent in the deck: [[HN]]. Since the H1N1 virus of 2009 was supposedly deadly and fits the moniker, I figured to bestow the name upon it.
 
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* The Hand (19)
 
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* The Starjammers (19)
 
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* Nick Fury (20)
 
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* Hawkeye (Reserve) (17)
 
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====Strategy====
 
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This deck is one of the "staples" of OverPower, but I added my own strategies to it.
 
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I like this deck because each character has a way to deal an 8 damage. With the [[Marvels OverPower|Marvels OverPower Expansion]], the deck has some tricks with Nick Fury's no-Activators and Hawkeye's Action Leader. The strategy is to just hit them hard and fast. I employ Maximum Carnage's Lambs to the Slaughter in the deck and just go ahead and KO the opponent's main character, there's almost no defense that battle.
 
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====Record====
 
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In its current (June 2012) form, the record for the deck has been 4-4 in Toronto Tournaments.
 
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===Muir Island===
 
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I've always like the homebases that has an aspect that allows to draw after playing a certain card.
 
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====Characters====
 
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* Nightcrawler
 
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* Captain Britain
 
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* Professor X
 
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* Shadowcat (Reserve)
 
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====Strategy====
 
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The deck employs Basic Universe, Training and Doubleshot cards to be effective. These are usually placed and never touched until the Aspect comes into play. Since I can draw a card with each Intellect power card played, there's no "penalty" for using any of those types of cards as it would in the normal game. Granted there's often a chance it would be a dupe or unusable but it's better than nothing. I use Xavier Protocols (who wouldn't!), Power Blast (6A+2 Basic) and a few others from [[Batman/Superman OverPower]] to get some extra damage out of my Intellect power cards.
 
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The deck is optimized for casual play and not a deck I would bring to a tournament. It almost always needs to go into the Power Pack to be successful.
 
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====Offensive Energy====
 
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I haven't really put much thought into the name.
 
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====Characters====
 
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* Adam Warlock (20)
 
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* Cyclops (20)
 
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* Gambit (20)
 
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* Velocity (Reserve) (16)
 
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====Strategy====
 
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The point of this deck is to also deal damage, just like the [[User:Jack#H1N1|H1H1]] deck. This deck employs the [[FE]] special to allow for damage chaining ([[FE]] from Adam Warlock to Cyclops' [[FT]] and Gambit's [[EJ]] or [[HN]]) to get a much more sustained attack. Cyclop's [[FT]] from the [[Marvels OverPower]] expansion allows for a 9 damage -- more than [[HN]]'s 8 damage and it's non [[One Per Deck]]. I use that card with Captain Universe to get the damage up to 10 so I can bypass some defense deck's AD specials (the 1 to 9) and its legal to use in the FE chain. I tend to like throwing in some of the lesser used cards in my decks as seen with Captain Universe and with the Basic/Training/Doubleshot on my [[User:Jack#Muir Island|Muir Island]] deck. Adam Warlock also has some [[AR]] specials.
 
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The deck also employs Maximum Carnage's Lambs to the Slaughter event for a battle of pure damage. The only drawback to this deck is that there's no natural 8 Energy characters, it's a bit weaker since ''that'' 8 won't be possible for an attack. H1N1's strategy was to always place the 8F on The Hand so if venture is not won from the hand, you can win it with ''The'' Hand.
 
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Alterations of the deck could include:
 
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* using the 3-stat Adam Warlock (14) to give myself a 18-point character in the reserve
 
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* using Invisible Woman (20) (who also has FE) to give myself a 17-point character in the reserve
 
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** this would help me with the +2 venture each battle as well as allowing me to put Hawkeye in the reserve for a lot of damage (as opposed to Velocity's MW), no (or very minimal) AD specials would be used however
 
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* using 3-stat Invisible Woman (12) to give myself a 20-point character in the reserve
 
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** this allows me to put Captain Atom (20) in the reserve to throw out some 6F teamworks
 
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** or Sunfire (20) to get some chip damage from his [[FT]] and [[NG]] from reserve -- useful for spectrum KO
 
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* using Superboy (18) to give myself a 18-point character in the reserve
 
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** this would bring in the elusive EY special into my deck
 
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===Offensive Strength===
 
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I haven't thought of a name for this one either.
 
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====Characters====
 
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* Savage Dragon (19)
 
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* Heroes for Hire (21)
 
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* Super Skrull (3-stat) (15)
 
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* Hawkeye (Reserve) (17)
 
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====Strategy====
 
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Strength decks have always been known as the power-houses of OverPower and this deck is no exception. As of this edit, the deck has only been built and not tested or tweaked.
 
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The same strategy with [[FE]] specials in my [[User:Jack#Offensive Energy|Offensive Energy]] deck is employed in this deck. Savage Dragon plays [[FE]] followed by Super Skrull's [[HN]] and Heroes for Hire's [[HY]]. Unfortunately, you don't receive follow ups with FE specials so you can't use the [[JW]] special and do a massive chain (3->[8|[3->8]]). With 2 characters with 8-Strength in the deck and Hawkeye's [[EJ]] from Reserve, there is plenty of venture damage per hand in this deck.
 

Latest revision as of 13:25, 1 April 2015

Who am I

I'm Jack Truong. I run this wiki. I also run the main website. I'm a programmer who's also interested in OverPower. I'm combining my skills to help the OverPower revival.

What are my skills

I'm a database programmer, which means I love tables. I'm the current maintainer of the OverPower Database. I prefer to use MySQL/MariaDB for my database engine.

I'm also a very proficient PHP developer, the main website is written by me from scratch. I also use Javascript/jQuery as well as HTML5 to make the site more lively.

I know my way around Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere Pro. I use VirtualDub to record the OverPower matches at our Toronto Meetups. I own three webcams, 2 Microsoft Lifecam Studio and 1 Microsoft Lifecam as well as two Snowflake microphones for proper sound recording.

What are my interests

I'm interested in OverPower. I'm also interested in new technologies and social media (I also run the Twitter account, YouTube page and Facebook page.

My OverPower background

My first exposure to the game came in 1996 or so after my brother and I received some IQ packs. We did nothing with them for a while until we picked up some starter decks. We played a little bit but it never stuck and I caught the Pokemon TCG craze. My interest with OverPower still stuck around and I came up with an online nickname based on the Web-Headed Wizard card: webheadwiz. I first used it in an online version of X-Men vs. Street Fighter and then on Battle.net and Diablo 2. I kept reading about the game but because I was only a teenager with strict parents, I couldn't afford any cards. After getting a part time job, I started buying more OverPower. While attending the University of Waterloo, I had several jobs and was able to find local sources of OverPower and discovered eBay. This was around 2006.

In 2008 or so, I thought about creating an OverPower fan page because there weren't any around. So I created overpower.ca. Nothing came out of it for a while but people kept asking if they knew people who played in their area. Eventually, I was contacted by Sean Ballantyne and we organized a meetup in December 2010. From there, work on the website increased, social media accounts created and this Wiki was born.

My OverPower collection

Like the majority of hardcore collectors, I own the entire set of playable cards minus 2 of the Classic Inserts (Any-Power Teamwork and Avenger's ID). I also collect miscellaneous items to establish a complete collector's set of OverPower cards. This includes magazines and comics that has OverPower cards sealed inside them, Monthly Venture newsletters, posters, booster boxes, etc.

Items I am missing

From the collectibles checklist I am missing the following:

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