User:Jack

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.

What decks I like running

The main types of decks I like are decks that are heavy hitting, mostly with high damaging cards like AR or HN.

H1N1

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.

Characters

• The Hand
• The Starjammers
• Nick Fury
• Hawkeye (Reserve)

Strategy

I like this deck because each character has a way to deal an 8 damage. With the 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.

Record

In its current (June 2012) form, the record for the deck has been 4-4 in Toronto Tournaments.

Muir Island

I've always like the homebases that has an aspect that allows to draw after playing a certain card.

Characters

• Nightcrawler
• Captain Britain
• Professor X
• Shadowcat (Reserve)

Strategy

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. 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.