Trapping A Lizard

The new card Face the Past is such an interesting and fun new twist. There are some heroes where it would be a very bad choice to play (looking at your Phoenix). Personally, I think that it's a bit of a trap because you essentially get 2 cards and a ready in exchange for your nemesis. If you can take out that nemesis with your ready, then you've netted yourself some cards. However, as I've been looking at many heroes, I think that most times the benefits of this card generally just gives you the tools needed to deal with the minion you just pulled. The solutions just ends up solving the problem.

HOWEVER, there is one thing that changes this math in a very extreme way, and it would be to use the resources you get to play Karma and then control your Nemesis. In a way, this has always been possible, but getting Karma to control a big value minion has always been unreliable. Face the Past can now help to change that.

In order to make this worthwhile, we'll have a couple of things we'll be looking for in a character who can make this work.

1) We need a Hero who likes playing with Protection cards. Green isn't gross anymore, but our hero needs to be happy playing this style.

2) We need a Hero who has a Nemesis who isn't Elite. This narrows down our list considerably, as most are elite.

3) We would prefer a Hero who's Nemesis doesn't have an 'enter play' ability that also harms us. Having 5+ life would also give us 3 activations. Someone with 3 ATK would be nice too.

This narrows our list greatly, but we do have one other condition:

4) We want a Hero who can ensure that we get Face the Past and Karma at the same time, so we can play one right into the other. Would be good to have a support card that allows you to store cards underneath them that can be played later.

So obviously, if you're clicked on this deck, you know that the best way to play this combo is to use Ghost-Spider. It's pretty straightforward then - put Face the Past under George Stacy, and then when you draw Karma, use FtP to get the The Lizard into play, and make him your friend using Karma. Without any healing, this means that you'll get 3 activations of 3 ATK each, plus a block from Karma at the end. This will cost you Karma, one other card from hand, plus the stored copy of FtP. For 3 ER, getting 9 ATK and a block is really quite awesome. You can also use Med Teams to heal the Lizard, seeing as you are sort of making yourself a Signature Ally in this way.

Everything else is really just straight forward Ghost-Spider stuff. Personally, this is the shell of how I normally play her, but you can absolutely make some changes. But honestly, most of us play her in Protection like 90% of the time right? So just build the deck like you normally do, just add in FtP and Karma now...

As always, I would love for you to interact in some way with a comment or a like. Always fun to get the community engaged in discussion! Until next time Champions...