It’s preview season! Again!

But before everyone gets confused as to why I’m doing previews right after the release of MUN, let me just clarify that the following cards are fan-made creations for use in MWS and OCTGN decks, as well as proxy cards should your playgroup allow them. Thanks to a few brave and brilliant souls over at VSRealms, the VS community will get the DC Universe fantasy expansion set! With negotiations between UDE and DC still ongoing, these Realmers have taken it upon themselves to build an entire new set for the fans by the fans.

I had no idea which teams were included in this fantasy DCU set, but I was not surprised that the Green Lanterns are being “re-featured” here. Fans of the Sinestro Corps War series have been clamoring for the return of the GLS and the willpower mechanic. If you’re one of them and you’re into fantasy VS cards, the wait is over:

Kyle Rayner, Honor Guard
3-cost Green Lantern/Challengers
4 ATK/5 DEF
Flight/Range
Willpower 2
[Activate]-> KO a resource you control. If you do, search your deck for a Team-Up card, reveal it, and put it face down into your resource row.
“Kyle’s never satisfied. He’s an artist.”
Common
DCU-20

I had to wiki for that Challengers part of his affiliation, but it’s just Kyle’s new Multiverse posse. The real deal is still his Green Lantern roots, as shown by his willpower of 2. His stats are a bit on the soft side if you consider the current standards of the game, but his ability suggests that he won’t be attacking much anyway.

A reusable way to search for team-ups?! That’s ridiculous! It just requires an activation… no discard of any sort or any other drawback. That means that as long as Kyle is around, you can fix your row however you want it, while at the same time filling your KO’d pile with already used cards. This opens up the possibilities of having a monstrous multi-team combo deck, or even simply thinning your deck one team-up at a time.

So what Team-Ups are we going to search for to abuse this ability? We can simply list all of the existing team-up cards so far and pick as we please, but fortunately I have a bonus preview that is a pretty good answer to our dilemma:

The Spectrum, Team-Up
2-cost Plot Twist
To play, choose two or more affiliations among characters you control with willpower 1 or greater.
Draw a card.
Ongoing: Crossover those affiliations.
Common
DCU-325

Sound familiar? That’s because it is sort of a reprint, actually. Hard-Traveling Heroes does the same thing, but The Spectrum is worded under the new template for Crossovers. There’s not much to say about this card. If you need to crossover at least 2 affiliations in your deck that have willpower, you use this. Easy as pie.

That’s all the preview cards I got. Obviously they are not the bombs of the set, but these 2 cards are what I’d call the ‘bread and butter’ of the decks you’d expect to make from the DCU fantasy expansion. A solid team-up and a reusable way to get them is a good start to any list that involves the various Lanterns. Tune in to VSRealms for the rest of the previews! Props to Guglio and lebeau for including me in this fun activity.^_^