The Negative Zone!

The Negative zone characters have always been a force that no one would ever play. Or if they did it would be out of comedic value only. They were always a sort of laughing stock of the VS system... at least where i play, nearly considered as bad as New Gods.

but with the new release of MUN they are going to receive an entire curve and I for one couldn't be happier. So with that in mind i have been scouring there previews and looking at past cards to establish if a good deck could be constructed or if failing that an interesting one.

So what are we looking at here? Well it seems that every character card is dependent on the negative zone location cards so they are indeed very much a necessity. Annihilus and Blastaar are definatly the main characters in this set so lets look at them first:
Annihilus drops on 5, 7, 8

8 drop Annihilus ability allows us to KO X amount of opponents resources, where X is the amount of Negative Zones in play. This could be quite interesting however I am leaning towards the 7 drop Annihilus.

7 drop Annihilus allows us to stun a target front row character as long as we control negative zone. Which is just horrible, this coupled with 6 drop Blastaar which stuns a support row character, well i think we have found our 6 and 7 drops.

When looking for the lower drops we don't really have much choice in the way of variants. So with this is mind i have gone for Army characters. The obvious choice is Alpha Primitives so we can get the negative zones into play. This is important as the Negative zones are key to the deck actually being playable. 2 drop i would also fill with Alpha Primitives.

3 drop i think i will go for Thanos. Also for his ability to bring a character or location into the resource row. Which could be essential against resource Control decks. Also as a 5/4 he's quite big.

4 drop Syphonn. His ability, although cosmic is really good. allowing me to gain endurance i am going to sorely need because i assume i will take a horrible beating in the first couple of turns.

5 drop Annihilus. His ability coupled with one of the negative zone locations could be lethal. moving characters to the hidden area and the stunning them! wicked!

8 drop. This would have to be The Void for even more Board control!

Characters
Alpha Primitives x10
Thanos x 4
Syphonn x 4
Annihilus x 4 (5 drop)
Blastaar x 4
Annihiuls x 4 (7 drop)
The Void x 4

38 characters

This leaves us with 22 to play with.
The obvious PT/Loc to put in are of course the Negative zone locations.

Negative zone, Alpha Prison x 4
Negative zone, Shadow Dimension x 4
Negative Zone, Gateway x 4
Mobilize x 4
Swarm of Annihulus x 4
Savage Beatdown x 4

Man I am definatly looking forward to MUN!
Board control has always been a faourite of mine! and dear ow dear man ow man do NZ do it well.

Thanks for reading
McPhee