Andrew Olexa x1

Rejection x4

Tag Along x3

Seal of Cessation x4

Olcadon’s Mentoring x4

Rising Rage Flash x4

Feline Spike x3

Soul of Ling-Sheng Su x4

Blinding Rage x4

Healer x4 (Feline Spike Teeeeeeeeeeech)

Shooting Capoera x3

Inhuman Perception x4

The Curse of Immortality x4

Makai High Noble x4

Lord of the Makai x3

Chinese Boxing x4

White Magic x4

Why no Chester’s Backing? Because I didn’t own any at the time of the tournament! Frankly…I’d be hard pressed to find room for it. Probably for Curse of Immortality as it serves a similar purpose of keeping my life near tip top shape.

Sideboard? I had a Sideboard, but I never used it so it doesn’t matter.

Otherwise, this is pretty much your standard Air Beats decks. Olexa is the best Air character in block 3 so why not eh?

Deck is pretty self explanatory. Play gray, beat face, win game. Flip Feline Spike as your first check of the turn three times in a tournament and still go to the finals...

Rejection actually saved my butt a couple times, so don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. (It should also be noted that every card in the deck except for Tag Along has a block…Tira’s Contract was 2 of the cards in my sideboard, if I had another it would have been three.)

Rising Rage Flash is ridiculously good, and should probably staple itself as a x4 of alongside Feline Spike in any air deck. Being a high zone means it stands a good chance of eating a high block, opening up the way for Feline Spike. The 6 damage also baits out Rejection or a partial block, once again opening up the way for Feline Spike. It also serves as a decent LAST bit of damage or an early quick ping to set up momentum for Olexa if you didn’t draw White Magic.

You have SoC in there...wasn't desert wars block 3?

Smazzurco said:

All the AoP's have been reprinted with the 4 point watermark.

Archimedes said:

Hanzo (though I guess its not his character but his combo) and new Chun-Li both have air, I disagree >_>

FenMiHuo said:

Neither of them have built in constant momentum generation that allows them to reliably drop Feline Spike turn 2.

Hanzo's combo is mostly centered on an Evil base to pull the combo off reliably, and when something like a MIDBLOCK (or Amy's Assistance, or Seal of Cessation, or Tag Along....you get the point) can hold it from going off turn 1-2 then it's not consistent enough.

Chun-li is good, but Olexa just uses his Hack ability on the card you try to play.

Olexa is the superior Air character. He's just too fast.

Chubbs is playing Air Olexa too, and placed 2nd in our tournament w/ the Maryland Crew yesterday. He plays US Air Base. Ever think of that?