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Welcome to the premier of the new series Cache-ing In! In this series, each week we will highlight what is in this week’s Spotlight Cache and help you determine if it is worth opening those precious boxes for the contents inside. This week, our Spotlight Caches contain Jean Grey, Knull, and The Living Tribunal!
Currently, there is no duplicate protection for the random card other than the featured cards. In general, if you want a guaranteed chance of pulling the featured cards, you should save up at least four Spotlight Caches.
Jean Grey
Decks with Jean Grey
Jean Grey is clearly the best card of all the new cards releasing this season. With Jean headlining the Spotlight cCache debut, you know Second Dinner is going to make the first box tempting. Her unique ability is a strong control tool that can force your opponent to play differently than they want to.
Since Jean Grey has already released, players have already been hard at work finding the deck she best fits into. While we haven’t seen a meta-defying list yet, she does slot well into Silver Surfer lists, Lockdown lists, and pairs well with the Guardians of the Galaxy cards!
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She also can be a great counter to Move decks, Destroy decks, and even Galactus! Overall, Jean Grey may not be an obvious top tier card (as it is too early to say right now), but she is definitely a powerful ability you want in your collection.
Knull
Decks with Knull
Knull has had enough time for pretty much every player to recognize him. Though it doesn’t belong into every deck, it has the ability to drop an unmatched level of power for a single card. It also combos well with Death, often leaving the opportunity to play 2 large cards on the final turn! Knull has a few homes where it has become a staple.
Galactus decks obviously want him, because who doesn’t want the combined power of every card destroyed to be the follow up for triggering your Galactus?
Mister Negative decks have also packed Knull since the base card is zero power, it always inverts to a zero cost six power that can also grow! Negative decks typically use Arnim Zola as a way to spread powerful cards on the last turn, which further grows your free Knull.
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Of course, Knull also sees play in basic Destroy decks, including Deadpool. If you are constantly destroying cards, why not stack that power for later? Venom can even clear lane space and create a large amount of power to feed Knull for an overwhelming turn 6 power play.
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The Living Tribunal
Decks with The Living Tribunal
The Living Tribunal is… meta defying…strong for combos… just strait up bad. People speculated what this card could achieve before it launched, but ultimately it released as a massive flop. Don’t get me wrong, this card can win you some odd games and there are clips of great Tribunal plays winning a game, but ultimately this is a meme card.
With that said, if the idea intrigues you still, there is a few…a couple…a single deck that can utilize Tribunal in a decent way. The only way to get enough power on the board to win 2 locations vs a stronger deck is to output a large amount of power. And what better to achieve that goal than… *drumroll*… Hela! Just discard that Tribunal and if Hela revives a ton of cards into the wrong lane, Living Tribunal can save the day and balance out that power (and hopefully it’s enough to win 2 lanes…).
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Aside from Hela memes, I haven’t seen any good The Living Tribunal decks. If you have a good list though, please feel free to share it in the comments and prove me wrong about this card!
The Variants
In order to talk about if a cache is worth it, we have to consider what variants you could get if you already have one or more of the cards in the set! Unlike the cards, Spotlight variants will not be available for quite some time once they leave the rotation for the week. So if you see a variant you absolutely love, it might be worth opening caches to get it.
The developers clearly wanted the first set to start strong, and that Jean Grey variant is definitely a firey highlight for any collection!
Knull also has a great, unique looking variant!
The Living Tribunal sticks to its theme of lackluster by having a Spotlight variant that looks like a 3D artist copied the 2D artists homework.
Should I Cache In?
The Spotlight Caches are clearly designed to get players excited about 1 great card, 1 good card, and will fill the third slot with an okay or bad card. This week, Jean Grey is poised to be the great card, Knull is an exciting good card, and Tribunal is still bad.
My recommendation for this week is to Cache In if you don’t already own Jean Grey. Jean and Knull are solid pulls, making it a 50/50 chance of a good card or good variant. Even if you pull The Living Tribunal, it could make for some silly meme decks when you want to branch out of meta decks.
If you already own Jean Grey, I would save the Caches unless you really want her variant. Otherwise you may be spending priceless caches that may be better for you in a different week.
What did you decide to do this week? If you opened your caches, what did you get? Let us know in the comments! For the full schedule, check out our guide below:
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