Macau Apex Championship Jakarta Qualifier: Red-Blue Took the Entire Top 4

The Jakarta Qualifier for the Macau Apex Championship wrapped up on October 4 at Indonesia Comic Con, Jakarta. The decklists are already loaded into the Tournament Decks page — open any entry and click "Load into Deck Builder" to see the full 50-card list for yourself.

Final Standings

1. 1st Place — Edwin (Red / Blue)
2. 2nd Place — Ronaldo (Red / Blue)
3. Top 4 — Data (Red / Blue)
4. Top 4 — Setia Budi (Red / Blue)

Red-Blue Took All Four Seats

Every finalist played the same two colours, and the champion went the furthest into Blue: Edwin's winning list is 34 Blue cards to 16 Red. Ronaldo and Data both ran 32 Blue and 18 Red, while Setia Budi was the only one to lean Red, at 28 Red and 22 Blue. Same shell, four different ratios.

It's the same story as last week's Multiverse Battle at Gramedia World BSD, where Red was in every Top-cut deck: Red supplies the big plays and the cheap disruption, and Blue fills the rest of the deck.

The Shared Core

Twelve cards showed up in all four decklists, and five of them were run as a full playset of 3 in every single list:

[Antimatter] Iron Man[Covert Ops] Black Widow[I Need You] Captain America[Turn The Tide] Captain America[Ancestral Plane] New Black Panther

• BP01-001 [Antimatter] Iron Man — the Lv6 SEC finisher. Calling it prunes an opposing character, and the more cards you retreat to call it, the higher the Level it can reach.
• BP01-002 [Covert Ops] Black Widow — discard it from HAND for a Power-2000 swing on an opposing character in BATTLE, right when you need it.
• BP01-077 [I Need You] Captain America — draws a card and drops the top of your deck face down into BASE, so it pays for itself.
• BP01-066 [Turn The Tide] Captain America — a hand trap: when a Lv4-or-below Human of yours drops from BATTLE into RETREAT by losing a fight or to an opposing effect, prune this to put that character straight back in the field.
• SD03-011 [Ancestral Plane] New Black Panther — shrinks your opponent's WING characters from FRONT, and their FRONT character from WING. Both New Black Panther cards from SD03 (SD03-004 [Cold Shadow] New Black Panther and SD03-011 [Ancestral Plane] New Black Panther) were in all four lists.

The rest of the all-four list: SD03-004 [Cold Shadow] New Black Panther, BP01-015 [Disintegration Ray] Vision, BP01-022 [Top Agent] Black Widow, BP01-063 [Time Abduction] Loki, BP01-067 [Hostile Focus] Winter Soldier, SP01-049 [Spider-Ally] Harry Osborn and SP01-044 [Spider-Archenemy] Electro. The Era of Spiders cards are worth noting: Harry Osborn and Electro both made it into every finalist's deck.

Four Ways to Build It

• Edwin (1st) — the bluest build of the four. He was the only finalist to run 2 copies of SD03-001 [Supreme Watcher] Captain America, and he ran SD03-006 [Traction Arrow] Hawkeye twice as well.
• Ronaldo (2nd) — a full 3 copies of BP01-011 [Thunder Speed] Thor and 3 copies of SP01-042 [Spider-Archenemy] Green Goblin, with Blue doing most of the heavy lifting.
• Data (Top 4) — 32 Blue and 18 Red, with a full playset of BP01-011 [Thunder Speed] Thor and BP01-015 [Disintegration Ray] Vision next to the Blue core.
• Setia Budi (Top 4) — the outlier. No BP01-011 [Thunder Speed] Thor at all: instead a Hulk Buster package of BP01-030 [Leverage Up] Hulk Buster, BP01-023 [MK44-The Brawler] Hulk Buster and SD01-009 [MK44-The Pulse] Hulk Buster at 3 copies each, backed by SP01-005 [Endgame Battle] Iron Man, with BP01-021 [Thunder Caller] Thor as the Thor.

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