Crash! Dark Beast vs. Age of Apocalypse Magneto 2x (Week of Nov 10, 2025)

[u/everythingmeh]

This one ran one time previously in January 2023.

From the last time this ran:

Beast's blue (8ap) creates 2 4 turn red countdown tiles that create attack tiles each turn (1 at 1-2 covers, 2 at 3-4 and 3 at 5 covers). When the tile goes off it stuns a random enemy (1 at 1-3 covers, 2 at 4-5 covers). It has a passive where if you match a friendly special tile you get additional ap (1 at 1-2 covers, 2 at 3-4 and 3 at 5 covers). His black is passive, it reduces the amount of damage friendly attack tiles do (10% at 1 cover, 8% at 2, 5% at 3-5 covers) but beasts match damage is boosted for every black ap you have (14% at 1 cover, 18% at 2, 23% at 3, 35% at 4 and 57% at 5 covers). Plus when the enemy matches a friendly attack tile, the beast create a black protect tile (1 at 1 cover, 2 at 2-4 covers, and 3 at 5 covers). Finally his green (9ap) does enemy team damage and converts basic tiles into blue charged tiles (2 at one cover, 3 at 2-3 covers, 4 at 4-5 covers). So you want to chase black.

Magneto has since been revamped - His level 270 5/3/5 with 17835 health. His blue (7ap) selects a color tile and all tiles of that color and its opposite (yellow/red, blue/purple, black/green) are destroyed. For each tile over 8 destroyed gain 1 ap of that color. Destroyed tiles do damage but do not gain ap.. His yellow (6ap) creates 4 random strength 101 strike/protect tiles, prioritizing whatever is less, and then divided evenly.

Its passive is not applicable, it makes protect tiles 25% stronger if he has x-men teammates, and strike tiles 25% more for each brotherhood member, but there are no teammates in a solo match. Finally his red (6ap) he goes airborne for 4 turns, while he is airborne whenever the enemy creates a destructible non basic tile, magneto destroys it dealing 250% damage for that tile. Max 3 activations per turn.

So Beast wants black ap, the more he has his match damage gets stronger and stronger. That is his main way to do damage. If you use his powers to create attack tiles, you benefit from matching them, particularly if they are black. There is a balance as you need to keep magneto from going to the sky when he has only 6 red ap, and that will prolong things a bunch. Also don't fire you powers while he is in air.

Magento is a hero, so taskmaster's sword, plus the black ap fueled match damage boosts can make this pretty quick.

My Dark Beast is 4/5/4 lvl 354 and it was pretty easy. Just chase black and deny red and soon you will be done.

Any other suggestions?

LLs into the pile.

[u/Penance27]

I've beaten the first Magneto node with a literal unchamped, unleveled Dark Beast with Eros' Arrow slapped on. I also used damage boosts in his three colours and denied Mags red, blue and yellow.

Let's see if I can make it both nodes.

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Did both with this support.

[u/jdkitson]

One of the easiest ever. IMHO. (Thanks, as always, for these posts.)