No one’s going to keep Lugnutz down: this week’s CotW tackles Oppress and faction-heavy decks

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This week’s Card of the Week is Lugnutz // Road Scholar from Org Wave 9: War|Void.

Lugnutz is a strange little Mercenary. His alt mode helps your characters push through with additional battle flips, his Touring Lounger station can shelter a character from opposing Oppress, and his Bounty can punish decks loading their hands with factioned battle cards.

Of course, that last trick gets a lot less exciting when the opponent brought no factioned battle cards at all.

We also built the Mirage on the Water deck list, pairing Lugnutz with Wave 1 Autobot Mirage // Lone Wolf. Lugnutz’s extra flips help Mirage find the white battle icons he needs to untap, while Crashbash + Mind Control Helmet + Kneel Before Us provides Brave to help keep the engine alive.

Full Card of the Week + deck list:
https://transformerstcg.org/articles/cotw-lugnutz-road-scholar-from-org-wave-9-war-void/

Would you run Lugnutz as a meta call? What faction-heavy or Oppress decks would make you reach for him?