The Great Khali
by Joseph McGreechin
Revolution Format

What does this incredible ability tell us about Khali, well he will never finish his turn without at least attempting to play a manuever and he can get the right card whenever he wants. One of the best strategies is to hit your opponent with extremes until they just can't stop them and who better to do this than the Great Khali who can every turn search for a extreme manuever ready to deal even more damage and the really good part is that with the new extreme Means and Colossals Khali can hit you with a strong manuever whenever he wants and if that's not bad enough if The Unforgiving Ladder ,Khali's strongest non-unique, is reversed he can search for a Unique.

BACKLASH (12)

Pre-match (6)

A New Plan x2
ECW Originals
The New Breed
Tomorrow's WWE Legends
You're Drafted

Strategy Notes: You're Drafted is good for two reasons. Obviously you have your logo on every faction but it also negates the discard for the new breed. With the new breed Khali becomes a a powerhouse with the new extreme manuevers which he can search for and get the advantages of them.Also as this is a second solution deck khali needs all the good revrsals he can get and overexposure is an excellent reversal whose fortitude khali should have no trouble getting to.Tommorow's WWE Legends allows Khali full access to the best colossal reversal in the game:Caution:You're Entering The O-Zone and Edge FX a card which can be reused again and again.Also what You're Drafted supplies is that with your logo on the card you are a member which means your superstar specifics count towards the extra abilties of the cards.ECW Originals gives Khali a huge advantage in being able to start the match because if you hit one of your extremes you should be in range of only one solution and if your opponent was starting he could get enough fortitude for outmanuever and other extreme reversals which could stop your attack and ECW gives him the best reversal in the game(Death-Defying Maniac) as it can stop antics early on.

Mid-match (6)

Before This Gets Out of Hand x2
Caution: You’re Entering the O-Zone
Keep Your Eyes Open or It's Game Over x2
Maryse's French Finish

Strategy Notes: Caution: You're Entering the O-Zone allows Khali to destroy an opponents pre-match set-up while stopping a powerful move that could normally hurt this deck and the inclusion of this reversal means that there was not really much need for I Can Do Anything I Want. Before This Gets Out of Hand is to stall your opponent until you draw the right card and with Khali three turns should be enough to gather fortitude for Overexposure and more. Keep Your Eyes Open or It's Game Over is to stop multiple antics or follow up means from hitting you and most ring removal cards are Means but of course this deck is not reliant on stopping ring removal as three out of the four pre-match are permanent and the other should have already used its effect so you can afford to let some means in. Maryse's French Finish is devestating as Khali effectively gets two cards a turn added onto a large starting hand size and this should be a devestating antic which can finish off your opponent. The forty fortitude will be difficult to get but Khali can use Steel Chain Shot and The Unforgiving Ladder to acheive it even if they are reversed on the overturn.

ARSENAL (60)

Superstar-specifics (8)

Arms Raised in Triumph
Indian Choke Drop
Khali’s Big Boot
Pinned … By One Foot
Punjabi Warrior
Stare Into the Abyss
The Earth Trembles at My Gaze
The Hand of Fate

Strategy Notes:Punjabi Warrior is an all round great card.Not only because it can reverse anything but because it lets you play Struck by a Singapore Cane and Garbage Can Lid for 0F and Struck by an Unknown Foreign Object for 2F.Being able to see what your opponent has in their hand is always a great advantage and The Earth Trembles at My Gaze lets you do that in addition to picking up any non-unique and as you have seen your oppnent's hand you will be able to pick up a non-unique that you know cannot be reversed from their hand.Stare Into the Abyss is one of Khali's best cards as wheneve you search for a card your opponent draws one and you will normally play the card you search for they are gaining an advantage in hand size and even if they only have one more card in their hand you are making them lose five.And if for some reason you have more cards in your hand use it to search for your uniques as they cannot be searched for.Khali's Big Boot has a good fortitude to damage ratio as well as providing some recursion and the twenty fortitude you will have after this is enough for The Hand of Fate.Arms Raised in Triumph can be given incredible strength when used with Prepare for the POUNCE as you will now have a reversal to any non-unique maneuver or any Antic which can be played for 0F if your oponent has more fortitude than you.The Hand of Fate absolutely crushes your opponent's hand and it does alot of damage,it will set up the Indian Choke Drop and as your opponent will have only two cards in their hand they may have difficulty reversing it.Indian Choke Drop is Khali's main ring removal card,is one of the most punishing maneuver's in the game and gives you enough fortitude for Pinned … By One Foot.Pinned … By One Foot gives you an instant win and although Follow-Up:Mean or Colossal may be hard to acheive for most decks as Khali can search for all of his Extreme Means and Colossals and as if that is not enough Pinned … By One Foot may also have Momentum.So overall a great set of Superstar-specifics.

Antics (3)

A Bloody Nightmare
Enter The Sandman
Prepare for the POUNCE

Strategy Notes: A Bloody Nightmare is in here three reasons.The first is that it makes all of your Core Maneuvers even harder to reverse.Secondly it will mean all of your Maneuvers will let you play Pinned … By One Foot after them so that Follow-Up:Mean or Colossal isn't looking so hard to achieve now.And finally thanks to The New Breed faction if your opponent reverses any of your non-Uniquemaneuvers while this is in your ring area they will have to discard one card.Prepare for the POUNCE as mentioned earlier makes Arms Raised in Triumph an even better reversal and it also makes all of your opponent's cards easier to reverse which means your Extreme reversals will always be useful cards and you can pick up any of your Non-Trademark Maneuvers which can be very painful for your opponent if you pick up The Unforgiving Ladder.Enter The Sandman is very powerful and could quite easily finish your opponent off as you can give the Core Momentum and triple its damage whih means eighteen with A New Breed Unleashed and an eighteen damage move with Momentum should be enough for the win.

Antic-Reversal Hybrids (6)

Centered Defense x2
Head-to-Toe Defense x2
Lateral Flank Defense x2

Strategy Notes: These cards are necessary for a deck including The Second Solution as they provide extra reversals to Maneuvers and reverse some Maneuvers that many of your other reversals cannot.

Maneuvers (22)

A New Breed Unleashed
Caught in the Ropes x2
Edge FX
Eye Rake x3
Hand Smash x2
Homicidal Lunge x3
Into the Barricade x2
Microphone Cord x2
Steel Chain Shot
Struck by a Singapore Cane
The Unforgiving Ladder
Toe Smash x3

Strategy Notes: A New Breed Unleashed is a great card which you have an OK chance of getting in your first turn with Khali's large hand size and getting six almost guaranteed fortitude in the first turn is usually a good thing.Caught in the Ropes will be a good card whether it is successful or not as if it is not successful you get to add another card to your hand which could be The Second Solution or Not What We Came to See which will be very useful in an opening hand.Edge FX is a card to just keep reusing and annoying your opponent with as eventually they won't be able to reverse it and then you use it three times a turn demolishing them quickly.Eye rake is a good way to start the match as it is a solid Extreme which is 0F and does three damage which will give you three fortitude to wok with early on and you should be able to play quite a lot of your Reversals for 3F.Hand Smash like many other Maneuvers in this deck gains an advantage for being an extremist which is why The New Breed is so vital and the advantage is good doing an extra two damage to your opponent.Homicidal Lunge is probably your best Non-Unique Extreme Core and it can get yoou five fortitude immediatly and of course you can always search for it and play it as the first card of your turn and if it is not reversed keep using all of your Extremes against your opponent.Into the barricade is a really good card as if your Extremes are in your ringside meaning you can't search for them you can search for this to get them back.Microphone Cord should be used with Edge FX if you have met the requirement to use the second part of its ability and although you have to discard two to get it those could be useless cards in your hand like Masochist at Heart.Steel Chain Shot is one of the main cards in the deck as it can be serched for and does lots of damage which is the key idea with this Khali deck as being able to search for big moves every turn should always be useful.Struck by a Singapore Cane should be comletely abused as you can search for itand if it is successful and is not reversed from the arsenal then your opponent has lost eleven cards from their arsenal and if it is reversed on the overturn then just reuse it next turn.You may want The Unforgiving Ladder to be reversed to get an important Unique into your hand and there are fifteen Uniques in this deck, and if it isn't reversed it is an incredibly punishing Maneuver which can be searched for.Toe Smash becomes a great card with this build as I am not including any Follow-Up Maneuvers in this deck there is no negative to it and without any negative it is a great maneuver.The main point to the maneuvers is hit your opponent with Extreme Cores until you have enough fortitude for your Means and Colossals which should hopefully finish your opponent.

Maneuver-Reversal Hybrids (3)

Only One Solution: Revolution x3

Strategy Notes: The Only One Solution:Revolution is very useful in this deck as you should easily get four fortitude and then you have lots of Assault,Hold and Throw reversals in your deck combined with other cards which can reverse them so you should be completely covered .

Reversals (18)

Death Defying Maniac
Here’s a Lesson Plan
I Won't be Beat Tonight
Masochist at Heart x2
Not What we Came to See x3
Outmanuever x2
Overexposure x2
The Second Solution x3
Try to Get Away
You Telegraphed It x2

Strategy Notes: Death-Defying Maniac is a fantastic reversal that is the only card which could reverse an Antic as the first card of the game or A New Breed Unleashed and it can completely ruin an opponent's Pre-Match if their deck is completely built around it like a Storyline or Sabu's Suicidal-Homicidal-Genocidal.Here’s a Lesson Plan should stop all of your opponent's Extremes and keep in mind that with your Pre-Match your Superstar-Specifics count towards all of these cards extra bonuses so Here's a Lesson Plan can let you shuffle six cards back as well as stopping Extremes.Only one copy of I Won't be Beat Tonight is included in the deck as there are lots of other Colossal reversals and Prepare for the POUNCE means your Extreme reversals(Here's a Lesson Plan,Arms Raised in Trumph) can stop all non-unique Maneuvers.Masochist at Heart stops you from being pounded by multiple Colossals when you have little fortitude as they play on 0F but Khali should be able to get fortitude quickly so he can then move on to his more expensive Colossal reversals.Not What We Came to See gives you a boost to your hand size and can stop someone from throwing lots of Extremes at you because it gets you enough fortitude for Here's a Lesson Plan and hopefully 3F should be enough for you to use all of your Extreme Cores.Outmaneuver is excellent for stopping all of the annoying Follow-Up Means which generally have good effects and of course this provides you with more cover against Extreme Cores.Overexposure is another card which meant only one I Won't be Beat Tonight was included as you can use this to stop Cores,Means or Colossals.It really saves space and is almost necessary to help a Second Solution deck.Which brings me onto The Second Solution,while not allowing you to include the F:0 Core/Reversal Hybrids it makes up for it in drawing power and range of reversal power and in the Revolution Three era one of the first choices you will make is whether or not to pack The Second Solution and in most of my decks I would pack it.Try to Get Away gives added protection against Means as there are lots of reversals to Means in the Backlash deck and the main deck.You Telegraphed It is the only Momentum reversal in the deck as I feel that Inertia is much too costly but you do have two of them and some cards in the deck can shuffle cards back,plus your opponent should only have a limited supply of cards with Momentum.

Final Strategy / Other Notes: The main strategy in this deck is simple:hit your opponent with of Extremes,search for non-unique Means and Colossals and build up towards Pinned … By One Foot or any of your Trademarks and you can search for your Uniques if The Unforgiving Ladder is reversed and hopefully you can get A Bloody Nightmare into your ring so that your instant win condition becomes much easier.