This season promises new players, old rivalries, new cards and the exceptional streaming coverage that you’ve come to expect from Lazarus Rising Games. Buckle up as the NAOL and LRG takes you on a wild ride! Below, you’ll find all the event dates, locations, and more!

NAOL—Western Shootout

Dallas, Texas

May 9/10

NAOL—Peacebridge Memorial

Niagara Falls, Ont

June 20/21

LRG Regional #1

Location TBD

July 18/19

NAOL—OP Cup

Columbus, Ohio

August 8/9

LRG Regional #2
Location TBD

August 29/30

NAOL—West Coast Melee

Seattle Washington

Sept 26/27

NAOL—Valhalla

Location TBD

Oct 10/11

LRG Regional #3

Location TBD

Oct 31/Nov 1

NAOL—Battle for Boston

Boston, Ma

Date TBD

LRG Regional #4
Location TBD

Nov 21/22

LRG National

Happening at the beginning of 2026Location TBD

It’s going to be a legendary season, so mark your calendars, study the meta, and get ready to bring your deck to the first new season of OverPower in 25 years!

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For many years now, OverPower decks that focused on Energy and Strength have ruled competitive play.  The other two Power Types, Fighting and Intellect, were much more challenging to build around.

Now Lazarus Rising Games is bringing us the World Legends and Edgar Rice Burroughs set, and Combat (formerly Fighting) and Intelligence (Intellect) get their chance to shine as well.

Combat is particularly strong, with many dependable characters having amazing Specials.  Playing with two characters with an 8 stat, along with your third Front Line character able to wield a 7, means the best attacks (and defense) for the deck will be with Combat.  With this Power Type as a focus, it can also fuel cards like Zorro’s “3 Quick Strokes,” which allows you to carve up an opposing character with Combat cards (Power cards, or even other Combat Specials like “Elite Swordsmanship” or “Rapier”).  The brilliance of “3 Quick Strokes” is that it immediately KOs any character, regardless of other cards and effects in the game that would otherwise prevent it.  You just have to land at least one of the three attacks and have 15 damage or more on the target, by the time the “3 Quick Strokes” are over.  This is one of the reasons why we have included so many high value Combat cards. Additionally, you’ll notice that these Combat Power cards can all be used to attack or defend by anybody on the team, and they are effective in taking out an enemy with cards such as “3 Quick Strokes”.

Zorro’s “Riposte” is great for either offense or defense (protecting the entire team!) and provides a solid off-color Power Type. With so many Combat cards in the deck, it’s important to have some other color type offense to get spectrum knockouts.  “Riches of Don Diego de la Vega” is a big attack that potentially moves any Mission card (that wasn’t ventured) all the way to the top.  Play it at the right time and it can win you the game!

Leonidas also has outstanding Specials.  “300” is really solid and can be used to land a big hit on the opponent or defend Leonidas.  With multiples of this card, you’ll often have an 8 Power card and “300” placed to Leonidas, which means the opponent is staring at two 8s that could defend him; they will often choose an easier target at that point.  “For Sparta” has a good effect whether it hits or misses.  If you can land it, the character it hits can’t play Special cards that battle; so target someone with a great Special placed (like a negate) and if they block it “For Sparta” reshuffles back into your deck.  “Give Them Nothing” works together with “300” to make Leonidas the team’s defensive stalwart.  Don’t underestimate the strength of “Shield Phalanx” either.  Even with only one copy, that +1 to Power card defense works for the entire team for the rest of the game.  Attach this and don’t forget it’s there.  It’s a big advantage to be able to block an 8 with a 7!

Robin Hood is yet another character that has good Specials, most of which have multiple functions.  “Master Archer” allows additional attacks.  “Band of Merry Men” can be used to attack or defend and can be combined with a Universe card.  “Steal from the Rich”, “Hero of Nottingham”, and “Master Thief” all have at least the potential for a discard, with the latter adding a phenomenal draw ability that allows you to keep duplicates!

All but one of the Teamwork cards can be thrown by any of the four characters, and the 7 Any Power can be used by any of your Front Line Characters.

If the Event, “Call of Cthulhu: The Cost of Knowledge is Sanity” comes into play, consider not using an Intelligence follow-up to your Teamwork attacks if you don’t have to, and use Multipower cards, the Training card (if it is paired with an Intellect Power card), or Zorro’s “Riposte” Special defensively.

Once this deck has been played a few times, you will be amazed at how strong Combat can be in the new environment!

Home Base

• The Round Table
  

Characters

• Leonidas
• Robin Hood
• Zorro
• Dr. Watson (Reserve)
  

Mission

• Call of Cthulhu
  
  
  

DECK (56)

Allies (2)

• Allen Quartermain
• Professor Archimedes
  

Aspect (1)

• Any Homebase Amaru: Dragon Legend
  

Events (1)

• The Cost of Knowledge is Sanity
  

Power Cards (20)

• 1 Brute Force
• 1 Energy
• 2 Brute Force
• 2 Energy
• 3 Brute Force
• 3 Multipower
• 4 Intelligence
• 4 Multipower
• 5 Any Power
• 5 Intelligence
• 5 Multipower
• 6 Combat x3
• 7 Combat x3
• 8 Combat x3
  

Specials (26)

• Any Character Disorient Opponent
• Any Character Fairy Protection
• Any Character Freya: Goddess of Protection
• Any Character Grim Reaper
• Any Character Merlin’s Magic
• Any Character Mystical Energy
• Any Character The Gemini
• Any Character Valkyrie Hildr: Select the Slain
• Any Character Wrath of Ra
• Dr. Watson English Gentleman
• Leonidas For Sparta
• Leonidas Give Them Nothing
• Leonidas Shield Phalanx
• Leonidas 300 x2
• Robin Hood Band of Merry Men
• Robin Hood Hero of Nottingham
• Robin Hood Master Archer
• Robin Hood Master Thief
• Robin Hood Steal from the Rich
• Zorro Elite Swordsmanship
• Zorro Rapier
• Zorro Riches of Don Diego de la Vega
• Zorro Riposte x2
• Zorro 3 Quick Strokes
  

Teamworks (5)

• 6 +0/+0 Any Power
• 7 +0/+1 Any Power
• 4/6 C +0/+1 BF/I
• 4/7 C +1/+1 BF/I
• 4/8 C +1/+2 BF/I
  

Training (1)

• 5 or less E/I +4
  

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Doug selected 10 players from the qualifier to advance to the main event, and it was clear that the competition was fierce. The diversity of decks reached an all-time high, with one Max Six deck making it to day two, and an impressive two decks featuring Hobgoblin making it to the final four! OverPower has never seen a meta this healthy, nor so many tournament-ready decks featuring never-before-seen characters.

The Champ of Champs is an exclusive event where players must qualify, and with limited slots available, the stakes are high. The tournament consists of five rounds of Swiss, followed by a cut to the Top 8. With participants including the best of the NAOL tournament winners and the highest-ranked players from the NAOL yearly standings. Players had to bring their A-game from round one, as two losses could knock them out of the running for the top spots.

However, even if you have a bad season the qualifier still gives you a shot at glory. In fact, half of the Top 8 were players who had qualified through the friday event—meaning if you play well enough on the weekend anyone can be the Champ of OverPower for the year. !

The Top 8 Players were:

• Derek Bertrand
• Joseph Gagnepain
• Shawn Sawyer
• Phil Miller
• Justin Sadaie 
• Carl Caroffino
• Joe Peters
• David McMillian

After a series of intense and grueling matches, the final showdown came down to Phil Miller, who made a dramatic comeback after starting the Swiss rounds at 0-2 then going on  to win every single one of his matches the rest of the day vs. Justin Saidie; one of the hottest newcomers in OverPower, eager to make his mark and claim his first major tournament victory. 

The game swung early in Justin’s favor, with a devastating Absorb Sound that forced Phil to discard seven cards and shredded his placing advantage. But in true OverPower fashion, you can never count out the Strangler. Phil held his resolve, slowly clawed his way back into the game, and in one of the most intense finals in OverPower history, managed to finish off Justin, taking home the championship belt in a hard-fought victory.

Full coverage and commentary of the event will be available, including 3 matches from Friday night’s qualifier. You will be able to check out the entire event on our YouTube channel soon, stay tuned to our social media channels.

All in all, the Champ of Champs was a huge success and a perfect sendoff for the old version of OverPower as we prepare for the Edgar Rice Burroughs and World Legends sets launching this April.

Venture well, OverPower fanatics!

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