Matt Hardy

TWIST OF FATE Trademark Finisher / Reversal: Grapple As a reversal, may reverse any Grapple maneuver and end your opponent's turn. F: 25 D: 20 SV: 2 (Foil: Backlash) Unique	MATT HARDY'S PATENTED LEG DROP High Risk May not be reversed. Can only be played after a 2D or greater maneuver. You may draw 1 card. F: 4 D: 6 (Foil: Starter Deck) Unique
MATT'S MOONSAULT High Risk Can only be played after a 4D or greater maneuver. If reversed from your opponent's hand, opponent may draw up to 2 cards and you discard 2 cards. F: 10 D: 15 SV: 2 (Rare: Backlash) Unique	PUT IT ALL ON THE LINE Action When this card is in your Ring area, you may put this card in your Ringside pile after a successfully played maneuver. If your next card played this turn is a High Risk maneuver and it is not reversed from opponent's hand or Arsenal upon applying damage, shuffle your entire Ringside pile into your Arsenal; otherwise if your maneuver is reversed discard 4 cards from your hand. F: 0 D: 0 (Rare: Backlash) Unique
ROAR FOR THE FANS Action Draw 2 cards. If your next card played this turn is a maneuver it is +3D. F: 7 D: 0 (Uncommon: Backlash)	LIVE FOR THE MOMENT Mid-Match Action Can only be played if your Fortitude Rating is less than your opponent's Fortitude Rating. You must discard 1 card from your hand and if your next card played this turn is a maneuver of 7D or less, it cannot be reversed. F: 0 D: 0 (Foil: Mania) Unique

UNDERRATED SUPERSTAR Pre-Match Event At the end of the Pre-Match phase, if your Superstar Value is 2 or less, draw 3 cards and add them to your starting hand. If your Superstar Value is the same as or higher than any other player, you must then discard 1 card of your choice. This card cannot be played by Tazz. F: 0 D: 0 (Rare: Backlash) Unique	FANS LOVE AN UNDERDOG Pre-Match Event At the end of the Pre-Match phase, determine if you are the player with the lowest Superstar Value. If you do not have the lowest Superstar Value then you must put this card in your Ringside pile. When this card is in your Ring area, you may put it in your Ringside pile as a Mid-Match Action, draw 1 card and your opponent's reversal to the next card you play this turn is +8F. F: 0 D: 0 (Uncommon: Backlash)
FLYING HEAD SCISSORS High Risk Can only be played after a 3D or greater maneuver. If played by Eddie Guerrero, Hardy Boyz, Matt Hardy or Jeff Hardy a 2D or greater maneuver. When successfully played, if your next card played this turn is a High Risk maneuver, your opponent's reversal to it is +8F. F: 6 D: 6 (Common: Backlash)	LITA TO THE XTREME Action: Run-In Cannot be played by Lita. You may not have more than one Lita To The Xtreme card in your Ring area at a time. When this card is in your Ring area, you may put it into your Ringside pile if an opponent reverses a maneuver of 4D or greater to continue your turn, but you must play a High Risk maneuver from what is presently in your hand or end your turn. F: 4 D: 0 (Rare: Backlash)
FROM THE TOP ROPE Action: Set-Up Can only be played after a successfully played Strike or Grapple maneuver. Search your Arsenal for any High Risk maneuver, put it in your hand and shuffle your Arsenal. If your next card played this turn is a High Risk maneuver you may disregard the "Can only be played after... " text and it is +3D and is considered to have +1() Stun Value. F: 7 D: 0 (Common: Fully Loaded/Survivor Series)*	LADDER IN THE RING Action: Foreign Object Can only be played after a 4D or greater maneuver. When this card is in your Ring area, you may put this card in your Ringside pile and your next High Risk maneuver is +6D and considered to have +2 * (Stun Value). Reversals to this High Risk maneuver will be +4D. If played by Hardy Boyz, Matt Hardy or Jeff Hardy you may take 1 High Risk maneuver from your Ringside pile, put it in your hand. F: 8 D: 0 (Uncommon: Backlash)
X-TREME MEASURES Action You must discard 1 card from your hand unless you are the Hardy Boyz, Matt Hardy, Jeff Hardy or Lita. If your next card played this turn is a maneuver of 6D or less, it cannot be reversed. Unless the next card played after that maneuver this turn is a High Risk maneuver, you must discard your hand. F: 10 D: 0 (Common: Mania)	RING RATS Action Chyna, Two-Man Power Trip and Brothers of Destruction do not draw any cards via this card. You may draw up to a number of cards equal to your total individual Superstar Value, plus the total Stun Value in your Ring area. All other players may draw a number of cards up to their total individual Superstar Value. After all players have drawn their cards, all players discard a number of cards equal to their total individual Superstar Value. F: 12 D: 0 (Rare: Mania)

In The Ring: Matt Hardy is a very resilient athlete - when he mounts a comeback with his high-flying attacks, he can refocus his attack and regain a measure of his strength.

In The Game: Every time you successfully play a High Risk maneuver, Matt's Superstar Ability allows you to shuffle 6 cards back into the deck from the Discard pile.

Using All Foils/Uniques: Matt's Trademark Finisher, Twist Of Fate, is a powerful Grapple reversal in addition to being a light-standard TMF. Matt's Moonsault is an awesome High Risk card, especially when used with his Superstar Ability. Since you can have up to 3 in your deck, Roar For The Fans becomes a real asset, granting not only card advantage, but boosting a small card like Clutch Onto Opponent to 4D - setting up a possible High Risk! Put It All On The Line gives you the possibility of powerful card recovery, a possibility made certain with Matt Hardy's Patented Leg Drop - a good unreversible High Risk made better with Put It All. And to help get a maneuver through to launch a High Risk attack, Live For The Moment is fantastic, like a small Turn The Tide.

Using Some/No Foils/Uniques: Like all other Superstar Abilities featuring High Risk, Matt Hardy doesn't lend toward low-Fortitude decks, but high-Fortitude Trademark Finishers can be set aside - though Matt is the only HR-related deck whose TMF has no set-up requirement. While you may not want to use all 3 (or any) of Roar, it's worth strong consideration - and frankly, just about every deck should keep Matt's Moonsault - a very powerful High Risk card indeed! Finally, unless you have an extremely unusual (and extremely good!) reason, Live For The Moment, Put It All and Leg Drop both belong in every Hardy Boyz deck - Matt's recovery ability is great, but being able to recover your *entire* discard pile is always better!

Deck Ideas: Decks with High Risk abilities like any of the Hardyz and Eddie Guerrero don't lend themselves well toward low-F control decks, unless they are made to launch one massive attack that can't be stopped - but the variations available are still far and wide. Comeback!, used against yourself, is a serious option - since Matt can recover cards easily, the Put It All/Matt's Leg Drop combo could be used more than once if set up correctly. A deck using Throw Into The Corner Turnbuckle to set up Big Splash In The Corner and Superplex is another option, especially if Throw is also used to make Grapple set-up maneuvers unblockable (beware of Fortitude Surge, though). Ladder In The Ring could also be worked into a theme, trying to set up one major High Risk maneuver (Matt's Leg Drop, most likely). But no matter what, the Face/Heel diversity should be explored, since Face can help augment the card advantage (from Roar) with Handshake, as well as using Turn The Tide for a set-up move into a High Risk (recovering cards sacrificed to allow your opponent more Fortitude); however, Heel gives Dirty Low Blow as a set-up for Matt's Patented Leg Drop, and cards like Manager Interferes and Spit At Opponent can make your deck more defensive.

Recommended Stipulations: If you're Heel, No DQ - if you're using Lita To The Xtreme, same thing, different reason (Lita = 1F to play!).

Watch Out For: All High Risk decks fear Sustained Damage for it's ability to reduce your maneuver just enough to keep the High Risk conditions from being met - tread carefully. Also, discard decks can make life difficult, since you usually need 3-5 cards in hand to really get going with Matt.

How I Play: My new Heel Matt deck is very strange, but it works well! Using Great Technical Knowledge, Hair Pull (also helpful for an early unblockable Grapple) and Clutch (often followed by Leverage) allows easy access to High Risk moves like Matt's Patented Leg Drop or Flying Head Scissors. There are no recovery Actions, the deck relies on playing High Risk cards (as well as Put It All/Matt's Leg Drop combo) to get your Arsenal back.