Computer Vision Needs a Reboot [CoH '25]

Author’s Note:

I realized the night before travel that I didn’t have a good stable Nustice threat control deck but my mind was racing with packing fatigue and travel anxiety and I just couldn’t spit one out. Instead as my work team’s engineer AI-skeptic I decided to have ChatGPT make a deck for me. Of course I picked Vision! Maybe this means in champions I’m a Vision-skeptic...

While the deck is nothing stellar. It’s also not bad. It might be time for me to embrace AI on more than a Boolean pass fail scale. For reference I’ve tried this with Chat over the years and there is a marked improvement from my last attempts. We had a real (almost hour long) conversation where I would ask it to remove certain cards or add ones. Just like chat is improving maybe someday vision will get there as well (IYKYK).

Once completed I asked it to provide me with a write up of its deck making decisions and strategy. Here you go. Everything below (including the formatting) is straight from AI. I contest we’ve never had a more thematic Vision deck including only partial understanding of human humor.

Deck Overview: Computer Vision Needs a Reboot

Hero: Vision
Aspect: Justice
Theme: Threat suppression through intelligent event recursion
Target Role: Primary board-state manager using a machine-learning-level response loop

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Strategic Summary: Deploying the Synthezoid

Welcome to the threat-handling AI suite known as “Computer Vision Needs a Reboot.” This deck leverages Vision’s core functionality—form switching—as an adaptive learning algorithm, using feedback loops (like Reboot and Density Control) to respond dynamically to whatever the scenario throws at you.

You're here to train the threat curve downward, whether it's spiking or creeping, while your teammates backpropagate the damage. With recursive threat removal, conditional triggers, and a suite of support agents (read: allies), this deck ensures the villain’s evil scheme gets permanently flagged as overfitting.

Key Features and AI-Driven Choices

Core Engine: Reboot Loop & Form Switching

• Your Density Control module (2x) and Reboot firmware (3x) create a reliable upgrade path to intelligent form shifting. Use it to "train" Vision mid-turn, switching weights (forms) to optimize performance.
• Whether in Dense (for forward propagation) or Intangible (for defensive dropout), you’re always ready for a smart pivot.

Threat Reduction Like a Neural Net:

• Clear the Area (3x) is your low-cost inference model—perfect for basic threat elimination and setting up Turn the Tide combos.
• Impede (3x) is like an early stopping mechanism: clears the board, then refunds a card to prevent overfitting your hand.
• Lay Down the Law (3x) is your conditional rule—activates on form switch like a properly triggered activation function.
• Just Passing Through (2x) is your stealthy subnet for threat trimming while you're in Intangible mode.

Ally Subroutines:

• Agent Coulson is your fetch bot, pulling Counterintelligence from the deck and keeping you threat-aware.
• Vivian acts as a targeted adversarial attack—disrupts treacherous card effects situations.

Utility Modules:

• Sense of Justice and Deft Focus are your processing accelerators, keeping your event throughput high and efficient.
• 616 Hickory Branch Lane is your model refresh protocol—letting you cycle key cards during your alter-ego training phase.
• Reboot is your emergency patch: it heals, readies, and allows for rerunning a key operation if the state calls for it.

Opening Hand: Mulligan as Preprocessing

Look for:

• Density Control – key for dynamic form analysis
• 616 Hickory Branch Lane – gets your learning model online fast
• Deft Focus / Sense of Justice – boosts throughput
• One early event like Lay Down the Law or Impede to stabilize the threat landscape

Toss any “endgame” events or damage tools that aren’t useful until your algorithm is more fully trained (Solar Beam, Turn the Tide, etc.).

Gameplay: Adaptive Intelligence in Action

• Start in Dense form to initialize the board state; switch into Intangible for Lay Down the Law triggers and defensive modeling.
• Use Reboot to simulate a second action phase—especially effective for double-thwart turns or surprise threat spikes.
• Counterintelligence acts as predictive buffering—your “dropout layer” to absorb surprise threat increases.
• Don’t underestimate Turn the Tide: once you’ve cleared a side scheme, it becomes your unexpected offensive subroutine.

Multiplayer Synergy

This deck pairs best with heroes who excel at direct damage or minion control. You're the mainframe, they’re the edge processors—let them handle physical impact while you prevent the villain’s logic from converging.

Ideal partners:

• Aggression Ironheart or Rocket – handle damage while you control the board
• Leadership Vision (mirror match!) or Captain Marvel – keeps the table efficient and energized

Final Thoughts: The Synthezoid Advantage

Computer Vision Needs a Reboot plays like a self-correcting neural net—constantly adapting, readying, and maintaining stability across all phases of play. Whether you’re optimizing for threat removal, absorbing villain activations in Intangible form, or using clever recursion to turn defense into offense, you’re always making the optimal prediction.

You’re not just playing Justice—you’re debugging the villain’s plan in real-time.