Valkyrie - Shieldmaiden!

I love protection decks! This looks like so much fun. Can't wait to get Valkyrie in the mail.

Did Leading the Charge just barely miss the cut? With 4 attack, it seems like a great add.

Ugh. I meant Leading Blow. Haha.

@InigoMontoya Lol! Makes more sense! Indeed, leading blow was in consideration, but Counter-Punch and Ever Vigilant offered a constant 4 dmg and made more sense with defending a lot. I may try a half and half scenario by cutting on one of each defense events.

Some nice ideas in this deck ! I'd like to build a Valkyrie deck to pair with Thor aggression (I really like the idea of Valkyrie playing Chooser of the Slain, followed by a Thor's Get Over Here!) and I'm not sure if playing her with Protection or Justice. I really like this deck as a good starting point for Protection Valkyrie.

I think that maybe a few more attacks would be great for this deck, what about Hard Knocks? It is a little expensive, I know, but I think it is a very strong card for a hero who likes killing minions.

@wehehe

Hi again! Hard Knocks sure is fun, it think it depends what you want to focus on. If you teammate is Thor and wants to play Get Over Here!, then I guess you may not have a lot of opportunities for Hard Knocks so, maybe you can focus on defending for the whole team instead. If you plan on letting Valkyrie hit the minions, then sure, go ahead!

love the use of Counter-Punch to capitalise on that huge attack. do you find that you have trouble with threat without Hard to Ignore in true solo though? is Flight of the Valkyrie enough?

@dr00 Hi! Since hard to ignore targets only the main scheme, I don't miss it that much. In fact it's not the main scheme I worry about, I got it covered pretty much with Ever Vigilant / Flight of the Valkyrie, as long as I can keep in hero form things are ok (altough, as I said, I didn't get to play every villain...).

It's the start of the game with side schemes in expert that's a bugger, but I often got lucky enough to get Multiple Man to do the job for me. So far, so good!

@neothechosen thanks for your thoughts. sounds good! can't wait to try it out

No Hard to Ignore? With a Def that high and a Thw that low, Hard to Ignore is really… hard to ignore. I’d definitely include it in this deck.

@LordVampire

Sorry for the delay! Hard to Ignore is a good card, but I didn't feel like it was needed.

As I mentionned before, since Hard to Ignore targets only the main scheme, as long as you can manage to stay in hero form, Ever Vigilant does the job pretty well.

I guess you could try including it, but the challenge is : where to cut? (Unless you don't care about going over 40 cards of course...) If you're going for multiplayer, then you probably don't need Multiple Man's help thwarting...

I played this deck just now and it's really fun!

Just one small suggestions, have you considered playing Warlock instead of Starhawk? For the "stall the main scheme every turn" task, Warlock work very similar to Starhawk does for a bit less upkeep. Play Warlock, thwart twice, heal him for 1 resoure, thwart twice, heal for one ad nausem

Keeping Starhawk in play requires three effective resources for every three threat removed, Warlock just requires one resource for two threats after initially getting him on the board.

He's one resource more to get in play though and unlike Starhawk he cannot thwart twice the same round, but I found him a bit easier to keep around in the long run.

@TomasLoow Sorry for the slow response! TBH I didn't consider Warlock. cards in this deck are either going into play or I really want to play the events/allies that are . From an economy perspective, though, you are absolutely right and maybe I should give it a shot. Thanks for the suggestion!

Hey, I'm currently trying this deck, but as I'm new to Valkyrie I'm finding the Death-Glow upkeep rather awkward. Much of her kit depends on who you have Death-Glow on, an if it's on a rather healthy villain, you don't really benefit from much of her bonuses from it having been on a minion. Do you only switch to the villain when you think you can down him, because I'm assuming going into AE is a no go, most of the time?

@Brusc Oh wow I'm sorry I missed your message! I've mostly been away and unable to play much lately so I haven't been checking much.

To answer your question: I usually use it on the villain only once Dragonfang is out or Valkyrie's Spear so I get to 4 ATK or 3/4 DEF. It means I rarely if ever get the bonuses from Flight of the Valkyrior or Valhalla but I also don't really use Chooser of the Slain all the time, only if it gives me something in return (such as getting me 2 cards to pay for Ever Vigilant, and I only put an easily dispatched minion in play).

That may seem counter-intuitive but it was doing pretty well (haven't played it in a long time!).

@neothechosen thanks for the reply and don't worry about being late, I didn't really have time to play either since I wrote that comment. So I take it that the deck really is about getting your stats to a decent level and just leverage your aspect cards, ignoring most of her kit that revolves on the dearh-glow mechanic. It's getting really hard to love Valkyrie outside aggression which is my least favorite aspect... It seems they couldn't really decide what direction to take her in the design process. Anywho thanks for the reply and have nice day!

@Brusc Yeah, basically just what you said! I get the aggro thing, some characters just don't seem right outside of it, but it's soon going to be much better with professor X and Psylocke allies. I proxied those in a Valkyrie aggro deck last week, it was actually pretty good! So there's still hope for it yet!

@neothechosen I tend to favor thematic decks so even though those cards look awesome I'd be skeptical about adding them to a Valkyrie deck. But hey if you can build a nice flowing deck with them I'd be willing to give it a shot! Such a shame about Valkyrie on a general basis...really like the death-glow thing. But only retrieving it in AE form is just plain dumb... they could have just made you pay it's cost again to retrieve it so it doesn't completely screw with your tempo...alas it is what it is

Since the whole idea is too defend a lot and get ready, why not adding Electrostatic Armor to the set?

@Arczi Hi! Electrostatic Armor sure can work here, just not sure where to cut! TBH it's been quite a while since I published this deck and a lot of things have happened, might be in need of some re-work, For example, since last RRG, Shieldmaiden has gained the defense trait... Jocasta would make a lot of sense here. Professor X, for the confuse, altough not very thematic... What Doesn't Kill Me could fit... So, choices... If you're ok going over 40 cards, try Electrostatic Armor for sure.

@neothechosen Hi. I put Electrostatic Armor without removing anything else. It did pretty good job. For now I think it might be the best Valkyrie deck for me.

@Arczi

Thanks for the feedback! Glad it works!