No Presents, Only Coal - Marvel Champions Secret Santa

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Theberg123 · 1363

Hello everyone! This decklist was made for the Marvel Champions Holiday Deck Exchange. For this list, the person who's Secret Santa I was assigned (Nelson All Over) had a simple request on their wish-list, wanting the "The Worst Deck You Can Make". Now as easy as it would be to put in a pile of cardboard that is literally unusable by the selected hero, I thought adding in a couple restrictions to keep deck-building more interesting would be fun.

That criteria is as follows:

  1. Every card in the deck must be playable within the confines of the decklist(Can't give a non-mystic Sorcerer Supreme for example.).
  2. Every card has to technically be able to do something when played (Though anyone can play Champions Mobile Bunker, you cannot actually do anything with the ability in a solo game unless you have the Champion trait).

With that out of the way, we start with Valkyrie! Though many would probably push for Hulk to take this spot, I felt Valkyrie has more "synergy" for this play style, with many conditional cards, many abilities straining your Alter-Ego/Threat management, and a very lethal nemesis minion. Some people might also find it suspect that any allies with flexible activations and valuable chump blocks would be included, but their traits let us run against our rules and include some rather suspect cards!

Moondragon has low stats for cost and an ability that takes away any usage they have for chump blocking. She also lets us play Shake it Off, which though tough statuses are good, having to have both the ally on board and event in hand for when a 1-ATK minion would hit our ally is a little situational. We can also exhaust her and Valkyrie to play Stand Together, which will prevent some damage and deal it back to the Villain, at the cost of having anything resembling a turn during the Hero Phase. C.I.T.T. will also ready Moondragon so we can capitalize on her valuable activations for Tempo.

Multiple Man is in here as he has been de-powered, and is looking for a place to belong.

The Basic Miles Morales ally is almost certainly the highest quality card in this list. However, playing with our self-imposed restrictions he lets us play several other... less exciting, pieces. The Three copies of Warrior of the Great Web won't provide Miles with any stat boosts, but it gives him the Web-Warrior trait. This is important as we can now use Web of Life and Destiny to draw a card every time a upgraded Miles leaves play. With Spider-Tingle we can even gamble Spider-Man's health even faster to hopefully, maybe, cancel the affects of a treachery card.

The deck still has some potent plays without these allies though. 3x Government Liaison is great, as once we play one, we can use it to reduce the cost of another. And that's it. Hangar Bay lets us reset any allies which somehow survive an enemy attack so we can go back to getting them to fight. Height Advantage can come into play after we find our trustful Aragorn, and can keep reducing damage to us the whole game. Sorry, I meant the whole turn.

For our Events we have True Grit, utilizing Valkyrie's potent 1-THW to help keep threat low after we defend. Valkyrie's never been the best at handling minions right? We'll give her Beat 'Em Up in case she finds herself surrounded. The Gardener is our crown jewel, the community knows how effective all the Cosmic Entity Cards are, and the Protection variant is no different. Warning is much less a card and more of a message to anyone who's gotten this far in the deck profile.

I played Absorbing Man and Rhino with this list in Solo-Standard, almost flipping a stage 1 Absorbing man and never having a shadow of a chance against Rhino after Enchantress showed up. I hope this idea gets a chuckle or some enjoyment out there, Happy Holidays Everyone!

8 comments

Dec 19, 2022 KennedyHawk · 17349

Thanks for participating - it's so cool to see what everyone built.

Dec 19, 2022 Marctimmins89 · 271

Hahaha well done! Uber-powerful deck. So many combos.

Dec 20, 2022 MegiDolaDyne · 4325

This is art in its purest form. You may just be Krampus himself.

Dec 21, 2022 Fry · 233

To be extra vicious, it might have been funny to cut either all the or all the resources, to make it impossible to escape Seduced.

Dec 22, 2022 takabrash · 1

Oh man, thanks so much for this write up! I have been cackling for 10 minutes lol. I forgot Height Advantage was even a card!

Dec 22, 2022 journeyman2 · 20738

Ah yes, a fellow 50 card deck connoisseur!

Dec 22, 2022 Theberg123 · 1363

@journeyman2 50 card decks are good training practice to draw your cards better!

Jul 12, 2023 mv2392 · 96

Can’t wait to take this deck for a spin!!