Nebulaus Overkill: No Quarter Loop

Intro:

This is a One Turn Kill multiplayer deck that relies on a recursion of No Quarter and Looking for Trouble combined with Cutthroat Ambition's ability to give Nebula overkill and piercing.

Ever since No Quarter came out, I've wanted to make all Aggression deck that featured it and Honed Technique. I've also wanted to make an almost Infinite Loop deck like KennedyHawk made here Ant-Man Resize Loop.

So, how do you get Nebula in a No Quarter Loop? There's a good amount of set-up involved. All of your Supports and Upgrades needs to be out. While that sounds like a lot, Nebula has enough to make it go relatively quickly. You'll be using Angela and Looking for Trouble to pull a minion, then No Quarter to kill it with overkill and piercing. Rinse, repeat. Until you deck out. Then do it again. Until the villain decks out. Then do it again.

How to Set Up:

• Set up your Aggression Supports and Upgrades your first run through your deck. Yes, every Aggression support or upgrade. Feel free to flip down to AE when the villain is confused to play a Nebula upgrade and draw two cards. Along with Nebula's Ship.

• If you miss an upgrade or two, that's okay, you can get them on your second time through your deck.

• Here's the important part: Second time through your deck, do not let any Nebula upgrades go by without playing them. Once you play a Nebula upgrade, you have to flip down to AE, and stay there until all 8 Nebula upgrades are out.

• Now that all 8 Nebula upgrades are out you have overkill and piercing, +1 to Thwart and Attack, -2 damage from enemy attacks, retaliate 2, Stalwart, and can ignore guard, patrol and crisis. The ones we care about are overkill and piercing.

No Quarter Loop Sequence:

• Once you have all 8 upgrades out, use Hall of Heroes to get 3 cards. As long as you still have 2 No Quarters (or Angela) and 2 Looking For Troubles still in your hand or deck, you can start the loop.

• So, the loop is play Looking For Trouble. Then attack the minion to get it down to the lowest HP possible without dying. Then play No Quarter for the highest amount you can. This will draw however many cards of excess damage you've done.

• Eventually, you should get down to around 21 (Max of 24 or 25) cards to play each round. If you keep around 7 to 9 cards in your hand at all times, you'll be able to finish each deck run with a Looking for Trouble and No Quarter still in your hand. That will mean you need to average 6 or 7 excess damage to each minion that round. Since you can do at least 9 damage with Now Quarter and a maximum of 12, that shouldn't be that difficult.

Tips to keep the sequence going:

• Plan of Attack is key to maximizing each round. First, if you don't draw into a No Quarter, then use your Plan of Attacks to pull it. POA can also be used to pull your final No Quarter for the round, or to thin the deck and Grab Toe to Toe. Why Toe to Toe?

• Angela is there in case you don't have a Looking For Trouble. You use her to get the minion, then Toe to Toe the villain to kill Angela after she defends for you, and get her back in your discard pile.

• Use Battle Fury to ready Nebula, so she can attack minions if need be. If you're playing a villain with high HP minions, you can always add Combat Training to this deck. Then Nebula would hit for 5 if you count Unyielding Persistence and Fluid Motion. If you're playing low HP minions, you may not need to have Nebula attack.

• Do not use Angela if you know there's only 1 minion left in the villain's deck.

• Keep a count of how many minions the villain has. Once you've reached that limit, you know your next Looking for Trouble will just deck out the villain. Which is fine. That's why we have Angela as a back up. It's not 100%, but it should work with high minion villains like Drang, Zola, Green Goblin, Sentinels..

Other Heroes That Can No Quarter Loop, Too:

• Iron Man - He might do this sequence the smoothest. The problem is his excessive set-up time. Here's the deck I made for him: Iron Man No Quarter Loop The cool parts of him: He has so many ways to bring down minions with damage. You can actually get him down to 0 hero cards in your deck because Plan of Attack can pull both Repulsor Blast and Supersonic Punch. If for some reason, you're stuck with 5 cards, and don't want to deck with No Quarter? Just use Repulsor Blast to get rid of those 5 cards. End it all with a few 13 to 15 damage Dive Bombs.

• Star-Lord - This deck Star-Lord No Quarter Loop gives encounter cards. Who's a fan of encounter cards? Star-Lord. The issue is the math isn't perfect since he'll have 8 hero cards left. But if you get the sequence working, and you can end it with a couple 25+ damage Sliding Shots? Amazing.

• Black Widow and Ms. Marvel probably can also make this work, but it went against my nature to have all of Black Widow's preparations out but not use them ever. Ms. Marvel should work, but I just couldn't get the sequence going. If someone else, can get her to do this deck, please publish it!

Questions:

• Q -Is this a lot of set up?

Answer: Yes, it is. But I've never seen an OTK deck that didn't have a lot of set up.

• Q - Can this be played solo?

Answer: Not as an OTK deck, but as a deck that can use No Quarter, Honed Technique and Nebula's upgrades wisely, yes. Just add Professor X and Wolverine, and she'll be ready to take on villains solo.

• Q - Do you have any video of the loop sequence?

Answer: No, but if someone wants to capture some, I'd be forever grateful. :)