Houses of the Rising Sun

Basic Premise: Use Gambit’s economy, card draw and tutor effects to play supports and upgrades early. Once you’re set up, you should be able to draw and play multiple allies and events in a turn. Access to Confuse/AE Thwart and allies to block keep Gambit in a decent position on the board.

Hero/Alt Ego: Switching back and forth is what I prefer to do, that way I can charge up my counters, while having access to all the Alt Ego effects the Mutant/X-Men support package affords me.

Allies: Forge should target X-Mansion first, then Cerebro. Pixie will help you recur Forge, and then X-Men Education allows you to spin that wheel again. Beast should recur Molecular Acceleration when you're not using Mutant Education to cycle them back into your deck. All the other allies are pretty self-explanatory.

Events: Not much to say here, once you’re set up you’ll be drawing these pretty consistently and nothing feels better than back to back Royal Flushes for 18. Extra cool if you actually fling the card at the villain.

Resources: I debated adding the second copy of Power in All of Us over X-Gene, but I just wanted to try out the new cards.

Support & Upgrades: With access to six double resource cards, paying for these pricy supports is a lot less painful than it usually is and they only get cheaper as you play more of them. Being able to access the extra draw as Remy, while keeping your ability to thwart makes for a powerful mitigation combo.

Wrap-up: Gambit lives his life in a moral grey area and now you can too! I know that just sounds like an excuse to play with over-tuned Basic cards, and it is, but I also think it’s pretty thematic and powerful. Hopefully you have fun and enjoy it mes mis!