Drax dons the Suit and undergoes Specialized Training

ATTACK

DRAW

READY

REPEAT

This deck follows the usual Drax plan of having the villain smack you and then smacking them back. Stack ATK, HP, and ready effects. Never leave hero form unless you are about to die.

While Drax is normally resource limited due to his small hand, this deck goes all-in on mitigating that weakness by:

1. Increasing HP to thus survive more villain attacks and get more draw with the hero effect.
2. Providing direct means of accruing value through draw and hand-size-increase effects.

For someone who is otherwise an offensive character, Drax has the rare ability to get high-magnitude, single-target thwarts thanks to Intimidation. This means Drax can run Player Side Schemes without sacrificing too much to thwart them. The new Specialized Training from X-23 can give Drax either more attack or more HP, along with the benefit of an additional card draw per round after attacking or taking damage, respectively. Woo!

This deck is very fun. It makes Drax feel like a combo character, attacking and drawing 5+ times a turn, with 50+ damage phases not being uncommon.

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The general gameplan is as follows.

GET STRONG

Drax's Knife + Symbiote Suit + Vengeance = 6 ATK

GET BIG

Symbiote Suit + Endurance + Front Line Specialist = 31 HP!

ESTABLISH A MOTIVE

The Villain Attacks you: "Fight Me, Coward!", Taunt, Get Behind Me!, Villain phase.

Draw a card any time the above happens after max vengeance counters.

PURSUE VENGEANCE

Leading Blow, What Doesn't Kill Me, Limitless Stamina, C.I.T.T.

Attack and ready. Draw a card any time any of the above happens with DWI Theet Mastery

DON'T DIE

Parry and Shake it Off offer some resilience. Mantis and The Night Nurse will keep you alive. Keep Mantis alive with Med Team

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Priorities

DWI Theet Mastery is most critical. Next is Drax's Knife. Use Super Power Training to pull either of these. Symbiote Suit finishes off the core of key cards. After that, look for Mantis and healing effects as needed.

Drax's Other Knife is a most games.

Other Considerations

Anticipated Attack from X-23 seems great for Drax. For 3 resources this is basically a free activation of the hero ability, however, this card is expensive compared to Drax's other events and requires that a side scheme be in the victory display. Since this is a deck that is looking to win quickly, you would probably not benefit from this effect until turn 3. Shake it Off gets a tough status more efficiently.

Dauntless might be interesting for how much the villain will be attacking, but Drax's Other Knife does the same but better and retaliate 2 is probably overkill in all but the swarm-iest encounters.

Double Resource Cards - Most cards in this deck cost less than 2.