Spider-Man 2 PS5 - Spider Pals

Background

A thematic deck build for Nelson’s Problem Solvers Deck Factory video. I wanted to try and find a thematic team up between an Avenger and Guardian character that could make Problem solvers work relatively well. I took inspiration from the PS5 Spider-Man 2 game where Spider-Man and Agent Venom (Harry Osborn) team up.

I built this deck with true solo standard in mind but it could work in any player count reasonably well, difficulty might be a different story. What we have though is a thematic team up with us, Spider-Man, going up against villains along side our allies from the Spider-Man 2 PS5 game (Miles, Black Cat, Venom). We can use Spider-Man’s core cards to keep us alive while we try to set up a big economy in order to play Problem Solvers and our Spider-Pal Venom.

The ideal turn:

After setting up Spider-Man’s economy, and our alter-ego supports, we will hopefully be able to throw out Venom and then use Problem Solvers soon after in order to gain some major “AoE” thwart removal. We’ll probably be tapping out around 4 thwart from every scheme if this all set up correctly which isn’t a lot, but if we’re playing true solo could be enough to clear the board. Then after a big thwart turn we can flip down to alter ego, heal up with Aunt May if needed and use Vigilante training to send get a hit of recursion on Problem Solvers.

One last thing: This deck could also be run with the same sort of cards but flipped so Venom is the Hero and Spider-Man (Justice) is the ally. With that setup we’d get a bit more thwart when Spider-Man enters play and could also add in some confuse and hero readies to get a bit more value from our thwart turns.