Rise of the Psionic Phoenix

What is this deck about?

• Exploit the Psionic and X-Men combos.
• Great setup that allows to play many events and sustain a couple of powerful allies.
• Use Danger Room Training on Colossus or Cyclops and keep them alive as long as possible.

Allies

All our allies are X-Men!

• Forge - Can search for Cerebro, Utopia or Danger Room.
• Professor X - Useful twhart, specially when you are Unleashed.
• Triage - Help keep Colossus in play or your hero if needed.
• Pixie - Our allies are all X-Men, search for the one you need in the discard pile.
• Colossus - Great damage. You can get him to 5 Health with Uncanny X-Men and Danger Room Training. With his Tough that's at least 4 activations.

You want to quickly cycle Forge, Professor X, Triage and Pixie. Use them to defend.

Events

• Psychic Kicker allows for more activations on our allies. Great value on Professor X and Colossus.
• You can pay Psychic Blast, Telekinetic Attack and Telepathic Trickery with X-Gene, Team-Building Exercise or The Power of the Mind.

Resources

• The Power of the Mind can be doubled for (10) cards on this deck.

Supports

• Cerebro - Can search for any of our allies in the deck since they are all X-Men and Jean is Psionic.
• Uncanny X-Men - For those extra hit points and reduced cost on all our allies.
• Team-Building Exercise - Can be used with all our allies (6), 6 events, 2 supports and 3 upgrades. 17 cards total.
• Utopia - We will be playing many X-Men.
• Danger Room - Find those Danger Room Training cards for your allies.

Upgrades

• Honorary X-Men - This is important for the deck. We need to make your AE an X-Men! Benefits for doing this: Uncanny X-Men needs all your characters to be X-Men to get the reduced cost. Professor X can now ready your AE and Utopia can trigger in AE!
• Danger Room Training - Good for Colossus and Cyclops. The rest of the X-Men you want to cycle so you don't really want to play it on them.
• X-Gene - We have 8 identity-specific events.
• Mental Paralysis and Mind Control are very situational, but useful in those situations. Remember we have Team-Building Exercise and The Power of the Mind to pay them.
• Phoenix Suit - Against condition heavy villains, I try to keep the Restrained trait as long as possible because of Steady. I don't find the Retaliate that useful since you will usually be defending with one of the allies you want to cycle. I don't play it if I am already Unleashed.