Daring Lime's: The Discard Pile Is My Hand

I watched Daring Lime play this deck during the stream. It worked surprisingly well! It would be hard to pull off with most heroes, but between Make the Call, Lockjaw, and Magnetic Pull, there's generally always something to do on your turn. This deck looks like it would be worth a spin if you wanted to try something outside the norm but still fun; this list definitely fits the bill!

If Lockjaw is a cornerstone of this deck, I'd imagine including Team Training for an extra activation/block would be useful.

@RainYupa Thanks for the support :) I'm glad you like the list!

@gilgalith Lockjaw is certainly better with Team Training out, you should give it a try! I didn't include it just because if I only have 1 copy it isn't that likely I would see it, and I didn't want to add multiples. If you did get it out it would certainly boost the power of all of the allies though. Magneto is tanky enough to survive without needing to block with his allies, so you would frequently be able to get the extra activations out of them.

how are you playing spider man (hobie brown) and ghost spider, since both require web warrior trait to play and I don't see any cards that give your identity web warrior and miles morales as an ally does have web-warrior trait

@nol77make the call bypasses trait restrictions

Ok, that is good to know. Thank you!

Looks like a fun deck. I'll be using it on the age of apocalypse campaign but I made a few changes like changing out some of the heroes and other cards for more wild resources cards because of the mission.

@Bluebirdataz86 That sounds like a great idea! I hope it works well for you :)

Great deck, really enjoyed playing it! Thank you for sharing :) Did you consider or trial a version with more X-Men allies and Utopia?

@lukethechap I considered it, and I think it would be extremely powerful, but my goal for this deck was to run something that no other hero can, and many x-men heroes are fantastic with utopia and make the call, so I elected to skip it. It's so nice hearing when people try out a deck I make! It makes this whole process worth it :)

That makes total sense! I’m just getting started on the X-men wave so I don’t even have Utopia yet, but couldn’t resist jumping to Magneto as his cards looked so good. I’ll look forward to trying a version of that myself when I get there! I actually played this version without Digging Deep or White Fox as I haven’t opened NE yet, and it’s still super powerful.

Super grateful to creators like you for publishing all these amazing decks. I barely have enough time to play as it is and would rather spend that time playing than deck building, so you really help people like me get the game to the table :) thank you!

@lukethechap that's so nice to hear! I'm glad you enjoy the decks that I and other people make :) This deck is totally functional without digging deep and white fox. Magneto enjoys those cards when using a 50 card deck, but they are by no means necessary. And at 40 card decks, I have found that white fox and digging deep whiff more often than I would like.

I have just finished playing this deck, paired with Psylocke Aggression, and I must say it has instantly become my favorite way to play Magneto. I've played lots of decks, tried many concepts... This deck feels like Magneto's cards are all in sync. Good job!

@Goatzilla That's so nice to hear! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

So glad he's out. It seems to me this deck is the best way to play him in the best aspect. Admittedly never knew make the call could work like that. I'll make a few tweaks depending on the villain but otherwise I will be playing this deck exclusively for awhile thank you :)

@CenturionQ I'm really glad you enjoy the deck! I feel honored that it's the only deck you'll be playing for a bit. I had a lot of fun playing this deck. I love sorting through my discard pile to find what I need in any given situation. I would be curious to hear about what cards you switch in for different matchups.

This is pretty much how I wanted to build Magneto, even down to the 50 cards. Idk if going up to 50 is actually better, but there's certainly advantages to it here. More choices in the discard + longer time where discard is full before you have to reshuffle. Looks great!

@HeroicSkeleton Thank you!

With 50 cards, how often do you actually draw Make the Call, instead of discarding it? That's all I was worried about. Maybe Erik's AE action mitigates this enough. I might try a version with more X-men allies and use "Won't stay down" for essentially another 3 copies of Make the Call

Looks really fun, my only suggestion would be changing Deft Focus for Team Building Exercise, it is one extra cost but gives 18 targets instead of the 7 superpowers.

@HeroicSkeleton I didn't run into a problem with it. It worked great in all my play tests. It also isn't that big of a deal if you don't have it in your hand since you have lockjaw in the deck and only 4 of the 16 allies are trait locked. Even if you draw all the trait locked ones you can still just spend them on your magnetic card.

@RunItsALion Team Building Exercise would probably work great too. I just try to avoid anti synergies in the decks I post because not everyone will be aware that Team Building Exercise doesn't work for make the call.

I love Magnet... I've played him a ton since his release. I have never considered him in this kind of deck! Super solid build!

I didn't know that team building exercise doesn't hit for make the Call, so I'm glad I read some of the comments too! Deft focus is SUCH a good card for magneto, though I tend to over resource myself when I build for him.

@EarthTwister Thank you :). Regarding Make the Call and Team-Building Exercise: It's a subtle interaction. If you follow TBE exactly, it says "Hero Action: Exhaust Team-Building Exercise → play a card from your hand that shares a trait with your hero, reducing its resource cost by 1." So the action is to "play" an ally. It doesn't work for multiple reasons. One reason, is that Make the Call isn't technically "playing" an ally, you are just "putting it into play". It's goofy, but that's a very real and impactful distinction in this game. That's the reason that you can use Make the Call to grab the Groot or Ghost Spider Ally with Magneto. You aren't playing the ally, so you bypass the trait restrictions. The other reason, is that TBE misses the timing window on make the call. Make the call is an action. If you wanted to modify that action and reduce the cost of the ally, that would be an interrupt. You can't modify one action with another action, that's the purpose of interrupts, i.e. to interrupt a game step and modify it in some way. Hope that makes sense!

@Daring Lime that makes perfect sense. Thank you!

@Daring Lime, loved this! marvelcdb.com used it as the basis for a theme deck i made, super fun archetype man!

@Meck71 Thanks for the kind words! I checked out the version you made and I think that one is really cool.

Hello mate. Thanks for this deck. Magneto is my favourite hero and the discard aspect is my favourite to pilot. I really enjoying this list with a couple if tweeks( i am a new player so i have limited card pool)

What would you replace Legion with if I don't have the card?

What a great deck! I took on Dark Beast in Expert solo. I went through two total deck passes but only pulled Digging Deep twice. Even so, I only managed to get three upgrades out and still pulled out a win. Although I think I got lucky in avoiding Blue Moon. Savage Land was my last environment and it played into Magneto's Alter Ego quite well. Even with the Digging Deep and White Fox fizzles, I really enjoyed this deck. Thanks!

This deck looks fun, and I'm going to try it out. :) Don't forget that Spider-Man (Miles Morales) doesn't get his coming-into-play ability if you get him with Make the Call.

@zobaktron No problem! I'm glad you've been enjoying it.

@AjaxWrex88 Any ally you want. The list isn't super specific. Any ally that you enjoy playing is a good candidate.

@SJR222 Dang, sad that it fizzled! The 50 cards is supposed to help that lol. It's good news though that you were still able to get the win and have fun.

@nerman8r Absolutely. I can't remember if I thought of that at the time I made the deck. He is one of my favorite allies. Good catch! It might be worth switching him out for a different ally.