I Too Like To Live Dangerously 2.0

This is WILD dude

I really like this list.

Thanks! Going to try and get Ultron and Risky Business Expert in tonight.

Very cool. Did you experiment with Foiled! at all, or was it totally unnecessary?

Totally unnecessary. Once you setup the Counterintelligence engine, whatever slips through your Beat Cop’s and Covert Ops handles.

Nice idea and concept. Just playing Klaw Expert right now. 2 secondary plans and acceleration at start is hard without Under Surveillance and unlucky draws. Maybe I need to flip those turns. Will keep trying and learn to pilot it because I love the concept and Natasha. Many thanks for posting this.

Really innovative and unique deck! Staying in alter ego seems so strange. I will try it tonight!

A very fun way to try to play the game. Played Expert Rhino and was finally able to beat him on the 4th try, and it was without flipping at all. It's fun trying to negotiate the early game to keep things under control while you get things set up, but (at least with Rhino) is a bit of an uninteresting grind once your engine is setup.

@josseroo the nice thing about the build is that you actually can flip to hero for a turn when you get things setup, deal out some big punishment, and then go underground again. The aim of the build was to make it so you never have to leave Alter-Ego and that's what it does best, but you do find yourself in some spots where flipping to hero to take advantage of a huge hand (when 3 espionages hit) is definitely doable! I have usually finished out the game with her in Hero too. Last night, I got Goblin to stage III in Risky Business and then had all my Espionage's hit, so I was able to clear 2 guards (with Beat Cops) and then deal 22 between Nick Fury drop, ally attacks Dance of Death and Widow's attack. It was a nice satisfying finale. :)

Just beat Expert Klaw with Masters of Evil set. At the start you have 7 Threat and main schema acceleration to clean. Mulligan for Under Surveillance was needed becase those 6 Threat poins in the main schema are hard if you get too many minions at start to punish you with small schema activations where Counterintelligence doesn't help you. Game was long until I stabilized the table, Klaw got retaliation and was hurting my minions, so I had to swap to hero some times to really dish the damage end game and help with the first turns big threat preassure. Was fun and exhausting, and the deck was a blast to pilot. Espionage is awesome on this deck. Thanks por posting it @M3t4lB0x (TLM)

Glad ya had fun with it!!

@M3t4lB0x (TLM)I was trying to get more damage output in alter ego mode but finnally without cards like Stealth Strike (hero) I understood that tactic here is stabilize the table, be patient, and swap to hero to really make damage. Daredevil Winter Soldier and Spider-Man are not allways enough as damage dealers. So I guess you must learn to be patient. Agent Coulson and Jessica Jones are great but not key here, same for Interrogation Room. Thinking about cut some of those cards (maybe 2x First Aid, 2x Counterintelligence) to get better consistency and add Spycraft to improve Espionage efectiveness. What do you think? Thanks and excuse my poor english!

Thanks for the feedback! It's definitely a slow burn where you methodically navigate the game state and it's a very different mindset to play the deck verse normal, conventional builds. That said, with the entire core set, Goblin and RotRS under my belt in expert mode, personally, I've never felt there was inadequate damage. I already cut Interrogation Room for another Followed, but I've found the 3x First Aid to be extremely valuable. I could see dropping 1 for First Aid for a Spycraft. I wouldn't drop the Counterintelligence tho, that's the key to the deck and while 3 become superfluous once you get the deck setup, if you get a slow start, you need to find those so you can navigate the first few turns to get setup. Agent Coulson and Jessica Jones certainly aren't essential, but they are very useful in that Coulson provides strong thwarting if needed and can pull the Counterintel to get things moving, and Jessica is another 2 ATK ally in Justice. Quite a few time's I've dropped Jessica, attacked for 2, then dropped Daredevil to discard her and do 2 more on the same turn because you're flush with cash from 3 Espionage's triggering. By all means, change things up and give it a go! Nothing like experimentation! :)

This is absolutely monstrous! LOVE IT!

THX for sharing!

Currently playing 2 player against Kang, Expert with Master of Time... handled Level 1 pretty easily. Knowing you're already going to sit in Alt, Obligations become much easier to handle, he never gets his attack boost... the one killer card in his arsenal tho, is Energy Blast, that can wreck you if it gets your Safe House #29, so you need to always make sure you have fodder for it. We had to pause the game, so he just went to lvl2 only 1 accelerator on the main, Kang (Iron Lad) and Kang (Immortus) in play... should be awesome! We continue tonight, but I'm pretty confident Widow will be able to handle Iron Lad quickly and go help out Hulk! :P

@M3t4lB0x (TLM) just beat Expert Ultron with Under Attack with 0 threat left on 2B. Counterintelligence was awesome firing it on enemy phase step 1. Game was long, but tbh all BW/justice are long games. I removed 3 cards from your last updated version looking for 40 limit and consistency: 1 Espionage, 1 Beat Cop and 1 Followed. Awesome deck.

I've played this build and it worked amazingly well. I am really impressed with Black Widow. I made a Protection BW build and rocked never flipping to alter-ego. Now this build allows her to never flip to hero. Amazing hero design GG FFG.

I was a bit skeptical. I tested against Think Expert Solo and flipped to Hero only once, which was at the very end to KO with Dance of Death (and had 0 threat on the main scheme to boot). This was super fun to play and totally blew my mind. Thanks for sharing!

sorry that was supposed to say *Rhino Expert Solo (stupid auto-correct)

The exact same build works extremely well with Captain Marvel, I'd hazard even better because you can set up an Energy Channel for a blast of 10 damage for 0 cards on that turn. Plus she effectively has a 7 card hand before supports/upgrades. Tested it against Kang Expert with Master of Time!

Sweet, I’ll have to try that out! It seems like the trade off is having the guaranteed counterintelligence/covert ops lock for some much heavier damage. :)

Just played a version of this with -1Counterintelligence/Under Surveillance against Zola in multiplayer. Insanely effective—thanks for the upload!

@VisiblyRileyAgree getting the deck down to 40 is risky but great for consistency. I cut another Espionage myself to get there. Tested that nice Ms.Marvel idea and I still think Natasha works better.

Please could you like my decks since I liked yours.

I've just published a Ms Marvel deck 'inspired' by this one at marvelcdb.com It isn't as good as this deck, but I enjoyed building it. Many thanks @M3t4lB0x (TLM) for the inspiration.

I'm just getting into Marvel Champions and I have had so much fun with this deck. Thanks!

It looks like Meditation would be awesome for this deck.

@pierpenguin

It is! I was actually going to post an updated 3.0 version, but honestly the only thing you really do is add 3 Meditation. It holds up just as good now as it did then. Maybe drop the Followed for a Chance Encounter, but that's a preference choice. :)

@M3t4lB0x (TLM) what do you drop for meditation?

Nothing, just add it. It's run really well with them added and no drop. If you were to drop, I would probably drop Jessica Jones, Interrogation Room and the Helicarrier

Hey ! Out of curiosity is there any new card who'd be good with this deck since feb ?

@M3t4lB0x (TLM) It's been a while but I wanted to thank you anyway. Thanks to your deck I just defeated Red Skull after losing three games in a row playing Gamora (vanilla)