Ironheart: Champions of the Age of Apocalypse

An ally-heavy Champions-themed Ironheart deck I'm building for a solo Age of Apocalypse campaign.

In general, I think Ironheart needs a lot of allies in Leadership to protect her while she ramps up. The need is even higher when you have to handle AoA side missions. The deck has thus many strong allies, many of whom are quite costly and that's the reason why various resource generators are included: Helicarrier, Ingenuity and even Brawn, who can stay in play for quite a long time once he becomes the sidekick.

Suit Up is useful to get allies in your hand and Inspired makes them more effective or it can be used just as a resource to play them. Many cards allow you to draw - other than those already included in the Ironheart kit: Avengers Mansion, Champions Mobile Bunker and Moon Girl for instance.

The idea is to handle different challenges that are emerging with your allies, while you continue switch between Hero and Alter-Ego to improve your version. Once you arrive at the Version 3 and you have Ironheart Upgrade in play, she becomes a war machine (no capital letters) and can handle pretty much anything. At this point, allies are still useful also to ramp her, using for instance Falcon, Cloud 9 and Patriot to interact with her traits or Side-by-Side as basically a team up card.