Southern Touch

Southern Touch

The Minion is the target. The Villain is the real victim.

Rogue turns her most dangerous gift into a devastating weapon. Touched marks a Minion as the perfect target, giving Rogue's attacks Overkill and allowing every point of excess damage to reach the Villain.

The strategy is simple: touch, hit hard, and let the damage spill over.

Hit Through the Minion

The deck is built around exploiting enemies with Touched.

Take That! deals a massive 7 damage to an enemy with an upgrade attached, making it one of the deck's best ways to punch through a Minion and send the excess damage straight to the Villain.

Surprise Move takes the combo even further. Rogue gets +2 ATK when making a basic attack against an enemy with an upgrade, and if that attack defeats the enemy, Rogue readies.

That creates explosive turns where Rogue can:

Touched → Attack → Overkill → Ready → Attack again.

The Minion may not survive the first hit, but the Villain certainly feels it.

Build the Perfect Hit

Cards like Skilled Strike, Clobber, Goin' Rogue, Southern Cross and Bulletproof Belle give Rogue the tools to keep attacking while exploiting her enhanced offensive potential.

Combat Training, Martial Prowess, Aggressive Conditioning and Deft Focus help turn those attacks into increasingly efficient plays.

Gambit, X-Men & Absorption

The deck also embraces Rogue's story.

Gambit represents her strongest personal connection, while Professor X embodies the X-Men path that taught Rogue to turn her powers from a curse into a strength.

Energy Transfer and Superpower Adaptation reinforce the feeling that Rogue is constantly absorbing, adapting and turning other powers against her enemies.

Plan B

And when Rogue's Nemesis cards start getting in the way, Plan B gives them a second purpose: discard them and turn each one into 2 damage.

Even Rogue's enemies can become ammunition.

Southern Touch

This is Rogue at her most aggressive:

Touch the Minion.
Break through its defenses.
Overkill the target.
Hit the Villain.
And keep going.

Touch. Hit. Overkill. Repeat.

The Minion is the target. The Villain is the real victim.