-21- Dark Magic (Shadowpact + Thule Society)

By: Victor Black

Characters

4x Nightmaster, Jim Rook

4x Blue Devil, Dan Cassidy
3x Jared Stevens - Fate, Mystic Defender

3x Ilsa Haupstein, Great Heart
4x Zatanna, Magical Manipulator

4x Grigori Rasputin, True Father
2x Witchfire, Rebecca Carstairs

2x Nightmaster, Demon Slayer
2x Blue Devil, Big Blue

1x June Moon - Enchantress, Bad Witch
1x Zatanna, Showstopper

2x Shazam, The Sorcerer

1x Captain Marvel, Champion of Magic

Plot Twists
4x Total Anarchy
2x Abjuration, Magic
3x New and Improved
4x Mobilize
4x Savage Beatdown
4x Wake the Devil
4x Accept Your Destiny
2x The Conclave, Magic

This deck does a bit of everything, solid sift to dig for cards you are chasing, good control and board presence with some pretty intuitive KO options, An alt win condition that is actually viable thanks to Accept your destiny, and a really, really beefy curve thanks to Ilsa. By turn 3 if we haven't seen our new and improved, Ilsa's going to get it for us. otherwise, nothing wrong with either Abjuration for a clutch brick, or a total anarchy to keep their curve honest.

Why New and Improved?

Because on turn 5, you can free play night master, KO it and drop an 11/11 5 drop Nightmaster with a lifegain engine in it.
OR
KO that blue devil you had on 2, gain some decent endurance, then drop a 12/12 big blue, that will promise 8 more endurance on his KO. Along this train of thought, we have zatanna at 3 and 6 as well!

The staple Shadowpact support shines here, with double conclaves, but the power of grigori and the Thule support really shows that Shadowpact has been paying endurance for nothing. I mean why run divination and pay 3 endurance when you can just do the exact same thing for free with Wake the Devil? Sometimes, it pays to be evil.

-22- BroStat-X (Brotherhood + X-Statix)

By: Jonathan Brami

Characters

4 Doop, forward observer
4 Rem-Ram, Acolyte
4 Kleinstock Brothers, Acolyte
4 Barnacle, Acolyte

3 Chrome, Acolyte
4 Amelia Voght, Acolyte
4 Gin Genie, Beckah Parker

4 Senyaka, Acolyte

2 Spoor, Acolyte
2 Anne-Marie Cortez, Acolyte

1 Sabretooth, Savage Killer
1 Scanner, Acolyte

Plot Twists
4 The new brotherhood
4 The next brotherhood
4 Planet X
4 Glory Hound
3 Mind Over Matter
4 Air Strike

Call a spade a spade, this is TNNX-Statix, I don't care what Jonathan named it. It takes a list that really doesn't need much help and gets out of the way as efficiently as possible. There are a few cool interactions however, Gin Genie, for example, will be a super effective method to keep rotating your resource row, Doop is free bonus damage just for existing, Glory hound is a free resource replace, or fodder for a timely air-strike, And Mind over Matter will enable you to recur Amelia for repeated swarm turns! Not too shabby for getting out of the way of what TNNB wants to do anyway.

I anticipate this one won't go down easy.

-23- BKKO (Birds of Prey + Marvel Knights)

By: Carl Perlas

Characters

1x Mikado and Mosha, Angels of Destruction
4x Lady Blackhawk, Zinda Blake
1x Micro-Chip, Linus Lieberman

4x Punisher, Suicide Run
4x Huntress, Vicious Vigilante

4x Black Panther, King of Wakanda
2x Barbara Gordon - Oracle, Hacker Elite

3x Luke Cage, Street Enforcer
1x Vixen, Mari Jiwe McCabe

3x Savant, Brian Durlin
1x Captain America, Loyal Patriot

1x Dinah Laurel Lance - Black Canary, Cry in the Dark
1x Ghost Rider, Spirit of Vengeance

Plot Twists
4x Swan Dive
4x Wild Ride
4x Savage Beatdown
4x Mega-Blast
4x Crime and Punishment
4x Quick Kill

Locations
3x Stryker's Island

Equipment
3x Steel Girder


MKKO! with hot DC ladies in it! ... and savant...
Solid stuff.
but really.

This deck straight-up murders everything in front of it.

-24- Sub-Mariner, Shield of Atlantis (S.H.I.E.L.D. + Atlantis)

By: Aaron Mead

Characters

4x Wasp, Ultimates
4x Scarlet Witch, Ultimates
2x Clint Barton - Hawkeye, Ultimates
7x Atlantean Warriors, Army
4x Sub-Mariner, Protector of the Time Gem
2x Nick Fury, Ultimates
4x Hank Pym - Giant Man, Ultimates
2x Lady Deathstrike, Opportunistic Killer
4x Sub-Mariner, Ultimates
2x Captain America, Ultimates
2x Thor, Ultimates

Plot Twists
4x Liberation Day, Ultimates
4x Mobilize
2x Now I'm Fighting Dirty
4x Savage Beatdown
4x Cover Fire

Locations
4x The Triskelion, Ultimates

Equipment
1x War Machine Armor, Unique

This was ALWAYS going to happen.

So needless to say, if any of my options, were SHIELD and ANY OTHER TEAM IN EXISTENCE...
It was going to be an Ultimates build.
Ultimates is my baby, my jam, my happy place, even.
So even though SHIELD was paired with the thinnest, least capable team that could TECHNICALLY hit 15 cards, in the words of the immortal Dr. Ian Malcolm: Life, uh, finds a way."

The standard shield list heavily taps into MUN and rides Rad man and Iron man into the sunset.

So yeah... This doesn't do that.

Step1 - Set the table.
Wasp and any other hidden character will do. Mostly we want wasp to activate at least twice by turn 4, this can be risky though, if we haven't locked in to either a Liberation day or a Triskelion , so it's fine to wait on her active until we do. If we are lucky and pull off a perfect curve into 3, we want to see Nick Fury. But we needed god damned atlanteans so he's going to cost us a search. Sub-mariner beats nothing though.

Step 2 - Abuse the living hell out of Triskelion.
Triskelion is amazing. the deeper you dig warping cards from your deck, the better search it enables. Lots of players miss things like chaining to the draw at the start of the draw phase, you empty your hand, grab a card you definately want, and then land 2 more cards. making your turn, thin, but almost always IDEAL. If your hand already feels solid, save trisk for that clutch defensive brick you need. one of my faves is a boosted "now I'm fighting dirty", then discard 0 for your re-fetched "now I'm fighting dirty" again for a clutch +6/+6 on offense or defense.

Step 3 - Drop the WOMBO
Same as the original, get to 7, play Thor, ideally you still want to have your 4,5,6 in play, but no sweat if not, Thanks to Nick Fury and wasp you should have been able to toe the line with 23-25 cards in your rfp. by that time you'll also make note that your deck has around the same amount of cards. Activate thor for whatever number is LESS in raw endurance loss for your opponent.
Then substitute lady deathstrike on your 4, activate her, untap Thor, burn again, sub your 5, then 6, for the better part of 100 dmg outside of combat on turn 7. Most decks wont come back from that, but for a good laugh, if it is your init on 7, you can always opt to save the last Deathstrike, and thor activated abilities, equip a war-machine armor on thor and, get 2 free stuns while obliterating their row, (TWICE!) and dealing 14 damage to your poor unhappy opponent.

Needless to say, this list can get work done.

-25- Skrullf*cked (Skrull + JLA)

By: Darius Thatcher

Characters

2x Ray Palmer - The Atom, World's Smallest Hero
4x Black Bolt, Enemy Within

3x Roy Harper - Red Arrow, Coming of Age
3x Plastic Man, Plastic Fantastic
2x Adam Strange, Champion of Rann

4x Captain America, Skrull Impostor
4x Wolverine, Skrunucklehead

2x Ethan Edwards, Visitor from Another World
2x Wonder Woman, Ambassador of Peace

1x Elektra, Pawn of the Gorgon - HYDRA
1x Superman, Metropolis Marvel

1x Super Skrull, Kl'rt
1x Aquaman, Lord of Atlantis

1x Titannus, Alien Conqueror

Plot Twists
4x Mightiest Heroes
2x Mobilize
4x Mutopia, Team-Up
4x Adamantium Claws
4x Berserker Rage
4x Healing Factor

Locations
2x The Watchtower
2x Satellite HQ
3x Muramasa Blade

When I saw the assigned teams included the JLA I didnt even hesitate to select them.
But as I unpacked my options I stumbled across some interesting interactions I'd never considered before. Namely, Skrull ...control?

At its heart the core interaction is simple.

Get Wolverine into play.
Flip Mutopia.

Mutopia is an outlier in team-ups, in the sense that it only cares about the affiliations of one specific mutant traited character. Wolverine, however is an outlier in the sense that he gains affiliations of all characters in play. Not YOUR characters. ALL characters.

So since we already have 2 teams going in (Skrull/JLA), a Mutopia will GUARANTEE 5 affiliations on Wolvie in this event as a bare MINIMUM (Since every opponent will also have 2 affiliations, and he comes slotted as an X-men as well!)
Oh. and we draw a card.
Once teamed up with literally EVERYTHING, Black Bolt will surge to impractical levels of dumb, Captain America will protect from stunbacks, Elektra will KO most anything she stuns, Super Skrull will be a 14/14 and Titannus will make team attackers cry like a baby as a 19/19. (you defend for each attacker so he could become Galactus-level stats on defense)
All as a starting Minimum.
Not bad at all...

But I wanted MORE.

So I opted into the complete do-it-yourself Wolverine fanboy kit.
With Healing factor, I can guarantee he'll become a 10ATK.
With Cap, I can make sure his swings wont stunback.
Toss in Muramase Blade, Berserker Rage and Adamantium Claws and this dude can Straight-up DELETE a board on turn 4 or later as an underdrop.

And that just tickles me juuuust right.

Enjoy everyone!

-26- Crapple Jacks (Sinister Syndicate + negative Zone)

By: Scott Hamilton

Characters

6x Alpha Primates - Army (1)
1x Green Goblin - Insanity Unleashed (1)
1x Mendel Stromm - Robot Master (1)
1x Basilisk - Basil Elks (1)
1x Speed Demon James Sanders (1)
1x Vulture - Arial Stalker (1)
2x Vermin - Sewer Rat (2)
9x Seekers - Army (3)
4x Jackal - Dr. Miles Warren (4)
3x Centurians - Army (4)
1x Aloyosha Kravinoff - Son of Kraven (5)
1x DeadPool -mMerc with a Mouth (5)
1x Blastaar - King of Baluur (6)
1x Annihilus - Destroyer of Life (7)

Plot Twists
4x Savage Beatdown
4x Mobilize
2x Mega Blast
3x Legacy of Evil
2x Get Him My Petsss

Locations
4x Negative Zone - Shadow Dimension
2x Negative Zone - Gateway
2x Negative Zone - Prison Alpha
2x Birthing Chambers
2x Fisk Towers

Main Idea of the Deck is to Move Jackal to the hidden zone and have him bang out a Seeker every turn from 4 and create board advantage. Add in NZ-Gateway and Fisk Towers if needed. Legacy of Evil, Birthing Chambers and The Seekers Rally should be able to keep your hand pretty full of options. Alpha Primates can also set up your resource row to get the best negative zone locations in Row mid to late game (Shadow Dimension is your first choice as it is re-usable to keep moving your 1 drops to hidden zone and keep that board advantage up but Prison Alpha will do in a pinch)

Mull Condition is Jackal or a Mobilize to get him. You will almost always have a seekers on 3 with 9 of them and Almost anything is a positive hit for Seekers with their rally. 5 cards can move Jackal to the Hidden zone on 4 and that is the lynchpin of this - If you cant make it happen, you’re kind of hosed...

Turns 5 thru end are really loose depending on the situation. Kraven gives your whole board +2 so he is useful as a kill condition - Deadpool is great for Defense on 5 - target their 5 with his backaup ability and when they swing with their 4 - Get him My Petssss.  Kraven can then also be played on 6 for a kill turn as you can potentially fisk in another 1 drop - and play one too. Blastar and Annihilus get free stuns on your attack too...Nothing wrong with that. Lots of flight and range with your Seekers also so Formations are easier and you can pick theirs apart.

-30- The Swingers' Club (Spider-Friends + Hellfire Club)

By: Proposition Joe

Characters

4x Zabu, Constant Companion
4x Aunt May, Golden Oldie

4x Shanna the She-Devil, Shanna O'Hara Plunder
2x Friedrich Von Roehm, Black Rook
1x Black Cat, Nine Lives

4x Ka-Zar, Lord Kevin Plunder
1x Spider-Man, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
1x Spider-Girl, Daughter of Spider-Man

4x Madelyne Pryor, Black Rook
1x Spider-Man, Parasitic Host

1x Firestar, Hellion
1x Spider-Man, Secret Avenger

Plot Twists

4x Join the Club!
3x Mobilize
4x Savage Beatdown
4x Flying Kick
4x Mega-Blast
3x Crushing Blow
3x Need a Lift?
2x Deadly Game

Locations

3x The Hellfire Club
2x Inner Circle

Plays like Injustice Gang Concealed but with some movement tricks.
Aunt May can be dropped for free on Turn 1 with Zabu for a strong open.
The Savage Land-based characters can be played as under-drops if you need to swarm and Firestar on 5 can swing then be moved into the visible to be stunned and then KO’d for some final burn to put you over the top. There is a Spider-Man at 3-4-5 as emergency drops if you miss Join The Club or Mobilize, Spidey FNSM can be used as a team attacker if you need to go rush.