A Suit of Armor Around the Galaxy (Updated 11 Nov 23)

This is so clever! Bravo, sir.

@Marctimmins89 tyty! glad you appreciate it. i hope you enjoy it :D

Been trying something like this with Rocket. Closest thing to a Miracle deck I experienced in Marvel Champions!

@George Kaplanooh, Salvage sounds really fun after a call for aid to get your best tech upgrade back on top of your deck. I definitely need to try this with other guardians.

@dr00 yes, with Salvage and Tinkering, you can draw and draw lots of cards. I also play an Honorary Guardian on Rocket for keep he being Guardian in Alter-ego and still have the Guardians of the Galaxy response. In adittion, I run Innovation for more uses of Iron Man and have Yondu there too with Inspired, Laser Blaster and C.I.T.T. It's more greedy but i love it.

Definitely going to have to try this one! I've not really been moved to play Star-Lord at all just yet for whatever reason but this should do the trick

@George Kaplan you know, i was actually using Innovation when i was playing the deck and totally forgot about it when doing my write-up! haha, maybe that's why 1 copy of First Aid was enough. I tried C.I.T.T. but ended up only using it once over the many games i tried. i also ended up not using Major Victory at all, but i like the idea of them. maybe i just need more testing to find the right scenario.

@dansport005 glad to hear! i hope you enjoy it. The Blaze of Glory shenanigans definitely aren't everyone's cup of tea, but hopefully this one is :D

When I want to find a great deck that's also fun to play I always see what @dr00 is doing. You always have some of the best deck ideas, @dr00! And this write up with the pictures is absolutely hilarious! Expert Marvel Champions deck building and @dr00 are synonymous. Thanks for sharing!!! :)

@Brian-V always appreciate you, bro.

I really haven't connected with Star-Lord as a True Solo player so far, but this deck is really changing that! I'm starting to see why people like him so much.

@takabrash glad you're enjoying it! glad you've found a deck that works for you

Oh, man! So good! Thanks for all you do here--the decks are just a part. It's what you add, my friend, to our conversations. Great deck!

hey @bigfomlof! thanks for the kind words! and thanks for having me on your show. can't wait till the next one :D

Love this! Even better if the second player brings a cheeky energy spear along to the party

@Sidewinder2809 haha, indeed! ranged, overkill, and piercing twice a turn with 7 ATK and an additional ping for 1 is truly a sight to behold

This is the most enjoyable leadership deck i have played yet and i've been playing since release. Very well done, sir :D

@Odysseus hey i really appreciate it! glad you're enjoying it! that's very high praise indeed :D

I just played this deck against the Hood (first time playing Hood and first time as Star Lord). I had so many encounter cards coming my way, it was insane lol. It also allowed for a massive Sliding Shot to finish the game out. I look forward to trying it out against some other Villains. Thanks!

@MisterCram I'm planning to do the exact same thing here in a few!

In most decks, a turn one Band Together is awful, but here Star-Lord can Smooth Talk it to the top of his deck! Really gets rid of its downside. I haven’t particularly enjoyed Star-Lord yet, but I really want to try this out soon!

@MisterCram glad you enjoyed it! yes, i find it really tense against Hood, as you have to really try to outpace him to win. also his special can sometimes end up helping you haha. good luck trying it against harder villains :D

@takabrash good luck!

@journeyman2 ooh that's a really good point i hadn't thought of yet! i'll find the time to edit that in and credit you. i'm glad you found a deck that looks fun. i hope you enjoy it! :D

All hail the Iron Guardian!

@BravoNull The Saviour of the Galaxy!

Nice deck! I just now tried it with Sidearm and 3 First Aids. In the final round, did 39 damage (or would have, had the villain survived).

@lkmyst amazing! i love trying to see how much extra damage i do on the final round. i think my record (in 3 player, mind), is 78 extra damage. Sidearm really does a lot for this deck. i also like Innovation

Curious about your thoughts on Target Practice in this deck. That could bring the ATK to 7 plus 1 damage (also including Sidearm.

I played your build tonight against Thanos and ended up making the following modifications:

1. Added Sidearm. I think this one is self explanatory
2. Three copies of First Aid. Given that Scheme 2B for Thanos snaps away half your deck, this improved the chances of not losing all the healing options on Iron Man.
3. Swap Mockingbird out for Major Victory. Since Thanos is perma-stalwart, her stun action isn't as useful, and the low cost of the Major paired with the readying action frequently gave Iron Man a 3rd attack or allowed Peter to ready after knocking off a stun or confuse which happens more frequently than I'd care to see with the Infinity Gauntlet.

Probably took me about 8 tries to win this one and I tweaked the deck as I noticed issues. But the biggest struggle I ended up with was when Iron Man ended up near the bottom of the deck and then Guardians of the Galaxy refused to show itself. Probably half of my games this happened.

Also, numerous boosts in Thanos's deck force you to discard a support or ally. It happened several times that this boost or stone ended up wiping my board clean with a fully decked out Iron Man getting discarded. So I'll say it's terribly important to try to make sure you always have another support or ally available to discard instead of hyperfocusing on building the suit up!

Hi @Schnautza sorry, I just saw this message. for a while, MCDB wasn't sending me email updates, so i've totally missed this until now. sorry about that!

as for your comment, thanks for sharing your thoughts. i think Target Practice is perfectly fine. the main issue i have with it is deck space. it's a good card, but it's single use, so i'd want multiple copies, and i'm already cutting cards as it is. but as a way to pull double duty against the gauntlet to discard instead of Iron Man, seems there's a lot of value there. glad you got it in the end! it must have felt really satisfying :D

@dr00 Could you update the deck write-up with

+1 sidearm

+1 innovation

-1/2 something

:)

@Rvd1ofakind

the last time i ran it, i think i did something like:

-1 Mockingbird

-1 Call for Aid

-1 Band Together

+1 Sidearm

+1 First Aid

+1 Innovation

try that and let me know how it goes!

This deck is super fun, I was thinking there had to be more ways to get extra encounter cards. Have you tried the gamora ally with this for cycling through the deck more? I feel if they release more ally upgrades or "discard cards until..." abilities this could get even sillier.

I did seem to struggle against expert red skull for some reason though. Seemed to have trouble setting up while keeping both minions and side schemes under control.

@ChocoboBai Gamora ally sounds great. tbh, i've been cutting more and more allies over time, but the ones i keep are definitely ones that give value. if i added Gamora, i would probably need to include more copies of Guardians of the Galaxy since there's already so much milling with Call for Aid. have you tried it out? how did it work for you?

Hi @dr00, I really love the deck. I thought of adding Venom in this deck, in multiplayer, so I can have a large amount of dammage without suffering too much of his bad effect (he will only last 1 turn or 2 but will die before the second encounter phase). What do you think?

Re : Mk II : Great update. I'm loving it. I've been pairing it with Cable specifically for him use his set up to start with Build Support PSS and cut down GotG to 1....replaced with a command team. Crazy fast set up between the two with Cable dropping fetch quests and running Mission Leader.

@AirForce1 i was thinking about this for another deck, but then someone pointed out to me that Venom only triggers on encounter cards you resolve, and i was like 'd'oh! better keep looking'. i somehow didn't make the connection how great it is for Star-Lord though! i'll definitely have to test that out! that sounds really good. i appreciate the kind words and the advice

@boothwah hey, i appreciate you! yeah, build support for GotG is great! i don't have it currently in the build cos i kind of want to save it for IPAC haha, but until then, yeah it kinda sounds like a no-brainer. could easily replace one copy of it. but yeah, Command Team would do a lot of work. glad you're enjoying it! NeXt has some really fun cards for so many of my old decks. Mutant Genesis was a lot of fun, but most of the cards were just for x-men

This is awesome, but why does Iron man need to be an Honorary Guardian? In hero form, Star Lord gives him the trait anyhow...

It's +1HP and with Guardians of the Galaxy in play it replaces itself.

@Marctimmins89 is right. it's also useful for Iron Man and even Star-Lord himself so can still be a Guardians while SL is in alter-ego

I'm new to the game, gave it a try, but ended up dying really quick. It was hard to protect myself and deal with the encounters. The deck is fun though, I will try it a few more times to see if I get good enough to pilot it.

I don't understand how IPAC is supposed to work in Mk. II - Did you mean C.I.T.T?

Ahhhh - nevermind - Build Support to cheat it in.

@UnrealisticUnicorn yeah, Star-Lord is hard to pin down! you definitely just have to keep at it and see when it's appropriate to push your luck with his ability or not. i generally do it turn one if i can get all the pieces in hand to get Iron Man down if i can't play anything else, but usually it's ok just playing him without it. i think it's ok to pitch his pistol since there's another in the deck and you won't really want to start popping off with Sliding Shot right away. towards the end of the game though, throw all caution to the wind and start blasting like crazy :D

and don't be afraid to let Iron Man die, even if he's totally loaded up with upgrades. he builds back so easily once you have Guardians of the Galaxy down

@Shufflefield yep, you got it! it's the only way to play it, so if you end up needing it for Bad Boy or something, you've gotta really make that decision meaningful