Phoenix Team Strike Force

About Jean:

Jean Grey trys to play around her different Phoenix Forms Phoenix Force A with the Restrained trait and Phoenix Force B with the Unleashed trait. We are starting in the Restrained form and 4 Phoenix Counter. Unfortunately we can't switch at will. Instead we'll switch to the Unleashed form once we depleted all our Phoenix Counter. In our Unleashed form we get +2 basic ATK but lose 2 THW. In addition it enhances our hero events. So what can we do with the Phoenix Counter?

• In hero form we can use 1 counter to generate a resource.
• In her Alter Ego form we can place 1 Phoenix Counter on her after we use our REC.

Additionally we have White Hot Room which can either heal us by 2 or lets us place 1 Phoenix Counter. Then we have Phoenix Firebird which allows us to either remove 1 counter and ready our hero, or it can also place 2 counter on Phoenix Force.

So if we want to switch to our Unleashed form we need to spent the counter as resources or use 1 counter to ready ourselves if we have Phoenix Firebird on our hand. It can take up to 4 rounds in order to switch from Restrained to Unleashed. So keep that in mind in case you wanna hold on to your hero events. Once we switched forms we can unleash hell on our opponents with our events! Psychic Blast is really strong. While it does not hit the main target as hard as Dive Bomb, it does deal more damage to everything else! When we are done and we don't feel like lingering in our Unleashed form (Dark Phoenix is really scary!) we swap to our Alter Ego form and use White Hot Room and REC to get our Phoenix Counter back up to 4. Use it 1 time during the round we flip and again at the start of the next round. If we have Phoenix Firebird on our hand we can even swap forms in 1 turn.

About the deck:

Right now I am still focusing on the new X-Men cards, but I also wanna test a Follow Through build and maybe see if I can combine it with Team Strike.

• Cerebro is really good on Jean since it lets us search our whole deck to get any ally we want. In combination with Danger Room we can also place a Attack Training on that ally right away

• X-Mansion to keep our allies a little bit longer in play

• The X-Jet is bascially the new Quincarrier but it lets us use the resource for another X-Men player as well if we choose to!

• Since almost all of of our hero cards have the Psionic trait Team-Building Exercise becomes really viable. We can also use our X-Men trait to play cards like Danger Room or our allies. So we can actually play a alot of our cards and don't need Helicarrier. Which saves us 1 resource, which is pretty neat.

Allies:

• Wolverine is a really(!) strong ally. He comes with 3 ATK and piercing! While he gets 2 consequental damage, he does recover 1 HP each round though. And with Attack Training he gets an additional +1 attack and +2 HP.

• Professor X helps us thwart and lets us either confuse the villain or stun a minion. Or he could even ready an X-Men character! And of course that does include our hero :)

• Dust can be quite good with Attack Training and hit each minion for 2! She does take 1 additional damage though if you choose to trigger her ability.

Aspect Cards:

• Team Strike lets us combine the ATK of our hero and as many X-Men allies as there are in play not just our own (Especially good for multiplayer!). But not only that, we also can divide the total damage between all enemies as we see fit. I really love this card and it's Justice counter part Mutant Peacekeepers

• Boot Camp to enhance all of our allies and get even more value out of Team Strike.

• Combat Training our go to +1 ATK for our hero. Can help us bolster our attack since we only have 1 base ATK in our Restrained form.

• Chase Them Down and Gatekeeper help us to manage threat.

Adjustments and further improvements:

While Wolverine hasn't been released, yet we have to wait and see what cards could be a useful addition. I know a lot of people are looking forward to Psylocke.

As I mentioned above I am also looking into a deck that builds around Follow Through. So that means Into the Fray, Moment of Triumph, Looking for Trouble are probably gonna be part of the deck. I think with Psychic Blast and Telekinetic Attack it could have a lot of potential.

So that's it for now! I hope you are just as excited about the new campaign as I am! :)

~L~