Breaking the Sound Barrier

"Super-speed. Google it." - Quicksilver

Repurpose adds to ATK or THW, giving you huge stats. And the more you ready your hero? The more you can use those huge stats.

...Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Enter Quicksilver, who can ready once a phase, with a deck that has 12+ readies. He might not have the X-Men trait here but he's still excellent!

By combining the awesome stat boosts of Repurpose with all the readies of Quicksilver + Protection, this deck can do disgusting amounts of damage! (Or threat removal, but that's so much less exciting, right?)

Run so fast you break the sound barrier! Repurpose a few Energy Barriers too. See a barrier? Break it. Win.

P.S. Maximum Velocity stacks with Repurpose!

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Quicksilver Repurpose has been a deck I've had in mind since Repurpose was released. While I've seen a couple of decks for him with Repurpose since, I wanted to build something less-focused on huge combos with the biggest numbers possible and more focused on reliably beating Expert villains in solo or multiplayer.

While technically a Protection deck, it is an all-rounder focused on output rather than defense - it doesn't want to protect anyone except Quicksilver! Make sure other players are aware of that in a multiplayer setting.

I have tested this deck at both 1 and 2 player on Expert with excellent results, and as an all-rounder it should do very well at 3 and 4 player too.

Accelerating - The Early Game

Hyper Perception, Reinforced Sinew and Friction Resistance are your three most important upgrades. This is followed by Deft Focus and finally Armored Vest then Accelerated Reflex. Mulligan hard for any of the first few.

The stat increases double the value of your readies on a non-Repurpose/Maximum Velocity turn, and generally give you the ability to deal with most issues as well as defend yourself. Until your stats are at least 2/2/2, you're going to have to lean on allies and Double Time to deal with minions and threat.

Fastest Man On Earth? - Watch Your Tempo

The good news is that Quicksilver is an amazing hero. The problem is that he starts off as a 9hp noodle with 1/1/1 stats. Survive the early game and you'll easily handle the late game.

Tech, especially Energy Barrier, is great to play too - especially with The Power of Protection. But it is not a priority. Likewise, Serval Industries can help set up some really powerful turns in the late game (Maximum Velocity and an Always Be Running are the ideal targets) but won't help you immediately.

You want at least one Avenger ally in play to use Earth's Mightiest Heroes but, sometimes, you'll be forced to block with them. And if you have to pass on them, pass on them.

You can't win if you've already lost. It sounds simple, but the key to Quicksilver is often knowing when to let a valuable upgrade pass by to keep up your tempo to maintain control of the game. All 11 of the upgrades here are really very good for him and sometimes hard choices must be made.

Breaking the Sound Barrier - Repurpose When?

When should you Repurpose? When you need to. Sure, building up a massive stash of Tech can lead to massive combos but, as before, you can't win if you've already lost. If you still have 2 counters on an Energy Barrier but Repurpose is the only way you can deal with a nasty side scheme? Do it.

The best time to Repurpose? That is once you are well setup with a good array of upgrades on the board. With the amount of readies Quicksilver, it's very easy to end the game in solo play by defeating all the villain's hp in one high-speed combo.

I recommend using Maximum Velocity whenever you draw it, and Repurpose every so often, until you have almost knocked the villain to their final stage. Then, perhaps with a little help from Serval Industries stacking your deck, you can annihilate their final stage in one go. It is, of course, possible to simply take out the villain in several bursts, and this is effectively how it will function in multiplayer.

Just remember different villains and situations will play out in different ways, and you should always be ready to adapt your plans.

Quick Words of Advice

With Friction Resistance, Always Be Running is essentially 0-cost, and Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Repurpose already are. With a hand full of readies, you can do obscene damage. Also, remember that Friction Resistance fulfills What Doesn't Kill Me's resource requirement.

Protection Quicksilver with allies, you say? But he can defend! Yes, he can - BUT he starts at 9hp and 1 DEF. You're going to want allies to defend you before you've found your +1 DEF upgrades. More than that, 4 out of 5 of them enable Earth's Mightiest Heroes!

While Machine Man might seem to be an odd pick on the surface, Machine Man and Friction Resistance go together extremely well. If you spend all your resources on readying, you're going to end up with one use of Friction Resistance you can't otherwise use. With this in mind, Machine Man becomes a 2 THW/2 ATK/3 hp ally for 2-cost (3 effective resources). That is both very strong, and very flexible.

Note that, if you're at full hp, remember that Blade likes eating spare What Doesn't Kill Mes. If he's not exhausted from Earth's Mightiest Heroes, let him have it!

Alternative Cards

If you're wondering where Unflappable is? After a great deal of playtesting, I had to simply give it up. It wasn't firing regularly due to his low starting DEF, and with so many vital upgrades it was coming in at the cost of essentials or simply not getting played. Adding more Forcefield Generators really help it and will give you bigger Repurpose turns - but denies you opportunities for What Doesn't Kill Me due to not losing health and, more importantly, with so many upgrades you already want to play? It's not worth the tempo, in my opinion.

On lower difficulties, against low-ATK villains, Unflappable is definitely worth adding back in.

Leading Blow is in the opposite situation to Scarlet Witch in that it gets worse as difficulties get higher and boost icons grow. While it can enable massive combos, it's effectively a dead card in the early game and often useless if you're drowning in threat and really need to deal with it. My original version of the deck had 2 copies, but I trimmed them away one by one in favour of Earth's Mightiest Heroes and never looked back.

Quincarrier is also another great card to consider. The trouble is, again, that Quicksilver already has so much to set up and Friction Resistance generates so many resources that, once it's in play, you often don't need more. But it is excellent and works well with What Doesn't Kill Me.

If there's anything else you need? Go ahead and drop a comment :)

Good luck, have fun, and go break some barriers!