Weaving Threads

Spider-Man vs. Expert Venom Goblin with the Infinity Gauntlet!

Weaving Threads

One underrated aspect of Peter Parker Spider-Man is his sewing prowess. This deck revolves around Peter weaving the threads in superhero costumes for his allies. He’s also a spider so there’s that.

!!! Important Change: Swap in Clarity of Purpose for Honorary Avenger !!!

Suit Up

This is our main card. Suit Up tutors an ally and upgrade to our hand. This is very powerful in combination with Sidekick and makes voltron easy to set up because we can grab the ally upgrade we want. However, with this deck we aren’t focusing on voltroning, but rather the ability to tutor an ally from the deck or discard pile. This in itself is insanely good. Suit Up says we can only get an upgrade that can be attached to that ally, but the upgrade we choose doesn’t have to be played. It could also be an upgrade played for Spider-Man.

Ally Upgrades - Warrior of the Great Web & Clarity of Purpose

So the elephant in the room is none of the “ally” upgrades in this deck are actually for the allies. Suit Up doesn’t specify the upgrade, just that it must be able to be attached to that ally. We’re taking advantage of that and just grabbing the upgrade to use as a resource. Warrior of the Great Web is great because it can be attached to any character that has “Spider” in its title. So if Web of Life and Destiny is in hand, we can use Suit Up to tutor a Web-Warrior ally with “Spider” in its title along with Warrior of the Great Web, then play Warrior of the Great Web on Peter Parker (when we’re in hero form) to make ourselves a Web-Warrior and play the Web of Life and Destiny for free ignoring its resource cost. This also makes becoming a Web-Warrior much more reliable so we don’t need multiple copies of Warrior of the Great Web in the deck. I selected Honorary Avenger as the only other Suit Up upgrade, but it’s really just a resource. A mental resource is preferred for Moon Girl’s ability, but currently there are no upgrades with a mental/wild resource in leadership/basic that can be attached to Moon Girl. Clarity of Purpose is an upgrade that can be attached to an ally and is a mental resource. This is a better option than Honorary Avenger--credits to Journeyman2!

Moon Girl’s Suit

Moon Girl is arguably the best ally for Champion/Genius traited identities. She can draw us 3 cards in addition to her 2 THW 2 ATK statline helping us control the current board state. This makes her the prime target for Suit Up. Suit Up is an alter-ego action so we can only play it in Peter Parker form (which makes sense since we’re sewing costumes). Moon Girl can only be played when our identity has the Champion or Genius trait, and Peter only has the Genius trait in alter-ego so this fits perfectly. Our standard sequence is to play Suit Up, grab Moon Girl with Clarity of Purpose, then play Avengers Mansion (or any other expensive card). Here’s the math: starting the turn in alter-ego gives us 7 effective resources with a handsize of 6 + 1 resource with Peter’s ability—Scientist. Suit Up is 3 effective resources to play but we get 2 cards back, so it’s a -1 net loss putting us at 6 effective resources in hand. Moon Girl is 4 effective resources to play but she draws us 3 cards back, so another -1 net loss puts us at 5 effective resources in hand. This is enough to play Avengers Mansion or any other expensive support/upgrade/ally. Everytime we have Suit Up, we can recur Moon Girl. Being able to play a strong ally and powerful support during every alter-ego turn is big tempo for the player. This also lets us see several cards in the deck letting us pick which support/upgrade we want.

Professor X’s Suit

There’s a lot of flipping with this deck, but not many ways to control threat other than thwarting. In fact, we only have 1 source of confuse—Professor X. This is where Suit Up comes in again! We can tutor any ally so if we need to flip down to alter-ego to heal/etc, a copy of Suit Up is essentially having that confuse. Peter can tailor Professor X’s 2 piece suit!

High Tempo

This deck focuses on building out the board, but by recurring Moon Girl and drawing cards with her ability, we are constantly applying pressure to the villain and going through our deck quickly. More than likely we can start every game strong with Moon Girl turn 1 (mulligan for Suit Up, Moon Girl, or Nick Fury) and ideally we can flip to alter-ego every other turn and play Moon Girl to draw 3 on those turns we flip.

Mental Resources

Moon Girl, Black Cat, and Peter Parker’s alter-ego ability—Scientist all synergize with mental resources. This deck was built with a heavy emphasis on mental resources. Currently, there is no upgrade in leadership/basic that can be attached to Moon Girl and has a mental resource. If/when such a card is released I would definitely replace Honorary Avenger with it. There is an upgrade--Clarity of Purpose!

Ally Selection

Moon Girl, Nick Fury, Maria Hill, and Ironheart are S tier allies that give us draw power and are mental resources. Professor X has our confuse. We have 4 Web-Warriors: Ghost-Spider, Spider-Man Hobie Brown, Spider-Man Otto Octavius, and SP//dr. These are the more dependable Web-Warrior allies in the game and I included them in this deck with Suit Up making becoming a Web-Warrior more consistent because we can tutor Warrior of the Great Web. Grab the Web-Warrior cards when you deem necessary!

Deck space is limited but here are some great allies and why they barely missed the cut:

• Black Panther - Mental resource with an amazing enter play ability. Black Panther’s effect to hold a copy of Suit Up to use on demand is extremely powerful, but unfortunately his cost is a little hefty and we can’t use The Power in All of Us for him. Since Black Panther is 4 cost, if he grabs Suit Up, we usually won’t be able to play the ally immediately even with Peter’s high economy since we’ll need even more resources on top of that. Because of this, he’s a little slower than I’d like for this deck.

• Beast - Another mental resource ally and another amazing enter play ability. Beast didn’t make the cut because if we’re already in alter-ego to play Suit Up, Moon Girl and Nick Fury are better targets to hit since they can draw us 3 cards which is more resources than what Beast can provide in this deck. He’s also a leadership ally so like with Black Panther, The Power in All of Us doesn’t work for him.

• Spider-Man Miles Morales - High tempo and super strong basic ally. Unfortunately he doesn’t have the Web-Warrior trait and isn’t a mental resource.

Multiplayer

This deck was made primarily for true solo, but will absolutely pop off in multiplayer thanks to the easier access to alter-ego. To be a team player, Suit Up Maria Hill and give everyone extra card draw. In multiplayer, we can stay in alter-ego multiple turns in a row and recur Maria Hill back to back turns.

Changes

• The Triskelion - After my game against Venom Goblin, I realized The Triskelion would be a good addition to this deck because I often maxed out on the 3 ally limit. I swapped out Make the Call since we already have 3 copies of Suit Up to tutor an ally to the hand. I made this change before posting the decklist!

• Clarity of Purpose - HUGE shoutouts to Journeyman2 for this. Clarity of Purpose is an upgrade that can be attached to an ally. Since we are using the ally upgrade that Suit Up grabs as a resource, we want the printed mental resource on Clarity of Purpose to pay for Moon Girl. This change was made after publishing, so I'm unable to change it on the decklist unfortunately :(

Conclusion

Peter Parker Spider-Man keeps getting better! Moon Girl has always been a strong ally for Spider-Man, but her requirement to have the Champion/Genius trait was restricting. Suit Up being an alter-ego action synergizes perfectly with Moon Girl for Peter because he needs to be in alter-ego anyways to play her. Since Peter already has high economy and works well with allies, Suit Up is a huge buff for him. Hope you enjoy this fun and thematic deck!