Captain Gamora's 12THW/13ATK Pirate Boat

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Toedogg · 74

DECK EDIT - Remove Beast ally, because it doesn't have synergy with this deck

This deck is a Voltron deck that capitalizes on Gunboat Diplomacy, and is able to dish out 12 THW and 13 ATK when fully built out. Here's how to do it!

Turn 1: You are looking for Hope Summers of Gambit to play on Turn 1. Hard Mulligan for either, or a Suit Up to tutor them out. If you play Gambit hopw for a 3 boost card, but 2 or 1 is okay. If you are unlucky to get 0 boost pips, use him as a blocker to kill him off and then Make the Call for him later. Stay in AE into turn 2 using your ally to Thwart

Turn 2: Search for the other ally with a Suit Up and play it. Keep these two allies in play for the rest of the game. Flip to Hero form and start Voltroning both allies with Ingenuity, Mission Training and Comms Implant. Hope needs Children of the Atom to be played to get Danger Room Training on her, and Gambit needs Honorary Guardian played on him to use Comms Implant.

Once you have them all Voltroned up, Hope will have 5 THW and Gambit will have 4-6 THW.

When you play Gunboat Diplomacy, it will Thwart and Attack for 11. Combine this with Gamora's Finesse and Precision abilities and Gamora'a Sword, and that is 12THW and 13ATK for one resource.

When Gunboat is not available, feel free to use regular activations and heal the allies with Triage and First Aid.

Ways to tutor Gunboat:

1 - Putting Gunboat at the bottom if you Mulliganed it in the beginning with Conditioning Room.

2 - Playing Nebula

3 - Using Make the Call to Tutor Nebula

19 comments

Dec 27, 2024 andyr · 9162

Omg. Gunboat Diplomacy being both attack and thwart is such a great call making it work with Gamora.

My favorite part is how much effort was put into the consistency of the each key to the deck. You didn’t leave things to “good luck drawing things and in the right order.” But you gave us ways to tutor the necessary pieces!

Dec 27, 2024 Daring Lime · 2711

Super creative idea using this card on Gamora!

Dec 27, 2024 Castlefrank47 · 1351

Love the idea of the deck I'm a sucker for gunboat. I was curious you mention Black Panther multiple times but they are not in the deck list?

Dec 27, 2024 HeroicSkeleton · 557

Good job! I had a similar thought, but I tried with protection and using Rogue ally. Was not good lol. Your idea with leadership sounds much better

Dec 28, 2024 Toedogg · 74

@andyr Thanks. Glad you like it. It comes out swinging

@Daring Lime It has some great synergy

@Castlefrank47 You are right. The Beast ally should be Black Panther. I thought I corrected that. Oops

@HeroicSkeleton Glad you like it. I hope you have fun with it.

Dec 28, 2024 Dawncaller · 65

Black Panther can only tutor leadership events right? So at best, he is an indirect tutor/recursion for gunboat, not direct.

Dec 28, 2024 Toedogg · 74

@Dawncaller You are right about Black Panther. That was the only reason tonhave him was to Tutor Gunboat. He can probably be removed then. It still works great without him. Thanks for the clarification.

Dec 28, 2024 radkon · 19

Awesome Deck I really love it. A leadership deck that doesn't kill your allies. I made some small changes. Kid Omega and Deadpool instead of Gambit and hope. Cheaper and I don't waste the ETB Effect of Hope and 2 realiable twart instead of 0-3 from gambit. Also added Hit and Run (because of Advanced Glider)

Dec 28, 2024 Man-is-Obsolete · 5979

Favorite quote of the write up: Stay in AE into turn 2 using your ally to Thwart

Always appreciate people encouraging staying/going to AE. This looks super fun. May pair it with someone and rip through a campaign!

Dec 28, 2024 Toedogg · 74

@radkon Kid Omega and Deadpool work great. I like those substitutions. I used Hope because she comes into play as a Guardian and you can put Comms Implant on her without Honorary Guardian.

Dec 28, 2024 Toedogg · 74

@Man-is-Obsolete I usually like coming into Hero form quick, but this deck pays off to be patient and get both allies out instead. I hope you enjoy the deck.

Dec 28, 2024 Toedogg · 74

Thanks for all the comments about my deck. This is my first deck I've ever posted here, and cool to see that you guys like my idea! What a great community we have here!

Dec 28, 2024 radkon · 19

@Toedogg Yeah i searched for your other decks because I love this and was yet disappointed. :) Looking forward to your next ones. Just killed Venom Goblin expert with your deck (it's still your deck even with my adjustments)

Dec 28, 2024 boomguy · 1660

Looks like a fun build, and an idea I haven’t seen before! Gunboat Diplomacy has to be the community card of 2024 lol

Dec 28, 2024 Toedogg · 74

@radkon That's awesome! Glad it worked for you. So cool!

Dec 28, 2024 Toedogg · 74

@boomguy Thanks Boomguy! I'm so encouraged you posted on my deck. I love your podcast! Your "Boomguy doesn't read comics" segment is the best. It had me actually laughing out loud all by myself. Keep up the good work!

Dec 28, 2024 boomguy · 1660

@Toedogg thanks for your kind words! Glad you enjoy our work and I’m going to give this deck a try!

Dec 29, 2024 Caldias · 2673

Love this deck! Such a creative use of my favorite Justice card!

Dec 29, 2024 Toedogg · 74

@Caldias Gunboat is amazing, and my favorite Justice card too. My goal was to try and max out its capability, and this is what I came up with. I hope you enjoy it.