Drax Protection - Solo - 100+ potential damage OTK [LMDT]

The title may sound "Click-bait" but it's not. I've done the math (see below), and potentially the deck could deliver 110+ damage in a turn. However, the main objective is to One Turn Kill the villain, and that is achievable if we deliver 30-40 damage, which won't be hard once we have built on our side. For now I've managed to reach 71 damage in a turn

First things first: This deck is inspired in "Too Stuborn to Flip" from TrashPanda: https://es.marvelcdb.com/decklist/view/10595/too-stubborn-to-flip-drax-1.0 I liked the idea of using The Power in All of Us to pay for basic Guardians allies and to provide cash to buy Avengers Mansion to improve Drax's hand. However that deck didn't pretend to OTK, and this one does.

The main goal is to kill the villain in one turn, and "ignore" him before that (just deliver him some damage to avoid those surges). We need to bring some upgrades/supports to the table. We need to boost Drax's attack (easy part) and make him attack several times (hardest part). So the very core cards for this combo are:

• 3 vengeance tokens on Drax = 4 ATK
• Drax's Knife = 5 ATK
• 3x Adrenaline Rush = 8 ATK
• C.I.T.T. to ready Drax Then, we would appreciate if we also had:
• DWI Theet Mastery to draw a card when we do a basic attack.
• The Night Nurse to remove Stuns.
• Finish our penultimate turn with enough health to resist a villain's attack without defending to be ready (and draw a card).
• Avengers Mansion to improve hand.
• Some allies on the table (to defend and/or remove toughs)
• As many cards on the table so our deck contains mainly the events of interest.

When we reach this point, we would be able to base attack 2 times: one from our basic action + 1 from CITT. That also means we will draw 2 cards (with Dwi Theet). So we should wait until we have a hand with at least 1x Leading Blow or 1x "Fight Me, Coward!" + 1x Payback. Leading Blow will do damage, will draw us a card and will leave us prepared for another base attack (that will draw us another card). Fight Me, Coward! will prepare Drax and draw us a card and the villain will attack us drawing us another card (we also can Payback him or play #parry to defend without exhausting Drax and play Counter-Punch). You may have already noticed that each time we attack we draw, so we can keep drawing the remaining Leading Blow, "Fight Me, Coward!" Payback or Counter-Punch, and keep punching in a devastating killing spree either when attacking or making the villain attack us.

EDIT: if we draw either 1 Leading Blow or 1 "Fight Me, Coward!" + 1 Payback that would be enough for most cases to OTK, because they leave us prepared for another base attack. That would make for 4 attacks (or 3 attacks for 8 damage each + a counterattack of 8 damage). 8x4 = 32. The first attack would finish the current villain stage, and the remaining 24 damage would be enough to kill most stage III villains.

When we have the required hand at the end of our penultimate hero phase, we do not defend (if possible) to draw an additional card to improve hand: we will start our next turn with 4 cards +1 from the villain's attack + 1 from Avengers Mansion. Having 3/4/5 of the above-mentioned cards, which cost 0 and pay themselves. So first we discard the 3x Adrenaline Rush for +3 ATK (8 ATK).

Ideal turn would consist on:

• We start with the Leading Blow for 5-8 damage each (8x3=24 potential damage), drawing 3 cards. We have 6 cards.
• Then our base attack for 8 damage. We have 7 cards.
• We get ready spending 1 double resource (or The Power in All of Us - WRONG - or two cards) on C.I.T.T. and attack again for 8 damage and draw a card. We have 6-7 cards.
• We play "Fight Me, Coward!" to get ready and draw a card (we have 6-7 cards) and the villain attacks us. If we do not defend with an ally, we will draw a card (6-8 cards) and we could play 2x Payback for 16 damage (Adrenaline Rush works in OUR hero phase) and then base attack for 8 more damage and draw a card (we have 5-7 cards).
• We play another "Fight Me, Coward!" to get ready and draw a card (we have 5-7 cards) and the villain attacks us. If we defend with Drax, we will draw a card (6-8 cards) and we could then play 3x Counter-Punch to deliver him 8x3=24 more damage.
• We are now exhausted with (3-5) cards in hand. One or two of them could be Knife Leap that we could be have been added to some previous base attack for 5-10 additional damage (and would work to remove Guards/Toughs).
• And if we also had Drax's Other Knife, we would deliver the villain 2 damage if we don't use allies to defend from "Fight Me, Coward!".

Doing the math, that's 100+ potential damage (108 if I'm not mistaken, with damage from Drax alone, then you can also add some damage from allies in play to go to 110+ damage). in PRO-TEC-TION xD

Of course we will not be that lucky. Managing to get any fraction of the above will still deal massive damage and provide a OTK, which is the main goal. And it may happen to cycle our deck within our turn so with some luck we could draw and play again another Leading Blow... ;)

Ok, so how do you manage to reach that point? you need to thwart and heal, right?

HEAL

Mantis will keep Drax's health high enough, and the 3x Med Team will keep Mantis on play to keep healing Drax. Remember, a Med Team would heal Drax for 6. But if it heals Mantis for 6 instead, she could heal Drax for 18 ;) C.I.T.T. can also ready Mantis to heal Drax again, twice in a turn. And Night Nurse will get rid of stuns and provide some healing too. However, since we are not usually attacking with Drax while we build, we can go to AE to heal (if we don't have medic teams to heal Mantis) and also draw 6 cards to build quicker, and we will get the revenge tokens again.

THREAT

Allies, Intimidation and Drax's 1 thwart will have to do the work. If we don't go to AE (that's the idea), threat will increase slowly.

ALLIES

All Guardian allies for 3 reasons:

1. Theme xD
2. They are basic cards (grey). And I'm using The Power in All of Us to play them cheap. Besides, TPIAOU will work for CITT to ready Drax (or Mantis for a double healing turn) and with the two of them or with a double resource we can bring Avengers Mansion to the table.
3. I'm using Knowhere to draw a card after playing a Guardian ally, so they become cheaper. Besides, there's this nice combo with Starhawk: once he's in play, I activate him to get him to hand, I play him, draw a card and activate him again. He will cost 1 and we can activate him twice every turn.

MY EXPERIENCE WITH THIS DECK

All in Expert Mode (II/III + Expert set) against these villains:

• RHINO. 3 plays, 3 victories. 27 OTK damage on first play. 71 OTK damage on second play. No OTK on third play, but quicker game.
• KLAW. 1 play, 1 victory. I OTK the villain with 48 damage.
• ULTRON. 1 play, 1 victory. Almost OTK with 36 damage turn.
• GREEN GOBLIN: RISKY BUSINESS. 3 plays, 3 loses. This deck cannot deal with this scenario.
• GREEN GOBLIN: MUTAGEN FORMULA. 3 plays, 3 loses. Don't think the deck works here.

POSSIBLE CHANGES I'm thinking of adding a couple of cards:

• Endurance
• Target Acquired
• Against the Goblin scenarios, I removed 1x Med Team and added 2x Shake it Off.

It seems The Power in All of Us cannot be used to activate C.I.T.T. to ready a Guardian Character: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2700347/power-all-us-pay-citts-action So I'm considering whether keeping the copies of TPiAoU or not. They still pay for the basic Guardians allies, they help bring down the Mansion, Helicarrier, Knowhere and C.I.T.T...