Poker Night at S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters

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Mortech · 4

This is just the 'Playing Poker with Natasha Romanoff' deck, but I added a bunch of S.H.I.E.L.D. cards; it is now 50 cards because I am bad at removing things. The gimmick of the original is that you never leave alter ego throughout the entire game. I noticed the original deck tended to rack up too much threat without strong enough threat removal (at least in multiplayer), so my idea was to fix that by adding more threat removal in the form of powerful allies and Homeland Intervention.

The Field Agents are here to be exhausted for Global Logistics / Dum Dum Dugan / Homeland Intervention. As an added bonus, they can keep your heavy allies alive for a bit longer. Agent 13 can also ready them again.

Meditation seemed like a no-brainer to add, since you are always alter-ego and don't really exhaust Natasha otherwise. It also helps pay for the heavy allies and supports this deck has.

Global Logistics is mostly here to justify the 50 cards; you can use them to mill your own deck searching for setup cards (the Safe House / Black Widow's Gauntlet / Counterintelligence combo specifically). But it's also nice to be able to hit the encounter deck with them.

Edit 1: I replaced Beat Cops with Surveillance Team for more S.H.I.E.L.D. combos. I also dropped 1 copy of spycraft / counterintelligence and the Foiled! Event x3, so I could pick up Vigilante Training x2(to recycle Homeland Intervention), Team-Building Exercise (because Natasha has S.H.I.E.L.D. keyword), Monica Chang, and Sky-Destroyer.

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Dec 04, 2022 QuantumPriest · 25 Looks really cool. I'll have to try this out. However, Team-Building Exercise doesn't work as intended here, because she only has S.H.I.E.L.D keyword in Alter Ego and you can only use Team-Building Exercise's ability as a Hero Action. You could then only use it to pay for Winter Soldier and Quake as they're Avengers, which I'm sure isn't your intention. Otherwise, I like what you have. I think Government Liaison would be a natural replacement which also requires you to flip to Hero form, but is keyword agnostic.
Dec 05, 2022 Mortech · 4 `@QuantumPriest` Thanks! The intent for this deck is that you stay alter ego, so I guess I'll have to remove Team-Building Exercise. I do really like Government Liaison in this deck, but I'd rather to stick to the theme. I guess I could add back in Spycraft or Command Center to get more damage, potentially.

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Dec 04, 2022 QuantumPriest · 25

Looks really cool. I'll have to try this out. However, Team-Building Exercise doesn't work as intended here, because she only has S.H.I.E.L.D keyword in Alter Ego and you can only use Team-Building Exercise's ability as a Hero Action. You could then only use it to pay for Winter Soldier and Quake as they're Avengers, which I'm sure isn't your intention. Otherwise, I like what you have. I think Government Liaison would be a natural replacement which also requires you to flip to Hero form, but is keyword agnostic.

Dec 05, 2022 Mortech · 4

@QuantumPriest Thanks! The intent for this deck is that you stay alter ego, so I guess I'll have to remove Team-Building Exercise. I do really like Government Liaison in this deck, but I'd rather to stick to the theme. I guess I could add back in Spycraft or Command Center to get more damage, potentially.