Puppet Master (Expert Venom Goblin w/ Video)

Puppet Master

Watch Adam Warlock take down expert Venom Goblin here!

Respects to the Wild Tutor

First off, gotta pay respects to Brian V. and his amazing Wild Tutor Adam Warlock deck. Probably the most famous Marvel Champions deck in the world, and for good reason. It's innovative, powerful, and fun. Unfortunately, it goes entirely against my playstyle. When looking at decks on MarvelCDB, it's always important to tweak and change things to fit the way you want to play. I've had people tell me changes they make to my decks based on their preferences and I think that's really good for the game. With that in mind, events are my least favorite card type, I dislike building decks around status effects like stun/confuse, and I absolutely dread milling my own deck. For all those reasons, the Wild Tutor deck doesn't click with me. That being said, it's still an amazing deck and way cooler than this decklist I'm about to go into so definitely go check out his deck first.

Deck Concept

I know what you guys are thinking--no Summoning Spell?! No Magic Attack?! Where are those powerful Mystic Events? In this deck, we don't want to mill cards until we're ready to get the kill. The goal is the systematically get out our upgrades/supports in this order (do not play Warlock's Cape, it is not useful for this deck):

1. The Sorcerer Supreme
2. Mystic Senses
3. Avengers Mansion
4. Karmic Staff
5. Tic-Tac-Toe
6. The Triskleion
7. Boot Camp
8. Soul World

When I first looked into Adam Warlock's kit, I made 3 big notes:

1. Warlock can include the strongest cards from each aspect and the strongest card type are allies... so let's include the strongest allies. Allies are versatile for every situation because they can thwart/attack/defense so they are helpful early game to help control the board and late game to finish the villain off.

2. Warlock has tons of upgrade/supports. I love building out my board, so I went with the 'Pool resource cards to help pay for not only Warlock's identity specific upgrade/supports, but my own added ones like Avengers Mansion, Sorcerer Supreme, and Boot Camp.

3. Warlock has no consistent source of big damage. For a way to garner big burst damage all at once, the allies compensate. Combining the most powerful allies across aspects with Boot Camp and Triskelion can easily do 15+ damage in a single turn. Tic-Tac-Toe is our core card, controlling the HP of our characters on the board and manipulating the allies in the way we want. In addition, it can pop off for 7 damage to add to our burst.

Quantum Magic

My favorite identity specific card from Adam Warlock is Quantum Magic. In my Venom Goblin playthrough, Advanced Glider came out round 1 and round 3. Quantum Magic tutored a 2nd copy of Karmic Blast on round 1, and Sunfire on round 3. Being able to search through the discard pile for what we need adds so much versatility and fun. We can grab Not my Responsibility to flip down safely or a Self Confidence to get a +1 resource if necessary. The combos are limitless.

Conclusion

Adam Warlock is quickly becoming one of my favorite heroes in Marvel Champions. His versatility is one of the best and has so many fun combos across the different aspects. This deck can take on all the most difficult scenarios in the game, hope you guys enjoy it!