Progress makes Perfect - Ironheart

My first run at an Ironheart deck. The goal is to make a deck that builds faster than your average Tony/Riri deck. The end game is easy, it's making it there that is usually the challenge.

To do that, we sell out a bit early and pay off those debts when we're more established.

Play Squared Off to drop allies like Nick Fury or Beast along with a Stroke of Genius to draw a bunch of cards and get some progress counters early. Drop a Face the Past to fill up your hand and get built out fast. Don't worry about all those minions, they're just free progress counters to blast with your Photon Beams.

You have a full card draw/filter suite with Moon Girl, Nick Fury, Stroke of Genius, Tony Stark A.I., Champions Mobile Bunker, White Tiger, Maria Hill, and Kaluu.

Assess the Situation is less important here than the typical Riri deck as you have other early game cards you're looking to play so we've dropped down to 2x copies. They're still good to have for those plays where you're played out and a Stroke of Genius draws you one card and they're a mental resource for progress counters and Moon Girl.

Squirrel Girl can take out tough cards from all the minions you're summoning or sweep the board of Ultron drones and is generally just nice to have. Vivian is a Champion and is probably my favorite ally in the game. She is useful in almost every matchup. Both of these allies are also cheap and mental resources, so easy includes.

To help close out the game, we have 2x copies of Go All Out. You don't want to play these early, but they're also another mental resource.

Early on I was trying cards like Rapid Response, Soaring Acrobatics, Helicarrier, and Avengers Mansion but getting them down early slows the deck down too much and they weren't really impactful late game.