Return the Fury - You'll Shoot your Eye Out!

Return the Favor That's certainly a card. Not worth playing... usually.

This deck looks to exploit some unique interactions with Nick Fury and Return the Favor.

I started thinking about Practiced Plan and Intelligence Analysis and realized that they make a good partner to combine Return the Favor with Nick Fury's Assault Suit Form.

Essentially, the goal is to have Practiced Plan down along with intelligence analysis and play return the favor. You can see what treachery you reveal, decide to cancel it with intelligence analysis and bounce it back to hand. Then fire off 3 threat from suit form to hit the villain for 8.

Bonus! If you have Secret Agent out you can move 2 threat to your suit and replace some of what you spent on RTF.

This is the Janky core of this deck. The rest essentially resolves around this combo.

NOTE: IN THE RULES FOR CANCEL IT SPECIFICALLY SAYS THAT CANCELED ENCOUNTER CARDS ARE STILL CONSIDERED TO BE REVEALED. SO EVEN IF YOU CANCEL THE TREACHERY RETURN THE FAVOR WILL FIRE OFF!

Black Widow ally is a nice back up plan. If you don't want to use intelligence analysis, or don't have it set up, she can at least cancel the worst treacheries coming off RTF.

Espionage, Taunt, Face the Past mean you will be drawing TONS of cards or filtering through a bunch! It helps get you set up and Taunt doubles as a way to get threat out there.

Espionage will trigger secdret agent, and is another Practiced Plan target.

Taunt does several things. 1) Nick wants something to thwart, In stealth you can help make that happen. You can even combo with eyepatch and secret agent and practiced plan to have LESS threat on the main than you started with and gain 3 cards for the trouble.

Specialized Training Lets you boost up your thwarting and more card draw. Melinda May can help you see what boost you will get from taunt the villain phase or if there's a treachery on top to RTF into.

Agent 13 can ready your Fury's Flying Car or Helicarrier.

Now some Cards people might Question:

Grant Ward - You might be asking. Hey, if we are using Return the Favor to fetch treacheries, why have Grant Ward who can betray you if there's a treachery revealed? Well, first of all, it's thematic and fun, but second you can pay with your excess mental if you want to keep him around and worst case you take 2 damage and now thin your deck. With Grant, and other cards that leave play combined with all the card filtering you will be going through the deck a decent clip and get a nice cycle of the combo pieces.

Feel Free to skip on Grant or mix up any of the other allies. If you are playing alongside a Maria Hill Hero, Add in the team-up Super Spies.

Lastly, Enhanced Awareness. This bad boy in a modern deck?! What's up with that!?

Well, first off, Fury's Watch lets you play enhanced awareness for 2 threat and you can still use EA if you want. It's kinda like the classic play of using a Web Shooter to play a second Web Shooter. But, if it's not apparent, having mentals sitting on the table lets you trigger Black Widow and Grant when you want, but also helps you bank resources for the turns you will want more. It's surprisingly useful in the deck and makes sure you always have an out for those cards that require a mental without having to worry too much about what's in your hand.

I like to stay in stealth quite a bit with this deck, pop out to use his attacks and end a turn with Covert Surveillance or Concentrated Fire to go back into stealth.

Nick's a super spy using the Villain's own cards against them. Treacheries turn into 8 damage, Attack activations become more threat for Fury to remove and put onto his suit!

Before you know it the Villain will be putting their own eye out trying to hit you!