Panther Tenacity

Shuri vs Expert Magneto Playthrough

This is a custom deck request by one of my channel members, alexisyaghil3136. He wanted me to craft a Shuri deck that maximizes her basic activations to trigger her hero response without using Repurpose since he's not a big fan of that card so that's what this deck is all about. Huge shoutouts to Alexis for his support and for allowing me to share this deck publicly because I'm really excited for it :)

Tenacity & Ready to Rumble

This list is designed to utilize Shuri's hero ability more often to trigger the special on Black Panther upgrades. One of the cards we'll be using to do that is Ready to Rumble which synergizes perfectly with Shuri. Her alter-ego ability: Inventor lets us grab a Black Panther upgrade from the deck and play it for 2 cost cheaper, but the cost to use this powerful ability is getting exhausted. This stunts Shuri the turns she uses it because she won't be able to use a basic activation and trigger the Black Panther upgrade's special the turn that it's tutored by Inventor. Ready to Rumble is the perfect card to allow Shuri to immediately ready back up when flipping to hero form, then use her basic activation and get full value from that Black Panther upgrade right away. Tenacity is expensive for what it does, but with Shuri's high economy and her need for more activations, Tenacity can serve as a powerful on-demand ready.

Why Justice?

Instead of using Stick-to-Itiveness from the 'Pool aspect or What Doesn't Kill Me from protection for our readies, Ready to Rumble requires that Shuri flip up from alter-ego...and being in alter-ego is great because Shuri has the best healing card in the game in Queen Ramonda (sorry Aunt May) and one of the best draw engines in The Elephant's Trunk. Both of these powerful supports are alter-ego actions and cannot be used in hero form. Playing in justice gives us access to Under Surveillance to increase the threat threshold on the main scheme and Sonic Rifles to confuse the villain (Sonic Rifles also synergize really well with Shuri because its a tech upgrade she can grab with Inventor). In addition to this, we want to capitalize on that powerful Genius trait and lean into Ingenuity and Moon Girl which can only played in alter-ego for Shuri. Playing in Justice allows Shuri to flip down safely more often which increases the consistency of all of the powerful alter-ego only cards in this deck.

Mental, Physical, and Wild Resources

Every card in this deck but 9 are either mental, physical, or wild resources to power up Moon Girl and Tenacity. We're playing Moon Girl every time we draw her to use her powerful ability and Tenacity gives us that extra push to ready right when we need it most. To maximize this, we excluded Okoye (energy resource) and the basic Energy resource since Shuri has Vibranium as a substitute.

So Much Confuses & Float Like a Butterfly

Flipping down every turn to capitalize on the power of Ready to Rumble/The Elephant's Trunk/Queen Ramonda/ is crucial so we have 5 cards in this list that can confuse enemies (Kimoyo Beads, Professor X, Sonic Rifle x3). Kimoyo Beads are easy to recur with Aja Adanna and Sonic Rifles have 2 uses per rifle. With so many different ways to confuse enemies, Float Like a Butterfly is an obvious choice to increase burst damage (one of Shuri's weaknesses) while synergizing with her multiple instances of damage since Panther Claws and Vibranium Suit count as attacks.

Dora Milaje & The Elephant's Trunk

The Dora Milaje are here to fuel The Elephant's Trunk. Without the Dora Milaje support and the Wakandan allies, the only exhaustible targets in Shuri's kit are Queen Ramonda and T'Challa, both of which have amazing effects that we want to use. The Dora Milaje package helps us get the full value out of The Elephant's Trunk and are powerful when they're in play together. Getting full value out of The Elephant's Trunk also makes Tenacity easier to afford.