Magik and her psychic friends (Cable counts!)

Gameplan

• Get Legion and Storm out and keep them alive with buffs
• Use Cerebro w/ legion to grab whatever allies we want to get their ETB buffs.
• Use "To Me, My X-Men", X-Men instruction and Rapid Response to recur any ETB allies and get Legion/Storm/Colossus back if something happens to them.
  • Use buff upgrades/supports to keep 'Stay Alive' allies in play, along with basic spell, which can be recurred frequently with Magik's flip ability+Moira. -This is all in conjunction with getting Magik set up with her gear (Sword/Crown/Armor) and use her basic abilities at the right time depending on the top card of her deck, which can then be manipulated with limbo for a specific purpose.
• If you don't like the top card of your deck (for casting with her hero ability, or for their printed resource) there are a ton of ways to reshuffle the deck, use strategically.

Paired with Cable [https://marvelcdb.com/decklist/view/50749/cable-leads-the-way-1.0]

• While the core of this deck is playable either on it's own or with other decks, it performs really well with a cable leadership deck for the following reasons.
  1. Both [Moira] and [X-Mansion] can be used by other Heroes with identities with the 'Mutant' keyword.
  2. Lots of allies means lots of thwarting potential for Cable's side schemes. (Kid omega and storm especially).
  3. Most of Cable's side scheme abilities will help Magik as well.

Why cards are here

Allies

• Beast - ETB ally. Main target for "To me my X-Men" (because he's expensive). Good to get resources back from discard.
• Forge - ETB Ally. Get Cerebro out as soon as possible so our psionic allies can kick in
• Kid Omega - ETB ally that also has psionic
• Legion - Our favourite ally. We want him out and buffed with [Clarity of Purpose] and [Danger Room Training]. We want to keep him in play as long as possible.
• Phoenix - ETB Ally. Lets any of our characters ready and heal a little.
• Storm - Our other favourite ally. We want to buff her the same way as legion and keep her alive as long as possible.

Events

• "To Me, My X-Men" - Great if we can target Beast/Colossus/any ETB ally. Very useful if we get one of these allies into our hand and then use Limbo to put them on top and then use this card to guarantee a hit.
• Basic Spell - Useful for keeping Legion or Storm alive, I guess could be used to deal damage/thwart in a pinch.
• Spiritual meditation - Just good card choice. Lets you pitch allies to the discard to then use X-Men instruction. Can also pitch spells to then get back with Magik's flip ability+Moira.
• X-Men Instruction - Good to bring allies back from the discard quicker for "To Me" and Cerebro. Very useful to get colossus back faster for defense.

Support

• Avengers mansion - Card draw wheeeee
• Cerebro - Half the point of the deck. Get one of our psionic allies out (preferably legion) and keep them around to use cerebro every other turn.
• Med Lab - Help get our allies back out faster if we run out of X-Men instructions. Useful to get colossus back out with his tough if we're out of stepping discs and X-Men instructions.
• Moira MacTaggert - Combos with Magik's flip ability, letting you put a spell on top of your deck, and then draw it with Moira. Also combos if this deck is paired with Cable, as his flip to Hero can also trigger this.
• Team Training - Extra hit points for our 'stay alive' allies.
• The X-Jet - Just useful for Resources. Keep in mind it only works if Magik is in Hero, so use it while it's available.
• Uncanny X-Men - +1 hit point and everyone is cheaper. Just value.
• X-Mansion - Heal damage from our 'stay alive' allies, also combos with [X-Men Instruction] to draw a card. Can be used by Cable.

Upgrades

• Bloodgem - Resources when you need em. With basic spell, phoenix and x-mansion, we have enough healing to balance this out, plus colossus can protect us from damage a lot of the time, so going down in hp a bit isn't TOO risky.
• Clarity of Purpose - Turns out 'stay alive' allies into resources generators too. Best part is that the upgrade is exhausted, not the ally, so it can be used alongside the ally's basic abilities.
• Danger room training - Buff our 'stay alive' allies.
• Rapid Response - Keep one out at all times to protect our 'stay alive' allies or colossus if we need (but really, Legion is the focus of all our best stuff)
• The Sorcerer Supreme - +1 hand size in hero is just value.