One Turn +50 Damage With no Encounters Until End

This is such a fun combo to shoot for. i tried Adrenaline Rush and realised that Sliding Shot was just doing a lot more anyway haha, but it's such a good combo to throw in the mix, and can be set up whenever you draw it and just wait until you need it.

Would Knowhere actually trigger a draw from Maria Hill? Through Star-Lord's hero effect, she is not a guardian ally until she is controlled on the field, so you did not "play an ally with the guardian trait" to trigger Knowhere.

In fact, not one of your allies in this deck work with Knowhere. You could drop it for The Triskelion to increase your ally limit (the only benefit you're getting from Knowhere) for 1 cheaper.

knowhere works because it checks after you play, and star-lord's ability is constant and therefore always on, so it affects the ally before knowhere checks to see what type of ally it is

Very fun deck. Just blew up Drang into the next galaxy. 72 total damage in one turn.

Star Lord is opening a lot of interesting combos right there.

I think it could be interesting to load a deck with Avengers, and combine Blaze of Glory with Avengers Assemble! (which doesn't need your hero to be Avenger).

Also, it's interesting that combo, because if even with that bigger turn you don't defeat the villain, just flip to Alter Ego, and all your Avengers will be safe from Blaze of Glory damage, because they will lose the Guardian trait.

If a non-guardian ally works with Knowhere and Starlord´s ability, it seems like this game works quite different as most JCC, as usually is as stated by House Sardel: an ally is not controlled until it is on the table, and that is after you play it.

Is there an official clarification about this point?

Star-Lord ability is constant, and Knowhere is a response and occurs after the card is played. By the time you optionally activate Knowhere the targeted ally is already considered a Guardian.

Also, as a note about control. you control the cards in your deck as a constant effect.

Just a question why not add other basic allies like Groot,Drax, or Rocket Raccoon? Just checking if those would still work in this setup.

You want allies that don't have the printed guardian trait so that you can flip down after Blaze of Glory to prevent the damage to all of them.

If this is so, it seems a little uninspiring to me. The fact that you actually have more benefit from playing non-guardian allies than actual guardians is thematically disappointing...

His hero ability is completely wasted on guardian characters. It is the basic way he is designed. Ignoring blaze of glory damage is one way to use that ability. It isn’t part of his main deck. Maybe thematically guardian characters wouldn’t leave him and would take damage, whereas all the other non guardians would go back to their jobs and what not when star lord splits back to his outlaw ways.

I think the latest edition of the rulebook made it clear that they are not Guardians until they have been played and so it prevents the engine. It even has it's own paragraph in the rulebook in the same place it declares that cards in your hand is in fact in play.

• If a game step or card ability references a card that “you control” or a “player controls,” that game step or card ability only refers to cards in play currently under that player’s control.

1) Star-Lord: Each ally you control gains the guardian trait.

2) Rules Reference on Control, Constant and Response:

• Cards enter play under their owner’s control. Encounter cards are considered to be under the control of the scenario.

• Control of a card remains constant unless an ability explicitly causes the card to change control.

• A player controls the cards in their own out-of-play areas (such as the hand, the deck, and the discard pile).

Star-Lord (Constant Ability)— A constant ability is any non-keyword ability whose text contains no bold timing trigger defining its ability type. A constant ability becomes active as soon as its card enters play and remains active while the card is in play.

Knowhere (Response Ability)

The word “after” refers to a game occurrence that just concluded. Many response abilities use the term “after” to specify the time at which they can be used

Some abilities have timing priority over other abilities. In order, the timing priority of abilities is:

1. Constant abilities.
2. “Forced Interrupt” abilities.
3. “Interrupt” abilities. 4.“Forced Response” abilities.
4. “Response” abilities.

Is there somewhere else that contradicts this timing of the 2 abilities in the RR?

No, there's nothing else to contradict this because it works.

To play a card, according to the rules, states that the cost is paid and the card is put into play. It is a 2-step process. So if control means it has to be in play, then Knowhere works perfectly fine with Maria Hill and Star Lord because it is a response after Maria Hill is in play acting as a Guardian.

@abbojm01so technically, star Lord could have 3x Team-Building Exercise on the board, use them to play Nick Fury for 1 cost? Since he is a guardian ?

@rstorcdkno, for two reasons:

first, because Nick Fury doesn't have the guardians trait in your hand, it's not a legal target for Team-Building Exercise. basically Knowhere is checking after quill's ability, and tbe is checking before

second, you cannot use more than one Team-Building Exercise on the same card because part of its effect plays the card. you can combine with things like Helicarrier though