Iron Man "Hulk Buster" Protection

With just the core set Iron Man protection is very weak but with the new cards from Captain America and Ms Marvel I thought I'd see how viable the deck could be.

I've found this to be deck pretty strong and it has a large toolset. Energy barrier also being a tech upgrade means Tony can get up to his max hand size quicker.

The Deck builder wont currently let you publish a deck with the new cards so note:

Tenacity = Energy Barrier

Nick Fury = Nova

Haymaker = Expert Defense

Emergency = Preemptive Strike

Card Breakdown:

• Villain damage

Largey taken care of with Tony's existing card pool

Repulsor Blast

Supersonic Punch

With the former, once the suit is built, Blasts should be hitting for 7+ damage a turn with the stacked energy resources. There are plenty of options to get aerial for the latter.

• Aoe Damage/ minions are handled by:

Powered Gauntlets

War Machine

Energy Barrier

Nova

Med teams mean Roadie can stay in the game a lot longer.

• Thwarting

With Tony's base Thwart of 2 with Arc Reactor and Mark V Helmet Tony has plenty of encounter control already built in.

I know a lot of players like justice with Tony but really all this just adds to his already high threat reduction

• Defence

Ah the bread and butter of a protection deck. The cards picked shore up Tony's low defence. Notable inclusions:

Energy Barrier - another tech option meaning you can get into hero form earlier and not suffer low handsize. Also a great option for dealing with low HP minions

Preemptive Strike - excellent card when you flip over a 2-3 point boost card.

Nova - Can kill an enemy even before it deals damage.

Indomitable - it’s an energy resource, thins your deck and critically when you do need to defend can be used to ready up for the following turn.

Tony's base defence is a rather poor 1 but we can bring this up to the "default" level of 2 with Armored Vest. With Expert Defense he can also handle the odd larger attack

• cards which may be cut

I've included Luke Cage but he is expensive so may end up being cut. He can however take 2-3 villain hits.

Armored Vest it’s cheap, and a mental resource to chuck for aerial when needed, but may be cut as I tend to mainly defend when I draw into an Expert Defense which better reduces attacks.

• notable omissions

Avengers Mansion with a hard mulligan and Tony’s Alger ego action you should be able to drop 2-3 tech bits turn one. ive found you can get into hero mode consistently from turn 2. avengers mansion slows you down too much