Quicksilver combo protection edition

I figured out a way to deal slightly more damage.

-2 Energy Barrier +2 Plasma Pistol

On the combo turn, ping the Villain for 2x1. That's 229-X. Also, I guess it might help with pinging off a Tough.

@Crowscrowcrow ooh good point you can also use the first 2 counters to remove pesky minions while your setting up

@Crowscrowcrow can you activate Plan B if you have no cards in hand?

@Jake8cake Yeah. I'm pretty sure Energy Barrier is the better card, but we're looking for max damage. xD

No, Plan B cannot be activated without cards. Pulse Grenade would work, though. I'm not quite sure whether that's in the spirit of exercise, but its in the same boat as Plasma Pistols.

@Crowscrowcrow yeah I think were fine without pulse grenade. if they ever print any more tech upgrade with a cost higher than 2 though the damage can get quite a bit higher.

@Jake8cake Some cards have already been teased for future releases that will increase the max damage of this by at least 45, so look forward to that xD

@Jake8cake Good news. Through a terribly convoluted process, I've found 233 damage in Leadership. If it wasn't for that darn 50card limit, maybe it could've been 272, but there's just no space to support 3x Lead from the Front as well.

I think there's more damage to be squeezed here by including Go All Out somehow as well, but I haven't figured out how just yet.

@Crowscrowcrow leadership really? how.

Well, first we abuse all those nice +1's that leadership has to buff Quicksilver to crazy levels. Moxie, Morale Boost, R&D Facility, and Avengers Assemble!.

Atk: 18

1 Quicksilver

+1 Reinforced Sinew

+2 Maximum Velocity

+1 Avengers Assemble!

+3 Moxie

+3 Morale Boost

+3 R&D Facility

+3 Adrenaline Rush

+1 Symbiote Suit

Total: 18

Required Cards in hand: 15

+1 Maximum Velocity

+1 Avengers Assemble!

+3 Morale Boost

+3 Moxie

+4 Always Be Running

+3 Earth's Mightiest Heroes

Total: 15

Now, to get all this we make use of Avengers Tower, The Triskelion, and Stinger to bring us from 3 allies to a total of 6. That'll allow Strength In Numbers to draw a whooping six cards. Then we do it again after Avengers Assemble! readies all of them, but this time we only draw 3 and leave 3 Avengers readied for Earth's Mightiest Heroes later. One of the Avengers will be Black Panther for another 'draw'.

Card Draw: 22

6 hand size alter-ego,

+1 Symbiote Suit

+1 Avengers Mansion

+3 Assess the Situation

+1 Superpowered Siblings

+9 Strength In Numbers

+1 Black Panther

Total: 22

So how do we pay for all this? Surprisingly easily. The big expense is the 4 for Avengers Assemble!, but we have 6 allies in play so Strength In Numbers provides 3 energy, we'll use another one to also pay for Maximum Velocity.

Our resources then look like this: Draw 22 - Req 18 = +4 free hand. So the play looks something like this, we can afford it with just the 2 Strength In Numbers and our resource generators in play. Friction Resistance, Helicarrier, and Quincarrier

Play cost: 0

+0 Moxie

+3 Morale Boost -1Friction, -1Heli, -1Quincarrier

+2 Maximum Velocity -Str#

**Basic Attack for 20, ready Friction.

+4 Avengers Assemble! -Str#-1Friction

+4 Always Be Running -1Friction

+0 Earth's Mightiest Heroes

That'll result in:

*Basic Attacks: 13 (18dmg -1basic = 233)**

1 basic attack (18)

+1 Avengers Assemble! (21)

+1 Superspeed

+4 Always Be Running

+3 Tenacity

+3 Earth's Mightiest Heroes

Total 13

Now, we have 4 blank cards remaining, and those last 3 readies each have a friction trigger that goes currently unused which could in theory be used to play 2xGo All Out using friction twice and the 2 remaining blank cards as fuel.

Thw+Def: 30

1 Quicksilver

+1 QS upgrades

+2 Maximum Velocity

+1 Avengers Assemble!

+3 Morale Boost

+3 Moxie

+3 R&D Facility

+1 Symbiote Suit

Total: 15*2=30

That would add an additional 60 damage on top for a grand total of 293, but I'm not sure how to fit that into 50 cards yet.

Drat. Correction:

So how do we pay for all this? Surprisingly easily. The big expense is the 4 for Avengers Assemble!, but we have 6 allies in play so Strength In Numbers Band Together provides 3 energy, we'll use another one to also pay for Maximum Velocity.

@Crowscrowcrow was a bit confused until you clarified but yeah that all checks out the 50 card lint is really annoying since there are many more cards that could up the damage as you mentioned that or if you could cut the useless cards like Speed Cyclone and Double Time

Oh, the four blank cards will probably be the only events that aren't used in the combo. Speed Cyclone, Double Time, and the extra copy of Maximum Velocity. Or maybe some copies of Assess the Situation that got shuffled back into the deck during the end phase draw last turn.

That's not a problem, though, since they can be discarded with Superpowered Siblings to create space for the hypothetical 2 copies of Go All Out.

@Crowscrowcrow you mentioned black panther but is there any other specific allies that could up the damage they have to be avengers which limits the options

@Crowscrowcrow about fitting in the 2 copies of go all out a second player could have a hellicarrier and mansion which would free up two cards but I don’t know if that is in spirt of the deck

@Jake8cake Not to my knowledge. Only something like Spider-Man would be worthwhile, and there is no equivalent ally for Avengers.

@Jake8cake Maybe. I might cut the Assess the situations and go all out just to get the deck legal.

Funny, though. Between the Aggro, Prot, and Leadership decks, it is only the Prot deck that looks actually playable. xD

@Crowscrowcrow yeah anything is playable if you get lucky enough or have another play to carry you. The fact that we have a version for 3 of the 4 aspects makes me want to make a justice build but I have no idea how that would work

As a 50 card list. This is the best I can do, i think. I cut 3asses and 1bandtogether, which means there's little layway for drawing the blank cards, but as long as only 2 of them get drawn, they can pay for Maximum velocity.

Leadership is fun to mess around with because the combo pieces don't all fit into the deck so it might well be possible that including a different combination gives more damage.

Ally (6) 1x • Ant-Man 1x • Black Panther 1x • Blade 1x • Hawkeye 1x • Scarlet Witch 1x • Stinger

Event (21) 4x Always Be Running 1x Avengers Assemble! 2x Double Time 3x Earth's Mightiest Heroes 2x Maximum Velocity 3x Morale Boost 3x Moxie 1x Speed Cyclone 2x Strength In Numbers

Resource (1) 1x Band Together

Support (9) 1x Avengers Mansion 1x • Avengers Tower 1x Helicarrier 1x • Quincarrier 3x R&D Facility 1x • Serval Industries 1x • The Triskelion

Upgrade (13) 1x Accelerated Reflex 3x Adrenaline Rush 1x Clarity of Purpose 1x Friction Resistance 1x Hyper Perception 1x Rapid Response 1x Reinforced Sinew 1x Symbiote Suit 3x Tenacity

@Crowscrowcrow yeah it looks good without the asses the situations the consistency goes down but it’s kinda the only option to fit it all in.

@Crowscrowcrow what is rapid response for?

@Jake8cake Oh! I totally forgot I put that in!

Okay so, the idea behind Rapid Response Was that you can revive Black Panther and grab an extra event. Like Morale Boost, to add another +1 and get 13 more damage in.

You can do that by having Panter 1 attack away from death before the combo turn. Attack with panter, deal 2, he dies. Rapid response triggers, return Panter, grab a card.

so does that put the total damage up to 306?

@Jake8cake In the hypothetical Go All Out version? Yep.

Actually, I guess it would be 310 since QS's total statline would be 1Thw and 1Def bigger too.

@Crowscrowcrow Crazy, would be beautiful to see it pulled off.

I'm going to scream into a pillow for a few hours because I typed up an entire thing for a Justice deck, but tapped my 'back button' on my mouse by accident and lost it all.

Anyway, the result is 143.

It uses the regular 8atk QS and 3x Justice Served to get some extra readies out of 3 schemes in play that can be cleared with Clear the Area. Which can be setup during the game with One Way or Another.

Justice Quicksilver has no tools unique to Justice to increase its damage.

That said, obviously, anything over 100 damage is more than enough to OTK a villain. Justice Quicksilver as a deck is probably the best aspect even if it's the "lowest" damage.

@Crowscrowcrow can 143 damage one shot all villains? on single player probably but even with 2 or 3 players some of the villains can for sure survive

@Jake8cake It should oneshot everyone from 100-0 except Thanos.

Expert Thanos II and III has 23+28=51*Players. I think that's the toughest villain in terms of raw HP. The others are much weaker.

51*2players=102, easily one-shot.

51*3players=153, would live on 10HP.

Expert Rohan who I think is the second highest HP pool at 18+25=43*3Players=129. He and every other villain except Thanos gets one shot.

Oh, wait. Everyone except Thanos and Ultron.