Psychic Confusion- Professor X (feat. Psylocke)

Psychic Confusion- Professor X (feat. Psylocke)

AKA the Professor X infinite time loop.

OVERVIEW

This deck can play Professor X nearly every single turn, and is probably the most reliable Confuse-lock deck you can build. This is designed more for multiplayer than solo.

Our best case scenario here would look something like this:

Play Professor X using Effective Leadership and confuse the villain. With Danger Room Training, Psychic Kicker, Leadership Skill, Game Time and Get Ready: Xavier is at base THW 8. Thwarts 8, then readies with Get Ready and thwarts 6. Readies with Game Time to thwart another 6. Blocks during the villain phase.

We've removed 20 threat, confused the villain, and blocked the villain's attack with Xavier which means we're basically cancelling 2 villain activations!

All of this without even using our hero!

STRATEGY

We want to get our Professor X recursion engine online as quickly as possible. We need to be in alter-ego to do this, so we are going to flip back and forth from alter-ego to hero every turn.

The combo is: Use Cerebro, to find Professor X and play him, then trigger Danger Room to pull Danger Room Training onto Xavier. This is a confuse on the villain + 4 thwart + block guaranteed every single turn (unless you get disrupted by your obligation or something like that).

After we use Professor X and he goes into the discard pile, on the next turn we use Betsy's Psionic Manifestation ability to put Professor X back into the deck. Then, we use Cerebro to find him again, because Betsy is a Psionic and can search the entire deck to find him.

We have multiple ways to find this combo in our deck: Suit Up, Forge, Caliban all pull important pieces into our hand.

CONCLUSION

This confuse-lock deck will perform better than most Justice based confusion decks because it's simply more reliable. You can confuse the villain more than 90% of the time with this deck because you don't need to rely on card draw to get our confusion, you rely on discard pile recursion instead.

If you don't like doing the same motions each turn this deck might not be enjoyable for you, but you can still do your regular Psylocke hero stuff on top of the Professor X loop. For multiplayer against a non-Stalwart villain, this deck is incredibly solid.