Blue Christmas

Welcome to the end of 2024, and as we settle into the holidays, I wish everyone a Blue Christmas. If you like this deck, you may also like my other content. Please check out Winning Hand!

This deck has been tested a lot, and it has been a ton of fun. This deck isn't particularly hard to pilot, but it really comes down to three big things: energy, money, and health.

Energy

I have finally been able to get in two allies that I think were always made for Thor but didn't quite work due to the high cost: Vision and Beta Ray Bill. Vision works with all the energy resources you will be generating, boosting his stats, and Beta Ray Bill is just a really solid ally that can help do what Thor wants--clear minions and thwart. The high number of energy resources also works with Captain Marvel to trigger her ability to do damage and likely stun an enemy. And you're also left with a really strong ally after the enter play effect. Energy also helps with Kid Omega and Sunspot when they enter play. Awesome!

Money

How can Thor, a hero with a smaller handsize, afford all of this? Easy. One of the best cards to come out for him in recent times, Squared Off, finally makes him not just viable in Leadership, but really strong. Quincarrier helps us pay for anything, and Beast can fish out even more money! Team-Building Exercise helps us pay for a lot of upgrades with the Asgard trait, and most of our allies. If you play Hammer Throw and run out of resources to play Mjolnir back out, Team-Building Exercise can help you get it back out. Neat!

Health

Thor has a lot of health to start with, and he even gets more with Thor's Helmet. So let's use it. Tank hits when you can, and use Noble Sacrifice to get some of it back and add tough cards to tank more hits. But also, let's generate resources with Clarity of Purpose to pay for even more stuff. How great is that?

Other Thoughts

The Bifrost helps us get Beta Ray Bill and Lady Sif back faster, and they are awesome allies (especially Bill). There are so any great allies in this deck to build the synergy, and they aren't all expensive: White Tiger draws cards, Stinger can block an attack, Hawkeye helps soften up minions, and Kaluu fishes for events...and they are all energy resources that can be used to trigger Captain Marvel's enter play or Vision's ability. Or pay for Lightning Strike!

Note: I will link a deck from InigoMontoya, who did a different take on Leadership Thor, once their deck is published.

Update: Here is the deck from InigoMontoya - Discounts at the Thrift Thor

I love that people can take the same aspect and hero, and even the same card (Squared Off) and come up with different interpretations for a deck. It's a deck worth checking out for sure!