Thor got energy

Despite a few nice decks here and there (look at the links below) , I always struggled to play Thor satisfyingly. Playing him solo has mostly been a frustrating experience, especially since I want him to work with the aggro aspect (yes, I can be stubborn).

I tried something inspired by these two decks:

(we were swingin' : https://marvelcdb.com/decklist/view/2250/thor-we-were-swingin-1.0 AND Thor, herald of Galactus: https://marvelcdb.com/decklist/view/4550/thor-herald-of-galactus-thor-aggression-1.0),

My other inspiration was my obsession with pairing heroes with specific resources. Ever since Hulk, I've been kind of obsessed with the fact that heroes seem built to make the most out of a certain type of resources, although it's sometimes not so obvious (of course, Captain Marvel with ... but I've also had nice results pairing Spider-Man or She-Hulk with ).

I decided to make a Thor deck based on . While that's not exactly new, I've also decided against including some "obvious" auto-includes, such as Mean Swing, Jarnbjorn, Hall of Heroes, just because they're not the right resource. Just .

To my surprise, I got the best of expert Rhino on first try and with ease. Here's what the deck is all about:

• Obviously lots of , all aggro allies are in, as well as "You'll Pay for That!", Relentless Assault, Battle Fury.

• Mulligan to get Defender of the Nine Realms and get rid of a side-scheme.

• Since you'll use Defender of the Nine Realms to thwart, you'll have minions in play. That's where Battle Fury, Relentless Assault / Hammer Throw come in. Attack the villain, use your action to get rid of the minion, ready Thor wth Battle Fury, attack again. 2 attacks + overkill = a good turn.

• Inspired from "we were swingin' ", use Mjolnir when it gets back to your hand to put down a 1-costed card: Battle Fury, Endurance or Resourceful.

• Inspired from the "Thor, Herald of Galactus" deck, ready Thor using Earth's Mightiest Heroes: 4 allies are avengers. Spider-Girl and Hulk are cheap targets for this trick to work. Also ready from Battle Fury when possible.

• Also thwart with Sentry and Lady Sif to keep the situation under control. Or face-tank and use "You'll Pay for That!". Even with the one-stage Rhino, I kept in control all along thanks to this card.

• I originally had Tac Team in there, but it never got played. Resourceful can be more useful, storing resources for a later use.

Having Asgard and God of Thunder into play also help a lot.

That's all there is to it. It's not anything new or groundbreaking, but it is fun to finally say an aggro Thor deck got the job done.