Royale with Cheese

Nick Fury is fun. His thwarting ability is quite strong, and accumulating threat on his suit form to spend as damage/resources is an interesting mechanic to play around. This deck leans into basic thwarting with Nick Fury, while dishing out damage and confuse with the (admittedly limited) Justice attack events

As with every hero, building your board of key cards is necessary. For anyone who's spent time with Nick Fury here in Marvel Champions, you can see right away that his Watch and Car are the most important. After that, the goal is to build threat on his suit form upgrade

• Heroic Intuition and Surveillance Specialist can boost his basic thwart up to 4 (and draw an extra card to boot). One threat from each thwart goes on the suit.
• Overwatch can mirror this strong basic thwart on a side scheme, which you can tutor with One Way or Another for even more card draw.
• Fury's Flying Car can spend one threat off the suit to ready and you can thwart again.
• Secret Agent is a great card, and I worry that people are sleeping on it because I don't hear it getting praise or love. Nick has fantastic preparation cards, and with ever one he triggers, he steals another threat onto his suit form
• Sense of Justice might seem to be a curious include, since Nick only has three thwart cards in his kit, and I've not included any thwarting cards fro justice, but playing Covert Surveillance for free is something I'm grateful for every game I've played with this deck, and it can be clutch to get back to stealth form. It's not a priority, but can bank more threat if you're already in stealth and get you back there if you've just attacked.

Time to spend that sweet threat you banked

• I rarely play Spray Fire, but it can be good if you've got more than one minion. There are enough attack events in this deck that there are better targets, though.
• Concentrated Fire is great against a single minion and go back into hiding, or against the Villain.
• Turn the Tide is an all-star here. You can usually find a way to clear the main with Nick's basic thwart every turn, and then flipping into assault form and dealing damage (up to 6) for zero cost feels fantastic. Very punchy.
• The last inclusion to the Balls and Bayonets Brigade of attack events is Concussive Blow. Its a great way to attack (again 3-6 damage depending on how much threat you can spend) and confuse, then flip down to return to stealth form and draw 6 (making use of Safe House #221 on the way down and back).

Project T.A.H.I.T.I. is a magical place where Agent Philip "Cheese" Coulson cam be recurred again and again to steal you preparation cards back from the discard pile.

• Intelligence Analysis is the best one. Zero cost, cancel a treachery for the cost of a suit threat (which you immediately steal back with Secret Agent), this is the premier recursion target
• Eyepatch Camera is also really good, but I often save it for when I need a big attack turn or if the main scheme is in danger of going over from a surprise influx of threat.
• EM Shield is my least used, but nice to have in a pinch. Prevent all damage and steal one threat to your suit is a good effect, but I try not to end my turn in assault form, or have an ally to block.
• Practiced Plan is also a great target for recursion, because it costs zero, "counts" as any of your other preparation cards (since it can pull it back to your hand) and amplifies the threat stealing effects of Secret Agent, counting as another preparation card you're resolving
• Agent Coulson himself can be recurred with 2x Chance Encounter with One Way or Another getting side schemes out for you to thwart down.

This deck has worked really well solo, even against Villains with higher scheme stats. The Majority of Villains put pressure on you with either damage or threat. But Nick avoids the damage and denies the treat, and most Villains don't have any answer to that. I tried to keep the deck on the thinner side, but there are a few Honorable Mentions that you could swap in or out to see how they work

• Fitz-Simmons is great for Nick, because some of his best cards are Tech. But once that tech is out you might need to add Homeland Intervention and/or Global Logistics to give them something to do.
• More preparation cards like Target Acquired, Intelligence, and Espionage, but recurring the superior preparations from Nicks own kit is often a more powerful move
• The Raft can lock away minions, which just get in the way
• At one point I had Husk and a Sidearm in here, because even if you cant read or boost her activation, Fury's Watch allows you consistent access to a mental resource to heal her. It was a fun interaction, but I found I ended up with 10-15 threat building up on the suit upgrade with not enough attack events to spend it down.

I'm headed to GenCon at the end of August '25. Hit me up at dbuchanan220@gmail.com if you're going, and we'll make time to play a few games!