Captain Marvel: Soldier For Justice!

Captain Marvel: Soldier For Justice!

I checked the Theme box for this one, but the theme is tissue-paper-thin. My original title for the deck was Captain Marvel: Soldier of Justice (no exclamation point) but decided at the last minute to swap Crisis Averted out for For Justice! and renamed it Captain Marvel: Soldier For Justice! to mimic that card's title.

If you're finding you need that bigger chunk of burst removal in your games, just swap Crisis Averted back in (but you lose 3 icons which she really likes).

Solo / Multiplayer

Captain Marvel can dish out enough damage between Photonic Blast and Energy Absorption (and even Sky-Destroyer to an extent) that she's pretty much always viable in solo despite focusing on thwarting here, but she also thrives at removing large chunks of threat in multiplayer and supports the team while doing so:

• Spider-Man can defeat any of the 3-per-player Player Side Schemes at any player count after I play him (such as the Build Support I've included in this deck), and he makes a lot of sense in multi because everyone's getting a Support.
• Crisis Interdiction gets better in multi where there are more side schemes in play (as long as you keep Cosmic Flight in play)
• Your alter-ego Commander Action can give any player a card draw, as can Avengers Mansion.
• Similarly Helicarrier can make a card cheaper for any player, but in solo I'm replacing this with Quincarrier since I won't have to worry about blocking someone else's Quincarrier, and it'll generate that resource which she really likes!
• Once you're built out (and CM does it quickly because of her resources) Homeland Intervention will remove 6 threat and deal 2 damage.
• You have three copies of Skilled Investigator so you can hand out two of them to other players. I'm just cutting two of these for a solo game, or one of them in a 2-player game.

Opening Hand

Because Captain Marvel will draw so many cards every deck pass, I don't feel like I need to mulligan hard for anything unless the scenario demands action right away (like a minion that I could defeat with Photonic Blast or multiple side schemes).

So generally speaking some of the cards I'd like to see in my opening hand are as follows:

• Build Support so we can clear it early
• Alpha Flight Station
• Any ally (but I'd love to see Monica Chang here to start pushing Surveillance Teams onto the table) or Heroic Intuition.
• Skilled Investigator

Core plus 4

I didn't set out to make this a Core plus 4 deck, and in fact didn't even realize that was the case until I was ready to publish.

I clicked the Beginner box because a 5-pack deck is pretty beginner-friendly, but I'm including where everything came from because only one of these packs is a "pack", while the others are campaign boxes:

• Core:
  • Captain Marvel and her kit (obviously lol)
  • Nick Fury
  • For Justice!
  • The Basic doubles and The Power of Justice
  • Avengers Mansion
  • Surveillance Team
  • Helicarrier
  • Heroic Intuition
• Black Panther (Shuri):
  • Build Support - You could easily drop this or replace it with something else, but this pack also came with Infiltration which could replace For Justice! if you don't care about the VERY loose theme (but you'll be trading 3 resources for 3 resources). Alternatively, this was first printed in Next Evolution which comes with some other cards you might consider!
• Rise of Red Skull:
  • Spider-Man - You could replace him with Core Jessica Jones
  • Skilled Investigator - "Just" more card draw, so you could cut these
  • These changes make it easy to skip this box if you can't find it
• Sinister Motives:
  • Monica Chang - LOADS of value here putting Surveillance Teams into play to exhaust with Homeland Intervention
  • Homeland Intervention - Removes a ton of threat and can deal damage with Sky-Destroyer in play.
  • Field Agent - Mainly here to trigger Sky-Destroyer, but also keeps Monica Chang and Quake in play longer
  • Sky-Destroyer - Reprinted in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • This box does have a lot of very good cards for this deck (and comes with some very good villains and heroes) but it's becoming increasingly harder to find. If you can find this box without mortgaging your home it's a great box to have!
• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.:
  • Quake - First printed in the Black Widow Pack
  • The Douglass - Captain Marvel has the resources to play this easily, but if YOU don't have the resources to buy another box you can cut this and Quake (replace her with Core Mockingbird)