Hellfire Dodger, Damage Returner

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ZiggyZ55 · 139

Alright, I'm not very good at write ups but here we are.

Gameplay: Vs Expert Iron Man

The main goal of this deck is to get Defensive Conditioning, Endurance, Dauntless, and Kurt's Cutlasses all out. This will give Nightcrawler the following stats:

2 Thwart

2 Attack

6 Defense

& Retaliate 2!

Once you have that you can pair his defense with Desperate Defense/Expert Defense with "Stop Hitting Yourself" to do a massive 10/11(with Retaliate) damage on one defense! If you can play both cards at the same time that'd be 12/13 Damage!

Polaris and Professor X are added to give you some breathing room while building out, assess the situation because everybody loves an extra card.

If you can get Deft Focus, The X-Jet, X-Gene, and Prehensile Tail, your events are basically paid for.

Now, the resource cards are great to help you get built out, but once you get that far they tend to junk up your hand when you want those events. They are useful to get Bamf! back to your hand though, instead of using something you want to.

9 comments

Dec 04, 2025 Caldias · 6811

Looks good!

Dec 04, 2025 boomguy · 17833

When @Caldias approves you know you built Kurt right

Dec 05, 2025 Alatreon · 158

Have you thought about Jocasta for this?

Dec 06, 2025 Sandy1190 · 1

Amazing deck!

Dec 06, 2025 MightySchoop · 63

Thought about swapping that Assess the Situation for an Electrostatic Armor? You might as well get to an effective retaliate 3.

Dec 07, 2025 TonyStark · 54

I need to get the Civil War Hero cards and play this ASAP. Nightcrawler is one of my favorite characters and I haven't played him much yet.

Dec 10, 2025 Topolis · 3

I like this type of protection playstyle. Nightcrawler has a really fun kit for it too!

Dec 10, 2025 Topolis · 3

Like @MightySchoop stated, might as well go for the plus 1 from electrostatic armor. Assess the sit is the ideal cut too.

Jan 25, 2026 MisterAnderson71 · 344

Wouldn't you include Change of Fortune here as you are going to be defeating minions easily, so getting 2 cards back in the villain phase would help you do more on your own turn?