SHIELD Literally Goes Cloak and Dagger

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LACK OF SUBTLETY · 4007

Here is a surprise, a new box comes out and I'm putting out a new Maria Hill deck! This is a deck I've been proxying since Cloak and Dagger were previewed and I enjoy it.

Cloak and Dagger are fantastic SHIELD agents once you get them both out. Cloak loses his acceleration symbol and can ATK 1/THW 2 all day long with Command Team with zero consequential damage. Dagger can take advantage of Field Agent to reduce her consequential damage to zero as well. If your Field Agents are low on SHIELD tokens, Dagger can easily be exhausted to fuel Homeland Intervention.

Your other allies are the ever-valuable Nick Fury and Sentry who, with his 5 health and access to Field Agent can stick around for ages with his great stat line.

You round out your support cards with The Triskelion (to have all 4 allies in play at once), The Raft (bonus thwarting, minion removal, and easy to exhaust for Homeland Intervention), The Douglass (for Sentry's bonus side scheme and for your player side schemes), and some Ops Room (you're not wanting to use up your allies blocking, so boosting her DEF and doing some bonus threat removal. You could swap these out for R&D teams to boost ally stats if you prefer, but I find Ops teams a little less situational).

All of this, plus Maria's hero cards, and you've got a heck of an engine.

Out of the gate, you are going to hard mulligan to get Cloak. Once you have him, you can take opportunities as they come, but building up your SHIELD supports and getting Dagger are very high on the list.

8 comments

Aug 02, 2026 Castlefrank47 · 9431

Not a big Maria fan but I love this idea. Good stuff

Aug 02, 2026 D.M.Tip · 4092

This looks really REDACTED. Field Agent is an old favorite of mine, so I love to see it working for these allies. Great synergy here!

Aug 02, 2026 Jvenom23 · 70

With Maria Hill's hero text, are allies only S.H.I.E.L.D traited while she's in hero form?

Aug 02, 2026 Griffes_De_Fer · 51

Very cool idea indeed. I wish I had the cycles to try this, I don't have Maria. I've been putting together my own deck for Cloak and Dagger in a different trait and I was wondering what other cool combos for them people would come up with :)

Aug 02, 2026 LACK OF SUBTLETY · 4007

@Castlefrank47, @D.M.Tip, @Griffes_De_Fer - thanks!

@Jvenom23 - Correct, so if you want to use anything SHIELD related with them, you have to do it in Hero form. The main things in this deck are Field Agents (which is a Hero action anyway) and Homeland Intervention (which can be used in Alter-Ego, so if you want to use any allies other than Nick to fuel it, you'll have to flip to Hero first). Also note that, other than Nick, they are not SHIELD when they are in your hand, so you can't use the discounts for Team Building Exercise or Government Liason when paying for them.

Aug 03, 2026 dr00 · 57989

very cool deck.

Aug 16, 2026 ripb3 · 133

sick idea, great execution

Aug 17, 2026 thom1977 · 506

Good excuse to play Maria Hill. She's not bad, but still on my list for "need to learn how to enjoy"