Showcasing An AMAZING New SHADOWCAT Deck By  

Here’s the link for the deck! marvelcdb.com/decklist/view/29400/iron-maiden-1-4-player-1.0

Thanks for playing my deck and wow, what an excellent showcase! Fun games - and very different games - but it was played well in both. And to anyone reading this who has said something nice about the deck in the comments, know that I have read it and thank you as well!

Anyone who boosts VillianTheory is a friend of mine! Love you both

Oohh ToneeTales, I miss his content. Thanks Josh, keep up the good work!

Fun deck. Way to go!

Terrific games! You're right about Kitty being able to defend - she takes the hits while Iron-Man pumps out the damage. Well-played!

Amazing deck! Played it twice and loved it. VillainTheory makes the best decks and I’m always excited to play them. The community is very lucky to have someone like him!

The return of the King.

Very interesting deck! So unusual! Saved the link, hoping to find the time to try it. Thanks both for the deck and the video!

Cool deck! Good plays. I look forward to trying the deck out. The second playthrough felt like sky cycle would be a good add. It’s optional to ready, so isn’t as huge a drain on health as it might look at first glance especially with so many heals in the deck. With Ironman activations being so essential, looked like a backup ready option in case the combo pieces come out in the wrong order might help.

🚨Rules Mistakes: The biggest one is that in the new 1.5 rules around dealing and taking damage, when kitty doesn’t take damage from Venom due to her ability, he is still considered to have dealt damage for the purposes of removing Chime counters. So I played that wrong all game. It just never crossed my mind And when I edited in that the Enraged Symbiote should have attacked after being put into play via a boost effect, he shouldn’t have because kitty was in alter ego. Not sure what I was thinking while editing that part lol Edit: also on Venom stage 3 he gives you 2 boost cards instead of one when you damage him. This was one of the first times I’ve played him on expert and I don’t think I’ve ever played that right 😅

Ooo fun looking deck. Shadowcat just survives until Iron Man is set up, I imagine. Will catch the gameplay portion of your video later!

58:05 Remember, Venom stage 3 change to give you 2 boost cards instead of 1. It doesn’t change the outcome though since you’re Phased.

Wow, this is an awesome deck. I put it together and had some solid games. Managed to beat Ultron who has been giving me trouble too.

More Josh!!!! Woot woot. Fun play through. Shadowcat vs Venom is fun - it’s nice to occasionally get to use the ignore guard and crisis symbols, and Venom with the Symbiotes gives a good opportunity. Which (side tangent) makes me think Shadowcat and Fools paradise would be fun? (Though I’ve not tried myself actually). A fun Voltron deck. I do like plan B in Voltron decks, I think it’s something not everyone includes, but a resource sink is nice to have given the timing issues you mentioned. Shadowcat makes a lot of sense to run Voltron given her essentially infinite defense potential and I definitely had not done one with her yet. I’ve done quite a few “ally swarm” decks with her but not a Voltron. Voltron decks seem to always have a more random sort of feel. I wonder if call for aid in round 5 (expert game, 39ish min) would have been the play (or at least a good play)? Just to cycle back the danger room trainings knowing you had all of the game time “dead draws” in the deck still? Hindsight of course though haha. And it’s easier to talk about using call for aid to cycle vs actually doing it lol. I’ll have to give this one a try!

I really enjoy the Ally Voltron archetype. The only thing holding them back is the consistency issue which can present problems against higher tier villians on expert.

Where did you get the wooden tokens you use for exhaustion? I want to get the BTST ones, but they are out of my budget currently. Also, great games to watch. It’s fun to watch content creators play community decks.

Long time no watch from me but im back. great video. Interesting having Ironman as an Ally to an x-man but i like it. Hows the baby?

I'm going to be that person! With the new rules, chime counters are removed from damage 'dealt` so they will be removed whether Kitty can 'take' damage or not, making this a poor matchup for her. This is a spot where I think the new RRG breaks a bunch of encounter cards as the intent (I believe) is as you played, reducing damage taken not damage dealt. Which is how I'm going to continue playing it.

I did the 2nd fight you did on Standard.. and the acolytes side scheme ended up killing 2 out of 3 characters at the table.

I believe the "instead" on the bell tower is instead of the damage, not instead of the attack. That's just how it reads to me though, I don't have a ruling to back that up.

At 32:01 you mentioned that the enraged symbiote should have attacked you for 2. Why is that if you’re in alter ego and he schemed? Not sure if I missed something.

Anyone else thinking… Why don’t I draw my key cards in my first hand/mulligan?

Wouldn't Ronin be better then iron man for this? There are only 4 one cost upgrades to give iron man and he costs 1 more. At most this is a 3 cost savings over the course of the game but Ronin is easier to get out and is effectively a 2/3 vs iron mans 2/2.