Marvel Champions Deck Building with Guardians of the Galaxy

[@BoardGameTime40]

Great video!! Love the concept of building around the lesser loved cards. Love it. Thanks, Nelson!

[@TheOlops]

I love the video. I never considered using Venom. I loved the build up. I thought maybe Drax or Adam Warlock, but Venom is perfect. I would love to see more deck factory videos. For next month I'll suggest some interesting cards that don't see play. Keep up the fun content.

[@rodrigueducrou573]

Love this new format I run this deck earlier with nebula

[@less_than_vince]

I love that you're considering multiplayer. This type of card really shines in a multiplayer setting. Especially since any blue player can include the card in their deck and use it on another player. I had a super fun and effective game with Blue Iron Man and Yellow Starlord using only X-Men allies. Iron Man quickly played Guardian on Starlord (and himself after honorary), who then only needed to use Mutant Training on his mutant/guardian allies (not to mention Leader of the Guardians for even more thwart). And Starlord gave Honorary Guardian to Iron Man, allowing him to play guardian allies and equip them with Laser Blaster or Comms Implant (and reinforced suit), which are cheap upgrades to boost Iron Man’s hand size. As soon as anyone at the table is playing a blue character, we try to add the team card to their deck because it can help be delt to another player and has no restrictions. More multiplayer content, please!!! Keep up the good work.

[@markzsombor6059]

I like it. The GoG team card is the weakest of the team cards so doesn't get a lot of play (though it may be better if they were all at this power level). So its nice to see you playing around with it. I also agree that some more zero cost upgrades would really make it pop. My only concern is the way that Laser Blaster and Sidearm interact with Venom's Setup ability, as they will trigger it delaying him from getting his own guns. That said, not discarding half your deck to start the game will be beneficial with a combo deck like this. I await patiently for a playthrough!

[@mattvoegtli9928]

Agreed, it is the worst of the Team cards. I play around with it in a deck build every few months, and then that deck never ends up hitting the table lol! I've tried to get the card to work a few times, and it's just so inconsistent. In 5 games, two will be pretty cool, two will flop and one will be alright. I did one with Fantomex and Yondu, and the number of times I'd have almost all my upgrades out before I had even played Guardians was very irking. I don't believe I've used it since player-side schemes have been released, so maybe I'll want to revisit at some point. I keep messing around with one using X-men with Star-Lord where another player plays honorary X-men on me so I can hit Utopia and Knowhere, but it takes so many cards to get going. I don't mind going over 40, but these voltron decks are always pushing 50, which makes me think the consistency will drop more in a deck that already is relatively inconsistent.

[@howdyfellowhumans]

I’m not 100%, but I’d assume that you’d get the card draw when you play Honorary on IM. Card is played -> he gains the tag -> response window is still open.

[@NelsonAllOverCards]

That makes sense! I didn’t know if the wording on gaining the ability on GOTG messed with it at all

[@chaskirch]

Love this!!! More please!!!

[@marktreitel7860]

Having Honorary Guardians on Venom, (as discussed at 26:00) allows you to play Knowhere on Venom in Alter-Ego which can be super-helpful if things go pear shape. (E.g. an obligation/ treachery card makes you exhaust in alter-ego, using Knowhere can make you then heal, or you can double heal with Knowhere.

[@prufrock1977]

The Response takes place AFTER you play the upgrade, at which point Ironman is a Guardian. Therefore, it triggers. (My interpretation)

[@MCDeckDiscussions-n5n]

I really like this card. I've only built one deck around it, but I was impressed by the card draw I got with while also powering up those allies. I used it for Star-Lord so that every one of my characters was automatically a Guardian. I included Build Support to make it easier to get Guardians of the Galaxy in play (or Helicarrier or Knowhere, whichever I still needed).

[@MCDeckDiscussions-n5n]

Ah... I see you addressed Star-Lord a bit later.

[@jonahg3713]

One of my absolute favorite decks is a 50 card Star Lord deck that includes GOTG and something like 18 ally upgrades. Also includes Iron Man and Yondu. It's incredibly fun loading Tony up with upgrades for free and still getting a card back to offset the card you spent.

[@alk3476]

Loved the deck ,also huge fun of yondu for ally! Love videos like this! Small question, what are the coloured stickers for in the cards in their corner? I have seen them so many times in your videos but have no idea if its for sorting your cards or something like that

[@marktreitel7860]

No Clarity of Purpose adding that to Venom would give you enough resources to play all those upgrades. :)

[@dimiav]

Slightly off topic, I would like to see you with VT ranking Campaign Bonus systems. Like Galaxy's Most wanted Market mechanics, or Rise of the Red Skull upgrade campaign system and etc...

[@nlnrose]

the immediate thought I'm having 3 minutes into the video is star lord iron man ally voltron.

[@Mat23]

The Starlord deck I have been playing just spams leadership captain marvel to stun lock / bolt for 3 😂

[@methos-onfive]

This seems like awfully lots of conditions that need to be met for the deck to work well. You can remove Guardians of the Galaxy, and the deck will work in the same way and achieve the same results with maybe small exceptions if you get lucky and draw GotG early. This is just my opinion, of course. But I don't like the Guardians of the Galaxy card in general. It's like the Quinjet. If you don't get it early, the value goes down significantly. So you need a small deck to be able to get it quick, but then you don't have space for all the upgrades. Build support does help as this way you have an additional way to get it on the table early. Let's hope they will introduce something like Maria Hill alter-ego action but for Team Support cards. Then, it will be a viable option. With all this said, it is a nice deck when it works ( :

[@NelsonAllOverCards]

Totally agree! The series is all about trying to make bad cards work which typically results in low tier decks haha

[@NelsonAllOverCards]

But hopefully they are “fun low tier decks”!

[@LeroyJJenkins]

The other option is to run 2-3 copies of Guardians of the Galaxy. While build support is a better version of a 2nd copy of Guardians of the Galaxy, having 2 or 3 copies of a key card is massive for consistency. If you have 1 card you need in the deck and do a full 12 card mulligan to try to find it (draw 6, discard all 6, draw a new 6), you only have a 30% chance of hitting that in a 12 card mulligan. This goes up to 52% with 2 copies of a card and 67% with 3 copies of a card. So for a deck like this I'd definitely run BS, and potentially 2 copies of GotG depending on how quickly you need to see it for it to be worthwhile.