Wow! This is an amazing video. You have given me so many deck ideas. I am going to strip all my Premade decks and have a huge card pool. You have now made Leadership and Aggression playable.
Oh that’s so great! Deck building truly is such a wonderful world of creativity. And the trial and error is really fun too as you continue to tweak a deck and make it a little better each time. I’m so excited for you to be jumping in!
@@GetUpandGame I have had the game since it came out in the UK but generally just used the premade decks from the Hero packs and Campaign boxes. I have recently been tweaking those Heroes as I have been stuck but now I am just going to start from scratch.
Honestly getting a solid foundation in Deck Building has been so beneficial in just KNOWING the game better. Even if i’m not going to dive straight into creating a protection deck (as aspect I have neglected until now) I now have a better idea of what it does best and how to use it to its fullest potential. Amazing video, great narration, love the jokey moments too (that karate kid clip was brilliant). Awesome awesome job
Oh thank you so much! I’m so happy to hear it was enjoyable as well as helpful to you ☺️. I really appreciate the kind words and encouragement, and I’m so thankful that you mentioned the jokey stuff cause people rarely do so I wonder how much of that stuff falls flat lol
Just got the game last week, currently focusing on choosing an aspect to excel the main attribute of a hero, I was doing a defense Spider-Man that was unkillable and my sister a justice Scarlet Witch that nearly nullified any threat, great fun, but can see how you want a balanced deck for solo Q
MG was late here in Sweden, so I just got it and Cyclops/Phoenix, so now I’m totally onboard the MC hype train. And I can’t get enough of MC content, so loved this video! 👍😁 I’ll be playing the campaign with a friend (Colossus aggression) and I’ll play Shadowcat justice. So I looked at her resource generation from being in solid form, and my first thought was: “Aww, doesn’t work for thwart events, that sucks.” But then I realized there are some combined cards, that would sort of cost one less and thus become much more viable. So I added Stealth Strike and Hit and Run to the deck. And what seemed like a draw back, turned into a challenge/puzzle, and in the end I had a Justice deck unique to Shadowcat. And I love that about MC, it’s so much fun finding new synergies! 🥳
That’s amazing! Very clever use of Solid to remove threat! And yes that’s exactly the kind of stuff I’m talking about that makes the deck building in this game better than any other. So ingenious! I’m excited for you that you’re able to dive into the X-men stuff! I’ve still barely dipped my toe in it to be honest but I’ve been impressed with all of it so far. As soon as I get the next deck building video done I might need to take a second to just play some mutant goodness! 😁 And thank you so much for watching!
So my brother and I just started getting into this and we were thinking of doing a "Jumpstart" cube similar to magic where you take any hero and a premade Aspect and put them together on the fly to make a deck for the day and this video was a godsend for all the different aspect themes we could make. THANK YOU!
Oh very cool! That sounds like a ton of fun and should work pretty well! You’ll find some things work better for some heroes than others, but that will be part of the fun! So happy I could help! ☺️
Thank you thank you! I thought you might especially like the protection on fire skit 😆 And speaking of sense of humor, wait til you see what’s coming out next……..
As much as I like the idea of it I could never get the whole Sneak Attack thing to work. For solo at least I always felt like it requires a ton of setup to get the payoff and I never seemed to have time. I could imagine in multiplayer though where you have a little more freedom to build up that could be a ton of fun!
You convinced me to sign up for Con of Heroes 2023! I appreciate the suggestions in these deck building tutorials for team play - I've only ever played solo/two-handed solo. What's the best place to ask more multi-player questions?
Oh very awesome!! We’ll definitely have to play a game together! I have 2 suggestions for good people to ask about multiplayer: 1 if you are on Discord or would like to join you should hop into the Living Card Games server where I hang out. There are plenty of people there who play multiplayer that would love to chat with you about it. You can join here!: discord.gg/EtffYDNw And another great place would be on the Step Into the Portal UA-cam channel. If you aren’t already following Brandt you definitely should be and he plays a ton of multiplayer! Here’s the link to his channel: youtube.com/@StepintoThePortal
Hahaha I know, I really thought I’d get to this faster lol. But it’s very nice to hear you’re happy to see it and I hope it’s worth the wait! I’m pretty confident part 3 should be much more timely 🙂 PS I meant to say this the first time you commented on one of my videos but as a big Dark Tower fan I appreciate your username!
100%. You can actually build really solid decks with just an all-rounder strategy but it’s a lot more fun and interesting to have an idea to build around 👍
Good analysis. But what about grey eh? For when your hero cards are so good you don't want to waste time playing aspect cards. It has the Mystic archetype and the Basic allies one. The latter is good with Web Warriors and OK with Guardians maybe. More seriously you do need to know if you are playing solo or not. In multiplayer you can count on an ally to cover a base or two. Assuming of course you cooperate to expand the design space.
Thanks! I’m going to be talking a lot more about Basic in the third and final installment. I’ll be doing actual deck builds, and that’s a good place to discuss where Basic can fill in the gaps. And it’s also the home of most of the team specific allies as you say, as well as the supports. I totally agree. Most of my focus here is on building for solo since I find that to be a much more specific and challenging exercise. Multiplayer is much easier as you can mostly just do one thing and take all the cards that do that!
Kinda a silly gripe, but they should have made the thwart icon yellow and the recovery icon blue. Yellow for justice, and recovery for blue since you can play out your allies and attachments in alter ego.
@@GetUpandGame The colors in this game kinda weird with the resources too. Like Justice really cares about Mental resources, which is blue. Green doesn't really care about Energy, but their resource upgrade (Nerves of Steel) generates yellow. But okay, maybe they thought being mono-chromatic would be boring, but they didn't mind that with Physical and Aggression. But if they made Justice Blue then that goes with the Mental theme, Leadership to yellow, change the Energy symbol from Yellow lightning bolt to a Green atomic energy symbol, and the Wild green star (?) into a yellow star, everything color coordinates. Justice - Blue, which is a police color, mental so more detectivey than swat team Protection - Green, mechanically the ties to Energy are low, but thematically, theres a lot of tech here, could also be associated with recovery or readying Aggression - Red - Physical, obvs Leadership - Yelllow, Wild, leaders are like a star (which if colored anything are colored yellow, not green) that leads the way, also no specific synergy with wild resources, but with Leadership being the "do it all aspect" its thematic that its the color of the wild resource
Wow! This is an amazing video. You have given me so many deck ideas. I am going to strip all my Premade decks and have a huge card pool. You have now made Leadership and Aggression playable.
Oh that’s so great! Deck building truly is such a wonderful world of creativity. And the trial and error is really fun too as you continue to tweak a deck and make it a little better each time. I’m so excited for you to be jumping in!
@@GetUpandGame I have had the game since it came out in the UK but generally just used the premade decks from the Hero packs and Campaign boxes. I have recently been tweaking those Heroes as I have been stuck but now I am just going to start from scratch.
Honestly getting a solid foundation in Deck Building has been so beneficial in just KNOWING the game better. Even if i’m not going to dive straight into creating a protection deck (as aspect I have neglected until now) I now have a better idea of what it does best and how to use it to its fullest potential. Amazing video, great narration, love the jokey moments too (that karate kid clip was brilliant). Awesome awesome job
Oh thank you so much! I’m so happy to hear it was enjoyable as well as helpful to you ☺️.
I really appreciate the kind words and encouragement, and I’m so thankful that you mentioned the jokey stuff cause people rarely do so I wonder how much of that stuff falls flat lol
Just got the game last week, currently focusing on choosing an aspect to excel the main attribute of a hero, I was doing a defense Spider-Man that was unkillable and my sister a justice Scarlet Witch that nearly nullified any threat, great fun, but can see how you want a balanced deck for solo Q
That’s awesome! Yeah solo tends to be a little more jack-of-all-trades, but even then there’s room to skimp on some things 😀
Thank you so much for this awesome video! Can't wait for part 3!
Thank YOU for watching and for the kind words!
I’m hoping to get to the next one in a more timely fashion lol
MG was late here in Sweden, so I just got it and Cyclops/Phoenix, so now I’m totally onboard the MC hype train. And I can’t get enough of MC content, so loved this video! 👍😁
I’ll be playing the campaign with a friend (Colossus aggression) and I’ll play Shadowcat justice. So I looked at her resource generation from being in solid form, and my first thought was: “Aww, doesn’t work for thwart events, that sucks.” But then I realized there are some combined cards, that would sort of cost one less and thus become much more viable. So I added Stealth Strike and Hit and Run to the deck. And what seemed like a draw back, turned into a challenge/puzzle, and in the end I had a Justice deck unique to Shadowcat. And I love that about MC, it’s so much fun finding new synergies! 🥳
That’s amazing! Very clever use of Solid to remove threat! And yes that’s exactly the kind of stuff I’m talking about that makes the deck building in this game better than any other. So ingenious!
I’m excited for you that you’re able to dive into the X-men stuff! I’ve still barely dipped my toe in it to be honest but I’ve been impressed with all of it so far. As soon as I get the next deck building video done I might need to take a second to just play some mutant goodness! 😁
And thank you so much for watching!
"If you actually wanna play the game you took time setting up"😂
The Red Hulk deck is one of my most played
Haha yeah I used to be pretty hard on the rush since I’m not a fan, but I’ve softened on it in my old age 😆
So my brother and I just started getting into this and we were thinking of doing a "Jumpstart" cube similar to magic where you take any hero and a premade Aspect and put them together on the fly to make a deck for the day and this video was a godsend for all the different aspect themes we could make. THANK YOU!
Oh very cool! That sounds like a ton of fun and should work pretty well! You’ll find some things work better for some heroes than others, but that will be part of the fun!
So happy I could help! ☺️
Great job, J. Love your sense of humor and you’ve given me some ideas for new decks.
Thank you thank you! I thought you might especially like the protection on fire skit 😆
And speaking of sense of humor, wait til you see what’s coming out next……..
Can’t wait!
@@GetUpandGame The wait is killing!
Very new to the game and this video has been extremely helpful, thanks!
Oh glad to hear it! ☺️
Thanks so much for watching, and if there’s ever anything I can do to help please feel free to ask!
Thanks so much was really looking forward to this and it did not disappoint!
Thank you so much!! It really means a lot to hear that!
Superb vid again. Very helpful. Thank you!
Thanks Retro! I always appreciate that you take the time to leave a nice comment, that’s very helpful right back to me! 😄
Sneak attack command team is also a pretty well defined leadership archetype
As much as I like the idea of it I could never get the whole Sneak Attack thing to work. For solo at least I always felt like it requires a ton of setup to get the payoff and I never seemed to have time. I could imagine in multiplayer though where you have a little more freedom to build up that could be a ton of fun!
You convinced me to sign up for Con of Heroes 2023! I appreciate the suggestions in these deck building tutorials for team play - I've only ever played solo/two-handed solo. What's the best place to ask more multi-player questions?
Oh very awesome!! We’ll definitely have to play a game together!
I have 2 suggestions for good people to ask about multiplayer: 1 if you are on Discord or would like to join you should hop into the Living Card Games server where I hang out. There are plenty of people there who play multiplayer that would love to chat with you about it. You can join here!: discord.gg/EtffYDNw
And another great place would be on the Step Into the Portal UA-cam channel. If you aren’t already following Brandt you definitely should be and he plays a ton of multiplayer!
Here’s the link to his channel: youtube.com/@StepintoThePortal
@@GetUpandGame awesome! Thank you for the help! I'll check out both links!
@@GetUpandGame I'd love to get a game in with you.
@@njh113 for sure! We’ll set it up when the Con gets closer 👍🙂
Yeeeeees🎉 Finally❤
Hahaha I know, I really thought I’d get to this faster lol. But it’s very nice to hear you’re happy to see it and I hope it’s worth the wait!
I’m pretty confident part 3 should be much more timely 🙂
PS I meant to say this the first time you commented on one of my videos but as a big Dark Tower fan I appreciate your username!
Deck themes are the best way to build the decks.
100%. You can actually build really solid decks with just an all-rounder strategy but it’s a lot more fun and interesting to have an idea to build around 👍
All physical resources aggression deck suggested name Fisticuffs!!
Haha love it!
Good analysis. But what about grey eh? For when your hero cards are so good you don't want to waste time playing aspect cards. It has the Mystic archetype and the Basic allies one. The latter is good with Web Warriors and OK with Guardians maybe.
More seriously you do need to know if you are playing solo or not. In multiplayer you can count on an ally to cover a base or two. Assuming of course you cooperate to expand the design space.
Thanks! I’m going to be talking a lot more about Basic in the third and final installment. I’ll be doing actual deck builds, and that’s a good place to discuss where Basic can fill in the gaps. And it’s also the home of most of the team specific allies as you say, as well as the supports.
I totally agree. Most of my focus here is on building for solo since I find that to be a much more specific and challenging exercise. Multiplayer is much easier as you can mostly just do one thing and take all the cards that do that!
Kinda a silly gripe, but they should have made the thwart icon yellow and the recovery icon blue. Yellow for justice, and recovery for blue since you can play out your allies and attachments in alter ego.
I totally agree! ATK is red and DEF is green so why is THW blue???
@@GetUpandGame The colors in this game kinda weird with the resources too. Like Justice really cares about Mental resources, which is blue. Green doesn't really care about Energy, but their resource upgrade (Nerves of Steel) generates yellow.
But okay, maybe they thought being mono-chromatic would be boring, but they didn't mind that with Physical and Aggression.
But if they made Justice Blue then that goes with the Mental theme, Leadership to yellow, change the Energy symbol from Yellow lightning bolt to a Green atomic energy symbol, and the Wild green star (?) into a yellow star, everything color coordinates.
Justice - Blue, which is a police color, mental so more detectivey than swat team
Protection - Green, mechanically the ties to Energy are low, but thematically, theres a lot of tech here, could also be associated with recovery or readying
Aggression - Red - Physical, obvs
Leadership - Yelllow, Wild, leaders are like a star (which if colored anything are colored yellow, not green) that leads the way, also no specific synergy with wild resources, but with Leadership being the "do it all aspect" its thematic that its the color of the wild resource
Lol, just realized i swapped my position on blue and yellow
@@zeroisnine haha you’ve convinced me!
Maybe they didn’t want the cards to look like a traffic light