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X-Women; Lethal Leading Ladies
Topic Started: Apr 9 2013, 09:44 AM (198 Views)
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I'd like to make an X-(Wo)men deck centered around or exclusively featuring the female characters, if possible. Especially Jean Grey, whom I want to really headline the whole deck. I don't know if there is any synergy between the two, but I'd like to use Psylocke as well, if possible, and of course Storm and Rogue. Probably Emma Frost, too. I want this to be a mono-X deck and preferably feature an all-female cast.

What can we do as far as that goes? Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Jean grey and Emma have some great stuff but storm and psylocke have no amazing cards, storms MOR rare is about as good as she gets and psylocke, well there's a 5 drop MVL but its not that good. Rogue has a mix of cards good and bad same goes for shadowcat. Jubilee has some decent 1 drops. Sage's 3 drop is amazing. Blink has a solid 5 drop in her Age of Apocalypse version, all the other versions are for Shift base decks. There are a few other ladies that have more specific things such as Rachel Summers and polaris. X23 has a great 4 drop.

You could build Crisis Jean, which is a deck based around Crisis on Infinite Earths and playing a Different Jean every turn. You could also build Xmen-Tal which is mainly female based but has a few non female characters in it. If you wanna stick to the all female idea though you're gonna have a few problems but its doable on a casual level. 1 drops are an option but typically dropped since they usually offer very little past turn 3, shadowcat phase shifter is probably the best choice here along with domino neena Thurman if you choose to include 1 drops. Turn 2 should be a Jean Grey, either 2 drop works well. Turn 3 is sages turn. Turn 4 you have Emma frost Ice Queen, rogue power absorption and X23 Genetic Miracle. Turn 5 has Jean Grey Phoenix Rising and Blink Age of Apocalypse. Turn 6 has rogue powerhouse, storm weather witch and or rogue age of apocalypse. Theres also a 6 drop Emma Frost but much like Rachel Summers, this card is a little more specific plus its nowhere as good as the 4 drop emma. Turn 7 and 8 are pretty much just Jean Grey. There's a 7 drop blink that's okay but the 7 drop Jean is too good. Turn 8 has only jean and the 8 drop jean is more of a stall card.
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Support cards:

Children of the atom
Worthington industries
Cerebro
Mobilize
Straight to the grave
Messiah complex
The beyonder
Slaughter swamp/Avalon space station
Omnipotence
Turnabout

Just to name a few important ones
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Maybe it's because there was a thread about a viable discard deck elsewhere, but there's some potential with Rogue (MOR/MVL) on 4 and Rachel Summers (MEV) on 5. They're both X-Men, so the monoteam is fine and Rogue would copy Rachel's power for double-discard action, not counting Rachel's Energize. If you don't mind using old-school cards, Emma (MSM) on 6 gives you more card advantage with activated powers, and while Psylocke from MOR on 3 is always derided as lackluster (and usually rightly so), she could still have a place here if full-on discard appeals to you as a goal for your all-female X-Team (I know my mind goes empty when looking at hot women in tight/skimpy clothing).

I don't exactly have an endgame for this, but there's reasonably good options for Storm, Rogue, and Jean in the cost 7/8 range, and I'm sure you can fill in the rest of the low-to-mid-cost roster as you see fit.
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Apr 9 2013, 08:39 PM
Maybe it's because there was a thread about a viable discard deck elsewhere, but there's some potential with Rogue (MOR/MVL) on 4 and Rachel Summers (MEV) on 5. They're both X-Men, so the monoteam is fine and Rogue would copy Rachel's power for double-discard action, not counting Rachel's Energize. If you don't mind using old-school cards, Emma (MSM) on 6 gives you more card advantage with activated powers, and while Psylocke from MOR on 3 is always derided as lackluster (and usually rightly so), she could still have a place here if full-on discard appeals to you as a goal for your all-female X-Team (I know my mind goes empty when looking at hot women in tight/skimpy clothing).

I don't exactly have an endgame for this, but there's reasonably good options for Storm, Rogue, and Jean in the cost 7/8 range, and I'm sure you can fill in the rest of the low-to-mid-cost roster as you see fit.
I have this deck almost built but it can't exist without Xmen dudes.

The problem with a X-(wo)man deck is that all the females don't have synergy together. Most of them mesh with a character or 2 but overall they are spread to far and thin to create a good working female only deck. They have no drops past 6 that's not Jean Grey and no theme to go at.

If you wanna go with a discard route your end game should be Havok, Proud Son but obviously he's not a female, he's also not X-men.
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Well, I would think that by turn 7 you've devastated your opponent's hand pretty badly so that you can switch away from discards to a more conventional endgame strategy. Blink and Rogue have good cost-7 versions as well as Jean, though Jean may be your choice for cost 8 since you're not doing a Mental deck. However, even without other Traited characters, Rachel at 8 has some potent stats worth considering. Never underestimate the usefulness of a good "body". ;)

At any rate, the discard-heavy theme is just a suggestion, though I've always thought it was reasonably good given that many of the X-Men's effects involve discarding their own cards (so that a semi-discard deck would "even out" your opponent's options against yours).
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https://ukyorulz.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/deck-discussion-crisis-jean/

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Well, I would think that by turn 7 you've devastated your opponent's hand pretty badly so that you can switch away from discards to a more conventional endgame strategy. Blink and Rogue have good cost-7 versions as well as Jean, though Jean may be your choice for cost 8 since you're not doing a Mental deck. However, even without other Traited characters, Rachel at 8 has some potent stats worth considering. Never underestimate the usefulness of a good "body". ;)

At any rate, the discard-heavy theme is just a suggestion, though I've always thought it was reasonably good given that many of the X-Men's effects involve discarding their own cards (so that a semi-discard deck would "even out" your opponent's options against yours).
My version of this deck uses the 2 drop professor x and 3 drop morph to activate professor Xavier's mansion on turn 4. Rogue copies morphs recovery power to force 2 cards, next turn you drop Rachel and her and rogue discard the remainder of the cards. Emma on 6 as back up or Polaris from MEV. Professor x from MOR(common) also can work on 6 if you have initative since he can dump a card before combat. Havok provides all the end game needed and since rogue will copy his power that's 2-3 free stuns with a 6 and a 5 drop at the least left to swing. Even if you devastate their hand that doesn't stop mobilize or enemy of my enemy since every turn you draw 2 cards. You still need a good end game and havok makes the most since.


The problem with many of those characters is the lack of synergy. Sure we can make a list happen but it would be an awful version of xmen curve. You lose way too many great card for the trade of a theme.
Edited by SuperAzn, Apr 10 2013, 11:19 AM.
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