Liquid Shadow (Fluid Motion)

Liquid Shadow

Imagine a world where they release a hero with a turn 1 resource generator for attacks, takes care of their own defense by being practically indestructible, and comes with multiple readies that also serve as attacks to trigger Fluid Motion.

Now imagine Fluid Motion just sitting there, waiting to be loved.

Enter Shadowcat, who can help pay for attacks with her Solid form, ignore enemy attacks with Phased, and has Fluid Motion's favourite new friend: Shadowcat Surprise. Did I mention she can ignore crisis and patrol + has one of the best thwarting events in the game, to help control threat until you're all set up to deal immense damage?

P.S. She's the best user of Surprise Attack in the game!

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Once you have all three Fluid Motions in play along with Combat Training, that's potentially 6 ATK if you can play three attacks per turn.

...If you can play three attacks to activate your Fluid Motions (which this deck easily can, with many cheap attacks/attacks that draw cards), and ready twice, that's 18 damage from her basic ATKs alone!

And if you've played three attacks before your basic attacking? You're looking at roughly 9 damage from that alone!

All this means it's very easy to reach 15-30 damage every single turn!

Are You Ready to Rumble?

To benefit most from Fluid Motion, you need to start the turn ready and able to basic attack. Of course, if the villain attacks you want to block it - but this deck has many efficient ways to do so without even needing to exhaust!

• Phased and Confused prevents TWO villain activations!
• Mockingbird and Thor each prevent TWO villain activations!
• Quick Shift blocks one villain activation and draws you juicy attack cards
• Drop Kick prevents one villain activation and draws you juicy attack cards

Factoring in all copies, that is a potential of 13 blocked attacks per deck cycle on a regular villain. 10 against a Steady villain. And 7 against a Stalwart villain. Whatever way you cut it, Shadowcat is almost always going to be ready to dish out some pumped-up Fluid Motion damage!

Of course, the villain could activate again through an encounter card or exhaust you, so you want to be able to ready. Also? The more you can ready, the more times you benefit from some pumped-up Fluid Motion damage!

• Shadowcat Surprise both activates Fluid Motion and readies you to use the ATK boost from it!
• Ready to Rumble is a cheap solution to ready yourself up almost at will. Shadowcat is the best user of this card in the game!

That's 6 readies, and Ready to Rumble is bankable - meaning you can play it one turn, then trigger it on a turn where you know you can activate all three Fluid Motions to maximize your damage!

Solo:

In solo, the ideal strategy with this deck is to begin the game by playing slow, building up your Fluid Motions and a Combat Training while keeping the threat under control with Airwalk, Lockheed and your basic THW. After a few turns, once you are reasonably well set up you can flip the switch and start to race down the villain! Slow to start, quick to finish.

Multiplayer:

In multiplayer, your primary job is to clear minions for multiple players. With this in mind, you can start to mix in more damage while you build, taking advantage of your upgrades much earlier. Once you have 2-3 boosts to your basic ATK and either Martial Prowess or Deft Focus on the board, you'll start to find damage just naturally overflows onto the villain.

You should also consider swapping 3x Press the Advantage for 3x One by One at 3-4 player, or at 2-player in minion-heavy scenarios!

Mulligan:

The ideal cards to have at the start of turn 1 are: Martial Prowess, Fluid Motion, Deft Focus and Combat Training.

Tips and Tricks

• Solid form helps meet the physical requirement on Drop Kick and Surprise Attack. If you have one of these in hand, try to save Solid form's resource generator to use on them!

• Fluid Motion's damage boost only lasts until the end of a phase! Don't use Surprise Attack on the villain phase unless you can dispatch a nasty minion before it gets to activate. (Or have to exhaust with no readies in hand.)

• Solid form + Deft Focus + Martial Prowess = 5 effective resources set up to generate 3 resources toward attacks almost every turn. This is excellent value.

• Drop Kick and Phased and Confused help prime villains for Press the Advantage. Press the Advantage is one of your best cards, being a cheap way to replenish your hand with more readies/attacks!

• The best way to benefit from 3x Fluid Motion is to play 3 attacks every turn and ready as much as possible. The card draw from Quick Shift, Press the Advantage and Drop Kick is essential for fishing for more attacks/readies, allowing you to have HUGE damage turns!

• Against Stalwart or Steady, you should bring Colossus instead of Mockingbird

• Battle Fury and Energy are both great cards you could consider adding. The former is especially useful against minion-heavy scenarios.

  • The reason Energy is not already included is due to Shadowcat's low cost curve - 23 of her cards are 0-1 cost when including the discount from Deft Focus, and even more when you factor in Solid form and Martial Prowess. Quite often, you won't need to spend more than one resource from your hand to play a card. Ideal turns consist of playing your three cheapest attacks, then readying as much as possible!

Good luck, have fun! :D