Gunboat Cable (Magik & X-Men Team Up)

(To be played with the linked Magik deck)

Holy, moly Gunboat Diplomacy is an incredible card, especially if you're not trying to do it all by yourself. With this set up you're going to do a minimum 7 thwart & 7 damage for a cost of 2 effective resources, 2 exhausts and 1 damage.

Using Nathan's set up ability, you're going to pick "Call for Back Up" to get Pete Wisdom into play, while your Magik partner pulls in Rogue. This means that both of your team up cards are now online.

Once Rogue is in, she's probably going to use her action to do 1 damage to Cable since he has a lot of health to play with. This will give her a 4 THW (and 5 once you've completed Technovirus Purge) and Pete Wisdom has a 3 THW.

If you don't have Gunboat, it's nice that Pete can heal himself, so feel free to have him do the occasional basic activation.

Ideally, you'll get a second X-Force ally out who can exhaust to fulfill Magik's Serve & Protect, and then block damage for Cable. Ideally, all your allies will stay out the entire game.

Crisis Averted might be worth cutting here, since Magik will be able to stay in the field for most of the game, and hopefully while Cable is alter-ego she'll have the Serve & Protect card to block the villain scheming. So feel free to include more X-Force allies or other side schemes you like.