Ironheart Powerlevels to Max

Summary

Ironheart starts slow, but is a powerhouse when she reaches Version 3. This deck offsets her early game weaknesses with card draw, strong allies, and a bit of cheap thwarting.

Inspiration:

• MrMimiga's A.I-ronheart: https://marvelcdb.com/decklist/view/19353
• MiguelCantillo3's Ironheart - Perfected: https://marvelcdb.com/decklist/view/22253

Updates

• Removed Lay Down the Law. It's too inconsistent.
• Increased Assess the Situation from 2x to 3x. This helps us power up faster.
• Added Wasp for additional thwarting and chump blocking.
• Removed Clear the Area. It's only efficient if we remove the last threat, which is hard to guarantee while also being efficient (and awkward in multiplayer).
• Added Deadpool. He's well-rounded, efficient, and has a wild resource, and can be paid for with Power in All of Us.
• Removed Sense of Justice. We aren't running enough thwart events to justify its 3ER cost. Cards like Ingenuity and Helicarrier are more flexible.
• Added Build Support and Superpower Training. In multiplayer, we can easily give one of these to another player to get our deck count back down to 40.

Game plan

Ramp as fast as possible to Version 3 without losing. Then win.

Mulligan targets:

• Ronnie Williams
• Stroke of Genius
• Ingenuity
• Progress counter generators
• Card draw

Riri wants to flip every turn so she can generate progress counters and do hero things. Thwart aggressively so she can flip safely.

Key combos

• Moon Girl, Nick Fury, and Avengers Mansion generate card draw to quickly find key upgrades and progress counter generators.
• The Power in All of Us fuels the aforementioned cards while also enabling Champions Mobile Bunker, Helicarrier, Ingenuity, and Vivian.
• One Way or Another accelerates card draw at the cost of putting side schemes into play.
• Dispatch side schemes from OWA using cheap, efficient Justice events. Then draw from Skilled Investigator to further improve efficiency.
• Consistent resources and Ingenuity fuel Child Prodigy for even more progress counters.
• After reaching Version 2, prioritize Photon Blasters and Propulsion Jets to reap the benefits of Ironheart's scaling.
• Once fully ramped, just keep ramping. All of the progress counters get converted to consequence-free damage to obliterate everything in sight using V3's Maximum Efficiency ability.

Additional considerations

• Spider-Man can be replaced with Vivian, Mockingbird, or another ally/event as needed.
• Add Under Surveillance to avoid popping the main scheme.
• Extra copies of Skilled Investigator thin the deck and make teammates less mad about One Way or Another.
• Overwatch can easily generate 3 or 4 thwart in the mid and late game, but is weak early on.
• Lay Down the Law can be clutch when the stars align, but it's literally unplayable half the time.
• In 3 or 4 player games, some events can be replaced with Even the Odds.