Wakandan Pryde

Shadowcat is so good in protection and aggression that I rarely consider building her outside those aspects. However, while preparing for a new Black Panther campaign, I considered how Shadowcat's defenses would make it fairly easy to keep the Dora Milaje around as allies in your fight against evil. Shadowcat defends and the Dora Milaje attack and/or thwart each round while being kept healthy by their support and some First Aid.

One issue though, is how to keep Kitty healthy outside of protection, especially when facing multiple villain activations. First, we have included the The Triskelion and Stinger to provide chump blocking while keeping all three of the Dora Milaje in play. Additionally, Ready to Rumble is essential in this deck, as we will need ways of getting back to phased form when we exhaust to defend (which we will be doing quite a bit). Mutant Education will also be helpful to get Quick Shift back in to the deck for card draw and to provide more defenses that don't require exhausting. This means trips to alter-ego, which may seem strange with Kitty. However, we have 3 confuses in the deck, and Kitty's Room becomes a great card that can give us some extra healing or card draw depending on our needs.

I've enjoyed this deck as an alternate, non-optimized way to play Shadowcat, and it was fun to look at Kitty in a new light.