Magic: The Gathering · Marvel Super Heroes · Sealed

Mardu Thanos

A three-color midrange bombs deck built around Thanos, the Mad Titan, and a Treasure base.
23 spells · 17 lands · 3 bombs · 4 removal (+1 conditional) · White-Black-Red
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Kid mode: the Thanos team

This is a team for a card game. You and a friend play cards to win. Here is the easy version.

🟣 Boss cards, we call them bombs: Thanos is your strongest card. Get him out, keep him safe, and you usually win. Kingpin and Captain America are strong helpers.

🗡️ "No thank you" cards, we call them removal: Hour of Defeat and Repulsor Blast knock out the other player's monsters. You have four of them.

💰 Coin makers: Stark Industries Executive makes shiny Treasure coins that pay for any card, so your three colors work together.

🏝️ Lands are your energy. Play one every turn. You have 17, so you almost always have energy.

How you win: stay alive, clear their monsters, play Thanos, guard him, and fly over them with Thor and Human Torch.

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The deck, by color

G Multicolor (5)

  • Thanos, the Mad Titan{R}{W}{B}Bomb
  • The Kingpin of Crime{1}{W}{B}Bomb
  • Thor Odinson{3}{R}{W}Flyer
  • Madame Hydra{2}{B}{R}Tokens
  • U.S.Agent, John Walker{3}{W/B}Body

R Red (9)

  • Stark Industries Executive{R} ×3Fixing
  • Human Torch, Johnny Storm{2}{R}Flyer
  • Kree Sentinel{4}{R}Reach
  • Evil's Thrall{2}{R}Steal
  • Vision of Love{1}{R}Draw
  • Repulsor Blast{3}{R}Removal
  • HULK SMASH!{1}{R}Fight (cond.)

B Black (7)

  • Hour of Defeat{3}{B} ×3Removal
  • Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord{2}{B}Engine
  • Arnim Zola, Bio-Fanatic{2}{B}Value
  • Madame Masque{4}{B}Connive
  • HYDRA Infiltration{3}{B}Discard

W White (2)

  • Captain America, Super-Soldier{1}{W}{W}Bomb
  • Hero in Training{2}{W}Draw

L Lands (17)

  • Swamp×7
  • Mountain×5
  • Plains×1
  • Surveillance Roomany color
  • Stark Industriestaps R
  • Avengers Hangar · Birnin Zana Plazatap W

Mana base

6 white pips
10 black pips
12 red pips
1 true any-color fixer

Honest read of the fixing: only Surveillance Room taps every color. Stark Industries makes red, Avengers Hangar and Birnin Zana Plaza make white, and none of the pool's nonbasic lands make black. So black, the removal base behind Hour of Defeat, rides on Swamps, Surveillance Room, and the three Executive Treasures. Red leans on 5 Mountain plus Stark Industries for the turn-one Executive, and white is a light splash its two duals already cover.

The fixing works but it is not pretty: the duals enter tapped and each give only one of your colors, so the three Stark Industries Treasures carry the three-color load. Captain America's double white is the hardest cast and the first flex if white stumbles.

Game plan

Survive, fix, dominate. Trade early with Hour of Defeat and HULK SMASH, ramp a Treasure off an Executive, land a bomb, and protect it. Thanos is a 4/4 deathtouch lifelink that trades up on turn three and sweeps the board late. Thor and Human Torch close from the air.

Mulligan hands with one color of mana or no early play. With four fixing lands and three Executives, keep two-color sevens that can reach the splash.

Sideboard notes

Why no green splash: the set's green bombs (Hercules, Prince of Power; Storm, Windrider; Hulk, Gamma Goliath; Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur) tempt a fourth color, but even this fixing cannot support it.

Power swap held in reserve: if a game goes long, Madame Masque and Evil's Thrall are the flex slots. The pool's grade-30 leftovers stay in the box.

Copy to Arena / MTGO

1 Thanos, the Mad Titan
1 The Kingpin of Crime
1 Captain America, Super-Soldier
1 Thor Odinson
1 Human Torch, Johnny Storm
1 Madame Hydra
1 Arnim Zola, Bio-Fanatic
1 Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord
1 U.S.Agent, John Walker
1 Madame Masque
1 Kree Sentinel
1 Hero in Training
1 Evil's Thrall
1 HYDRA Infiltration
1 Vision of Love
3 Stark Industries Executive
3 Hour of Defeat
1 Repulsor Blast
1 HULK SMASH!
7 Swamp
5 Mountain
1 Plains
1 Surveillance Room
1 Stark Industries
1 Avengers Hangar
1 Birnin Zana Plaza
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