Doom Prevails
Reducing dead draws through synergy
Two engines, one clean audit. A card is a dead draw when it feeds neither Doctor Doom's land-discard drain nor Loki's copy loop. The cleanest of the four to audit.
The deck wants two things: throw away lands to drain the table, and copy villains with Loki. Any card that helps with neither gets swapped out.
The Fantastic Four
Mana fixing and color consistency
One tax, and it is color. The only four-color deck wants its fixing early, so two cheap untapped Talismans carry the color load.
This deck needs four colors of mana at once. So we add cards that make color and mana, which is the deck's one hard part.
Avengers Assemble
The case for simpler decks
The friendliest deck wins by being easy to read. Keep the go-wide counters plan legible while you make it more consistent.
This is the easy deck to understand: heroes get counters and swing. The upgrades keep it easy to follow while making it stronger.
Wakanda Forever
When a good card is the wrong choice
Raw power is one test among several. Cut the strong card whose real cost is the target it paints, and serve the Vibranium and counters plan.
A card can be strong and still be wrong for the deck. We cut the flashy cards that fight the plan and keep the ones that fit it.
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