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When Ant-Man came out, I toyed with some ideas on how to make use of the new Team-Building Exercise (TBE) card. I tried a Black Widow deck at first to make use of Spy and Avenger. I wanted to make use of the SHIELD keyword as well but that is only on her Alter-Ego side. That ruled out several good cards but still left her with tenish that qualified. But that wasn’t quite enough. So I went looking for another hero that might do better. And that’s when I stumbled onto Thor.<\/p>\n
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I’ve played Thor a few times but never with much success. His need for resources is great. He can pack quite a punch but only if he can afford things. With a reduced handsize, he’s struggling until he can get Asgard out, and then only breaking even. He likes things like Avenger’s Mansion, Quincarrier and Helicarrier but they are expensive to play. Even getting Asgard out on a turn costs the rest of the cards in your hand if you don’t already have resources cards in play.<\/p>\n
The key feature that makes Thor a perfect candidate for TBE is that his keywords are Avengers and Asgard. Many of his personal deck have the Asgard keyword on it, including critically, God of Thunder, his main resource generating card. TBE coming out first allows you to use it to for GOT (or GOT could already help pay for TBE). When run in an Aggression deck, which Thor naturally likes, you can get twenty cards that are affected by TBE.<\/p>\n
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These twenty cards, plus the three TBE’s make up about half your deck. There are another nine cards in Thor’s deck that don’t qualify for TBE, leaving you eight to eighteen cards to round out the deck with. I’ve altered these final cards based on who we would be playing against. The three resource cards are usually among them, along with Helicarrier.<\/p>\n
We’ve tried a few Heroic 1 games with him and while we’re still losing fairly often at this level, I’ve never felt like Thor wasn’t pulling his weight as I have in previous plays with him. In fact, more than once I’ve pulled off the dream: two to three Hammer Throws in one turn. It usually involves the following sequence:<\/p>\n
With each new release it will be good to go back to older heroes that never quite felt up to snuff and see if they can find a new life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"