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[This deck has cleared every scenario on Heroic 1]
The purpose of this deck is to shore up Doctor Strange's strengths with tons of allies to block for him: allowing him to stay in hero form all game and use Wong to cycle cards for him (read: you never have to swap to alter-ego).
This deck cuts out a lot of the chaff, like situational cards that don't focus on the ally swarm and toughening them up. In normal and expert, x3 tough allies can net you three entire free turns to do what you wish with the board: his Invocation deck can deal damage, thwart, it can do it all.
Doctor Strange has no need for ramp cards like the "Enhanced" set. He doesn't need recovery or hero healing gumming up his deck as he and his allies shouldn't be taking damage regularly due to his Seven Rings of Raggadorr Invocation. Strange is "on" from turn 1 and you should focus on your strengths: your Invocation deck.
x3 Get Ready allows for Doctor Strange to constantly re-ready Wong, which in turn lets him cycle Vapors of Valtorr: one of his more situational Invocation deck cards. Make the Call can bring Wong back into play, or bring any pricey meatball ally back into play after playing the Winds of Watoomb Invocation: allowing you to pay for those big-cost allies.
That said, note that it's perfectly okay to use Vapors to convert an ally's "tough" to a "confuse/stun" depending on the ally (confuse for an attack-only ally, stun for a thwart-only ally). This concession allows you to cycle out Vapors manually and get to the more heavy-hitting Invocations. As a reminder, you need a legal target to cycle Vapors without trickery like Wong.
A great combo is to bring in Mockingbird (you have options like Make the Call) to stun the villain, tough her with Strange, then block the next villain attack with tough, then block another villain attack without tough, then Rapid Response her back in, stunning the villain again. You've just negated four attacks: crucial for Heroic games where you're taking multiple villain activations per turn.
Also don't forget about the combo of using Maria Hill, then Get Ready to attack/thwart to kill her off, then using a pre-played Rapid Response to bring her back in, then playing another Rapid Response, then killing her off again with an attack/thwart (she comes back with 1HP), then Rapid Response-ing her in again. If you go first in a four player game, your table will thank you.
The Iron Man ally is a literal wildcard and is in the deck for three reasons:
1) This DB doesn't have all the new cards yet. 2) He's an ally: even without upgrades his stats are baseline. 3) He's a wild resource to help feed Magic Blast.
If you wish, you can substitute him for The Sorcerer Supreme
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Jul 05, 2020 |
Jul 07, 2020This deck rocks. I love allies. What I love more is tough allies! Make everyone Luke Cage for the cost of 1 resource! |
Jul 09, 2020Love this deck! Reminds me so much of my Goku Allies Deck I ran back when Score DBZ was still around. After playing it a bunch the last 2 days, the only real tweak I made was taking out Inspired and Heimdall and putting in 2 Quinjets. The Quinjets fit my play style and can really give you big swing potential where you can drop a big cost ally for free and still play your hand, play extra allies, use a spell, etc. Love the heck out of this deck and it will only get better as the ally pool increases! Nice work! |
Jul 10, 2020Lockjaw is feeling very left out right now. |
Jul 11, 2020Really enjoying this build. Heimdall seems to be a bit expensive for most builds IMO. I like his Response but man, he's expensive. I never seem to put him in play, just used as a resource. I'm thinking of swapping him out with The Triskelion. I always find myself with a few more Ally options in hand but my limit of 3 in play has already been reached. Great job with this! |
Jul 17, 2020Great deck. My question would be whether you get a lot of value from Sanctum Sanctorum since the plan is to stay in Hero mode. Would it be more beneficial to swap it for The Sorcerer Supreme? I also like the idea from |
Jul 17, 2020I am silly it is part of Doctor Strange deck :s |
Jul 17, 2020There is so many allies in this deck that I never use make the call. I always have something better to play. Get ready is only really useful for wong. For other allies, not so much. And reading wong might not be necessary because you can change the top card of the invocation deck by Being into alter ego. So I removed the get ready and make the call. I include 3x inspired and 3x first aid to keep allies strong and Alive. (I had a while game where I had an inspired Iron man from the beginning. Between healing and though status, it never die. The last card was replaced by a teamwork but I am not very convinced. I will maybe replace it by a queenjet. Note that if heimdall was not so good with rapid response, I would exclude it to limit myself to avengers and get the tower of avengers. I might test with quinjet or triskelion for the last cards. |
Jul 19, 2020
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Jul 27, 2020is this the best deck of all time? i mean maybe? who cares? allies for days is fun as hell. Get Ready to cycle faster with Wong is just truly chef's kiss |
Aug 12, 2020I'm curious to know if anyone has had any success with this deck up against heroic Mutagen Formula? Really struggling to lay any damage on the villain as we get swamped by goblin soldiers and side schemes! (X2 player game on Tabletop Simulator) |
Aug 12, 2020I have been able to beat Expert Mutagen Formula (with the Electro set instead of Goblin Gimmick) in a solo game. I have not tested the Heroic mode however |
Aug 19, 2020Cool deck. I haven't had a chance to play. Is there a reason you didn't put The Triskelion in this deck to increase the ally limit? Seems like you could do more work. Was it just too inefficient to put an extra ally out instead of a calling back up another one you needed? |
Sep 05, 2020@Hall of Heroes: „tough her with Strange“, how? |
Sep 05, 2020Never mind. ;) |
Sep 08, 2020
Also I assume Black Knight is an upgrade over Iron Man. 1 thwart isn't worth 1 cost. |
Oct 14, 2020Nice deck. Strange really is the most OP character of this game! |
Nov 19, 2020I made a new version, hope you like |
Jan 27, 2021Excellent deck! Just beat Ultron on Expert for the first time, with my first time playing Doctor Strange ever. |
Jan 29, 2021Insanely fun and very strong deck. |
Jan 29, 2021Yeah this deck (or should I say the invocation deck) is literally broken as hell. It's fun for awhile but then gets hilarious after a few games. |
Feb 02, 2021As someone new to the game and loving Doctor Strange, thank you for creating this insanely fun deck. Has it been updated at all since its conception with all the news cards? I have all cards released atm and wonder if there are any tweaks I can do to make it even better (like using some of the newer allies or something). Would love to hear your thoughts! |
Feb 07, 2021Hi all, keen to try constructing this deck. May I ask is an Invocation deck separate from the main hero Dr Strange's deck? |
Feb 08, 2021Yes it is separate for the main deck |
Apr 06, 2021Really great deck. I updated it a bit with the new cards. |
Apr 17, 2021What do you think about spiritual meditation from scarlet witch? I think digging for cards is useful. |
May 19, 2021Cosmo's wording is wrong on this site, the actual card says "discard the top card of a deck"; so you can choose invocation and have him act as a second Wong while also being Black Cat. Would you drop Iron Man for this? Also is it worth dipping deeper into upgrades and Yondu territory, or would this just be a different deck at that point? |
Jun 10, 2021I've just added yet another deck to the 'inspiration for' list on this one. So many of us have tried to improve on it, but I don't think I succeeded. marvelcdb.com |
Oct 28, 2021I think there might be some great leadership allies added from spectrums deck that might pair well here. But I’ll leave the deck building to those smarter than I |
Nov 02, 2021I'd swap some allies for sure. The 65CE/CC bugs me. With cheaper ways to play stronger allies in blue via welcome aboard + innovation it just seems more fun to play those decks. |
Dec 02, 2021Very solid deck, impressive. |
Dec 06, 2021I would love to see this updated after so many new great cards have come out. |
Dec 10, 2021Just starting the game, this deck looks bonkers good. Makes sense how Strange can beat the multiverse of villans. |
Jan 21, 2022What is the Reason for Heimdall in this Deck ? I dont Know why is he in the Deck and not Goliath or others :D Is there a little Trick to use him ? In Scarlet Witch Deck i know why he is useful :D |
Jan 27, 2022Thank you for sharing this amazing deck! I just wanted to ask whether there are any updated cards to add into the deck given the new cards that have been releasing. Anything to change out? |
Apr 04, 2022Is Inspired really better than Sorcerer Supreme though? |
Jul 15, 2022IMO the best deck for somebody that has a small collection of packs. Very nice on true solo. |
Jul 21, 2022Amazing. Played against Taskmaster with this and I don't think my HP dropped below 7. Was especially nice to pick up captive Shang-Chi early on and use rapid response on him multiple times to stun Taskmaster. I think I had both a stun and confuse on the villain for over half the game. |
Dec 01, 2022I'm new to the game, but you list 3 copies of Rapid Response, both here and in other versions of this deck list. The card itself says 1 per player, so isn't 3 copies illegal? |
Dec 01, 2022
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Jan 13, 2023Favorite character? Check. Favorite aspect? Check. Easily customizable? Yes. Amazing deck, makes Strange shine and it is so much fun to play with an army of allies (I added the Triskelion). Cleared Expert RoRS easily, with some challenging situation (looking at Madame Hydra with two Legions of Hydra side scheme and Mordo in play). I was literally keeping Taskmaster at bay effortlessly waiting for all the captives to be freed (took a couple runs of the encounter deck) but even with double acceleration tokens on the main scheme, I was untouchable; after that, Make the Call with 0 cost allies was OP. So much fun! Will try Heroic next. |
Really enjoyed playing this deck. I played Klaw, who I've only beaten once with Dr Strange, and won fairly comfortably. Having so many allies meant I only flipped to alter-ego once and was able to utilise the Invocation deck far more effectively that I have previously. Thanks to Hall of Heroes for this deck - great fun and very effective.