Black Widow: Spycraft

How's this work? I design this in conjunction to my Thor does Thor things deck to be a buffer between Thor's big dumb head and the villain's plan for world domination. Thor doesn't thwart (I think that's in the rulebook), so someone has to do the thwarting for him. In comes Black Widow and her amazing friends. Black Widow works at the defensive end, stopping the villain from doing too much and kiting the big bad with her Widowmaker while her friend soak damage and basically make sure that nobody's plan gets off the ground.

How's it play? This is a Natasha plug-n-play type deck. You get Preparations out, you get Ally's out, you knee-cap the villain's scheme during your turn the best you can, then sit back and Grappling Hook, Attacrobatics and Widow's Bite, and/or Target Acquired and Espionage any card that comes up during the Encounter phase. Black Widow's Gauntlet is the engine that runs your 1 - 2 cost Preparation cards and Winter Soldier is never not welcomed to the party, but you're going to be sacking a lot of cards from your hand to get things like Nick Fury, Falcon and Vision out so be ready to make some tough decision. Don't worry though, Safe House #29 can bring back the Preparation cards that you chuck.

So, in summary... Natasha is a reliable spoiler. She can't take too many hits though, so flip-down early and often. She might be able to tank a hit if you're out of Allies to chump-block for you, but it's not ideal. So recur those d-bags back as soon as you can.