Brothers in Caffeinated Arms

Playthroughs:

• Waris Ali

This is my first time to ever use Target Practice or Guardians of the Galaxy all thanks to NelsonAllOver’s Deck Factory on Target Practice!

Also, caffeine = laser blaster? I think so.

Why Venom?

Venom as a guardian has access to powerful guardian cards like "Welcome Aboard" to make it easy for allies to come into play. He also has the ability to grab a weapon right away AND through Locked and Loaded.

Weapons

Venom’s initial setup ability will let him start with a weapon. This means that you can mulligan for an ally and ways to pay for that ally, then hit a weapon. You’re ready to go.

If you get a Venom weapon instead, that’s okay because you’ll be using Venom to defend. His weapons help make sure you can still do board control.

After Venom has all his weapon cards, you can use Locked and Loaded to grab Laser Blaster or Sidearm to equip to an ally and draw from Guardians of the Galaxy. The ability of Guardians can work even when you attach the upgrade to someone else’s ally. Now Locked and Loaded will rarely be a dead card.

No Chumps Only Target Practice

This deck uses allies for their abilities. When Venom has his pistols out, he can defend at 4 DEF. Also, he can heal with Project Rebirth 2.0 without exhausting himself. Allies should do their best to stay in play. In general, try to keep Yondu and one other ally in play at all times using First Aid. The third slot can be used by someone and potentially block if you need the extra activation.

Use Target Practice to up the damage of a weapon from either your ally or another player’s ally that you attached a weapon to.

So the most powerful setup is to have Beta Ray Bill with a weapon do 6 damage with Target Practice defeating a minion, removing threat, and dealing overkill damage to the villain.

Or do 6 damage with a decked out Gamora who will let you get an event to play instead of removing threat. Not too bad.

Sideboard

There are tons of great cards you can use to enhance this deck. If you don’t mind going over 40 cards, take these cards for a spin:

• Clarity of Purpose: enjoy Venom’s ability twice. Just watch out, you might have to use a First Aid on yourself
• Superpower Training: help get your weapons out quickly
• Rally the Troops: this deck uses allies so much that this card can actually be useful
• Leadership Skill: Cheap way to get more attack or thwart on top of Target Practice
• Digging Deep: Gamora…ya know?

All in all, this deck capitalizes on allies who can get weapons and do big things from activations and drawing you a card for giving them a weapon.

Deck Factory Decks:

• Hard Knocks: Spider-Woman
• Problem Solvers: Spider-Man
• Meditation: Iron Man
• Target Practice: Venom