Bucky the Minion Slayer

Winter Soldier vs Expert Ronan Playthrough

Winter Soldier has one of the best precons in all of Marvel Champions, so this deck leans into what he already wants to do--slay minions. Bucky's hero ability, Lethal Protector, allows him to remove 2 threat from any scheme each time he defeats an enemy. This allows Bucky to easily control threat without even focusing on it as long as he's slaying minions.

Summon Minions

Safe House #30 is one of the most reliable ways to summon minions. As an alter-ego action, we want to have plenty of confuses to be able to flip down to use it. Bucky already has built in confuses with Silent Infiltration, but adding in Psylocke and Professor X gives us even more. Angela is also in this deck to grab us a minion when we need it.

Make $$$ from Minions

Minions give us money. We want to get as much value from the minions we summon as possible.

• "Bring it!" draws a card for each minion engaged with you

• Man on the Wall reduces the cost of the next card played for each minion engaged with you

• Hall of Heroes gets a glory counter each time Bucky defeats a minion

• Winter Mask can exhaust to draw a card when Bucky defeats a minion

• Silent Infiltration can ready Bucky up and confuse an enemy when he defeats a minion

Slay Minions

With 7 attack events in his identity-specific kit (3x Metal Punch, 2x Electrical Discharge, 2x Arm Block) Bucky already has plenty of ways to slay minions. For even more consistency, this deck runs 2x Firepower, the Super-Soldiers team-up, and the Winter, Widow, Soldier, Spy team-up. We always want to have the opportunity to slay these minions when they're in play and the Cybernetic Arm works for all of these attack events. It's important to keep in mind that playing an attack event to defeat a minion will also trigger Lethal Protector, Winter Mask, and Silent Infiltration.

Events aside, Bucky also has his Winter Rifle, S.H.I.E.L.D. Sidearm, and Bambino to boost his basic attack activation. Use this to slay more minions.

Best Teammate

Team-up cards are getting better and better. Super-Soldiers can reliably be played since the Captain America ally usually stays in play for a long time with his tough status and 3 hit points. Winter, Widow, Soldier, Spy is an attack event that the Black Widow ally can tutor from the discard when she's played and it puts in Silent Infiltration. Usually team-up cards that rely on having unique allies in play are too luck dependent, but both of these team-up events are very reliable with these 2 allies and in Bucky’s kit. Cybernetic Arm can help pay for them and they will proc all of Bucky's minion slaying abilities since playing an attack event is considered making an attack. In my deck showcase against expert Ronan I was able to play both team-ups which is super fun!

Player Side Schemes --> Winter Rifle

Winter Rifle is bonkers. Getting +2 attack on top of piercing and ranged makes it the priority target for Lock and Load and Superpower Training.

Is Minion Slaying Viable?

Long ago, minion slaying was once considered a multiplayer archetype because focusing on minions and damage meant that other areas like thwarting and survivability would be lacking. This is no longer the case in 2025. Ronan the Accuser is a scenario that isn’t minion heavy and the minions that he has are all rough. This makes him the ultimate test for minion-oriented aggression decks in true solo.