Ms. Marvel's Giant-Size Adventure

Intro

If you've been in a comic store lately, you may have seen Ms. Marvel gracing the cover of some iconic X-Men stories. Over the last few months, to celebrate the 50th anniversary (!) of Giant-Size X-Men, she's been appearing in classic Giant-Size stories from X-Men history - Giant-Size X-Men, Giant-Size Dark Phoenix, Giant-Size Age of Apocalypse, and Giant-Size House of M.

Since being retconned as a mutant, Ms. Marvel is still finding her way, but this has been a fun set of issues as both a Ms. Marvel and X-Men fan (though not as big an X-Men fan as she is in the comics!). She's discovering new, MCU-tant powers and making friends with classic X-Men.

And this? This is a Giant-Size Ms. Marvel deck! I'm revisiting the Dig Through the Ditches deck from a couple of years ago.

Major changes

• We Embiggened it. In that write up, I talked about the value of a sideboard. Welp, all your sideboard is belong to us.
• We're taking advantage of Aggressive Stance to mitigate the downsides of expanding the deck to 50 cards (we can pull attack events when minions arrive) and thus power up No Quarter. I toyed around with Assault Training to recycle more Aggression events to pull with Aggressive Stance, but if you really, really need one and you've burned through your copies, Aamir Khan is often on hand to help.
• We are also swapping Looking for Trouble for Spoiling for a Fight. On our biggest turns, we can use Spoiling to recur multiple events, but it's also just a more powerful utility card - it smoothes our output in the face of Exhaustion, stun effects, Recover basic actions, etc. If you're playing a scenario like Hela or Batroc where you really need to nuke the main scheme, Looking for Trouble is a potential swap, especially because you can Shrink it to remove 5 threat from the main.

Notes on gameplay

• This is a heavy set-up deck. You want Aamir and Nakia Bahadir to hit the table along with your Biokinetic Polymer Suit and Honed Technique in the first deck pass. Teen Spirit with abandon. Aamir and Nakia help mitigate the set up burden, and Teen Spirit can hit Digging Deep to help. Into the Fray and Sneak By can help mitigate threat as you get set up.
• You should be flipping down aggressively. Psylocke is a great help. She is one Aggression card I do like to occasionally recycle with Aamir, especially if I've passed her early on. I dabbled with Professor X and couldn't use him consistently, but ymmv.
• No Quarter is a powerful economy card here. Outside your signature 15, every other card will either come to hand or hit the table (White Fox). Feel free to ask Bruno Carrelli to stash or Aamir to bottom your signature cards, but don't worry too much if you pass them. You can spin through this 50 card deck at pace.
• To that point, you can effectively think of your deck as a 15 card deck (Signatures) that you access with Teen Spirit, and a 31 card deck that you access with No Quarter. (You have access to the 4 Basic cards with either.) You do want to thin your signature stack by playing your upgrades and Persona Supports; the 31 card deck will stay big and get drawn to hand with No Quarter.

Outro

That's about it! Go get 'em. And if you pass a comic store, pick up a Giant-Size celebration of X-Men history with Kamala Khan as your guide.