Reverberations

Did you know that Echo is from an old Greek myth. She was a mountain nymph who was cursed by Hera to only repeat words spoken to her. She fell in love with Narcissus, who eventually fell in love with himself. Honestly, I feel like Narcissus would be the kind of guy who might like someone who just repeats back to himself, but think the moral of the story is that he just realised what a great guy he was. What's the point of all this? Well, Echo is best when she can capitalise on what's going on at the table, but like Narcissus, remember to love yourself too. Or don't. I'm a deck description, not a cop.

Cacophony

The purpose of this deck is to capitalise on what Echo does best. Keep in mind when playing multiplayer, however. The more players you add to the game, the more complex Echo can play. Her hero ability Watch and Learn lets you tuck any aspect or basic event played by any player, not just yourself. Study the Tape lets you grab any aspect event, basic, or Photographic Reflexes from any player's discard, not just your own. Is the Leadership player popping off with a million Maria Hills in the same turn to let everyone draw an absolute truck ton of extra cards? Help finish the turn with one more Make the Call (or two; or three; or...). Did the 'Pool player save everyone's bacon with a timely Break Time? Play it again for some extra healing and get a bunch of extra damage with Echo's Katana (keeping in mind that while X cost will be 0, you do all the math for per-player costs; ie 3 damage in solo, 6 in two-player, etc. with Break Time). When playing in multiplayer, definitely be sure to bring some Strength in Diversity for the Leadership player so everyone can join in on the value train.

Synergistic Sounds

The crux of this deck revolves around Improvisation. After you play an Attack event, heal 1 damage; after you play a Defense event, remove threat; after you play a Thwart event, deal 1 damage. Superpower Training should be used as soon as possible for expressly this purpose: finding Improvisation as soon as possible. Once you have it in play, the deck can really start to run at full capacity, and to help that along, there are 3 different events at 2 copies each with have two of the above traits.

• Get Their Attention: Defense+Thwart, makes you the defender of an attack, removes 3 threat from a scheme; also removes 1 extra threat and deals 1 damage (2-cost)
• In Harm's Way: Attack+Thwart, deals X damage, removes X threat, where X is your DEF; also heals 1 and deals 1 (3-cost)
• Powerful Punch: Attack+Defense, deals 4 damage and makes you the defender of an attack; also heals 1 and removes 1 threat (2-cost)

There are not the full 3 copies of each because:

• Echo's alter-ego ability Practice Makes Perfect lets you find any aspect or basic event from your deck when you flip to hero form
• Echo's hero ability Watch and Learn lets you tuck any of the above events after you play it (up to 3)
• Photographic Reflexes counts as a copy of any of the above events after it is tucked under her
• Study the Tape lets you grab any of them from your discard (or Photographic Reflexes) to add to your hand
• Muscle Memory lets you take a tucked event and add it to your hand
• Choreography keeps shuffling them from your discard back into your deck

The deck is over 1/4 upgrades, so after the first deck pass, your deck will be completely full of events.

The Best Offense...

Ironically this deck does not use The Best Offense, and that's precisely because the focus is on the above interaction with Improvisation. Because of that, there is so much damage and thwarting available already. However, having a high DEF is still important. With Armored Vest, Defensive Conditioning, Innate Reflexes, Ronin, and Specialized Training (grabbing Defense Specialist), Echo can get to 7 DEF. "Stop Hitting Yourself" seems like such a great card in the deck! But what if you could spend one more resource and do even more?

• In Harm's Way will build up to a ceiling of: deal 7 damage, deal 3 damage (with piercing), deal 1 damage, heal 1 damage from Echo, and remove 7 threat, all for the low-low cost of 4 resources. I will give you so much value and doesn't require defending and taking no damage from an attack. Additionally, you can direct this damage anywhere, not just to the attacking enemy.

In addition to that, Cuts Both Ways is available in 3 copies. It is only a defense event, so just removes 1 threat in addition to the retaliate, but it helps the deck so much with damage. Being a cheap card lets you play many copies. With Taunt not being limited to one per round, you can really capitalise on that extra damage. Remember that you can play one from your hand, tuck it, and play it again with Photographic Reflexes in the same window. With Ronin, you can increase your Retaliate damage quite a lot.

If you are finding the damage to be overwhelming, there is one copy of "Come Get Me, Bub!" which will get a minion, heal you, and give you a tough so that you can keep fighting. To help supplement this as well, The Rez can heal based on the highest cost of a tucked card (usually 2 or 3, which is quite a lot of extra healing that doesn't cost an exhaust).

Practice Makes Perfect

Most of the deck is relatively low-cost, so Assess the Situation is used in lieu of basic resources. These can also help burn some extra copies of Photographic Reflexes while also giving you a much bigger hand size for next turn. There is an immense amount of card draw with:

• Taunt (and the extra copies of it from Photographic Reflexes and Study the Tape)
• Specialized Training
• Change of Fortune
• Choreography
• Muscle Memory
• Unflappable

Choreographed

Just communicate with your fellow players when playing in multiplayer. When playing solo, just remember to echo your own events as much as possible. Remember to get Improvisation out as quickly as possible to start capitalising on all the value from playing your events. Although there's only 4 thwart events, there is so much thwarting you can do once it's out since it opens up your thwarting options to all of your defense events as well. Also keep in mind that Photographic Reflexes and Study the Tape count as extra copies of your other events.

Echo is definitely a hero you will improve the more you play. Sometimes you should be more like Echo the nymph and other times you can be a little more like Narcissus.