Psionic Firepower

This deck has a ton of economy and has no trouble emptying its hand every turn. Her identity kit is great at keeping the threats in check compared to typical Aggression decks, and you can consistently dig for her allies with Cerebro for extra thwart/block. Her Aggression Events take care of damage especially if you managed to put Honed Technique in play, which not as essential to her gameplan as most other decks centered around this archetype, just a nice-to-have since she has easy access to mental ressources with her Psi-Knife and The Power of the Mind.

This deck likes to flip every round, since reverting to Alter-Ego not only draws her 2 extra cards, but with Cerebro and Training Regimen you get another 2 (and still have 2 "free" ressources with her Psi-Knives. If both your X-Men Allies (Professor X and White Queen) are in your discard, use her Alter Ego action to shuffle them back in the deck, since they also both have the Psionic trait. Also, since this deck has very few allies to consistently chump block, you will probably need to Recover every couple of rounds.

Firepower is a win condition for big damage in the late game (12 damage with Honed Technique and Psimitar). She already has two weapon upgrades in play from setup but exhausting them means losing ressources and exhausting Psimitar is also not perfectly efficient, so you are not going out of your way to use them in the early game unless you pulled a powerful Minion and need to get rid of it ASAP. Psimitar is likely to trigger every round normally for consistent damage, but since her Psi-Katana have the Restricted trait (but not of the Psi-Knife side), you might want to play Side Holster at some point just to avoid getting stuck or forced to discard.

I rarely put 2 copies of Team-Building Exercise is any deck, but since half her deck has the Psionic trait (and Angel has the X-Force trait), you might never have a round where you couldn’t use them. Just keep in mind that they have a bit of anti-synergy with Honed Technique, but even with her identity cards and Allies, they usually have a valid target every round.

Variations If you want to cut the deck down to 40 cards, I would cut one or two copies of The Power of the Mind (which often ends up being excess ressources in the late game) and the second copy of Honed Technique (that I added for consistency and to keep having a target for Training Regimen).

There is a strong argument for putting Moira MacTaggert here.

Mulligan You want to setup her economy first. The top priorities are

• Cerebro
• Training Regimen (probably pulling Honed Technique to play it on the first round)
• First copy of Team-Building Exercise
• X-Gene
• Second copy of Team-Building Exercise
• Honed Technique (if you didn’t pull Training Regimen)