1 HP, No Problem - Righteous & Shielded

Take Righteous Purpose to New Heights by Preventing Your Buffed Allies from Taking Consequential Damage.

This deck takes Righteous Purpose to the next level by using Spider-Woman’s dual-aspect mastery. The play style: burn your Avengers down to 1 HP, slap on Energy Shield, and lock in massive, turn-after-turn ATK/THW buffs by preventing consequential damage.

Why it crushes (even Venom Goblin solo):

1. Captain Marvel + Skycycle + Energy Shield = Draw 2 cards every single turn.

2. ⚡Fuel Engine: 21/40 Energy resources (plus Finesse & Quincarrier) ensure your shields and events are always getting powered.

3. Pair Iron Fist’s readying loops with Hangar Bay, Honorary Avenger and Sky Cycle (block overage damage with Energy Shield), or Iron Lad’s absorbing ability with maximum Righteous Purpose stats for zero-risk, high-reward plays.

Other unlocks:

a. Stronger Together is also an event which helps us prevent damage (mostly consequential) from our allies that share a trait (Avenger) with our hero, minimum 2 (recall that Spider-Woman's hero ability is an interrupt, buffing our DEF bonus for Stronger Together), but often 3 (and even more) for Spider-woman.

b. Stinger is an excellent power-up for Iron Lad without consuming an ally slot.

c. Protector has her own built in shield, which is great. 2 consequential ATK helps her unlock RP bonus after first activation. Iron Lad also can make great use of her subsequent 5 ATK. Her built in means of avoiding consequential damage using mental resource (which can also be supplied by Finesse and Quincarrier) allows her to consistently thwart for 3. Use Stronger Together to also get that 5 ATK hit off for Protector to take no consequential damage.

d. To help with other resource costs, we have Deft Focus (her events except Inconspicuous are superpowers, 9/40). and Unflappable help with hand size/card draw.

Energy Shield Prioritization

MVP #1 - Captain Marvel (The Draw Engine): Attach Skycycle + Energy Shield to draw 2 extra cards every single turn.

2 - Iron Lad (The Channeler): Get Iron lad to 1 HP, and then when he taps another avenger with 1 HP, he gets a double RP bonus. You'll want to protect that with an energy shield. Sky Cycle #2 candidate between him and Iron Fist.

3 - Iron Fist (The Villain-Blocker): Keep him safe. Stack Righteous Purpose + Sidearm for a 5 ATK titan to prevent damage. The energy shield can prevent excess as needed (as can Stronger Together). Loop readying triggers with Hangar Bay to block twice in villain phase. Skycycle can ready him during player phase.

4 - Honorable Mention - Ant-Man (The Cheap, Utility Swiss Army Knife): Fetch him alongside Energy Shield via Suit Up. Drop him in at 1 HP to instantly trigger Righteous Purpose or feed Iron Lad.

Final notes:

Running only two standard double-resource cards might look wild at first glance, but the curve here is incredibly low. Once your key discounts are down, your surplus Energy generates more value powering Energy Shield interrupts than paying for cards directly.

If you're a strict 40-card purist, cut Avengers Tower. But keeping it yields dividends: it discounts every ally in the deck (yes, once Iron Fist is out you'll need Honorary Avenger, but that's mostly for Sky Cycle) and lets you run a massive 6-ally board.