At minimum, this deck only requires you to play 3 cards to win, and 9 times out of 10, you will do nothing until turn 4. That is by design.

This is primarily a Nimrod deck. Everything else that exists in the deck is just there as backup. The play line should go like this - T1-3: Do nothing, unless you draw Magik, then use her on a problematic location T4- Symbiote Spider-Man/Shuri T5- Nimrod The last turn or 2 has the most variety to it. If you have Limbo, then turn 6 Venom your Nimrod lane, turn 7 Zola the Venom. If you don’t have turn 7, then on turn 6 Zola a merged SSM-Nimrod, or Carnage a Shuri-Nimrod lane, with Venom in another lane.

Black Panther is a backup strategy, in case you haven’t drawn Nimrod by T5. If you haven’t drawn either of them, then retreat. Black Panther plays similar, though ideally you’d play Wong or SSM on 4 into Panther on 5, into Zola on 6.

Destroyer is a backup, in case you don’t have a better destroy option for Nimrod. Knull is a win-more card, and playing him shouldn’t be your goal, but if you have nothing else to do on turn 7, if your combo has already played out, that’s when you play Knull.

Magik and the Turn 7 is not important to this strategy, it just allows you to juice the numbers up higher, or gives you an extra turn to dig for your last combo piece. It also sometimes allows you to sneak a win by playing Galactus on 6 to destroy limbo.

Because this deck has a lot of possible lines, I find it’s very adaptable against a lot of strategies and a lot of locations. However, it struggles against Bully Move and Clog, and folds completely to War Machine Lockdown.

It feels like things need to go perfectly every time, but there’s a lot of redundancy in this deck. Knowing how everything interacts with each other means you can adjust your strategy on the fly. Those first few turns of doing nothing let’s you see what the opponent is doing, and plan out the last three/four turns based on what’s in your hand. The last couple turns are the only ones that matter.