Jean Grey and The Phoenix Force and Decks: Weekend Challenge Mission Guide

During the weekend, there is now one more set of Missions for players to complete: The Weekend Missions! These involve additional rewards for winning games related to the week’s new card and the Season Pass card. These missions provide extra Collector’s Tokens and Gold! This week’s Weekend Challenges are:

You need to win games with the card starting in your deck, and it does not count if the card was generated by cards such as Cable and Maria Hill. Each of these reward amounts will vary depending on the difficulty of the mission. There will be Weekly Missions available for each new card release. The goal of Weekly Missions is to allow players to earn back Collector’s Tokens from new cards and subsidize their cost.

The token missions are expected to differ from week to week, depending on the card. For example, three wins for 100 Collector’s Tokens, four wins for 300, and five wins for 500, depending on the week (1,000 Collector’s Tokens is on the highest end).

Variants

Jean Grey

Ongoing: Players must play their first card here each turn. (if possible)

Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)

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Variants

The Phoenix Force

On Reveal: Revive one of your destroyed cards and merge with it. That card can move each turn.

Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)

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Most players will want to be efficient with these missions, so today we will give you three different decks that incorporate Jean Grey and The Phoenix Force.

We’ll also give you a short guide on how to get the most out of the deck and finish the missions quickly, but first let’s take a quick look at the new card’s performance this week.

Performance

Jean Grey is an interesting card. She creates a puzzle for both yourself and your opponent which can be back breaking against some decks. The effect can be mitigated for yourself in deck building and it seems to add layers to some existing decks. But is it actually required?

Variants

Silver Surfer

On Reveal: Give your other 3-Cost cards +2 Power.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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Variants

Brood

On Reveal: Add 2 Broodlings to this location with the same Power.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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In Silver Surfer, it seems to have already been accepted as doing a lot of work. You can easily fill the location with Brood to remove the restriction for yourself in this archetype and the power output can compete with most decks. This makes the archetype the natural home for many. It could easily be queried if you could replace her in these decks with other 3 drops though so her performance here doesn’t indicate the card is strong enough.

Variants

Spectrum

On Reveal: Give your Ongoing cards +2 Power.

Collection Level 1-14

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Variants

Mojo

Ongoing: If both players have 4 cards at this location, +6 Power.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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Variants

Thanos

At the start of the game, shuffle the six Infinity Stones into your deck.

Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)

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The performance outside of Silver Surfer is more interesting. The Ongoing decks have performed significantly better since Jean Grey was released for example. Although the deck as a whole may not compete at the highest levels, the improvement does demonstrate a power in the effect. She synergizes well here as she forces plays into specific locations and similar to Silver Surfer our in the position to fill it earlier in the game removing the restrictions for yourself and add power later. Although she is not creating the archetype here, she has improved the performance.

Variants

Rocket Raccoon

On Reveal: If your opponent played a card here this turn, +2 Power.

Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

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Variants

Gamora

On Reveal: If your opponent played a card here this turn, +5 Power.

Recruit Season

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Then there are the Lockdown decks. These decks including the Guardians of The Galaxy cards and sometimes even Angela and Kitty Pryde perform really well. She achieves what Nebula attempted to. You are guaranteed Guardians’ abilities with Jean Grey on the board, can ‘lock the lane up’ with cards like Kitty Pryde and Jeff the Baby Land Shark, then lock out other lanes on Turn 5. Here she is a core piece of the deck, but potentially she isn’t actually core in the others.

Whilst Jean Grey is fun and unique, it does not appear she pushes these decks as much as it seems. Playing against her is annoying and some archetypes have definitely seen an increase in performance however and this makes her above average. However, if you don’t own Jean Grey you can likely replace her in most the lists and still find success.

So how do we use Jean Grey with The Phoenix Force though to rack up wins and complete the Weekend Challenge Missions this weekend?

Decks

Silver Phoenix

Created by SafetyBlade

, updated 2 months ago

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4x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

3x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

3x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

2x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)

2.8

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2.9

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This deck looks to incorporate the Silver Surfer Destroy package with Jean Grey and The Phoenix Force. Silver Surfer Destroy can do some interesting things already and the additional things your looking at here are the ability to play The Phoenix Force on 5 bringing Bucky Barnes or another 3 drop. This can then be moved away from the Jean Grey lane and either destroyed for a second Winter Soldier or buffed by Silver Surfer.

Thanos Destroy

Created by SafetyBlade

, updated 2 months ago

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4x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

1x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

2x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

2x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

3x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)

4.1

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4.9

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Thanos Destroy can easily incorporate Jean Grey pulling a key card from your opponent to be played in the lane. This can have many benefits including setting up for Negasonic Teenage Warhead to take out the big final turns (if you don’t have Negasonic Teenage Warhead try Shang-Chi). The Phoenix Force gets minimum viable benefit here, becoming usually 7 power, draw a card, but revived behind Jean Grey you do get the added benefit of being able to move the card.

Grey Zoo

Created by SafetyBlade

, updated 2 months ago

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1x Collection Level 1-14

1x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

2x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

4x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

1x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

2x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)

1x Recruit Season

2.8

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2.5

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Finally we can try and jam together a small Destroy package with a fill-the-board Zoo. This allows us to use The Phoenix Force to fill a role similar to Vision again and reposition the power out of the Jean Grey lane to where we need it.

Closing Thoughts

Wins with the new card may seem a tall order some weeks depending what quality of card is released. Hopefully this guide helps you decide first if you want the card prior to the missions coming out, and what you can potentially play to complete the missions quickly.