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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:
| Mission | # | Reward |
|---|---|---|
| Win Matches | 20 | 200 Credits |
| Win with | 150 | 150 Gold |
| Win with Jean Grey starting in your Deck | 300 | 300 Collector’s Tokens |
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).
Decks with Jean Grey
Most players will want to be efficient with these missions, so today we will give you three different decks that incorporate Jean Grey and
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?
Decks with Silver Surfer
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.
Decks with Thanos
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.
Decks with Rocket Raccoon
Decks with Gamora
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
Decks
SafetyBlade
This deck looks to incorporate the Silver Surfer Destroy package with Jean Grey and
SafetyBlade
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).
SafetyBlade
Finally we can try and jam together a small Destroy package with a fill-the-board Zoo. This allows us to use
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.
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