Marvel Boy, Noh-Varr

Marvel Boy is a scrappy counter-stacking engine that rewards you for flooding the board with creatures and activating abilities. Every time another creature enters the battlefield or you use a power-up ability (the cheap one-shot activated abilities from newly entered permanents), he grows stronger. Your gameplan is to lean into go-wide strategies—play cheap creatures, Equipment, and artifacts that generate tokens or ETB triggers, then pile +1/+1 counters onto Marvel Boy or other key threats. He becomes a lethal threat surprisingly fast, and those power-ups also double as utility (removal, card draw, mana). Win by turning Marvel Boy into an evasive, oversized threat or by using vigilant attackers with Equipment to go wide and go tall simultaneously.

The Hero typing is key here—Avengers Tower and dedicated Hero support cards make casting your creatures and power-ups cheaper, accelerating your game. New cards like Avengers Assemble! and Super-Soldier Serum reward attacking with Heroes, turning each swing into card draw or buff layers. Don't sleep on Teamwork cards like HULK SMASH! and Go Nuts!—tapping your team of tokens and smaller creatures to upgrade effects is perfect when you're already going wide.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.