Thanos leads a five-color Villain tribal midrange deck that floods the board with Villain creatures and 2/1 menace tokens, turning every Villain entering or being cast into incremental value through cost reduction, token makers, life drain and connive triggers. A second engine rewards drawing a second card each turn with tokens, counters and drain, fed by connive and cheap looting. Thanos himself is a lifelinking deathtouch body whose one-shot power-up wipes every other creature of the chosen odd or even mana value, so the deck can be shaped to survive his half-board wipe while opponents lose theirs. How it wins: It goes wide with menace Villains and pumped power-up creatures, chips opponents with repeated drain and Villain-enter damage, then clears blockers with removal or a Thanos power-up wipe to swing for lethal. Key roles: - Villain payoffs: Casting or landing Villains makes spells cheaper, spawns menace tokens, grows creatures and drains every opponent each turn (Madame Hydra, Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord, Crossbones, Malicious Mercenary) - Second-card-draw engine: Connive, looting and extra draws reliably hit the second draw each turn, triggering tokens, counters, drain and plan progress (Construct a Cosmic Cube, Madame Masque, Leader, Super-Genius) - Token swarm: A steady stream of 2/1 menace Villains and Robot tokens widens the board and refills it after a Thanos wipe (Arnim Zola, Bio-Fanatic, HYDRA Troopers, Robot Domination) - Power-up and counter growth: One-shot power-up activations, cheaper the turn a creature enters, pile +1/+1 counters on creatures, which can be doubled and protected with hexproof (Powerful Broker, Kid Loki, Ultron Drone) - Drain and direct damage plans: Villain entries, attacks and equipment ping opponents while plan enchantments build toward big payoffs (Doom Reigns Supreme, Death to Our Enemies, Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer) - Removal and board control: Spot removal, exile effects and Thanos's odd/even wipe, backed by deathtouch punishers, clear the way for attacks (Hour of Defeat, Web Up, The Serpent Society)

Thanos, the Mad Titan decklist

• Arc Reactor
• Commander's Sphere
• Fellwar Stone
• Futurist Forge
• Hawkeye's Bow
• Stolen Stark Tech
• Vibranium Energy Daggers
• A.I.M. Labs
• Avengers Hangar
• Birnin Zana Plaza
• Gathering Place
• Gleaming Bastion
• Hidden Lair
• 5× Island
• Los Diablos Missile Base
• 5× Mountain
• 4× Plains
• Pym Technologies
• Selesnya Guildgate
• 7× Swamp
• Abomination, Terrifying Titan
• Absorbing Man
• Aerial Doombot
• Agents of HYDRA
• Arnim Zola, Bio-Fanatic
• Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord
• Crimson Operative
• Crossbones, Malicious Mercenary
• Elektra, Daughter of the Hand
• Ghost, Spectral Saboteur
• HYDRA Troopers
• Impossible Man
• Kang, Temporal Tyrant
• Kid Loki
• Kingpin's Enforcers
• Kree Commandos
• Kree Sentinel
• Leader, Super-Genius
• Loki Laufeyson
• Madame Hydra
• Madame Masque
• Moonstone, Harsh Mistress
• Ninja of the Hand
• Powerful Broker
• Red Hulk
• Roxxon Brutes
• Super-Adaptoid
• Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
• The Serpent Society
• Ultron Drone
• Undercover Skrull
• Unliving Legionnaire
• Volcanic Villain
• Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer
• Compulsion
• Construct a Cosmic Cube
• Death to Our Enemies
• Doom Reigns Supreme
• Frozen in Ice
• HYDRA Infiltration
• Rewrite History
• Robot Domination
• Super Strength
• Super Villain Lockup
• The Super Hero Civil War
• Web Up
• Aetherize
• Chaos Warp
• Decoy Ploy
• Dismissive Denial
• Heated Argument
• Hour of Defeat
• Visions of Villainy
• Atlantis Attacks
• Cruel Alliance
• Swamp
• Forest
• Mountain
• Island
• Plains
• Swamp
• Forest