Title pretty much says it all. X-Men have been my favorite comic book team since forever and I have always wanted to make amazing decks with them. I have plenty of them, but when I saw this card after coming out of my VS System Comma I realized that it had amazing potential and could be the focal point of a Recovery based deck. Any ideas. This can be Golden, Silver, Modern. I would actually prefer all three. Thanks in advance for your help.

easy.
step 1. buy at least 4 boxes of UDE product starting with of after mavel team-up.

step 2. cash in your 10,000 points for 4x 4 drop wolverines and whatever else they have left at the points store.

step 3, hit ebay and pray to buddha you can score a playset of to me my xmen.

step 4, create a weenie assault, spamming recovery effects and some card draw using ego gems, forge, and new baxter building

step 5. pwn noobs

Or: you could abuse Havok 4 drop to stun your own characters. Using CotA, and Phoenix Rising.

Or: you can build a X-Men/Horsemen team-up deck. Use Survival and X-Men Assemble with weenie team attack tricks, Madrox army characters and Ultimate Sacrifice.

Or: Madrox army characters, Flame Trap and Ultimate Sacrifice.

Not to mention Morph has fun with this card, also.

I really like the Havok idea.
I think my first attempt will be focused on him.
Is the X-Men set still silver age legal?

Only until the next Marvel set comes out. I believe that will be the Choose-Your-Own-Set thingie that they have going on right now.

3 Drop Xorn = THE MAN for this type of build. He easily multiplies the effectiveness of your recovery tricks.

5 Drop Wolvie = Auto-recovery. Good Times.

Here's my X-Weenies Assemble! deck, FWIW. It's not uber-competitive, but it's very fun to play.

Characters - 32
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[1 - 8]
2x Wild Child, Age of Apocalypse (X-Men)
2x Domino, Neena Thurman (X-Men)
2x Multiple Man, Army * Madrox (X-Men)
2x Shadowcat, Phase Shifter (X-Men)
[2 - 14]
4x Bishop, Age of Apocalypse (X-Men)
2x Sabretooth, Age of Apocalypse (X-Men)
2x Sunfire, Rising Sun (X-Men)
2x Forge, Inventor Extraordinaire (X-Men)
2x Gambit, Swamp Rat (X-Men)
2x Havok, Unstable Son (X-Men)
[3 - 6]
2x Cable, Nathan Summers (X-Men)
2x Beast, Bookworm (X-Men)
2x Nightcrawler, Man of the Cloth (X-Men)
[4 - 2]
2x Bishop, Time Cop (X-Men)
[5 - 2]
2x Cyclops, Fearless Leader (X-Men)

Plot Twists - 20
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4x X-Men Assemble!, Age of Apocalypse
4x Poker Night
4x Turnabout
4x Battle Tactics
4x Fastball Special

Locations - 6
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3x Muir Island
3x Xavier's Institute of Higher Learning

Equipment - 3
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3x Ego Gem, Unique * Infinity Gem

2 Drop Bishop AoA
3 Drop Xorn
4 Drop Prof X (mxm)
5 Drop Wolvie (mxm)
6 Drop Colossus (mxm)

4x X-Men Assemble
4x COTA
4x Healing Factor
4x Muir Island

Muir Island Recovers Xorn who pays to recover Prof X who pays to draw a card to replace the discard of Muir. Wolvie recovers for free. Choose Colossus to recover as normal recovery. Everyone gets counters. I don't bother running 7 or higher because I can usually win by 6. If not I recover Colossus with xorn and pay to make him the size of a 7 drop.

The biggest problem (if you can call it a problem) I run in to with the deck is that my characters often get so big they don't stun and thus prevent me from recovering them to get any bigger.

Maybe some PT's that lower def and raise attack.

That's the core of my Immortal X-Men deck. Havok can be fun on 4 too.

The Batman has got it pretty much covered (except I like Havok instead of Prof X on 4).

You can also play Harry's Hideaway (better than Healing Factor IMHO), Turnabout, and pretty much every card cycler in the format (Cerebro, Worthington Industries, X-Corp Suite).

My recommendation is to focus on the basic curve of Bishop/Xorn/Havok/Wolverine/Colossus, and add in some cards like Harry's Hideaway, Muir Island, Children of the Atom, and even Revitalize to go crazy with X-Men Assemble Tricks.

You could even throw in a Deadshot/Scandal combo just to search out more X-Men Assembles.

Your guys are so big they don't stun? That doesn't seem like a problem to me?

You forgot Rebirth.

I don't find I ever need any additional recovery than what I included. In fact COTA is really just there as a counter to finishing move type cards. Healing Factor was actually not part of the core engine but I included it because I was typing too fast. I run it because I like to pull berserker rage antics on Wolverine.

No love for the AoA wolverine?

I actually beliebe Bub to be easier to play around. Plus, he would be taking up the spot for Havok, and you would need a new 5 drop. And Cyke does not help with your plans.

EDIT: Sorry, meant The Best at What he does.

Its too bad you need Bishop to make this work, 2 drop Prof X and 3 drop Xorn just sounds stupid to me now.

You don't need him, persay. He just really helps you ensure you get Assemble into your hand/row.