Avengers Assemble Precon Upgrade Guide: 5 Best Cards and 5 Budget Picks

Of the four Marvel Super Heroes precons, Avengers Assemble is the one you can sleeve up and win with on night one. It is a Jeskai (white, blue, red) hero deck led by Captain America, Team Leader, and it plays exactly how you want an Avengers deck to play: flood the board with legendary heroes, hand them haste and vigilance as they land, pile on +1/+1 counters, and swing.

The good news is that the stock list is already aggressive and focused. You do not need a dramatic rebuild. You need to sharpen the curve, protect your board, and add a few payoffs that turn a wide team into a finished game. Here is where to spend, what to grab on a budget, and what to cut.

Avengers Assemble is the Jeskai (white, blue, red) Marvel Super Heroes precon led by Captain America, Team Leader, and it is the most focused of the four out of the box. Five budget upgrades cost about $31 together at current prices: Heroes' Podium, Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain, Cadric, Soul Kindler, Honor-Worn Shaku and Flowering of the White Tree. The biggest single add at any price is Roaming Throne, around $47.

Almost every creature in the deck is a legendary Hero, and Captain America rewards you for flooding the board with them. The plan is simple and fast: develop heroes, give the team counters and evasion, and attack before opponents stabilize. The best upgrades double down on that go-wide aggression rather than pulling the deck toward a slower control game.

Playable stock, fix the lands first. It is the most focused Marvel deck out of the box, but an aggressive deck with five tapped lands loses tempo on exactly the turns it wants to attack.

Avengers Assemble has 38 lands and 16 basics. Five lands always enter tapped: Coastal Peak, Glittering Massif, Irrigated Farmland, Mystic Monastery and Path of Ancestry. The rest is good, with three check lands, two snarls and Spectator Seating, which is untapped in any multiplayer game.

Our upgrade list cuts no lands, so these are land-for-land swaps that keep the count at 38.

That is about $2.12 for all four, and every swap keeps the land count the same. Prices checked October 12, 2026, cheapest non-foil printing on Scryfall.

These are the cards that move the needle most, price aside. Card prices move around, so treat the numbers as ballpark figures rather than gospel.

Roaming Throne (around $47). Name "Hero" and it doubles every hero trigger you have, including Captain America's counter and haste effects. It is the single highest impact card you can add.

The One Ring (around $111). Aggressive decks run out of gas, and this gives you a turn of protection plus a refilling draw engine. It keeps the heroes coming when the game goes long.

Shared Animosity (around $4). With a board full of heroes attacking together, this turns a normal swing into a one-shot kill out of nowhere.

Cathars' Crusade (around $5). Every creature you play drops a counter on your whole team. In a deck that is nearly all creatures, the math snowballs fast.

The Ozolith (around $63). It banks the counters from your creatures when they leave the battlefield and moves them onto a creature at the start of your combat, so a board wipe stops being a disaster and your counter investment sticks around.

Strong adds that keep the cost down. Three of these still cost under a dollar. Cadric, Soul Kindler and Flowering of the White Tree have climbed well past $5 since June, so buy those two last if you are counting every dollar.

Heroes' Podium (around $0.50). An anthem for your legendaries that also digs a hero out of your library each turn. Tremendous value for the price.

Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain (around $0.40). She draws a card whenever you cast a historic spell, and nearly every creature in the deck is legendary, so she becomes a steady card-advantage engine.

Cadric, Soul Kindler (around $18). Whenever another nontoken legendary permanent enters, pay one mana to make a hasty token copy of it for the turn, which doubles your best heroes and their enter-the-battlefield effects.

Honor-Worn Shaku (around $0.50). A three-mana rock that taps your legendaries for extra mana. In a deck stuffed with legends, it ramps hard.

Flowering of the White Tree (around $12, regular printing). A two-mana anthem: your legendary creatures get +2/+1 and ward 1, and your other creatures get +1/+1. It has roughly tripled since June, so compare printings before you buy.

Here are the same ten cards sorted into two buying tiers with current prices, using the cheapest nonfoil printing of each card. Prices as of September 27, 2026 (TCGplayer market via Scryfall); they move.

Two budget picks have climbed since June: Cadric, Soul Kindler and Flowering of the White Tree now cost more than Shared Animosity and Cathars' Crusade combined. On a tight budget, buy Heroes' Podium, Jhoira and Honor-Worn Shaku first, then those two enchantments.

The free Marvel precon upgrade kit also has a mid tier and one-click TCGplayer cart links, so you can load a whole tier into your cart at once.

Ten adds means ten cuts. Start with the three weakest stock cards, then trim the slow or off-plan pieces. No lands come out, so the mana base stays intact.

This is the official 100-card list as Wizards of the Coast published it, grouped by card type. Director Nick Fury, the alternate commander, is listed with the creatures. Source: Wizards of the Coast Marvel Super Heroes Commander decklists.

Commander (1): Captain America, Team Leader

Creatures (29): Falcon and Redwing; Hercules, Olympian Hero; Winter Soldier, Reborn Avenger; Iron Man, Armored Avenger; Jarvis, Earth's Mightiest Butler; Professor Hulk; The Wasp, Winsome Avenger; Firebird, Blazing Ranger; Photon, Mighty Marvel; She-Hulk, Wallbreaker; War Machine, Avenging Arsenal; Ant-Man, Elusive Avenger; Black Widow, Agile Avenger; Captain Marvel, Apex Avenger; Director Nick Fury; Hawkeye, Avenging Archer; Quicksilver, Speedster; Scarlet Witch, Chaotic Avenger; Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings; Jocasta, Automaton Avenger; Vision, Synthezoid Avenger; Bastion Protector; Metallic Mimic; Thor, Asgard's Avenger; Captain Mar-Vell, Space-Born; Patriot, Shield Wielder; Speed, Young Avenger; Captain America, Living Legend; Rescue, Pepper Potts

Instants (7): Heroic Return; Heroic Sacrifice; Methods of the Mighty; Destroy Evil; Make Your Move; Swords to Plowshares; Arcane Denial

Sorceries (6): Avenge; West Coast Expansion; Austere Command; Dismantling Wave; Raise the Palisade; Rip Apart

Artifacts (14): Avengers Quinjet; Hulkbuster Armor; Door of Destinies; Tome of Legends; Arcane Signet; Hero's Blade; Relic of Legends; Sol Ring; Talisman of Conviction; Talisman of Creativity; Talisman of Progress; Thought Vessel; Fellwar Stone; Herald's Horn

Enchantments (5): Love on the Battlefield; Folk Hero; Gift of Immortality; Kindred Discovery; Reconnaissance Mission

Lands (38): Clifftop Retreat; Coastal Peak; Exotic Orchard; Frostboil Snarl; Furycalm Snarl; Glacial Fortress; Glittering Massif; Irrigated Farmland; Plaza of Heroes; Port Town; Prairie Stream; Radiant Summit; Scavenger Grounds; Scorched Geyser; Spectator Seating; Sulfur Falls; Avengers Tower; Command Tower; Mystic Monastery; Path of Ancestry; Secluded Courtyard; Unclaimed Territory; Plains (6); Island (5); Mountain (5)

Avengers Assemble starts strong, so a handful of targeted swaps take it a long way. If you only buy a few cards, the budget side alone (Heroes' Podium, Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain, Cadric, Soul Kindler, Honor-Worn Shaku, and Flowering of the White Tree) tightens the deck for about $31 at current prices, and the first three cost under $1.50 together. Add Roaming Throne and Cathars' Crusade when you are ready to spend more, and the heroes really start to assemble.

Yes. It is the most focused and most beginner-friendly of the four Marvel Super Heroes Commander decks, and it wins games on night one without changes. Nearly every creature is a legendary Hero, and Captain America, Team Leader hands out +1/+1 counters, haste and vigilance as they land, so the go-wide plan works straight from the box.

Add cards that pay you for a board of legendary Heroes. Roaming Throne naming Hero doubles every Hero trigger, Cathars' Crusade and Shared Animosity turn a wide board into lethal, and Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain draws a card off nearly every creature you cast. Heroes' Podium and Honor-Worn Shaku cover the budget end for under a dollar each.

Roaming Throne, around $47. Name Hero and every Hero trigger in the deck fires twice, including Captain America's counter and haste effects. After that, Shared Animosity (about $4) turns a wide swing into a one-shot kill, and Cathars' Crusade (about $5) stacks counters on the whole team every time a creature lands.

Captain America, Team Leader for most tables. The deck is built around flooding the board with Heroes and handing out counters, haste and vigilance, which is exactly what he rewards. Director Nick Fury, the alternate in the box, discounts Hero spells and keeps Heroes flowing into hand. Run Fury if your pod punishes early attacks and you would rather grind out card advantage.

Hero's Blade is the standard first cut, since equipping it costs four mana unless a legendary just entered. Heroic Return follows: six mana for one reanimation is too slow for an aggro deck. Then cut Make Your Move, Avenge, which destroys your own heroes, and Love on the Battlefield, which only works when exactly two creatures attack. The full list of ten cuts is above.

At September 27, 2026 prices, the five budget picks cost about $31 and the five premium picks about $230, so all ten run roughly $260. Most of that is The One Ring (about $111) and The Ozolith (about $63). Heroes' Podium, Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain and Honor-Worn Shaku cost under $1.50 together and are the cheapest place to start.

Want all four in one place? Grab the full Marvel precon upgrade kits, with decklists and one-click carts.

Upgrading more than one Marvel deck? Here are our other guides:

Marvel: Darkhold Destiny releases April 9, 2027, with four Commander decks. Commanders and decklists have not been revealed yet. Our Darkhold Destiny Commander decks guide covers all four, and each deck has its own upgrade guide:

Sources: EDHREC precon guide, Card Kingdom upgrade guide, EDHLAB upgrade guide, Draftsim upgrade guide. Decklist from Wizards of the Coast. Prices updated September 27, 2026 (TCGplayer market via Scryfall).