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First Appearance: Sentinels of the Multiverse: Infernal Relics
Who she is: Mystical investigator of the Multiverse’s Dark Watch.
Innate Power: Investigation: NightMist deals herself 2 infernal damage. Draw 2 cards.
Primary Damage Type: Infernal
Secondary Damage Type: None
Nemesis: GloomWeaver and Man-Grove

 
Deck Concept: You play with fire when you play as NightMist. She can deal, redirect and heal copious amounts of HP. A quick note before we get started: all of NightMist’s cards have a Magic symbol on them with a number inside. Her cards play off this symbol and the number inside it.

Always start your turn with Investigation. You get a lot of card draw this way and can still play a card. NightMist doesn’t have too many other powers beyond Investigation, so you should always use it as your power allowance. You’re also going to have to make your peace with dealing damage to yourself. Keep in mind that you can heal a lot of damage too. But you should play the Amulet of the Elder Gods as soon as you can as it diverts damage from NightMist to another valid target. This is super good for both NightMist’s attacks and outside attacks.

The tactic of using Investigation every turn changes if you have someone—like Legacy—boosting hero damage. You may want to use Astral Premonition for its control ability or thin your deck with Tome of Elder Magic. You also need to make your peace with flying through your deck. NightMist has a lot of card draw and she needs it.

Mists of Time is a fun card to play near the beginning of the game as it trades your trash and deck. But you have to have some fantastic cards in your trash that can help. Mistbound comes to mind if you’re having trouble with either the environment or villain deck, while Planar Banishment can get rid of a pesky ongoing card. If you can time it right and you have a Mist-Fueled Recovery in your hand, Mists of Time could fuel this massive healing spell too.

You should also play Call Forth as often as possible as it serves two purposes. You grab a lot of relics at once—make sure you get the Amulet and the Necklace first—and thins your deck so you can draw into better cards—like NightMist’s awesome attacks: Heedless Lash and Oblivion. Keep in mind that you only have nine relics in your deck. If you’ve exhausted all of them, you won’t want to use Call Forth. It’d be a waste of a card.

Deck Strength: Damage: dealing, redirecting, manipulating, and healing. And card draw—lots of it.
Best Team Support Card: Mistbound: Discard 2 cards. If you do, you may select a deck. Cards from that deck cannot be played until the start of your next turn.
Best Personal Support Card: Mist-Fueled Recovery: Shuffle a hero’s trash into that hero’s deck. NightMist regains 1 HP for each 2 cards shuffled into that hero’s deck by this card. Immediately end your turn.
Best Attack: Headless Lash: Reveal the top card of your deck. NightMist deals herself and 1 other target that card’s (Magic symbol) infernal damage. Put the revealed card into your hand or into play.

Deck Weakness: Quit hitting yourself. (Punch.) Quit hitting yourself. (Punch.) Quit hitting yourself.
Worst Card: Scouring Mists: Reveal the top card of your deck. NightMist deals herself that card’s (Magic symbol) infernal damage. NightMist deals up to that card’s (Magic symbol) targets 2 infernal damage each. Put the revealed card into your trash.

Ultimate Team-up: NightMist loves heroes who heal, like The Argent Adept, or one who makes her immune to damage like Legacy or Ra. The only problem with Legacy is that he likes to buff all heroes, and he doesn’t always shield his teammates. Argent Adept works better since he selects which heroes get his boosts. You could also team NightMist with Wraith, Tempest and/or Visionary to get the most of deck control. Tempest’s Reclaim from the Deep and Argent Adept’s Inventive Preparation can also dictate which number is on top of NightMist’s deck.

First Appearance: Sentinels of the Multiverse: Infernal Relics
Who he is: The magical musician of the Multiverse’s Prime Wardens.
Innate Power: Vocalize: Activate a Perform text.
Primary Damage Type: Fire, Cold and Sonic
Secondary Damage Type: None
Nemesis: Akash’Bhuta and Ruin
Deck Concept: The Argent Adept is the best support character in Sentinels of the Multiverse. You have to have time to create beautiful music, but if you can build a chain of instruments and commit yourself to a supporting role, The Argent Adept can be one of the most dominant heroes. The best part about Argent Adept is that his Perform and Accompany abilities don’t count as powers. He uses his powers on his instruments and then his instruments grant him multiple effects. Argent Adept can adapt to any situation except for one where he has to deal a lot of damage himself.

He can boost the team’s attack. Inspiring Supertonic gives him the use of any power on the board with its perform ability, while it also heals Argent Adept with its accompany ability. Alacritous Subdominant allows a player to play an additional card which is always nice and is a step up from Inventive Preparation’s accompany ability that doesn’t allow Argent Adept to play a card himself. You could Perform Alacritous Subdominant and Accompany Inventive Preparation for double duty but beware of villain cards that punish heroes for playing cards. Syncopated Onslaught’s Perform buffs two targets but this effect pales in comparison to Legacy’s global power Galvanize. Still, there are advantages to selecting which heroes gain a boost. NightMist anyone?

Argent Adept also has plenty of defensive abilities. Rhapsody of Vigor can heal every hero and hero card to include Unity’s Golems and Visionary’s Decoy Projection. You could even use this ability to heal an environment target that hurts villain targets or even a villain target you wouldn’t mind keeping around. Talk about versatile. Counterpoint Bulwark’s Perform ability can shield the hero targets with the highest and lowest HP since they are usually the ones that receive the most damage. And Inspiring Supertonic’s Accompany ability can turn the Argent Adept into a bullet sponge.

The rest of the cards range from getting rid of ongoing or environment cards to control to card draw. There are too many of these to name, so let’s get started with how you’re going to play. When you start a game as Argent Adept you have to begin with one of your songs, so you can perform. You’ll want a song that gives you plenty of options. Once that’s done Arcane Cadence and Instrumental Conjuration will help you get another two or three songs and a couple of instruments in play. After you have a fair amount of songs and instruments, Polyphoric Flare and Alacritous Subdominant really shine. You can chain one power after another until you’ve just about used all of Argent Adept’s abilities. Consider using Alacritous Subdominant near the end of the chain as it gets discarded when used, and if you have Silver Shadow in hand with Arcane Cadence on the board, you can play the card you just drew. It’s all about free actions.

Deck Strength: Free actions. Free actions. Free actions. And versatility.
Best Team Support Card: Alacritous Subdominant: Perform: One player may play 1 card now. Accompany: You may use a power now. If you do, destroy this card.
Best Personal Support Card: Inspiring Supertonic: Perform: One player may use a power now. Accompany: The Argent Adept regains 2 HP.
Best Attack: Cedistic Dissonant: Perform: Destroy an instrument. If you do, destroy any 1 card in play, other than a character card. Accompany: Discard 2 cards. Draw 3 cards.

Deck Weakness: It takes a while for this deck to get going and you can’t deal much damage with Argent Adept. If you’re at all impatient, you’re in for a long game.
Worst Card: Syncopated Onslaught: Perform: Select up to 2 targets. Until the start of your next turn, increase damage dealt by those targets by 1. Accompany: The Argent Adept deals 1 target 1 sonic damage.

Ultimate Team-up: Just about anyone works. You’ll just have to factor in the best card or cards for a given hero or team composition. Counterpoint Bulwark works well with damage redirection. Inspiring Supertonic allows you to use a power twice, so this goes well with Legacy’s Galvanize power. As mentioned before, you may want to stick with Syncopated Onslaught instead of Galvanize if you want to pick and choose who gets the boost. Unity loves Argent Adept’s Alacritous Subdominant which allows her to get golems into play faster and Rhapsody of Vigor that gives her golems a boost.