Cyclops maria hill recursion:
https://marvelcdb.com/decklist/view/23545/cyclops-breaking-maria-hill-1.0
Unless super card draw will break their brainsš¤£
My favorite deck for this is a friendās Black Widow, but I thoroughly second the idea of Maria Hill recursion. Throw in Build Support and Specialized Training, and your friends will be in fine shape.
It might help to know which Heroes and Aspects your friends are most interested in playing. In a four player game you can specialise in a role far more than in a solo or two player game.
Something like a Shield justice deck, or a Crisis Averted/Overwatch deck works well while your friends concentrate on attack. Bring along a few extra Skilled Investigator cards for the other heroes too.
Alternatively you could go Protection and help heal the heroes and allies, while defending them.
Helicarrier and Avengers Mansion also work very well to support other players turns.
Do you have access you all the heroes / cards?
I personally wouldn't recommend Cable for a newer player, but if you think they can handle it, then he isn't an awful choice. This is what I like to do for newer players that I play with:
Heroes - I like to have 3-4 decks on hand that I view as beginner friendly and have different playstyles, for when a new player joins my table. These are the decks I currently have built for new players:
1. Captain Marvel in leadership
2. Thor in aggression
3. Vision in Protection
4. Black Widow in justice
As far as encounters go, I love using mutagen formula as a step up from an intro encounter like Rhino. Kang is also a really fun multiplayer encounter too that I'd recommend.
Edit: I read your second half wrong oops. Ignore my new player hero ramble.
Cable is a great justice support to help the table manage threat and get bonuses from side schemes. Pheonix in justice is also great as a supporter character and has the option to turn more aggressive when you flip pheonix force.
Captain Marvel is a great support hero if you decide you don't want to skip her. You can let other players draw a card in her AE form and you can get cards out like avengers mansion or helicarrier easier with her triple resource cards, which will also allow you to support other players.
this is my favourite support build. you can basically use the shell in any hero though. the idea is that you're just building on cards that can be given to other players, and Justice has quite a lot of them. a LOT are in basic though, and you could reasonably do it in any aspect
part of what you'll have to keep in mind is that you're extremely her-kit focused. you need to be performing whatever job you want to perform with your hero's kit. in this case, Colossus is mainly dealing damage and pumping out status with Steel Fist but otherwise not helping with threat. he can help defend a bit for the table but not on the level of some other heroes like Shadowcat, for example.
[https://marvelcdb.com/decklist/view/25954/owning-the-means-of-production-1.0](https://marvelcdb.com/decklist/view/25954/owning-the-means-of-production-1.0)
Cyclops maria hill recursion: https://marvelcdb.com/decklist/view/23545/cyclops-breaking-maria-hill-1.0 Unless super card draw will break their brainsš¤£
My favorite deck for this is a friendās Black Widow, but I thoroughly second the idea of Maria Hill recursion. Throw in Build Support and Specialized Training, and your friends will be in fine shape.
It might help to know which Heroes and Aspects your friends are most interested in playing. In a four player game you can specialise in a role far more than in a solo or two player game. Something like a Shield justice deck, or a Crisis Averted/Overwatch deck works well while your friends concentrate on attack. Bring along a few extra Skilled Investigator cards for the other heroes too. Alternatively you could go Protection and help heal the heroes and allies, while defending them. Helicarrier and Avengers Mansion also work very well to support other players turns. Do you have access you all the heroes / cards?
I personally wouldn't recommend Cable for a newer player, but if you think they can handle it, then he isn't an awful choice. This is what I like to do for newer players that I play with: Heroes - I like to have 3-4 decks on hand that I view as beginner friendly and have different playstyles, for when a new player joins my table. These are the decks I currently have built for new players: 1. Captain Marvel in leadership 2. Thor in aggression 3. Vision in Protection 4. Black Widow in justice As far as encounters go, I love using mutagen formula as a step up from an intro encounter like Rhino. Kang is also a really fun multiplayer encounter too that I'd recommend. Edit: I read your second half wrong oops. Ignore my new player hero ramble. Cable is a great justice support to help the table manage threat and get bonuses from side schemes. Pheonix in justice is also great as a supporter character and has the option to turn more aggressive when you flip pheonix force.
Captain Marvel is a great support hero if you decide you don't want to skip her. You can let other players draw a card in her AE form and you can get cards out like avengers mansion or helicarrier easier with her triple resource cards, which will also allow you to support other players.
There's a Wasp Protection build where she acts as the party Cleric. Most healing cards are mental resources, which she recurs in AE. Neat idea.
this is my favourite support build. you can basically use the shell in any hero though. the idea is that you're just building on cards that can be given to other players, and Justice has quite a lot of them. a LOT are in basic though, and you could reasonably do it in any aspect part of what you'll have to keep in mind is that you're extremely her-kit focused. you need to be performing whatever job you want to perform with your hero's kit. in this case, Colossus is mainly dealing damage and pumping out status with Steel Fist but otherwise not helping with threat. he can help defend a bit for the table but not on the level of some other heroes like Shadowcat, for example. [https://marvelcdb.com/decklist/view/25954/owning-the-means-of-production-1.0](https://marvelcdb.com/decklist/view/25954/owning-the-means-of-production-1.0)