The Collector deck? Or the Gamora one?
The Gamora one basically requires pulling her or Storm. Without them you can't really apply much pressure. Zola gives a lot more flexibility.
My ideal strat without Zola was to use storm and Jessica Jones/Lizard/Sunspot to steal a lane. Then play vision turn 5 to see what they play and give me the option of what other lane to commit to with Gamora.
I also try and save rocket to play with Gamora on the last turn since vision, rocket and Gamora have 23 power if all their abilities trigger. Enough to beat infinaut for example.
I tried a meme strat and it worked