SPROTECTIOM - (Spectrum Protection)

It's a bird! It's a plane! No... it's the first hero with built in Aerial!! So let's use that.

Spectrum is a great all-arounder, with access to 3 THW/ATK/DEF throughout the game. The problem is, she's not always going to have all those. So we're going to leverage some form flipping and our access to Aerial to let Spectrum really flex those stat boosts.

First and foremost, this deck centers around leveraging Protection's access to Tough and its darling Aerial card to capitalize on Spectrum's versatility. While there will be occasional basic defending with Pulsar Shield, most of this deck is built to be "defense-less."

Ever Vigilant is fantastic, because it lets you clean up some threat while leveraging Spectrum's 3 ATK in Gamma form. Preservation can trigger off the Energy Form changes, so you can get Tough on Spectrum consistently. Not to mention, in the new world of Steady and Stalwart, Tough is golden. Since this deck is built to be defense-less, Clea, Starhawk, and Ironheart are meant to be cheap blockers. Iron Fist is there to stay out and get full use of his stuns before he blocks. Brother Voodoo has been particularly nice for picking out events, allowing for some really tactical choices.

Since we don't want to use our basic defense, Side Step and Energy Barrier are great to have on hand. Energy Barrier is especially nice for when Spectrum's nemesis kit comes out. It can trigger any time you would take damage, so it can block Reactor Meltdown, or my personal favorite interaction: keeping Sap Power under control until you can go to AE.

Now for the elephant in the room: Defensive Training. While it's not something I would throw into every deck, Spectrum can get some good use out of it. She has a decent reason to be in AE (slow form change, obligation, nemesis set, healing), and Defensive Training lets you get more value out of Preservation and Ever Vigilant by stacking your deck when it is low. It makes it so you pretty well know you're going back into hero form getting a Tough, and being able to ready and clean some threat. It's definitely a fair weather card, so don't feel bad passing it over.

I've also liked running one Ready to Rumble. It, like Defensive Training, is a fair weather card. It's not a priority, but if things are going well, it's nice to get on the board for when things start getting out of hand.

If you're not interested in Defensive Training or twitch at the thought of decks above 40 cards, I'd drop both Defensive Trainings and either Ready to Rumble or an Energy Barrier.

With that all said.... LET'S GET READY TO RAMBEAU!!! (see what I did there?)