Gammamagik

The Hulk ally is probably the most cost-effective damage in the deck. For a 2-cost, you can get 5 damage every time he swings... as long as he discards a fist resource. This has always been the difficulty in playing him regularly though, as discarding a mental or wild means your investment can be lost by chance.

With Gammamagik though, the chance is completely removed. Playing with the top card of her deck face-up means that you'll always know if you have a fist resource to discard for Hulk or not. Therefore, you know you have 25 damage over 5 turns. Even better, this damage can be spread out in bundles of 3 and 2 if needed. This deck is packed with 21 fist resources, so if you don't end up with one on the top of your deck, you will almost be guaranteed to have one in your hand that you can swap using Limbo.

Another way you can swap out the top card of your deck if you've landed on something you don't want is to use Cosmo. He will be one of the allies that you can either use as a cheap block, or to make use of some of the unused upgrades that don't end up on the Hulk. Blade fits a similar role in this deck with his ability to stay on the table and make use of fist resources.

Speaking of upgrades for Hulk, one of the best parts is that ALL of the ones in the aggression and basic aspects that you'd want to put on Hulk are fist resources!

• Sidearm
• Honorary X-Men
• Attack Training
• Enraged

...all have the resources we'll want to discard. With Hulk fitted as an Honorary X-Men and Attack Training, he'll now have 8 HP and be attacking for 4+2. With a Sidearm, it becomes 5+2 and if you want to drop the Enraged, then 7+2. Be reminded of the extra consequential damage, but don't forget that Cosmo doesn't need to take consequential. Game Time is also pretty amazing, as you get to heal Hulk and then swing again once he has Honorary X-Men and Attack Training Down.

With all this damage being pushed, the rest of the deck is essentially about sticking around long enough to pummel the villain. We've included fist resources in Drop Kick and Mockingbird to stun the villain and are awesome to use for the discounted play from the top of your draw pile. Soul Strike will also help with stunning, and makes use of all the fist resources we have.

Ironheart and Triage are the last cards added, but are both cheap allies to play as chump-blockers for when you need a block. Triage can also be used to help heal Hulk once he becomes an X-Men.

Hope you enjoy this one. This should play well in a rush setting, but will also scale well larger games as well. It doesn't do much thwarting, so use your other allies and Magik's basic thwart to keep that in line. Yes, it's disappointing to THW1 with Magik, but just be reminded that you've got plenty of damage coming from elsewhere.

Thanks for reading another of my decks. As always, I appreciate a comment and like to keep this up on the main page for a while :)

Until next time Champions...