"Draw & Slam!" (3.0) - She-Hulk / Leadership - March '21

UPDATED (3/5/2021): Version (3.0)!!! I've received lots of requests to update my decks to 3.0, here goes, lots of changes!

Changes will allow my original "Draw & Slam" deck to now draw & cycle your entire deck every turn. You can easily play two Gamma Slam, two Split Personality, and have starting hands of 10-15 cards with Assess the Situation cycling (highest # I've played in one turn is 9 so far)! And now with Deft Focus, we have 3-point Gamma Slam!, and reduced cost for both Ground Stomp and Superhuman Strength!

• (+) Add:
  • Deft Focus x1
  • Assess the Situation x3
  • Quincarrier x1
  • Ant-Man
  • Stinger
  • Hawkeye
  • Team Training x1
• (-) Substract:
  • Emergency
  • First Aid
  • Down Time
  • Falcon
  • Quinjet x2
  • Hawkeye
  • Vision
  • Lead from the Front

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Overview

• Update (3.0): This deck uses low-cost Leadership allies x6 to draw 12 cards with Strength In Numbers, Avengers Assemble!, and then another Strength In Numbers every turn. This combo combined with Avengers Mansion, Focused Rage x2, Split Personality, and Assess the Situation x3 will have you drawing your entire deck every turn once it's up and running. And now there's Deft Focus, a no-brainer -- Gamma Slam (3-cost!), Ground Stomp, Superhuman Strength -- all Superpowers!

• After you've played She-Hulk a few times you realize that she has some very, very good cards and others that seem not so good on the surface. That, and she also has a problem with threat and getting her engine going. This deck is the solution to those problems.

• This deck probably is not a beginner deck and takes some getting used to, because you play it so differently than you would any other deck. But, I've had just as much success with it as my best decks (beating every villain on Expert).

Strategy

Mulligan

1. Split Personality!!!
2. Resource Cards: The Power of Leadership, Energy, Genius, etc.
3. Depending on resource cards and needs: Any ally
4. Your engine cards, if you pulled Split Personality

Early Game

• This is probably the part that takes the most practice... You will actually begin the game and stay in Alter-Ego mode as long as you can. I usually flip her for the first time around the 3rd turn and hold out longer if I can before doing so. The purpose is to get your engine going, which will not happen in She-Hulk form. Her basic ability helps, as well as the allies who you will use to thwart. Also, if you get Split Personality while in Alter-Ego form early in the game, you want this. Flip over to Hero, do your ability, thwart/attack, play Split Personality and draw up and end to 6 and end on Jennifer Walters. Helps get the engine going and stay in Alter-Ego longer.

Thwarting Early

• You also want to try and get Superhuman Law Division as soon as possible, which will help you stay in Alter-Ego. You also want to dive for your engine cards and the cards that will help you the most now, you'll draw a lot of cards in this deck, don't be afraid to dump something you won't use until later. Also one of the cards that is probably despised the most for being pretty horrible, Legal Practice, is actually useful these first few turns.

Gaining Momentum

• Build your board and choose which allies will help you the most dependent upon what you're dealing with (Ant-Man or Hellcat for threat and Hawkeye or Wonder Man for heavy minions.

Allies

• Another difficult thing to master is that you don't want any of your allies to die, you never block with them unless you absolutely have to. The allies are actually strictly for thwarting and for card draw with Strength In Numbers. This means you actually just tank with She-Hulk, that's where her mass hit points comes in to play. You want to get your full board of 6 allies to get the most out of Strength In Numbers.

Card Draw

• Once you get your draw engine down and all 6 allies out for Strength In Numbers, then it's time to go to work and we all know She-Hulk has no problem pumping out damage. At this point you are going to draw to not dive for your engine, but dive for your best damage cards, and of course, Gamma Slam. The fact that there is only x1 Gamma Slam, doesn't really bother you anymore, you can easily play 2 per turn and all 3 One-Two Punch per turn.

• Q: "How do you draw your entire hand in one turn?" A: Late game you will have 22 cards in your hand. Usually I start with a hand of around 10 cards due to Assess the Situation if I start in Alter-Ego form. You will easily draw 21 cards per turn with Split Personality, Strength In Numbers, Avengers Assemble!, another Strength In Numbers, and then your Avengers Mansion and Focused Rage.

Damage

• Most games I have my engine as I'm about to defeat the first stage villain, which does take longer than with other heroes. But by the time you have your engine and you flip to the second stage villain, you end it within a few turns because you're just diving for Gamma Slam twice per turn and often all 3 One-Two Punch in one turn with your card draw.

Specific Cards/Combos

Assess the Situation

• Late game you'll easily play 4 of these in one turn because you're cycling your deck every turn. The most I've played in one turn is 9, giving me a staring hand of 15 cards in Alter-Ego form. That's already 75% of your deck late game. Early on don't worry too much about this card, play it if it's convenient or to maximize Split Personality, but mid to late game is where this card becomes a lot of fun.

Hellcat

• Hellcat is an Avenger and you want to maximize that with the Avenger kit. With the cards you're drawing, you will often find you are using Hellcat multiple times in one turn, possibly buffed. She works great with Avengers Tower and when you want to get rid of all your cards to maximize Split Personality. There are turns where you are holding 20 cards in your hand with more resources than you can use, just play her multiple times. Also if you've used Strength in Numbers on her, you can play her again.

Split Personality

• Split Personality is a card that you want to use in Alter-Ego form early to get your engine going by flipping first, then playing in Hero and then late in the game play starting in Hero form, flip and draw 6, and then flip back to hero form and do damage. Once you get the hang of this deck, you can use this twice in one turn late game to try and cycle your deck to draw more Assess the Situation.

Deft Focus

Quincarrier & Superhuman Law Division

• Superhuman Law Division is actually not a bad card and very helpful early game. Also late game you'll be constantly playing Split Personality, probably every turn, so you'll always be on Alter-Ego side at one point during the turn.

Endurance

• Allows you to do a full 15-point Gamma Slam pretty easily.

Superhuman Strength

• When you're trying to cycle your hands in a turn, try to keep these on the board so they don't go back into your deck. Which basically means, don't basic attack until you have to.

Assault on NORAD

• Often missed with "I Object!" Alter-Ego ability is that when you use it on Assault on NORAD, you do not have to do the Forced Response! That is huge.

First Turn

• An ideal first game turn would something similar to:

1. You have Split Personality and some cards that will get your engine going (Avengers Mansion, Helicarrier, Quincarrier, Avengers Tower, etc.), along with an ally and some Resource Cards (The Power of Leadership, Energy, etc).
2. You play these cards down to where you have only Split Personality and resources for it in hand. If you draw some double resource cards you could get something like an Avengers Mansion, Quincarrier, or Helicarrier down.
3. Flip and do damage with your ability to whatever starting minion there is and then ATK killing whatever or damage to villain.
4. Then play Split Personality so you have zero cards left in hand and you draw 6 fresh cards. And hopefully you get the same engine cards, an ally or something that can thwart. I've had first turns where I've gotten both Avengers Mansion and Helicarrier or Quincarrier first turn, thwarted with an ally and killed the starting minion all in turn one. It's almost an auto-win.

Late Game

• An ideal late game turn is as follows:

1. On hero identity, you play 3 cards to play Split Personality.
2. Draw up to 6, do what you need to do as far as threat (Superhuman Law Division) if you want.
3. Flip back to hero and draw, draw, draw with Strength In Numbers, Avengers Assemble!, another Strength In Numbers if needed or choose specific allies for it.
4. One thing to pay attention to before you play the 2nd Strength In Numbers is if you're about to cycle your deck, you want to play your Gamma Slam and all your Assess the Situation so that you have a chance to re-draw them when you re-shuffle. When you play that 2nd Strength In Numbers, you're likely to draw them because your deck really only has a few cards in it at that point.
5. Heal with United We Stand if Focused Rage got you low.
6. Start off with 10-15 cards because of cycling Assess the Situation, rinse, and repeat.

Other Card Considerations

• For what this deck tries to accomplish (draw cards), I wouldn't change much at this point for 3.0. But I encourage experimentation. One thing you can do is try to make your end-game hand smaller so it's easier to cycle. The only two cards that you can really try and get out of your hand is one Strength In Numbers or United We Stand. To do that you'd want to add a card that sits on the table and will reduce your end-game hand size. So I can see playing around with the following cards:

  • Team-Building Exercise
  • Quinjet
  • Sky Cycle
  • Honorary Avenger

Team-Building Exercise is probably the one I'd try first, maybe dropping a Strength In Numbers. Sometimes I feel like I want two and a half Strength In Numbers in my deck. The rest of the deck I just don't know if I'd change at all at this point.

...As always, any suggestions/feedback or playthrough results are appreciated, thanks! And shameless plug, check out my other decks I've playtested extensively and have gotten a lot of love:

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• "Further, Faster, Baby!" (2.0) - Captain Marvel / Leadership

• "Tech Nova" (2.0) - Iron Man / Protection

• "Jarnbjorn Forever!" - Black Panther / Aggression

• "Rapid Shuri" - Black Panther / Leadership

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