Ready to get in Shape?

Hulkling's biggest strength is his ability to adapt to different threats from turn to turn. He's also resource rich, with his 4 shape upgrades that can be used as double resources.

This deck builds upon these strengths. Its a pretty standard Avengers tribal deck on paper, but there's a lot of powerful synergies hidden beneath the surface. Lets get into it!

Ally Swarm

With The Triskelion and Avengers Tower, we can get up to 5 allies, and 6 with Stinger. The goal is to fill the board with allies, use Strength In Numbers to draw a whole new hand of cards, and Avengers Assemble! for huge turns.

We need a way to trigger the Response on Hulkling's shapes. Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Make the Call, Strength In Numbers and Ready for Action are all cheap events that make this really easy to do.

Combos

• Play Ant-Man for 1 resource, and use him with Strength In Numbers, Earth's Mightiest Heroes, or Ready for Action.
• Use that same Ant-Man to power Iron Lad.
• Iron Lad double dips on Mighty Avengers buff, gaining both the direct +1 plus the +1 that the other ally gets! Combo this with Ant-Man to have Iron Lad attack or thwart for 5 each turn!
• Give any ally that was exhausted from one of the above points a tough card with Ready for Action. They can block on the next villain phase and stay on the board longer.
• Give Iron Lad tough to let him keep activating each turn.
• Give U.S. Agent tough to block with retaliate.
• Instead of playing allies directly from hand, use Make the Call to play them from your discard, and essentially trigger your shape upgrade completely free!
• Exhausting allies and having them chump block with tough means they will stay around longer, which naturally leads to you filling the board with allies for big Strength In Numbers and Avengers Assemble! turns.
• Use Earth's Mightiest Heroes to ready Hulkling, triggering his shape response and activate with his buffed stats.

Getting into Shape

Which shape you want to play completely depends on the situation. I don't swap between them very often in this deck, usually I will pick whichever one that I need the most and stick with it as long as I can so that I can use my resources to build out allies and supports. I often don't even play a shape on turn 1, instead building out some allies and supports early. But do try to get one out by turn 2 so that you don't miss out on the free shape responses.

This is a powerful and versatile deck that works well in all player counts. In solo, it has enough tempo to build out while staying alive and keeping threat down. In multiplayer, you can provide whatever the team is lacking, whether that's damage, thwarting, or defense, and you can swap between these roles effortlessly from one round to the next.