Card draw simulator
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boomguy · 11425
By the end of this description, you will too.
This is a medium complexity deck that increases what you can do turn to turn, giving you flexibility to solve whatever problems you need and never leaving you with hands full of resources you can't use to impact the game. It also avoids some of the classic "resource dumps" common in Bishop decks like Machine Man and Lockjaw in favor of more interesting and effective combos.
This deck has been tested against a variety of scenarios and player counts, and performed really well! It is able to consistently manage the problems that arise on the board and can flex into whatever role the table needs. And most importantly, it's fun!
| Player Type: | Spike |
| Player Count: | 1-4p |
| Key Cards: | Med Lab, Won't Stay Down |
| Complexity: | ★★★☆☆ |
| Damage: | ★★★★☆ |
| Threat Control: | ★★★★☆ |
| Survivability: | ★★★★☆ |
| Economy: | ★★★★★ |
| Card Drawing: | ★★★☆☆ |
The central idea of the deck is to become the Trash Man, and use what others might call trash, refuse, or even discard to find gems that will help you along your way.
First, let's go about getting cards into your hand to have a way to spend your resources. This deck has a lot of ways to get things into your hand:
- Avengers Mansion and Symbiote Suit increase your hand size to see more cards; Symbiote Suit also increases the number of times you can use your Energy Absorption ability
- Won't Stay Down gets you an ally into your hand (in AE)
- Use Specialized Training to grab Front Line Specialist to draw an additional card when you take damage and trigger your Energy Absorption ability
- Beast gets a resource to hand
- Weapon X gets a card to hand in exchange for 1 HP (in AE)
- Black Panther pulls Make the Call out of the discard pile and holds it for you, letting you sink resources into it when you need to
- Your Temporarily Displaced ability gets you a card into your hand at just the right time for a lot of actions you want to do in AE
Note that flipping down keeps most of your cards active!
- Med Lab and Won't Stay Down only work in alter-ego
- Make the Call, Command Team, and Avengers Mansion don't care what form you are in
The same goes for the responses on your allies:
- Black Panther can have Make the Call available when you flip down so that you can get a Stored Energy into hand and use it for an ally
- Adam Warlock can also use Stored Energy to pay for the ability on his card and heal an identity for 3 with , and remove 3 from a scheme with , meaning you can grab Stored Energy anytime you flip down and trigger both effects
Second, let's get things out of the trash. Most of your cards will be played from your discard pile:
- Make the Call gets allies out of your (or another player's, if you want to go dumpster diving at your neighbor's house) discard pile
- Black Panther gets Make the Call from the trash
- Pixie loves dumpster diving for you--she gets an X-Men ally from your discard pile to hand
- Won't Stay Down can be triggered in AE to pull an ally back to hand, and when you flip down you can trigger your Temporally Displaced ability to get a double resource to hand to pay for it
- Use your AE response after flipping down to pull Stored Energy to hand, and pay for an ally with Make the Call, Won't Stay Down, or Med Lab
Remember that Med Lab plays allies as if they were in your hand, but they enter exhausted. With most of our allies, this doesn't matter:
- M defeats a minion
- Professor X does his thing
- Kid Omega can trigger his effect by spending or
- Black Panther grabs a card from the discard pile
- Beast gets a resource to hand
- Cyclops can trigger a big multiplayer damage turn
Note: An important consideration during play is to monitor what is in the discard pile, and how close to resetting your deck you are. Timing when you flip and use Med Lab or Won't Stay Down, or when to play Black Panther, depend on what is in your discard pile.
See a 2p playthrough of this deck with me and Rey over here: 2-Player Mode: Deadpool & Bishop vs The Sinister Six [Expert]
What others call trash, we call treasures.
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Nov 12, 2025 |
Nov 12, 2025Dumpster diving is the best way to play Bishop, looks fun! Think you weren't a fan in the past, are you coming around to Bishop? |
Nov 12, 2025
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Nov 12, 2025I’m a huge fan of Bishop—but I haven’t built a good Leadership deck for him yet. I like the interactions, but I cut this down to 40. Removed Symbiote Suit, Plan B, 1x Won’t Stay Down, and 2x Command Team…Still has the heart of the deck. Pretty fun. |
Nov 12, 2025Love Bishop, maybe you're coming around... |
Nov 12, 2025
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Nov 13, 2025
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Nov 13, 2025
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Nov 13, 2025This deck is really powerful. After playing a few times, I can say that it's my favorite Bishop deck so far! |
Nov 13, 2025I was thinking the same as cobintm, that maybe your were warming up a bit to Bishop |
Nov 13, 2025
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Nov 14, 2025After a few more plays, I’m liking this build more and more. Bishop is just relaxing to play. Once built up, you can enjoy a good victory. |
Nov 14, 2025
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Nov 14, 2025Getting to see this deck in action was so much fun! It was crazy to see how you always had an answer for the table. It was peak leadership and peak Bishop. It looked super fun to play, and it was definitely fun to pair with |
Nov 14, 2025
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Nov 14, 2025
It frees you up to take damage and use his ability to get cards to hand without having to recover as much. I’m never defending with Allie’s unless another player at the table needs defense, and even then I’m usually defending for them with Bishop. |
Nov 14, 2025Love Med Lab! You have a lot of good garbage to target with it. |
Nov 14, 2025Looks like a fun recursion deck! Love heroes with a big discard pile for that. Write-up made me curious how common Machine Man and Lockjaw are in Bishop decks. 408 Bishop decks on marvelcdb. 79 with Lockjaw, 46 with Machine Man, 31 with both. Not actually that common. I wonder if popular deck-builders use them and it gives them the illusion of being common because those decks get significantly more attention. I don't tend to use either in Leadership because I like him with the X-men package so much, and they turn off Utopia and Uncanny X-Men. |
Nov 14, 2025
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Nov 14, 2025I keep coming back to what a great example of a Spike deck this is. :D Bishop: 12hp/4 Rec, X-Men traited, cheap uncapped damage upgrade, cheap uncapped healing upgrade, rich, cycles his deck as fast as a Mystic. Spike. Leadership: Spike leaning. 10 Allies, 7 with "when played" effects. Spike. Core mechanic: Recursion. Spiiiiiiiiiike. |
Nov 15, 2025
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Nov 15, 2025You're def a Johnny, but you built a great Spike deck. :D |
Nov 16, 2025I love the creative way this puts extra cards in your hand to use with Bishop's abundance of resources! And the GIF is perfect! Might not have needed anything else in the deck description after that, but I'm glad I read it all the same. LOL. Oh, and I like the Adam Warlock/Stored Energy combo a lot. As soon as I saw him in the deck, I thought, I wonder which abilities this'll trigger for him! |
Nov 16, 2025
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Jan 15, 2026Was reading through the deck list, the description of the deck, and got halfway through the comments until the lightbulb flashed on in my head. "Oh my Godzilla it's a zombie deck!!" I knew leadership is the number one aspect for bringing back allies, but this deck is making Bishop look like a necromancer. Definitely, def-in-itely, will be building this to see how it goes. Very, very much excited! |
Jan 15, 2026
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I’ve seen this deck in action a few times now. And serious. What a pile of garbage.