The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game

As the title implies, this version of Hulkling wants to stay in Imitation Shape for most of the game (but going to other shapes will still happen when it makes sense to do so).

Imitation Shape makes enemies Scheme instead of Attack, so we'll take advantage of ways to Confuse the villain with Upside the Head and Sonic Rifle, and punish scheming minions with Quake.

See this in action here vs. Expert Rhino with Telepathy on November 20th.

Impersonation gives us a "free" flip to Alter-Ego, where Vigilante Training can shuffle some key Justice events back into the deck.

Speaking of events, playing events while in Imitation Shape also lets use draw a card, so the 0-cost cards are truly free since they'll replace themselves with card draw. Other forms of card draw include:

• Cypher
• Wiccan (tutor is still "draw")
• One Way or Another
• Shapeshifter (again tutor, but still "draw")
• Chance Encounter, a tutor which is really powerful in a deck with only 4 allies, and great for Wiccan since the tutored ally comes to hand!

Because I'm drawing so many cards (and shuffling cards back into the deck) I don't feel bad about running 45 in this deck.

Future Releases...

When Wonder Man releases in February 2026 you could replace Heroic Intuition with Heroic Conditioning, but I probably won't in this case. With enemies Scheming instead of Attacking I shouldn't need the HP boost, and since I won't need that, I'll keep the cheaper card for the +1 THW.