Remy LeBeau, Dean of Admissions (Con of Heroes 2026)

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Enemy Bird · 883

Mr. LeBeau is making everyone an X-Men and the whole table is benefiting!

Here's a deck concept I have been theory-building for this year's Con of Heroes and I would welcome feedback from folks with more multiplayer experience (I usually play solo or 2p). The shell is a pretty familiar Gambit Change of Fortune deck. Lots of ways to deal damage in the villain phase, especially Protection attack events that benefit from Gambit's charge counters.

Stronger Together and Honorary X-Men are the deck's secret sauce. By making everyone X-Men, I can use Stronger Together to reduce an attack's damage by 3-5 points, depending on how many other defense-boosting upgrades I have in play. Admittedly, Stronger Together doesn't do much until at least one copy of Honorary X-Men is on the table, but I'm hoping 3x copies of each will make that smoother. I have to think having even just one Honorary X-Men on the board will give the deck, and table, a lot of value.

I considered trying this deck concept with Nightcrawler. He can reach up to 6 DEF with his cutlasses and BAMF makes him a very reliable defender. In my experience, Protection Nightcrawler can struggle with damage. Gambit can reach similar defense numbers while comboing better with Change of Fortune and having more ways to deal damage in the hero phase. This deck is pretty atrocious at thwarting, but hopefully one of my fellow X-Men will be able to help with that :)

I'm looking forward to playing this at the Con and I welcome any feedback on making this more table-friendly. Thank you in advance!

5 comments

Apr 07, 2026 Castlefrank47 · 10056

Love it, first hit is so good with him glad to see someone else use it!

Apr 08, 2026 Enemy Bird · 883

@Castlefrank47 Thanks! I always enjoy finding uses for the more niche cards. First Hit seems tailor-made for Gambit.

Apr 14, 2026 EDIT · 203

Very cool idea. Might actually be a great time to try Hangar Bay

Apr 15, 2026 Enemy Bird · 883

@EDIT That's interesting -- I hadn't considered that. Since publishing, I've also toyed with adding Nightcrawler or the The X-Jet, since those have additional synergies with the X-Men. I think adding all three cards would be a bit greedy but Hanger Bay is definitely in contention with the deck's many tough blockers. Thanks!

May 22, 2026 Enemy Bird · 883

I played this deck at CoH26, had fun, but I think I need to work on it a bit. This deck didn't have a lot of expensive cards, but I often felt a resource short. A helicarrier or X-Jet might go a long way to help with some awkward hands. Blocking and damage reduction was great though, and it really sped up the game. I was a little conservative in playing my ripostes and I should've played those more, in hindsight.

This deck really doesn't want to play AE but Gambit gets a fair bit from that. It wasn't a problem, exactly, but it does mean the deck effectively has three dead cards. I'll need to think on this one. The core is strong, but it feels like it's missing something.