Rocket Raccoon - Temporary Gifts

The leadership upgrades in this deck are really just temporary gifts to the allies. This deck uses the ally upgrades to boost the allies and then at some point in the future discard those upgrades to draw more cards. This deck likes to do that often in order to maximize card draw and deck cycling.

Rockets weapons aren't as high a priority with this deck. What is a really high priority is getting Honorary Guardian on Rocket as soon as possible along with Guardians of the Galaxy. With that combo, Rocket can play allies requiring the Guardian trait and also draw cards when playing upgrades on allies while in either Alter-Ego or in Hero form.

There are lots of good ally targets for building up one or 2 of them. In my games I have found that usually 1 or 2 allies get built up while the remaining slot or 2 is used for temporary allies (ones that enter the game and are gone for one reason or another a couple of turns later).

This is a 43 card deck. This deck draws enough cards that the 43 card deck works just fine. If you wanted to get down to a 40 card deck, Booster Boots and Side Holster are good targets for removal. (Personally, I am a big fan of Booster Boots. They are effectively 1 defense a turn. Also, they are tech upgrades, which means that in a Rocket deck they can be discarded for 2 cards.)