Hero in a Half Shell

Hero in a half shell... Turtle Power!

This deck is built around Armored Defense and it looks like Hulkling has a spiky half shell in the card's art. Stack up DEF and retaliate to turtle up and punish enemies for attacking you.

Overview

• Armored Defense can do some crazy damage with the DEF and retaliate options in this deck. If you manage to get everything (you usually won't before winning), you could have a max DEF of 8 in Armored Shape and possibly retaliate for 4 (Armored Shape, Dauntless, Electrostatic Armor, Ronin) without counting any extras from Cuts Both Ways or triggering Flow Like Water or Excelsior. And with all that you get a tough too!

• Altman Residence is key for shuffling Armored Defense back into your deck so you can play it a bunch.

• Impersonation and Ready for a Fight help you flip down to alter-ego to use Altman Residence. (It's a bit of an overpay, but you always have the option to use Teddy's alter-ego Shape-Changer ability to grab Hulk Shape or Armored Shape to pay for the physical resource cost of Ready for a Fight.)

• Use whatever Shape is most useful.

• Armored Shape gives the most DEF and can heal you. Good for multiplayer protection to take hits for your teammates and healing. Also comes with retaliate. Between the toughs you get from Armored Defense and Hidden Base and the healing, you can stay relatively healthy even without basic defending.

• Hulk Shape still gives some DEF and helps do more damage.

• Winged Shape still gives some DEF and helps do more thwarting.

• Imitation Shape is situational with the higher base THW and card draw, but with forced enemy scheming.

• Cuts Both Ways is a cheap event that makes you the defender which can trigger your Shape upgrade and your defense-related upgrades even when you have a tough. The extra retaliate is nice too.

• Taunt can trigger Stand Alone and your Shape upgrade and draws you 3 cards.