Bring your Daughter to work day

Bring your daughter to work day

Mutant Mayhem is a cool new back of pack card from the Jubilee pack. This deck aims to use that card to make the most of two particular X-characters: Hope Summers and Beast. And since Hope and Cable are father and daughter, the theme felt spot on.

Deck Summary

• Set up Cable by clearing player side schemes as usual
• Get Hope Summers and Beast into play and leave them there
• Play Mutant Mayhem to fully heal Hope and Beast, grab a free double resource, and a Telekinetic Blast or Mind Scan

Setup

As usual, Cable wants to set up by clearing player side schemes. This plays differently depending on if you’re in solo or multiplayer. The choice of which PSS to start in play and how to get them cleared has been pretty well covered in other player deck, so I won’t go over it here. Just get a bunch of them solved! And when you clear Call for Backup grab Hope Summers or Beast.

The Triskelion and Team Training are nice to have to give some space for chump blockers and extra activations for Hope and Beast. You really don’t want to let either of these two leave play, because they are expensive to get back in.

IPAC and X-Bunker are there for some extra card draw. Be careful with IPAC early on, you don’t want an extra encounter card when you aren’t prepared to deal with it!

Beginning the Mayhem

Beast and Hope may spend some time on the table with just 1 hp left just chilling. If you play a Mission Planning you can get some more activations out of them anyway, which can help while you’re waiting for the right cards.

If Beast and Hope are in play, playing Mutant Mayhem is, by itself a 1 Effective Resource cost full heal for Hope and Beast. Beast will grab a double resource and Hope will grab one of Cable’s many superpower events. Now, Hope and beast are free to attack or thwart, AND you’ve got a double and a Mind Scan or Telekinetic Blast or Telekinetic Force Field in hand to deal with whatever you need to at the time!

Backup allies

If you don’t have one of the big allies out, or if you just want more options, Marrow and Triage also have great when played effects to trigger with Mutant Mayhem. Deadpool is also there, not for Mayhem, but to turn on Cable’s team up card and for the theme.

Strengths and weaknesses

This deck is a bit better in solo just because it’s a little easier to set up all the side schemes in a one player game. In multiplayer you can ask a friend for some resources to play mutant mayhem, though!

The cost curve is kind of high in this deck as well. We depend a bit on getting Graymalkin out early, and on getting multiple uses out of doubles thanks to Beast.

As with most cable decks, Shadows of the past is really really bad. Stryfe’s treachery cards can end a game on their own.

Side deck

• Band Together can generate a lot of resource if you’re replete with allies, and BEAST can go get it. I found it was kind of a “win more” card, because if you’re set up with allies you don’t really need the money from the triple resource
• Lead from the Front can be a cool way to get a bit of extra damage or thwart from your ally swarm. But Cable already has amazing events for damage and thwart so it tends to be not worth it
• Strength In Numbers can get you some draw from your HOPE and BEAST who are just sitting there. In practice, I’ve found with the heals from MUTANT MAYHEM and protection from Mission Planning I could use their basic activations most turns
• Make the Call, Rapid Response, Regroup. These cards are great, as always. They would do well in this deck. But they are pretty much always good and a bit played out, so I’ve elected not to include them here. Feel free to bring them in for a power boost!
• Mission Leader, bring this in multiplayer for sure. In single player you can take it or leave it

Leave me a comment if you have any fun games with this deck, or cool card substitutions!