Rain's 42-card Protection Bishop Deck

This is my "no defend" Bishop Protection deck; he does not defend for the table, or even himself! Instead, he soaks damage as Bishop likes to do, and let his allies do all the work. Please note that I have all my decks built simultaneously so not all cards are available.

There are a handful of X-Men allies that are very good, but would be even better if they just had more health! Luckily, Bishop is very good at providing this. Generally you'll be thwarting with Bishop (unless threat is under control) so that when you draw an ally, you can flip down, fetch a Stored Energy using his Alter-Ego ability, and use it to pay for said ally. If you have Danger Room out, that gets you a Protective Training for that ally and attach it for free, giving your allies double hit points to work with!

Obviously, there's Malcolm if you need help with damage and Randall if you need help with threat (and given the choice, you'll want Randall to offset you flipping down for the training card). If you get lucky with Gambit, you might have a 3ATK or 3THW ally for 6 whole activations! Rogue is good friends with Bishop since he doesn't mind being the recipient of her ally ability to boost her stats by 2. Having Northstar out can allow for up to 6 boost-icon-cancelling instances. Iceman having more hit points lets him activate a few times while you wait for a minion to show up, so he's just not sitting around chilling out.

Since flipping down to get these awesome allies incentives you to recover with Bishop, I also included some events that let him get attacked a little more often. Get Behind Me! to stop a bad treachery, then you heal with your uniform, flip down, recover, and ally shenanigans? Sign me up! Flipping up with full health and feeling saucy? Taunt the villain for more cards, that you can just heal off of! Oh no, your constant flipping increasing threat too much? Nothing a little Bait and Switch can't cure - don't worry, Bishop can take it!

If you wanted, you can swap out some of those events for more resource cards but since he doesn't try to stay in hero form indefinitely, I've found that the amount of resource cards is sufficient to stop any surprise shanking from the villain. Have fun, and show Leadership how it's done!