Pumping Iron with Giant Weights

Deck Overview This Leadership deck is built around Iron Lad, focusing on boosting his stats and maximizing his value. A key part of the plan is Giant-Man, who consistently benefits from +2 ATK bonus since he only needs to exhaust to trigger it and will never go below 3 remaining HP. Giant-Man’s attack can then be pushed even higher with additional upgrades and boosts.

Call for Backup helps get Giant-Man into play efficiently, making him a priority early inclusion. Once he’s down, the first upgrades you want to see are Inspired and Sidearm to really start applying pressure.

I don’t mind pitching Iron Lad early if it helps build the board. Suit Up makes it easy to bring him back later with Reinforced Suit, which often feels like a tempo win rather than a setback.

Supports & Allies Build Support is primarily included to fetch Mighty Avengers, but even if that’s already in play it still has value by pulling out Quincarrier to smooth resources.

Black Panther is mainly here to be Avengers Assemble once the board is fully developed.

Kaluu provides another way to dig for key events, though his main target is usually Suit Up.

Final Thoughts I’ve had a lot of fun with this deck—it feels explosive once everything comes together and rewards smart sequencing.

My only real issue is trimming it down to 40 cards. While running a little over doesn’t hurt too badly thanks to the strong card draw, there are definitely some tough cuts to be made.

Build Well!