Building a Hero Deck!

Heroes, heroes, heroes. Yes, there a ton of fun, awesome heroes in Super Powered Smash Masters, but how do you pick which ones to put on your team?! Our resident Smash Master, Ethan, is here to help.

There are lots of different ways to build a hero deck of course. Ethan’s method should allow you to build a balanced deck pretty quickly. But each hero has their own unique abilities and, if you spend a little time on it, you can build some interesting teams that really compliment each other’s strengths and account for their weaknesses. Here are some more general deck building tips from our Rules page:

Some Deckbuilding Tips

Starting a Deck: We usually start building a deck by counting out 25 Smash cards – the maximum number of Smash cards currently allowed (but you can use fewer than 25 if you like). That leaves 25 additional cards to form the Deck, not including the nine Hero cards. 
Choosing Hero cards: Look closely at the hero cards and their powers. Think about possible synergies. We often find it works best if you have a strong mix of two power types* – for instance, mostly Mutant and Gadget heroes. 
Choosing Super cards: We ALWAYS include all of the Super cards associated with each hero included in the Hero Stack. 25 – 9 leaves 16 more cards to play around with. 
Filling out the Deck: After choosing heroes, we start including Team-Up, Loot, and Story cards that work best with the heroes. If you don’t have a healer like Cat Lady or Help Centaur, it’d be a good idea to add Loot Cards or Story cards that revive heroes when stunned. 

*Including a small number of heroes with a third or fourth power type can sometimes save one’s bacon.

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Smash ya’ later!

-Ben