The Revenge Squad in the Superman, Man of Steel expansion has several different combos and deck strategies to explore, but today, I’ll be exploring just one single card. Bizarro, Imperfect Duplicate is the kind of character that naturally draws me in and gets me thinking about a deck. The character is so crazy fun that he deserves—nay, demands—his own deck. Fortunately, the Revenge Squad has many characters that can also benefit from the plot twists a Bizarro deck utilizes.

Switch It Up

4 Mercy

4 Massacre

4 Silver Banshee

4 Hank Henshaw ◊ Cyborg

3 Parasite

4 Bizarro

1 Mongul

4 Eradicator, Doctor David Connor

2 General Zod

1 Gog

1 Doomsday

4 Acrobatic Dodge

4 From the Shadows

4 LexCorp

4 Nasty Surprise

2 Overload

4 Revenge Pact

4 Savage Beatdown

2 Suicide Slums

This deck has lots of big, beefy guys, but it also has a few characters that really need the deck’s multitude of combat-oriented plot twists. Before we get into strategy, however, let’s discuss initiave—a difficult decision, indeed. It doesn’t really matter much until turn 3, when both Massacre and Silver Banshee work best with odd initiative. Things get downright tricky on turn 4, when Parasite can be a liability if you don’t have the initiative. You’d much rather attack your opponent’s 3-drop, turning Parasite into a 10 ATK /10 DEF monster. However, Hank Henshaw ◊ Cyborg works better when you have the odd initiative. If you recruit him after you’ve seen your opponent’s recruits and formation, his power is so much better.

On turn 5, it’s hard for Bizarro to decide just what he wants. I mean, if the guys says he wants odds, does he mean it, or is he j