Today, I have the pleasure of posting the first post–Preview Weekend Metagame.com deck. I hope you all had fun. Now that you’ve seen the cards, I’m sure that you have plans to put together a dozen or so new decks. Here is one, however, that you may not have considered—it’s a fun deck, and I know that my loyal readers are all hard-core, serious, killer deck designers . . .

The idea of this deck is to seriously mess with your opponent’s resource row. It’s the first deck I put together during Superman, Man of Steel playtesting. Before you rush off to play this in your next PCQ, please note that I once locked up Humpherys on turn 2 with the deck (he never played a plot twist from his resource row the entire game) and still lost. If your opponent’s deck can’t win without cards in the resource row, you just might win. If your opponent is just playing big beatsticks, you’ll likely be crushed.

The Big Downer

4 Perry White

4 Gole

4 Shaligo

4 Black Cat, Master Thief

4 Purple Man

4 Connor Kent ◊ Superboy

4 Trok

4 Devilance

4 Kanto

4 Acrobatic Dodge

4 Apokolips

2 Concrete Jungle

4 Firepits of Apokolips

4 Hidden Surveillance

2 Stopped Cold

4 World’s Finest

Okay, so it’s a four-team deck. I’d like to add more teams, but the Firepits demand a healthy number of Darkseid’s Elite characters, and I don’t want to put more team-up cards in the deck. Not only that, the Firepits demand some healthy characters. It’s tough to keep a character ready all the way to the recovery phase. But the Firepits are so much fun to play that it’s worth it.

If that card is the most fun to play, Hidden Surveillance is the MVP. It’s the card that makes sure all of your shenanigans will work when the time is right. Without it, when you’re ready to perpetrate something heinous on an opponent’s resource row, he or she can just flip or play the card to negate your fun. But with Hidden Surveillance, you’ll always have a target in your opponent’s resource row that you know he or she won’t be able to protect. It’s usually worth mulliganing an opening hand that doesn’t have a Hidden Surveillance unless you have