Best Buds!

What more could you want in a sidekick than Wade's best bud, Cable? At full power, he's a whopping 5 ATK, 4 THW, and 3 health, for 3 cost. And you can get him fully charged by turn 3 pretty reasonably. We want to play him early, charge up quick, and fight Side-by-Side as best buds should!

Turn 1

Try to get Cable and Sidekick down turn 1. Keep resources, Suit Up, Cable, and Exhausting Personality. Mulligan everything else (If you start with both Cable and Sidekick, keep both. But don't hold Sidekick by itself.) All you need in your opening hand is a double resource and Suit Up. Two resources + Suit Up, or Cable + Sidekick + resource gives you one card left in hand. With Wade's alter ego ability we can turn this last card into Exhausting Personality. This will not only stun and confuse the villain, but give Cable +1/+1 right away!

Suiting Up

There is only one Sidekick, but 3 copies of Suit Up. Don't worry, they won't go to waste! You can suit up with any of the other allies and grab another upgrade to throw on Cable! For this there's 2 options, Inspired, and Sidearm. The third upgrade we can get with Suit Up is Clarity of Purpose. This is better to put on Deadpool himself, or one of your teammates.

The 3 other allies are just here to grab more upgrades with Suit Up. You can play them if you have enough resources, or they can just be spent to pay for the upgrades. Conveniently, all of our upgrades are 1 cost, so even if you spend your last resources to play Suit Up, you'll still be able to play the upgrade! Nick Fury is not as easy to play with Suit Up, but he's great to cycle through the deck. He's especially good when you get a big late game Exhausting Personality draw.

The Bestest of Buds!

Not only is Cable a great Sidekick, Deadpool himself synergizes with it as well. The heal from Sidekick requires you to make a basic recovery, which is something Wade does more than any other hero in the game! Get Chimichanga Truck out, and you'll be able to recover and ready up for an attack or thwart after you flip. With his inclination towards taking a beating and his 8 recovery, you are going to be doing this every turn anyway. Why not get some free healing on Cable while we are at it? The hero ability, The Regeneratin' Regenerate, also lets him get a free flip down to alter ego, allowing you to trigger recovery and alter ego abilities while still ending your turn in hero form. This is not only useful for Sidekick, it lets us easily play Suit Up as well!

Once you have your bud fully suited up, he's sitting at 7 ATK and 5 THW. Now all there is left to do is to get as many readies on him as possible. For this we have Side-by-Side and Command Team. Side-by-side gives you 2 choices, but we are always choosing the second. We are already set on healing, and the buff lasts until the end of the phase. This means that it stacks! By playing 2 side-by-sides, the two characters will get +2/+2. If you can pull that off and then use Command Team, you'll be pushing some serious damage. Always remember to activate both Cable and Deadpool before using Side-by-side, as the event will ready both characters. Late game, this combo of Side-by-Side + Command Team can easily do 30+ damage, throw a Maximum Effort in there and you'll be single handedly destroying the villain even in multiplayer!

Everything Else

Moira is an auto-include with Deadpool. Frenemies is a fun card. Super high value thwarting for cheap, and we really don't care about the damage at all. Mutant Education lets us cycle events for Wade's Break the Fourth Wall ability, as well as replaying our Montage. With Specialized Training, we will usually be grabbing Front Line Specialist as Deadpool. Surveillance Specialist and Combat Specialist also work, depending on the situation.

Card Swaps and Final Thoughts

X-Bunker is here with the assumption that your teammates will bring a few player side schemes. If this isn't the case, you will want to swap this out. Helicarrier would be the simplest replacement. Allies can also be swapped out. While I found that these allies worked the best, the important thing here is just having 3-4 allies in total. Some other allies that work well include Professor X, Squirrel Girl, X-23, and Domino.

Deadpool is the BEST Sidekick hero in the game. Not only do we have a super powerful signature ally, we also have a hero that can very easily go down to alter ego to heal our sidekick every turn.

This has been a really fun way to play Deadpool. If you give it a try, let me know how it goes!