Spidey’s Stunning Legal Defense

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SortofBoard · 246

I’ll get a more detailed write up for this one later. I wanted to try and get this one out today for reasons explained below.

TLDR: We’re using the ruling on if you can’t stun an enemy with Superhuman Strength you don’t discard it to our advantage.

I would say I was inspired by the newest episode of The Winning Hands podcast on Superhuman Strength to come up with this deck. But exactly a year ago I published my first iteration of this deck on my personal account that I don’t use anymore. Am I saying that Boomguy and the others saw this deck and decided to publish their video on the anniversary of my deck taking advantage of this ruling? No, of course not. Am I saying they definitely didn't? That is also a no. Quite a coincidence indeed...

https://marvelcdb.com/decklist/view/41430/spidey-s-stunning-legal-defense-1.0

So based on the 1.5 rules (I think) if a target is already stunned, we don’t discard Superhuman Strength. So we’re running lots of ways to stun on demand. She-Hulk also tends to struggle with thwarting so we have plenty of allies to assist with that. We are also running a handful of methods to ready back up so we can take advantage of the boosted attack multiple times per turn. Overall the deck is very straight forward, we boost her attack and hold off on swinging until she has stunned the villain, then we swing away until they have been defeated.

Methods of Stunning

Thwip Thwip!
Stun Gun
Tackle
Spider-Man

Ready up Utility

One-Two Punch
What Doesn't Kill Me
Limitless Stamina

I’m running Defensive Training to shuffle our stun events back into our deck. I think if you wanted to trade that for a Ready for a Fight it could fit into this fairly well because you'll be drawing more cards.

9 comments

Aug 20, 2025 boomguy · 6646

linked here: marvelcdb.com

Aug 20, 2025 Cameson · 121

Wow, I would have never thought of that! Love the idea, especially to use Web-Warriors with She-Hulk!

Aug 20, 2025 bloodmaximusvii · 2

I think you might have the rules wrong. It's if you can't pay the cost on the left side of the arrow you dont get the right sides effects. Because it's forced you have to do the left side if possible. And if you do you get the right side, which is no effect if they are already stunned. At least that's my understanding

Aug 20, 2025 Cameson · 121

@bloodmaximusvii it seems like there has been a ruling that if there isn't a valid target for the right side of the effect, you can't do the whole effect at all. I think it's a recent ruling, otherwise yeah I think you would be correct.

Aug 20, 2025 boomguy · 6646

It’s in the 1.5. RRG @Cameson @bloodmaximusvii

Aug 20, 2025 SortofBoard · 246

@bloodmaximusvii I’m not sure if my paraphrasing is causing the confusion. In 1.5 there’s a ruling on target validity and being unable to pay the cost if there is no valid target. Based on how I’ve seen it (and running with that here) if you attack a target that is already stunned or is Stalwart, you do not have a valid target for the stun and that means you do not have to pay the cost since there’s nothing to trigger the ability against. Same if you defeat a minion, there is nothing to stun so the ability never triggers and you don’t have to pay the cost. This affects a handful of things, but I don’t know the rules of the game well enough to know every instance of this. lol. I just know a year ish ago I saw an article and a video talking about this “cool trick that now works” and since then every now and then it gets brought up. This is just me parroting what I’ve read elsewhere so if you’re curious about the exact wording you can google it. This is wordy enough as is and I didn’t want to come across like a jerk just throwing interpretive rules text at you. There’s a detailed bit on Hall of Heroes about it and a few posts on Reddit. Thanks for checking out the deck and trying to keep me honest.

Aug 20, 2025 Cameson · 121

@boomguy @SortofBoard Thank you! Also @boomguy love the podcast, just listened to the Superhuman Strength episode today!

Aug 21, 2025 boomguy · 6646

@Cameson I’m glad, that’s awesome to hear!

The ruling is (to me) not very intuitive, so I think most people don’t think that’s right when they see it the first time. Heck, I still question it lol

Aug 21, 2025 SortofBoard · 246

Which is why it works so well thematically when puzzling thru it as a hero with the Attorney trait.