Last Monday I took part in our monthly Vs event here in Maidstone. It had been my intention to run my AI/Doom deck, however things didn't pan out quite that way.

Upon arrival I realised that I'd brought the wrong deckbox and had in fact brought the box containing Big Brotherhood, Hellboy Lone Wolf, Shadow of the Blackhand and Qwaffles. I had played SotB the week before so didn't want to run that, I had no experience with Qwaffles and my Big Brotherhood build needs work as the recent changes to it had reduced the consistency, so in the end I plumped for Hellboy, which I had originally built for one of our playgroup, Holly, a big Helboy fan. The deck utilised only cards from the Hellboy Essential collection other than a couple of Avalon Space Stations which I nabbed out of the Big Brother deck.

So the somewhat basic build looked like this.
4 Hellboy, Little Boy
4 Abe Sapien, Langdon everett Caul
1 Kate Corrigan, Folklore Consultant
1 Sidney Leach, Human Metal Detector
4 Liz Sherman, Pyrokinesis
2 Professor Bruttenholm, Father
4 Hellboy, Anung un Rama
4 Abe Sapien, Icthyo Sapien
3 Johann Kraus, Free Spirit
1 Roger, Homonculous
1 Liz Sherman, Uncontrolled Power
3 Hellboy, The Right Hand of Doom

4 BPRD HQ
2 Inner Sanctum
2 Avalon Space Station

4 Pancakes
4 Break off the Horns
1 Justice is Served
2 Nasty Surprise
3 Spill the Beans

2 Jetpack
3 BPRD Signal Device
1 Concussion Grenade

Now before people start ripping the build, I know it's rubbish. However despite choking in game 1 where I drew only 2 character cards in the first six turns including a mulligan (thats 2 in 20 cards), I managed to post a 3-1 record. It can be scary how good the 4-drop Hellboy can get. The MVP of the day however was surprising, Spill the Beans! In fact, in game 1, a combination of Spill the Beans and Inner Sanctum saw me stun all three of my opponents characters whilst just fielding a solo Liz Sherman. It didn't help however as I didn't make another drop until turn 6.

Anyway, what this all succeeded in doing was planted a little seed in my head, not as per Hellboy Vol1, a Seed of Destruction, but in fact a Seed of Construction.

Hellboy Lone Wolf has just become a contender to be my deck in the upcoming Maidstone Elite Series, as long as I can sort out the judging for the event. The other contenders are Cable X-Babies Attack (based on the article by Rian Fike aka Stubarnes), Dont you know who I am? (a Juggernaut based Brotherhood build) or a duplicate of fellow Team GD member, Silent-J's IG Burn deck.

So here it is, the pre-testing build of my Hellboy Lone Wolf deck.

4 Hellboy, Little Boy
2 Abe Sapien, Langdon Everett Caul
2 Kate Corrigan, Folklore Consultant
1 Sidney Leach, Human Metal Detector
2 Professor Bruttenholm, Father
4 Liz Sherman, Pyrokinesis
4 Hellboy, Anung un Rama
4 Abe Sapien, Icthyo Sapien
2 Johann Strauss, Free Spirit
1 Roger, Homonculous
2 Hellboy, The Right Hand of Doom
1 Liz Sherman, Uncontrolled Power

2 Avalon Space Station
3 BPRD HQ
2 Inner Sanctum

2 Mobilize
3 Flying Kick
4 Pancakes
4 Break off the Horns
3 Spill the Beans
2 Justice is Served
2 Nasty Surprise

2 BPRD Signal Device
3 Nth Metal

The deck still keeps the feel of a deck straight out of the Essential collection box, that utilises all the main BPRD characters whilst at the same time should, theoretically, be more consistent.

I've got six days till the Elite Series, so any tips would be appreciated, taking into account I wont splash in non BPRD characters as it changes the 'authentic feel' of the deck. PT's and locations are fine though.

Cheers
Graham
The Grinning Demon
www.grinningdemon.co.uk

I'd like a backup that puts someone from the hidden area to the visible area, akin to Cosmic Conflict, just to deal with players that move my Hellboy, but I don't know what to use that is SA legal, or what to remove.