Theorycrafting a bit on a variant of the Hood/Viper/She-Hulk/Moongirl "explosive turn 6" Hoogland deck that took me to infinite this season pre-Quinjet-nerf.
Since Quinjet is nerfed, the goal here is to use Beast's bounce effect to enable dropping a large number of 0- or 1-drop cards alongside one or even two Hitmonkeys on Turn 6; if you have She-Hulk, you can skip Turn 5 to have one or two She-Hulks among those one-drops. (This might prove messy in conjunction with Moongirl and you may end up with a bit of hand overcrowding; TBD how bad this will be in practice).
This deck will probably work best if you don't have priority going into T6 both to give some flexibility for Titania and to avoid last-turn Killmongering.
A few guesses as to good play lines:
* T1 sunspot, T2 armor, T3 hood+viper, T4 moongirl, T5 skip, T6 drop two Shulks, two Demons, and a Hit-Monkey or two Titanias for 38 power.
* T1 Hood, T2 hitmonkey in another lane, T3 Demon+Beast in the hitmonkey lane, T4 Moongirl, T5 skip, T6 two shulks, two demons, and two hit-monkeys for 50(!!) power (thanks to getting one of the demons and hitmonkeys cost-reduced by Beast) (note: improbable scenario with hand crowding, but a nice dream).
I'm also interested in the possibility of pretty OK play lines even if you don't have double-she-hulk-skip-turn-5 in hand, for example:
* T1 hood, T2 Goose, T3 Bishop, T4 Demon/Titania/Beast, T5 Moongirl, T6 two demons, two Hitmonkeys, two Titanias and say, a Sunspot? for 47 power, not to mention having a 12-power Bishop at that point
Downsides to all of this is that as usual with Moongirl zoo decks, it's extremely sensitive to card draw order; having (say) a Viper first in your hand going into the Moongirl turn can kind of wreck your day.
Alternatives:
* Kitty Pryde potentially makes this deck even cooler, but probably requires slotting Bast in too, probably instead of Titania and Viper or Goose (since Titania and Bast are not friends, and Basted Hoods make Viper useless).
* Polaris or Juggernaut instead of Bishop or Viper trades some potential power for board control (Juggernaut is especially appealing for T6 control given the expected lower number of Thanos/flood decks in the new meta).
* Blue Marvel (instead of Goose or Viper?) could turn the "crap I don't have She-Hulk" situations into a win, if you can drop him T5 before dropping a flood of 0/1-costers.
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