The new Season, Savage Land, started just a few days ago, but that hasn't stopped players from brewing up some spicy lists featuring the new Season Pass card, Zabu. We gathered a menagerie of decks from the internet's darkest corners, encompassing a variety of strategies surrounding the last Smilodon.
TLSG's Discard
Thanks to Zabu, this Discard Dracula deck from TLSG can absolutely shred through its hand to feed Morbius and make a huge Apocalypse. How does it do this? Well, making Wong cost half as much is a good start.
MOLT's Zabula
Going a little bigger with the discard synergies is MOLT, who's combined Dracula and Ghost Rider with Jubilee for the ultimate in cheating large bodies into play. If you're worried that it's overcommitting to one location while neglecting the others, don't: it's got Omega Red to help spread the love.
Bufarete's Zabounce
If filling your opponent's deck with Rocks and making them unable to play their cards at full strength is your jam, then Bufarete has a list for you. This deck runs everyone's favorite annoying cards, from Korg and Rockslide to Iceman and Scorpion. If you worry you're not being annoying enough, there's a Beast to bounce your disruption back so you can copy it with Moon Girl and play it again.
Zabu, the Collector
This Zabu deck takes Beast bounces and builds them into its DNA with The Collector sitting there to soak up all that Power from cards going back to hand. With Zabu on board, a bounced 4-Drop costs 1, so you can use it to relocate a sturdy Jessica Jones on turn 6.
GreenLanternB's Tigers and Dinos
This midrange Zabu list from GreenLanternB has plenty of 4-Drops to discount with Zabu, and it's pretty powerful to drop both [snapard]Jessica Jones and Rescue on turn 4. The deck also runs Mystique, who can copy Zabu's Ongoing effect, or give you another Devil Dinosaur on board.
Cozy's DeathPool
Zabu brings new strength to Cozy's DeathPool list, giving it additional flexibility when using Shuri and Absorbing Man for extra stats on Death, or for an additional Destroy effect to trigger Deadpool.
Maverick's TigerHawk
Maverick has been tinkering with Zabu and another new card, Darkhawk, and it turns out that making Darkhawk cost 2 less is great - but what's even better is using Absorbing Man to cheaply copy the On Reveal of disruption cards like Rockslide or Spider-Man - or you can use Moon Girl to get double the On Reveal the old-fashioned way.
Regis's Shuri Zabu
This Zabu deck from RegisKillbin leans heavily on the the power-doubling ability of Shuri, using her to boost Aero or Vision. Meanwhile, Wong and Absorbing Man are there for all your On Reveal repeating needs.
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Comments
I would suggest also Typhoid Mary + Enchantress (which pretty much guarantees a location on turn 4 - choose one that the opponent didn't invest in, and DON'T put Zabu in the same one!), plus a Hulk for turn 6 or any other finishing combo depending on your synergies). I'm not saying you're gonna draw Zabu on turn 4 every game, but these are synergistic ideas which pretty much care about on-curve plays, mostly.