Hulk Deck tweak suggestions:

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General Notes:

I would highly recommend that if you are going to have the Hulk Deck's effect take place during the untap step, to educate players about rules 502.3 and 503.1. There was a lot of confusion in my early pods about whether you could respond to effects that trigger from the Hulk Deck's effects (say, a "dies" effect that triggers as a result of a Hulk card destroying a creature), and how to stack triggers. According to rule 503.1a, any abilities that trigger during the untap step and any "beginning of upkeep" triggers are placed onto the stack in Active Player, Non-Active Player (APNAP) order.

502.3. No player receives priority during the untap step, so no spells can be cast or resolve and no abilities can be activated or resolve. Any ability that triggers during this step will be held until the next time a player would receive priority, which is usually during the upkeep step. (See rule 503, “Upkeep Step.”)

503.1a Any abilities that triggered during the untap step and any abilities that triggered at the beginning of the upkeep are put onto the stack before the active player gets priority; the order in which they triggered doesn’t matter. (See rule 603, “Handling Triggered Abilities.”)

I noticed there are fewer copies of certain common and uncommon cards than others (namely Gamma Radiation, Hulk SMASH Machines!, and I Am the Strongest Avenger). The quantity of each card in the deck should be consistent with its rarity - either the card quantity or the rarity should be changed.

If you have the art for all of the cards, I have a much better program for making these than MTGCardSmith. It's called Magic Set Editor. I can export all of the cards as images with the correct fonts, templates, spacing, etc.

My additional design for the deck is forthcoming. Give me about a week.

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Individual card notes:

Commons
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We've Created a Monster!

"Look at the top 5 cards of the Hulk Deck, then put them back in any order."

Templating: No issues.

Balance: This should probably scale with the number of players in the game. I would suggest letting it rearrange a number of cards equal to the number of players in the game.

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He's Getting Angry!

"Target creature gains +5/+0, Trample, Haste, and Indestructible until end of turn."

Templating: Keywords are not capitalized unless at the start of a sentence. Creatures "get" P/T boosts, not "gain" them.

"Target creature gets +5/+0 and gains trample, haste, and indestructible until end of turn.

Balance: No issues.

Design: Perhaps making the creature attack this turn if able would be a nice touch? I noticed this was a blank the vast majority of the time it was activated.

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Puny Humans!

"Tap all non-legendary creatures."

Templating: There is no hyphen necessary.

"Tap all nonlegendary creatures."

Balance: No issues.

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Noooo!!!

"Creatures cannot attack this turn."

Templating: "Can't" is used instead of "Cannot".

"Creatures can't attack this turn."

Balance: No issues.

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I am the Strongest Avenger!

"If you control a creature named Hulk, the Strongest Avenger you may search each player's library for a creature card and exile it, then those players shuffle their libraries. You may cast those cards without paying their mana costs. If you do not control a creature named Hulk, the Strongest Avenger search your library for a creature card, reveal it and put it into your hand, then shuffle your library."

Templating: Oh, my. It would be faster to suggest new templating than point out all the mistakes with it.

"Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, and put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. If you control a creature named Hulk, the Strongest Avenger, instead you may search each player's library for a creature card. Exile those cards, then those players shuffle their libraries. You may cast those cards without paying their mana costs."

Balance: At most four-man pods, the payoff effect on this generally reads "Win the game". Perhaps the effect should only search for one creature? The tutor effect is fine. This card should probably either be moved to uncommon, or the tutor should be to top-of-library.

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Smart Hulk is Smart!

"Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
- Each player searches their library for a creature card and puts it into their hand, then shuffles their library.
- Each player may put a land card from their hand onto the battlefield tapped.
- Each player draws 1 card."

Templating: Third ability should read "Each player draws a card".

"Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
- Each player searches their library for a creature card and puts it into their hand, then shuffles their library.
- Each player may put a land card from their hand onto the battlefield tapped.
- Each player draws a card."

Balance: Tutoring up three creatures is a bit strong, especially at common. I would recommend some other ability. Perhaps a top-of-deck tutor for a permanent card? That way they can tutor for at most one thing.

Design: Modal spells have their effects resolved in the order printed on the card. Several times during the games, it was a feel-bad when players drew land cards they wanted to put onto the battlefield with it. If you want players to be able to play lands they draw with the card, the draw effect needs to be before the land-playing effect. Are the effects intentionally in that order?

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Gamma Radiation

"Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.
All creatures gain Haste.
Put a loyalty counter on each Planeswalker."

Templating: Keywords and card types are not capitalized unless they are the first words of a sentence.

"Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.
All creatures gain haste.
Put a loyalty counter on each planeswalker."

Balance: Should be uncommon for balance purposes. Other than that, no issues.

Design: Is the haste effect indefinite, or should it be until end of turn? If it is intended to be until end of turn, it should say so.

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UNCOMMONS
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Hulk SMASH Machines!

"Destroy all artifacts. They cannot be regenerated."

Templating: "Can't" is used instead of "Cannot".

"Destroy all artifacts. They can't be regenerated."

Balance: Should be rare. Other than that, no issues.

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Hulk Hates World!

"Roll a six-sided die. If you roll a 1, Hulk Hates World has no effect. Otherwise, each player sacrifices a card of the indicated type.
2 - Planeswalker
3 - Artifact
4 - Creature
5 - Land
6 - Commander"

Templating: This probably needs to be redone from the ground up, as well. Here is how I would template it, to be consistent with modern Magic card templates:

"Roll a six-sided die. On a 1, this card has no effect. On any other result, this card has one of the following effects.
2 - Each player sacrifices a planeswalker.
3 - Each player sacrifices an artifact.
4 - Each player sacrifices a creature.
5 - Each player sacrifices a land.
6 - Each player sacririces a commander."

Balance: I got many complaints than this does not remove enchantments. I think I understand why it does not, but that is the only balance consideration.

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Planet Hulk

"This card stays active under your control.
Whenever the Hulk Deck's graveyard would be shuffled into the deck, shuffle this card into the Hulk Deck.
Whenecer a Hulk creature enters the battlefield under you control it fights target non-Hulk creature."

Templating: Use of the command zone could really clean up this card's templating. My suggestion:

"Put Planet Hulk into the command zone under your control.
Whenever an effect shuffles the Hulk Deck's graveyard into the Hulk Deck, shuffle Planet Hulk into the Hulk Deck.
Whenever a Hulk creature enters the battlefield under your control, it fights target non-Hulk creature."

Balance: This could probably be common if more cards need to be moved to common. Otherwise, no issues.

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That's How It Feels!

"Each player taps the creature they control with the highest power and takes damage equal to the power of that creature."

Templating: This can be cleaned up as follows:

"Each player taps an untapped creature they control with the greatest power. Each of those creatures deals damage equal to its power to its controller."

Balance: No issues.

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Is He Man, Monster, or Both?!

"Search the Hulk Deck for 2 Common or Uncommon cards and set those aside. Shuffle the Hulk Deck, then put those cards on top in any order.

Templating: Some mild issues. I would recommend the following fixes:

"Search the Hulk Deck for two common or uncommon cards and reveal them, then shuffle the Hulk Deck. If you revealed exactly two cards this way, put those cards on top of the Hulk Deck in any order."

Balance: No issues.

Design: As worded originally, you do not have to perform the search because you are searching a hidden zone for a card with specific qualities. The fix suggested above makes the card work within the rules of the game while minimally altering the function of the card.

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We've Got a Hulk!

"Create a 5/5 green legendary creature token named Hulk with Rampage 5, Trample, and Haste."

Templating: A lot of the same issues with incorrectly capitalized words. This one, however, also has a templating issue with the new wording on legendary tokens Dominaria forward.

"Create Hulk, a legendary 5/5 green creature token with trample, haste, and rampage 5."

Balance: Should probably be common.

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RARES
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Big Guy, Sun's Gettin Real Low

"Shuffle all cards from the Hulk Deck's discard pile into the deck. Each player sacrifices all Hulk creatures they control and creates a 1/1 Legendary Human Creature token named Banner into play. End the turn."

Templating: The term for the Hulk Deck's discard pile should be consistent across all cards that reference it. A term should be chosen and made consistent across all cards. Does everyone get to create a Banner even if they didn't control a Hulk? As worded, it does. Other than that, there are minor templating mistakes. It can be fixed as follows:

"Shuffle all cards from the Hulk Deck's graveyard into the Hulk Deck. Each player sacrifices all Hulk creatures they control, then their controllers create Banner, a legendary 1/1 Human creature token. End the turn."

Balance: Some more testing may be needed, but this should arguably be moved up to mythic. Skipping an entire turn, other than the untap step, is pretty devastating.

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Hulk Is STRONGEST One!

"Until end of turn double target Hulk creature's power and toughness and it gains "T, sacrifice a artifact, creature or land: this creature deals damage equal to its power to any target."

Templating: A few sequencing and grammatical errors, but this actually doesn't look to bad. Just requires a bit of polish:

"Until end of turn, double target Hulk creature's power and toughness, and it gains "T, Sacrifice an artifact, creature or land: This creature deals damage equal to its power to any target."

Balance: This probably could be demoted to uncommon, especially if the Hulk creation card is demoted to common.

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We're Friends From Work!

"Gain control of target Hulk creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until tne of turn. The legend rule does not apply to Hulk creatures this turn."

Templating: "Legend rule" is not capitalized. Other than that, no issues.

"Gain control of target Hulk creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until tne of turn. The legend rule does not apply to Hulk creatures this turn."

Balance: This should be uncommon. Threaten effects have almost always been at comoon or uncommon.

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Go Away, Bugs!

"Destroy all non-Hulk creatures with converted mana cost 3 or less."

Templating: No issues.

Balance: No issues.

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Go To Sleep, Go To Sleep!

"Until the end of your next turn no player reveals cards from the the Hulk deck."

Templating: There's an extra "the" and some missing punctuation. Should probably use different veribage for clarity.

"Until the end of your next turn, cards can't be played from the Hulk Deck.

Balance: No issues.

Design: As worded, this affects the player who reveals it twice: once when it's revealed, and once on that player's next turn. Is this intentional? If not, this effect should probably expire at the beginning of the player's turn, not the end.

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When Hulk is Out, Hulk Smash!

"Search the Hulk Deck for the card named Hulk Smash and reveal that card. Shuffle the Hulk Deck, then put that card on top of it. Creature spells cannot be cast until the end of your next turn."

Templating: Just an incorrect article.

"Search the Hulk Deck for the card named Hulk Smash and reveal that card. Shuffle the Hulk Deck, then put that card on top of it. Creature spells can't be cast until the end of your next turn."

Balance: Perhaps should be mythic? Not letting people cast creatures for a turn is pretty brutal, and when the Hulk Smash card wraths the table, the person who revealed cards is the last one to be able to rebuild the board since they can't cast creatures for two turns.

Design: As worded originally, you do not have to perform the search because you are searching a hidden zone for a card with specific qualities. The fix suggested above makes the card work within the rules of the game while minimally altering the function of the card. To fix this, we can change the effect to be as follows:

"Reveal cards from the top of the Hulk Deck until you reveal a card named Hulk Smash. Shuffle the Hulk Deck, then put that card on top of it. Creature spells can't be cast until the end of your next turn."

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My Secret? I'm Always ANGRY!

"If you control a creature named Banner, exile that creature and create a 5/5 green legendary creature token named Hulk, the Strongest Avenger with Rampage 5, Trample, Haste, and it has "If this creature is attacking, untap all creatures defending player controls, they must block this creature."

Templating: This card actually doesn't work as worded. The intended functionality of the card is preserved by changing its wording as follows:

"If you control a creature named Banner, exile that creature and create Hulk, the Strongest Avenger, a legendary 5/5 green creature token. It has trample, haste, and 'When this creature attacks, untap all creatures defending player controls. Each of those creatures blocks this creature if able.' "

Balance: No issues. Difficult to pull off, but it you do it, you generally get to kill a player.

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Hulk Not Sorry. Hulk Is Hulk.

"If you control 5 or more permanents choose and sacrifice a permanent. If you control 10 or more permanents sacrifice half rounded down instead."

Templating: Minor mistakes. When referring to a quantity of anything other than life, word numbers are used.

"If you control five or more permanents, sacrifice a permanent. If you control ten or more permanents, instead sacrifice half the permanents you control, rounded down."

Balance: This may need to be made mythic because of how crippling it is in the late game. It usually put its player in an irrecoverable situation. I would upgrade this to mythic as worded.

Design: Consider making this sacrifice only nonland permanents. It can probably stay at rare this way.

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Brain Meets Brawn!

"Reveal the top 2 cards of the Hulk Deck and use both of their effects."

Templating: When referring to a quantity of anything other than life, word numbers are used.

"Play the top two cards of the Hulk Deck."

Balance: No issues.

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HULK SMASH!!!

"All creatures lose indestructible. Destroy all non-Hulk creatures they cannot be regenerated."

Templating: "Can't" is used instead of "Cannot".

Balance: No issues.

Design: Is the removal of indestructible indefinite? I know it's a corner case, but how do you intend for this to interact with other destruction-replacement effects?

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Puny God!

"Exile all non-Hulk Legendary Creatures. If a Commander would be exiled this way, put in it's owner's graveyard instead."

Templating: Mostly improper capitalization.

"Exile all non-Hulk legendary creatures. If a commander would be exiled this way, put it into its owner's graveyard instead."

Balance: For a mythic, this concept is fine, but see Design notes below.

Design: As worded, this probably doesn't work as you intended. Because both this card and the command-zone replacement are both replacement effects affecting the same permanent, the replacement effects are applied in APNAP order. For the active player, because they control both replacement effects, they can choose to apply the replacement effects in either order. This means that the active player can choose to have the command-zone replacement apply first, and send the commander to the command zone. The non-active players are not so fortunate. Because the replacement effects are applied in APNAP order, the effect of this card will apply before the command-zone replacement effect controlled by the non-active players, and their commanders will be stranded in the graveyard.

Is that functionality intended? If it is not intended, text could be added to overwrite the command-zone replacement effect of commanders during the resolution of the card.

"Commanders cannot enter the command zone this turn. Exile all non-Hulk legendary creatures. If a commander would be exiled this way, put it into its owner's graveyard instead."