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JSA: Guest-Starring...Lobo!?

For last week's "Special Guest Star" tournament I wanted to really mix things up. Having never played the team, I'd been thinking about building a JSA deck for quite some time, but had never gotten around to it. With my team chosen, I tried to come up with something that was really off-the-wall, but could possibly happen in a comic book...provided the editorial staff had been plied with enough liquor before reading the premise. After wracking my brain a little bit, I thought that throwing Lobo in there just might be crazy enough to work!

JSA Guest-Starring Lobo
(60 cards)

Characters:
2x DCR-026 Terry Sloane <> Mr. Terrific (1)
2x DCR-002 Atom Smasher (1)
3x DCR-029 Wesley Dodds <> The Sandman (2)
3x DCR-023 Stargirl (2)
3x DLS-196 Jack Knight <> Starman (2)
4x DCR-017 Michael Holt <> Mr. Terrific (3)
2x DCR-020 Rex Tyler <> Hourman (3)
3x DLS-198 S.T.R.I.P.E. (4)
2x DCX-016 Alan Scott (4)
1x DCR-022 Sand (4)
3x DCR-006 Carter Hall <> Hawkman (5)
2x DLS-197 Power Girl (5)
1x DCR-028 Thunderbolt (5)
2x DLS-240 Lobo (6)
1x DCR-004 Black Adam (7)
Total = 34

Locations & Equipment:
4x DCR-042 T-Spheres
3x DCR-041 The Rock of Eternity
1x DCR-037 JSA Headquarters
Total = 8

Plot Twists:
4x DCR-198 Revitalize
3x MOR-210 Press the Attack
3x DCR-031 A Moment of Crisis
3x DCR-035 Double Play
2x DLS-185 Level 12 Intelligence
2x DLS-187 Mobilize
1x DCR-032 Advance Warning
Total = 18

This deck isn't exactly optimized for characters or plot twist abuse, and I'm actually not quite sure if what I tried to do works. The special rule for the event was that our guest star gains an affiliation of our choice, in this case Lobo gaining the JSA team affiliation. On turn 6 we want to have Lobo become stunned, allowing us to bring out the second copy of him from our deck. Using a copy of Revitalize we recover the first stunned copy and try to keep them both around for turn 7.

On turn 7, we team attack with the Lobos, using a copy of Double Play on each of them to ready and keep them from getting stunned for the turn. Another team attack, or exhausting effects should allow us to drop a copy or two of Press the Attacks on them both to attack for a total of three times each. It is possible to trigger this on turn 6, but much more difficult to do.

The glitch is simple and something I need to double-check the rules on. Since Lobo doesn't have an identity (marked with the <> symbol after his name), I think we also need to play Moment of Crisis to give him an identity before Double Play is legal. It's not an easy combo to pull off, but I was able to do it once in my four games of play. It was a lot of fun to see it all come together, even if it was only once!

With a little optimization I think the deck could work, but it needs some defense and a little tighter character selection earlier on. I do plan to tweak it a little bit for fun. A full set of Lobo would be beneficial too, but I haven't been able to round up another pair of them.
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