Yeah, DW Fixer (lets get dangerous) is staking a claim to that first hero spot, from the first round free hit to destroying stuff people only needed out until the villain turn ended (see ya Ground Pound, Take Down, Heroic Interception, Slip Through Time, Forms Scholar doesn't need, Alchemical redirection. . . you get the point.) Also when Dawn pays the card that shall not be named Fixer gets to salvage yard, (and with overdrive from the trash) drop bitter strike twice for no cost.
He'll be tough to run vs. villains with limited but consistent card destruction, as you'll be trying to get ahead of the destruction so those cards won't be expendable.
Thank you for looking into cheaper options but $20ish shipping still seems excessive given Vengence is being shipped in February. Is there anyway we could include it with Vengence?
you don't have salvage yard every turn, and even using it you don't get back those card plays. It isn't debilitating, I think he's sickly powerful but the playstyle isn't going to be strike every turn unless you build a team for it. I could definitely see an Omnitron-X or Bunker that focuses a lot of their energy on getting Fixer cards to destroy so he can get set up and smash things. It won't be so bad as to have him only striking every other round, but there will be turns you don't strike on your power phase because you don't have cards that are expendable. The hardest part will be the early rounds, just getting a tool and style into play mean skipping your power or someone else giving up cards for you to use. After you get a tool and style and some decent cards in hand it won't be tough at all, you'll still want an occasional help from an ally, but there are a decent number of cards from other decks that would be good fodder, and Toolbox and Bloody Knuckles are naturally expendable. And you can switch in other cards as you have them.
I think it fits really well in the dark watch style of setting up for really good attacks. Some teams it may be smart to work it so Fixer can strike every round, but many times he'll be on his own to feed his power.
When the next oversized villain card pack is done, will there be a way to get just the Spite/Gloomy oversized cards (and those from Vengeance if necessary) without getting the whole rest all over again?
These guys are crazy. As a non-playtester, I have no idea what Setback's "unlucky pool" and tokens therein are about, but it gives a clue of what we're dealing with. I'm a bit disappointed, though, about the revelation that the intriguing mention of "Dark Watch" on Setback wasn't the first tease of a team of all-new heroes, but just the grouping together of a bunch of existing ones. (In particular I feel like it's a bit cheap to stick Expat and Fixer in the same team when they were already in the same expansion. I'd rather that Ra had been on the team instead of either Fixer or Expat, both of whom I think have a built-in promo concept in their backstory (Black Fist and Citizen Whatever-Dawn-Called-Her-Daughter-Besides-Amanda).
A few rules questions present themselves:
1. Does Fixer's Bitter Strike count as Strike for all purposes? Notably, can you Bitter Strike twice after Overdriving? Also, am I correct that you lose nothing if you Bitter Strike when there's nothing to destroy?
2. Is Mitigate meant to reduce "the next damage dealt to any hero" or "the next damage dealt to one hero of your choice"?
Love the ridiculous-looking Gambit/JeanGray neck brace thingy on Expatriette. It just seems like the perfect thing for a Gritty 80s version of her to wear. Also, while the new Nightmist doesn't look as Lovecraftian anymore (if anything the spirals make her seem kinda Egyptian - which again makes me want Ra on this team), she is immensely cool on her own merits. Definitely eager to try her out, even if I think Investigation is a way better power than Attunement, which I think will take some of the fun out of playing her. Hm, and what's that scar on Mr. Fixer?..
We don't get any mechanical details on Spite and Gloomy, but definitely interested to see how they turn out. Spite looks absolutely magnificent, and that "zombie" on Gloomy's card is a nice callback to the original set villains (apart from Blade).
So yeah. Very stoked about getting something actually NEW prior to the arrival of Vengeance. Three usable new heroes and two much-anticipated villains…this is gonna be, as Lord Peter of Griffin would put it, "freakin' sweet"!
So now, with the Prime Wardens confirmed to be on their way, the only heroes who aren't going to have promos so far are CR, O-X, and whatever comes during and after Vengeance. I wonder if there's going to continue to be a pattern of "all but the new heroes have promos", or if this is just a special thing for the RC/IR reprint, and there won't be similar reprints for ST and forward because they're going to stay in print.
The options we are looking into will unfortunately only make shipping of very small (several ounces at the most) orders cheaper, so it wouldn't have mattered for Vengeance anyway.
With the introduction of Argent Adept, it revealed the team known as the Prime Wardens. Which contains Haka, Fanatic, and Tempest, which are all from the same set. Yet you have no issue with that? Also Prime Wardens wasn't made with most new heroes. Only one of them have yet to make their way into the game.
I'm curious as to what the logic to this is. You would rather exclude a Dark and Gritty hero from a Dark and Gritty super hero team, to add in a hero that is neither Dark or Gritty?
