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Yondu Hot Takes

 Today we've got the card reveal we were still missing for the January releases in Yondu and the P2P was already kind of Hot Takey itself so let's see what I can add here: 


 


 

Yondus obvious biggest and most important thing on this card is his, frankly amazing, builder. Range 5, 5 dice Engery, that ignores Cover, has a Wild Slow and reroll one if Yondu is holding or contesting an objective is plain and simply fantastic. His Spender on the other hand, while super thematic, is less exciting for my taste. While it has the potential to hit every single enemy model in a single attack action the double trigger is just below 50% without the reroll and still only around 60% with it. Which means it absolutely can and will let you down when you would've needed it the most. 

Yondos coolest ability is him being an Extract vaccum cleaner. As they mentioned in the P2P you'll probably use this more to ensure the extract that another back point sitter, like Rocket, was holding to stay in your possesion, than charge Yondu up into the fight. Because he will live basically seconds in close. Quickdraw is a cute but ultimately underwhelming superpower but it does profit from The Pirate Way at least making it a mathmatical 6 defense dice. And with his great builder, Yondu shouldn't be too power starved to occasionally use it. 

 Yondus biggest issue will be to find a home on the team. Guardians already sport three good affiliated 4 threats in Agent Venom, Beta Ray Bill and Gamora (in this order for me) and all of Star-Lord, Rocket and now Nova do basically the same thing as him, which is shoot strong Engery attacks from a long distance away, while all of the other 4s offer something much more unique. 

 Yondu does come with a TTC so maybe that's the saving grace here?

 


OK this card is pretty rad. It doesn't have to be played in the Power Phase or Yondus activation which makes this immediatly better than Elsas and Man-Things cards. And the effect could be very strong. The biggest issue here is that, you kind of don't want Yondu in Range 3 of the enemy in any way shape or form. But if he is, free double rerolls are: pretty good. The added power Yondu might gain here is really just gravey. 

So in total: I'm sadly not convinced Yondu makes my Guardians roster. Which is a shame because his model looks awesome. I was really hoping he'd be a 3 threat though as that's the threat level Guardians could use some help. 

 

With all the members of the January relases now revealed and Across the Bifrost still down I have decided that I'll completely rewrite the Midnight Sons and Guardians of the Galaxy Affiliation Overviews. They should be out before the end of the year I hope. 

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