Hot Takes: Protegé and the Night Life TTCs

Two TTCs that come in the October releases haven't been shown in the Panel to Plays but have somehow surfaced anyway now and can be found on Jarvis Protocol. First of:

This card is great. The whole reason I am excited for Tigra is her role and relationship with Moon Knight in the Jed McKay run(s) and this gives a good reason to have both on the field. Neither is an A tier model but both are decent enough and effect and cost here are in a very good relation to each other. Being able to either get the extra movement action or additional dice (it's almost always going to be the former I think) on demand is huge for MK and a range 2 place is great for Tigra if it can get her onto size 3+ terrain to Ambush Predator off of. One of the better team up cards in the game but for characters you wouldn't grab for every game competitively.

A-.

You also get to sing IAMX - Nightlife while playing it so another point in its favor 😉

Finally a reason to play Black Cat, one of the most over the line models in the game in your Web Warriors (or actually splash Silk somewhere where BC is affiliated elsewhere like A-Force or Midnight Sons for example)...

I like to be very positive here usually but this card is kind of insane and I do wonder how it got through play testing. Silk is a fast, tanky 4 threat and getting a once per game Black Cat steal is very very good for her. It also helps make up for the lack of Objective dropping from Ultimate Miles.

Where The Night Life is a good team up card this is a too good one for me. Especially in Web Warriors the chances that Black Cat is in your squad are already extremely high and when you pick Silk for your squad you'll probably automatically pick the card too. The only reason against it is the space in the 5 or 4 (when playing under Spider-Verse) being too tight.

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