Hot Takes: Blue Marvel

 

AMG gave us a little Christmas present in the form of the Panel to Play for Blue Marvel and Spectrum. Sadly the card for the latter had a mistake on it so we'll wait for that to be rectified before we talk about her. All focus on Adam Brashear today. 

Wow, what a Builder. Blue Marvel has a mathematically stronger Builder attack than Black Bolt as his count Skull results as successes outweighs the Inhuman Reroll and Pierce. (4.2 average successes vs. 3.86) The added Wild Stun is just icing on the cake for Adam here. It's going to be his bread and butter to use this attack as often as possible. His Spender is very expensive (potentially costing him 6 or more power) so you'll rarely use it I think but when you do it can be devastating for your opponent if you get it off against multiple targets. It averages 5.64 successes per attack according to the Jarvis Protocol dice calculator. And the crit, hit trigger deals another point of automatic damage in top of it. 

And as if his incredible attacks wouldn't be enough Blue Marvel casually has gotten the single best throw in the game. Why? Because it's the first ever Range 3 Size 4 character (+terrain) throw. Which means he can displace the vast majority of the games characters from a long range off. 

And while his 7/6 Stamina nowadays looks more like a 4 threats one he makes up for that with 4/4/4 defenses, Immunity to Incinerate (and Stun) and counting Skulls on Defense and Dodge Rolls too. Add the ability to have himself or an ally in 3 reroll any defense dice including skulls which is also not once per turn (when it was specifically stated that those abilities will basically all be once per turn from now on) and you have an absolute power house. 

Oh and he also gains a power whenever he rolls a Skull. 

Blue Marvel has a very obvious single weakness, which is action compression. So he needs help with that but otherwise he's an absolute top tier 5 threat on first look. 

He has some similarities to Scarlet Witch but having the displacement makes him more interesting in my opinion. You will probably be OK when he spends his activation walking once, Buildering someone and then throwing them medium. 

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Blue Marvel brings with him a Mighty Avengers TTC. It's very good and probably stapled to Adam when he plays in Mighty Avengers. It reminds me of Battle Plan which is also a very good card but the difference here is that Blue Marvel should have less issues building the necessary power. 

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That's it for today. Lets hope Spectrums card will be updated soon so we can talk about her and her cards. 

Cheers from Germany 🍻