Readers who caught yesterday’s post on time might’ve noticed it was titled as a draft. I was literally falling asleep at the keyboard and not only forgot to fix the name, but actually forgot I’d scheduled it to publish! I was fretting a bit thinking I had forgotten to publish it, then got online to see my error.
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At the nadir of the list of 2012’s worst pieces is the late, not-so-lamented :
#1
MARVEL GIRL (Marvel 10th Anniversary 006)
Miniskirt Jean Grey does one thing: Telekinesis. (Yeah, she can heal on her first click. So what.)
TK is her only job. Possessing zero range, her using TK is the only way to maybe activate her Battlefield Promotion when she dies.
Wait. What? She only promotes when she DIES?
Well, that’s actually character accurate. But with her 9 AV sinking low and lower, the chance of her racking up enough tokens to succeed if she gets KO’d are slim. And no player’s going to KO her if it can be helped, knowing Dark Phoenix is in the (fire) wings.
So. 54 points for a character you really just push to sling people around is just a waste. And she’s the worst.
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Enough of the torrid and the horrid. For this week leading into everyone’s favorite Hallmark holiday, Valentine’s Day, I’m going to focus on 10 figures from 2012 I loved. As has become standard, next post will share a holdover from 2011 that first saw play in 2012 and has a place in my Heroclixin’ heart.
Good list, and I think it speaks to the strength of Clix as a game that most of these figures COULD have a use in the right team. I’ve used Mindwarp and Maul to decent effect, for example. Xanadu is a lot tougher – I’d like for her to team up with the Flash that can attack three different figures, but I haven’t made that work yet. I’ve seen Mistress Death used with a ring of AIM troops acting as an enhance/outwit wall.
But yeah, that Marvel Girl not only looks kind of worthless, but also not much fun to use in the same way the really old figures are. Just boring.