Task Force X – Building a Team

When all else fails, go with what works. While I could do a contest, I’ve instead decided as a way of pushing myself to get some content up to go with some card design. It’s fun, and honestly, I’m more of a DC fan, so while I’m excited about Marvel Universe, I’m not the person that can really talk about the mythos involved.

So, to start things off, I’ll go with my Legend that I submitted to the Ring Has Chosen: Amanda Waller. The basic idea was for her to be the core legend for a Suicide Squad team affiliation. I decided that, while we do have Punisher, Suicide Run … having an ENTIRE team called “Suicide Squad” might get shot down by Upper Deck, so Task Force X fills in as an alternate name if necessary.

The basic idea of the team of course is generally treating MOST of your characters as dispossable assets, but also being able to press [but not THAT kind of press] people into service against their will to some extent.

This means stunning, KO’ing and removing characters you control from the game, perhaps also bouncing them to hand [you do have both Captain Boomerangs having been members of the team]. Also, you want to be a team, sort of like the Skrulls, that is built with teaming up in mind. It would probably be more like the Wild Pack or Doom Patrol more so than Skrulls, and will probably have solid synergy with Secret Society. I may try to avoid covering too much of the same ground, but it might be hard.

Anyway, here is Amanda Waller’s Legend content for now. Hopefully I’ll have a bit more to add soon. I’m pretty sure the Stu will be very interested in what I have in store for Multiplex.

Start of Submission –

This is a legend, that doubles as a sub-team. The Suicide Squad is led by the Wall, and, like the Skrulls, is a perfect team to get small status, because of their, shall we way, recruitment methods. Thus, the basic concepts of Amanda Waller’s cards are involved in coercing other teams to join her cause.

The versions represent her recent role as White Queen of Checkmate, in addition to her temporary role as Black King of Checkmate that occured between the end of Infinite Crisis and One Year Later’s start of the UN run Checkmate.

Amanda Waller

Version: Black King

Cost: 6

Atk: 11 Def: 14

Task Force X/Checkmate

Concealed

Loyalty

When Amanda Waller enters a KO’d pile from play, you lose the game.

Remove a character you control from the game -> Recover target character and move it to the concealed area or visible area.

“After Maxwell Lord’s death, Amanda Waller took control of Checkmate until the future of the organization was decided.”

Amanda Waller

Version: White Queen

Cost: 4

Atk: 6 Def: 8

Task Force X/Checkmate

Concealed

KO a character you control -> Return target non-Plot Twist card from your KO’d pile to your hand.

“As White Queen, her use of Task Force X had to kept off the books.”

Amanda Waller

Version: The Wall

Cost: 2

Atk: 2 Def: 3

Task Force X/Revenge Squad

Concealed

Activate, stun a character you control -> Search your deck for a character with the Task Force X team affiliation, reveal it to your opponent, and put it in your hand.

“Under President Luthor, she served as Secratary of Metahuman affairs.”

Her abilities include a variety of effects that represent retrieval [for the first two] and reorganization for the last one. And of course, she works from the shadows and uses the members of the Squad for her benefit.

Now, her additional support cards. The Location is the easiest one, it will function as a team up. The wording is to avoid giving the team a midnight sons ability, instead allowing other characters to join your team, not so much to take advantage of other teams cards.

Belle Reeve, Team-Up

Location

Cost: 2

Flip only if you control Amanda Waller.

Affiliated characters you control have the Task Force X team affiliation.

Activate, choose a team affiliation -> Characters you own with that team affiliation gain the Task Force X team affiliation this turn.

Operation: Salvation Run

Plot Twist

Cost: 4

To play, exhaust an Amanda Waller you control.

KO all stunned characters.

“Hey, I think you’ve locked us in too.”

Basically, representing the most recent plan of the Suicide Squad, and the last part is of course tied to how they’ve sent Deadshot and other members of the Suicide Squad to the planet along with everyone else.

I would have included an equipment, but I can’t think of how the remote detnator would best be used … and it was more of Rick Flag using the remote than Waller. So, the sub team would probably have a few more characters to fill out their curve, namely Bronze Tiger and Rick Flag, and dual affiliate many of the mainstays like Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, etc.