The Book of Black Canary (Justice League)
 

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Character Bio - One of the world's foremost martial artists, Black Canary is the daughter of Dinah Drake, who used the moniker before her, and wife of Green Arrow. Black Canary has been an important member of the Justice League of America and the Birds of Prey, leading both into many battles.
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

• Q: The power to move Order Markers from her card to another card you control comes before the actual revealing of said Order Marker, correct?
• A: Yes.

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

• As a figure with a secret identity, Black Canary has these Secret Identity Synergies.
• As a Metahuman, Black Canary has these Metahuman Synergies.
• As a Champion, Black Canary has these Champion Synergies.
• Black Canary gets one Justice League marker for every Unique Archer, Champion, or Warrior you control.

Outgoing Synergy:

• N/A

Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses:

• As a Champion, an opponent's Allen the Alien rolls 1 additional attack die against Black Canary due to Allen the Alien's Champion's Challenge special power.

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• League Chairwoman allows your team a nice amount of Order Marker flexibility. One example: Aquaman (III) takes on several wounds from the opponent, Black Canary can get him an OM the following turn to capitalize with his Release the Kraken.
• Into the Fray can be used before a figure you control takes a turn. Since Black Canary is not actually taking a turn(just moving and attacking), this allows Green Arrow (II) to still take his turn using Arrow to the Rescue. One example: Reveal an Order Marker on Superman > Move and Attack with Canary > Attack with Superman > Take a turn with Green Arrow.
• Justice League Faction Strategy

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial playtest: Arkham
• Second playtest: Arch-Vile
• Third playtest: MrNobody
• Fourth playtest: redstang
• Art: Comic Art/Mini Pics/Background
• Art by Arkham

Re: The Book of Black Canary (III) (Vote for Initial Test)
 

NAME = BLACK CANARY
SECRET IDENTITY = DINAH LANCE

SPECIES = METAHUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = CHAMPION
PERSONALITY = DETERMINED
SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 4
MOVE = 6
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 5
DEFENSE = 5
POINTS = 220

LEAGUE CHAIRWOMAN
At the start of the game, place 1 blue Justice League Marker on this card for each Unique Hero you control with the class of Archer, Champion, or Warrior, to a maximum of 4. At the beginning of your turn, if there is a Justice League Marker on this card, you may move any unrevealed Order Markers from this card to any other cards you control.

INTO THE FRAY
Once per player turn, before taking a turn with a friendly figure, you may remove a Justice League Marker from this card to move Black Canary up to 4 spaces and attack. If you do, you cannot move that friendly figure during its turn.

CANARY CRY FOR JUSTICE
If Black Canary or a friendly Unique Hero within clear sight of Black Canary receives at least 2 wounds or is destroyed, roll the 20-sided die. If you roll 14 or higher, choose 4 spaces in a straight line from Black Canary. All enemy figures on or within 1 space of the chosen spaces receive 1 wound, and you may remove 1 unrevealed Order Marker at random from each of their Army Cards.

Re: The Book of Black Canary (III) (Breathing)
 

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Background:

Re: The Book of Black Canary (III) (Breathing)
 

Love it. Dig the Green Arrow callout too.

Re: The Book of Black Canary (III) (Breathing)
 

I actually don't care for the Green Arrow callout here. I feel like its gonna wind up encouraging a Cyborg start zone bomb, because you can get her, Green Arrow, Wonder Woman, and Cyborg for under a thousand points (950 as is), and that could do some serious damage pretty easily.

I think steering more into the leadership role (a la either Birds of Prey Style, or just referencing her time as Chairwoman of the League) would be cool, even beyond the OM thing you already have. I just wouldn't want it to feel too much like GA and BC, but now with League synergies. I was thinking something allowing her to bring in a JSAer would be cool, but then remembered that would be more of a Dinah Drake card, not a Dinah Lance. Though it technically would fit because of the weird memory transfer thing and/or the merged status of the characters in modern continuity.

Definitely dig the alternate take on Canary Cry here (even if the name currently sounds like a reference to one of the worst stories the Green Arrow family of characters has ever endured).

Re: The Book of Black Canary (III) (Breathing)
 

Can you explain how that plays out so I can better understand the concern?

Re: The Book of Black Canary (III) (Breathing)
 

Wonder Woman spends marker, Cyborg booms the pair of Ollie and Dinah forward. Dinah and Ollie can easily get 2 paired turns off, with Dinah at 6/6 stats and Ollie backing her, rolling at least 6/6 stats himself, likely 7 attack dice because it wouldn't be hard to get him on height. Even just a mildly hot D20 for Ollie could leave an opponent crippled already in round 1.

Re: The Book of Black Canary (III) (Breathing)
 

What if all Champions got a boost for attacking a figure next to BC, and the GA bonding bit was cut? Still kind of a natural soft synergy tie for him, since he likes his allies engaged anyways.

Re: The Book of Black Canary (III) (Breathing)
 

In that scenario, we have WW, Cyborg, and Ollie all with 3 markers. Cyborg being a Scientist cuts him from getting Ollie to a 4th marker, any OMs from Canary, and he won’t add to her Cry.

Round 1 you would be burning 1 from WW, 2 from Cyborg, and 2 from Ollie. This would leave you with 2 remaining for WW, 1 for Cyborg, and 1 for Ollie for the rest of the game. Ollie being left with only 1 after round 1 means he’s especially spent, as he needs at least 1 for the potential multi-attack, so he’s out of double turns if you want to keep that. So now you’re just running off solo turns with no reliable multi-attackers after round 1. You also now have Canary in the wolves den alone, thus likely only getting 1 added to her roll since her allies won’t be wounded.

You’d have to really get lucky to hurt your opponent enough to make that worth doing.

Open to suggestions, but at the very least that’s a fully thematic team for that strategy so I don’t see that as a bad thing, personally, not is it any sort of guaranteed success at 14+ for his multi-attacks.

Re: The Book of Black Canary (III) (Breathing)
 

Oh yeah, straight up don't think its busted, more that it is gonna be an unfortunate cost driver. It also may be slightly more productive to swap out Diana for Batman III and about 110 points of stuff for another marker on Ollie (like Silk Spectre maybe), thus letting you possibly juice the D20 rolls.

Re: The Book of Black Canary (III) (Breathing)
 

I can’t imagine it’d be driving the cost that much if it’s essentially a hail marry strategy rather than anything leading to a concrete win. It’s certainly a strategy to take and try, but I’d imagine there’s gonna be a case made for just building it straight and trying to use her as an OM hub, and then making the enemy pay once her allies are hurting/falling. Also nice to see Cyborg actually have a role for a thematic JL army for a change. Lol

She should pair well with Fate for the banked d20 to try and hit that 20 or higher, as well as to get the OM to the right person when he nabs a number they need. (I want her to be a better pairing for him than Psylocke, ultimately)

She should pair well with Superman so he can both protect her, and in certain situations, use her to defend for a counter strike attempt.

She obviously likes Batman’s OM repurposing if she dies with the OMs on her card, as well as the d20 boost.

Martian Manhunter will like some of the heat taken off of him since she’ll have the OMs until he needs one in the moment to initiate the double turn.

Aquaman will like being able to get an OM right when he needs it for RtK.

Hawkwoman will like her so she can better take a turn only as needed to score back a marker.

Wonder Woman can help her defend better(also Counter better), keep people away from her, or set them up for her Cry.

Green Arrow of course should be a go to pairing/combo, which is why the callout is necessary IMO. If not a bonus to his attack, I’d be fine with just a single free attack like with Cupid’s Arrow, to give the team more attack efficiency on the turns Manhunter can’t and Ollie doesn’t want to spend a marker.

Re: The Book of Black Canary (III) (Breathing)
 

Cry for Justice looks pretty nasty. Hand/GCW armies are gonna hate that.

I like the Ollie shout-out. I'd drop the "you control" there, though. Being limited to figures engaged with Black Canary, it's only boosting friendly figures or enemy Soundwarps. Seems fine for a teammate's Green Arrow to get the boost.