[Ronin]

Originally Posted by Arkham

I feel like the one we have is a generalist one that doesn't have a faction, thus sees little play, so one that can fit into more factional builds would be ideal, IMO. That said, I don't mind doing a Black Panther (Avengers) design at some point if you want to leave this one out of that loop, as I feel there's plenty of desire for one still in that case. Plenty still to mine from if so. All good either way just figured I'd take a stab at it before we get too far along.

I think the main reason the current one doesn't see much play, despite being a pretty solid card, is that he just doesn't have a ton of soft synergies into anything - to the point that he's even hard to build those kinds of synergies for. Hard to write up a card that gives you that 'aha!' moment where the powers fit together with Panther's, because it's just hard to make Panther better at what he does (or especially benefit from Panther more than another similarly-priced beater).

So my hope here is to have an open-ended version with some easier mechanical hook points for soft synergies, to lend itself to popping up in more places and being something we could design more of Panther's supporting cast around.

Originally Posted by Arch-vile

I like the Avengers marker idea. But leaving this as a generalist Panther works too.

Factionally, what are we looking at as a synergy hook for a future Wakanda faction? I think we just have the two T'Challas right now, and both are Human Kings, so I'm guessing that will be the hook.

I know we've talked about Vibranium Armor as a synergy point for some cards - I think we've got a spin on the Hatut Zeraze somewhere that keys on that. But I can imagine some cards keying on Human King or Black Panther name instead, depending on the thematics.