The Book of Shadow King

[IAmBatman]

Originally Posted by tcglkn

If you want Bats, you can play Shadow King against me tomorrow or Saturday night on TTS and I'll let you know how fun it is to play against.

That would be awesome. I was going to ask folks about that on Discord. I should be clear for tomorrow night if you are. Basically any time after 7:30 Central.

[tcglkn]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

That would be awesome. I was going to ask folks about that on Discord. I should be clear for tomorrow night if you are. Basically any time after 7:30 Central.

That should be good for me. Just message me when you're free.

[Tornado]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

Yeah, sounds right. Shadow King is definitely beatable at this price, but should/does present a challenge, I think.

Absolutely. In all the games it felt bad for the other team early but after each time the other team won, it felt too easy but good rolls were a big factor in both wins.

[IAmBatman]

Originally Posted by tcglkn

That should be good for me. Just message me when you're free.

Will do.

[IAmBatman]

C3G STANDARD PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM
NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: SHADOW KING (FUN TESTS)
VERSION TESTED

Spoiler Alert!

NAME = SHADOW KING

SPECIES = MANIFESTATION
UNIQUENESS = EVENT HERO
CLASS = PARASITE
PERSONALITY = MALEVOLENT
SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 8
MOVE = 6
RANGE = 3
ATTACK = 5
DEFENSE = 5
POINTS = 300

PSYCHIC HOST
At the start of the game, place Shadow King on any empty space in the Astral Plane instead of your start zone, then choose a Unique Telepath Hero you control without a Tether marker on its card and place Shadow King's black Tether marker on chosen Hero’s card. While his Tether marker is on that card, the chosen Hero is Shadow King's Tether.

RULER OF THE ASTRAL PLANE
Instead of taking a turn with his Tether, you may take a turn with Shadow King. If you do, for the rest of the round, Shadow King's Tether cannot move or attack. Once per game, if Shadow King's Tether would be destroyed, receives enough wounds to be destroyed, or would have its Tether marker removed in any way except by this special power, Shadow King instead receives two wounds. If Shadow King is destroyed, remove his Tether marker from the game.

SHADOW MANIPULATION
If Shadow King would inflict at least one wound on a Manifestation with his normal attack, instead of placing any wound markers you may take temporary control of that Manifestation's Tether and immediately take a turn with that figure. At the end of the turn, control of the figure returns to the player who controlled the Hero before the Shadow Manipulation.

Army Test
Map: Conflict Chernobyl
Units: Shadow King (300), Psyche (x2) (100), Professor X (220), Stepford Cuckoo (x4) (320), Jubilee (60) (1,000) vs Captain Atom (350), Wonder Woman (III) (310), Martian Manhunter (III) (340) (1,000)

Spoiler Alert!

Unit Summary: Shadow King took Martian Manhunter and Wonder Woman to the Astral Plane. He spent a few turns manipulating each of them, but Martian Manhunter brought the fight to the Plane and destroyed him. Shadow King destroyed Wonder Woman’s Psyche before falling, but left his allies too much to clean up. Martian Manhunter healed about 6 wounds and the Stepford Cuckoos just couldn’t quite finish him off.
Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Manhunter with 5/6 Life and Captain Atom with Full Life win.

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VERSION TESTED

Spoiler Alert!

NAME = SHADOW KING

SPECIES = MANIFESTATION
UNIQUENESS = EVENT HERO
CLASS = PARASITE
PERSONALITY = MALEVOLENT
SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 8
MOVE = 6
RANGE = 3
ATTACK = 5
DEFENSE = 5
POINTS = 300

PSYCHIC HOST
At the start of the game, place Shadow King on any empty space in the Astral Plane instead of your start zone, then choose a Unique Telepath Hero you control without a Tether marker on its card and place Shadow King's black Tether marker on chosen Hero’s card. While his Tether marker is on that card, the chosen Hero is Shadow King's Tether.

RULER OF THE ASTRAL PLANE
Instead of taking a turn with his Tether, you may take a turn with Shadow King. If you do, for the rest of the round, Shadow King's Tether cannot move or attack. Once per game, if Shadow King's Tether would be destroyed, receives enough wounds to be destroyed, or would have its Tether marker removed in any way except by this special power, Shadow King instead receives two wounds. If Shadow King is destroyed, remove his Tether marker from the game.

SHADOW MANIPULATION
If Shadow King would inflict at least one wound on a Manifestation with his normal attack, instead of placing any wound markers you may take temporary control of that Manifestation's Tether and immediately take a turn with that figure. At the end of the turn, control of the figure returns to the player who controlled the Hero before the Shadow Manipulation.

Army Test
Map: Conflict Chernobyl
Units: Cyclops (I) (190), Armor (100), Phoenix (230), Shadowcat (80), Shadow King (300), Psyche (x2) (100) (1,000) vs Royal Flush Gang (1,000)

Spoiler Alert!

Unit Summary: Shadow King used Ace to take out King, Jack blasted Shadow King a few times on the Astral Plane until Shadow King took him out for the three wounds. Then Phoenix slowly mopped up the remaining forces, though Shadow King spared her life once to preserve her the win.
Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Phoenix with 1/5 Life wins.

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[IAmBatman]

Played against Tickle on TTS just now. He can verify, but fun was had by all! We definitely bounced back and forth between the Astral Plane and the battlefield and it felt tactically interesting and dynamic to me throughout.

I also like Shadow King as is, so I propose we move to Final Editing!

[tcglkn]

Playing against Shadow King was fun and changed up my strategies a lot. Very interesting.

Playing against Bats.... No comment

Yea

[Arch-vile]

Results look solid. yea

[IAmBatman]

Looking forward to moving Amahl forward and getting the heck off the Astral Plane!

[MrNobody]

Yea

I've had it with these monkey fightin' constructs on this Monday to Friday plane!

[Tornado]

Yea

[IAmBatman]

This passes! Any takers on the art?
@Karat @Ronin @johnny139 any interest in peeking at the wording?

Thanks, all.