Raven (Rachel Roth)

[japes]

Raven (Rachel Roth)



Card PDF

NAME = RAVEN
IDENTITY = RACHEL ROTH

UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
SPECIES = DEMON
CLASS = MYSTIC
PERSONALITY = TORMENTED

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 5

MOVE = 5
RANGE = 5
ATTACK = 4
DEFENSE = 4

POINTS = 190

TEAM EMPATH
Before Raven's activation, you may choose an ally in the Titans faction within 4 clear spaces of her and move any number of wounds from the chosen figure to Raven. Instead of a move action with Raven, if she is within 4 clear spaces of a Titans ally, she may heal 1 wound.

SOUL SELF
Once per round, instead of Raven's attack action, you may choose a character within 10 spaces of her that does not have the Inorganic keyword and roll X damage dice against that character, where X is the number of wounds Raven has.

MAGICAL DEFENSE 2
When an enemy without Magical Affinity attacks, Raven ignores all but 2 wounds.

FACTION = TITANS
PUBLISHER = DC
KEYWORDS =
SYMBOLS = MAGICAL AFFINITY, FLYING

REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVE: A founding member of the New Teen Titans, Raven, the Daughter of Darkness, fights for a world to which she fears she can never truly belong.

Resources and Rulings

• The suggested figure for this unit is a Heroclix figure: Unleashed #064-066 / Raven
• See this card's wiki page for synergies and strategies!

Credits

• Legacy design: IamBatman
• Playtesters:
  • IAmBatman
  • IAmBatman (revamp)
  • Shiftrex/Alexh12
• Card art: japes
• Comic creators: Marv Wolfman and George Pérez

Updates

• N/A

[japes]

• Magic Defense 2
• Need a Class that's not Rookie since we don't want her working cross factional I heard

Took my best shot at wording here.

[Yodaking]

I'm 100% on board with the MD2 here, that should help her feel not impossible to beat at end game. We did mention that her life might need to go up to 6 in order to stay at 190 though. Won't know for sure until we play her a few times and see what opening her up to 2W per attack does.

Not sure on the class here. We never came up with an acceptable generic magic user option then?

[Splash]

Mystic?
It's on Doctor Fate

[MrNobody]

+1 to Mystic.

[Karat]

Edits.

TEAM EMPATH
Before activating Raven's activation, you may choose an ally in the Titans faction in clear sight of Raven. If that ally is adjacent to Raven, move any number of Wounds from the chosen figure to Raven. If that ally is not adjacent to Raven, Raven has +1 move for each enemy engaged with that ally.

SOUL SELF
Once per round, instead of Raven's attack phase, you may choose a character within 10 spaces of Raven that is not an Robot and move 1 Wound from Raven to that character. After using this ability, remove all unrevealed Order Markers from this card.

For pasteability:

TEAM EMPATH
Before activating Raven, you may choose an ally in the Titans faction in clear sight of Raven. If that ally is adjacent to Raven, move any number of Wounds from the chosen figure to Raven. If that ally is not adjacent to Raven, Raven has +1 move for each enemy engaged with that ally.

SOUL SELF
Once per round, instead of Raven's attack phase, you may choose a character within 10 spaces of Raven that is not a Robot and move 1 Wound from Raven to that character. After using this ability, remove all unrevealed Order Markers from this card.

Also on the Mystic train.

[IAmBatman]

What about Harbinger for class? Mystic is OK too.

Should we rename Team Empath to Titans Empath since it’s hard locked to the faction?

In Team Empath I wonder if the effect in the last sentence is cuttable. I usually forget that’s even there.

[Karat]

I know I have forgotten it a time or two. Most often doesn't have an affect either as it is easily planned around.

[IAmBatman]

Yeah if you get to the point where you need a move bonus on her you are probably playing her in a pretty unusual manner. If my allies are wounded I’m irked if I have to waste an activation moving her at all. Makes it feel like I planned poorly. But not sure if that’s the typical experience or just mine

[Yodaking]

No I don't think you are alone. I've never used the move bonus and would be in favor of cutting it.

[japes]

being completely honest...when I pasted it here and read it I had forgotten it was there as well.

[Karat]

I actually had to reread the original to make sure it wasn't an add here