The Book of Mister Mxyzptlk

[IAmBatman]

I've been pushing around a lot of snow lately too. Glad you guys are coming along with Mixapickle here. I'll have Kree Scouts done by Friday at the latest.

[Hahma]

C3G PLAY TEST FEEDBACK FORM

NAME OF THE TEST UNIT MR. MXYZPTLK

- THEME TEST/ Check to see if there are any powers or stats on the test unit card that does not accurately reflect the theme or likeness of what the character would and could do. Also consider destructible objects, and whether or not this characters powers should affect them.
PASS

- MIRROR TEST/ Check to see if the unit were played against itself, if there would be any loops that would upset the balance of the Game.
PASS

- BONDING TEST/ Compare the unit card with all possible currently existing Bonding abilities to make sure there are no continual Bonding possibilities that do not stop appropriately or do not stop at all. This is to prevent loops in Bonding.
PASS

- SYNERGIES TEST/ Compare the unit card with all possible currently existing synergies to make sure there are no factors that could break the game by making any unit to powerful or too weak.
PASS

- POWER CHECK/ Consider the test unit and all existing units and all glyphs to compare to and check for any powers that could be over amplified and break the game. Each power must define when it takes place, who or what it affects, and What are the stipulations on the power if there are any.
PASS

- FUN TEST/ Consider whether or not the design was fun to play.
PASS

- FUN COMPETITIVE TEST/ Consider whether or not the design was fun to play against.
PASS

- DRAFTING TEST/ Consider whether or not this design is worth drafting.
PASS

- USAGE TEST/ Consider whether or not all of the powers on this card were used or at least usable.
PASS

- STRATEGY TEST/ Consider whether or not the design offers any real strategy or interesting tactics to the overall game.
PASS


- Army Test/ Does it pass, Yes or No? What should be the unit's point value? Give a brief summary. This test occurred before changes were made to balance him out.

Spoiler Alert!

.FAIL – Too hard to even have a chance to wound him with only adjacent normal attack for KLTPAYXM.
Map: .X Marks the Spot
Units: .MR. MXYZPTLK, Deathstroke, Doctor Light, Plastic Man and Catwoman for 1000 points. Vs. Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Thing and Human Torch for 1000 points

Spoiler Alert!

MR. MXYZPTLK chooses Mr. Fantastic for Antagonizing Trickster

R1- Plastic Man bounces and stretches to the Team Up Glyph. AT roll of 15 for Mr. Fantastic and then FL4 8 has IW move forward and put 1 wound on Plastic Man and then Mr. Fantastic moves adjacent to IW. PM uses TU Glyph to move Doctor Light Forward and PM stays put. Roll 15 again for AT and then 18 for FL4 so Torch moves and attacks but misses PM, IW puts another wound on PM, Thing moves and Mr. F and he misses attack on PM. Doctor Light moves closer to PM and attacks with height vs. Thing (def 10 from IW) and puts 2 wounds on him with a 4/2 attack. Roll 1 for AT and then 15 for FL4 to have Thing move and attack DL but misses, then Torch has to move adjacent to PM and misses attack, then Mr. F puts 2 wounds (4) on PM.

R2- Roll 18 for AT to put 1 wound on Mr. F and end his turn. PM on Glyph has MXYZPTLK move up and attack Mr. F for 2 wounds with a 3/1 attack and removes OM3 with 1 blank. Plastic Man misses Mr. F. Roll 18 again for AT and Mr. F takes another wound (4) and loses a turn. MXYZPTLK attack Mr. F for no wounds but 1 blank removes X OM. OM 3 removed from Mr. F’s card so no turn. MXYZPTLK attacks with height vs. Mr. F and kills him with a 3/2 attack as IW isn’t helping much in defending her teammates.

R3- PM on Glyph has MXYZPTLK attack Thing for no wound but 1 blank removes OM2 from Thing’s card. PM then misses Torch. Thing moves and kills Plastic Man. MXYZPTLK moves onto TU glyph and puts 1 wound on Thing with a 3/2 attack with 1 blank but no more OM’s on Thing’s card to remove. OM2 off Thing’s card so no turn. MXYZPTLK has Doctor Light attack but miss Thing, then MXYZPTLK puts 1 wound on Torch. Invisible Woman moves adjacent to MXYZPTLK and attack but KLTPZYXM roll of 12 won’t let him die.

R4- MXYZPTLK has Deathstroke move and attack Torch for 1 wound with Quick Shot attack. Then MXYZPTLK misses attack on Torch but 1 blank removes X OM from Torch’s card. Torch leaves engagement for no wound and tries Supernova vs. Deathstroke but his 1 skull roll won’t cut it and MXYZPTLK rolls 18 for KLTPZYXM to not die (though later realized he couldn’t be affected by Supernova and only by normal adjacent attacks which sucks.). Doctor Light puts 2 wounds on thing with a 4/2 attack. Thing with attack of 9 from Clobberin’ Time puts 3 wounds on Doctor Light. Deathstroke leaves engagement from Torch for no wound and then attacks Invisible Woman for 2 wounds. Thing kills Doctor Light.

R5- MXYZPTLK on TU glyph has Deathstroke attack IW for 2 more wounds and then MXYZPTLK kills Thing with a 4/2 attack. Thing’s dead so no turn. MX has Deathstroke kill Invisible Woman and then MX misses Torch. Torch moves adjacent to MXYZPTLK and rolls 1 skull with his attack, then MXYZPTKL rolls a 2 for KLTPZYXM and dies. Deathstroke kills Torch with a 4/1 attack.

Deathstroke with 0 wounds (never even took a wound to need healing off) and Catwoman with 0 wounds and was never activated survive to win on T5R5.

FF4 rolled pretty bad defense throughout. Doctor Light messed up ranged attacks. TU glyph helped MXYZPTLK’s team. Antagonizing Trickster and 5th Dimensional Being messed up OM stack unit like Mr. Fantastic. Some pretty good rolls for MX’s team vs. pretty bad defense rolls and Supernova roll for FF4. 5th DB didn’t remove more than 1 OM, but it was easy to remove 1 and range of 6 and flight for height makes that easier yet. I don’t like that KLTPAYXM only allows MX to die from an adjacent normal attack.

Note: I tested this guy before most recent changes were made, so I realize the changes but kept my comments for test based on conditions for that test.

- Army Test/ Does it pass, Yes or No? What should be the unit's point value? Give a brief summary. .PASS at 240. The game felt balanced at that price.
Map: .X Marks the Spot (no TU glyph)
Units: .MXYZPTLK, Red Tornado, SHIELD Agents x 3 and Magma for 1040 points. Vs. Doctor Doom (C3G), 3 Doombots, Madame HYDRA and HYDRA Agents x 3 for 1040 points.

Spoiler Alert!

MXYZPTLK chooses Dr. Doom for Antagonizing Trickster

SHIELD Agents and HYDRA Agents/Madame HYDRA duked it out for the most part in the early rounds and by the end of R2 there were 5 SHIELD Agents and 5 HYDRA Agents killed with Mix killing one HYDRA Agent and Doom rolled <17 for AT for his one turn.

Magma placed a couple Lava Tiles, Red Tornado put one HYDRA Agent into Lava for death. Whenever Doom took a turn, he rolled <17 for AT but lost some OM’s to Mix’s 5th Dimensional Being. Doom did get MPD to take Mix’s powers for a round and that was fun. Doom killed Mix in R7 when Mix rolled 3 for KLTPZYXM but on T5R8 Doom rolled 17 for AT and brought Mix back. Since Doom, Madame HYDRA and some HYDRA Agents had gone to Mix’s SZ to attack him and some SHIELD Agents, Mags and Red Tornado went toward Doom’s SZ and between them took out the 3 Doombots but Magma got killed and RT had taken 3 wounds.

Doom with 4 wounds left engagement from Mix for 1 wound (5) to take on RT and eventually killed him after getting an MPD to use RT’s Air Elemental Flying to place RT lower and then killed him. Madame HYDRA was still adjacent to Mix and he had gotten her to 2 wounds. On T3R13, Madame HYDRA attacked Mix with a 1 skull attack and Mix rolled 1 for KLTPZYXM and he died a final time.

Madame HYDRA with 2 wounds and Doctor Doom with 5 wounds survive to win on T3R13.

It was a fun game for sure and felt balanced. Choosing Doom for AT kind of brought the Doombots into the action more because of not wanting to stack OM’s on one card vs. Mix. So instead of Doombots just waiting around, they got into the action and did well, but it was a neat affect Mix had on Doom/Doombot team.
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- Army Test/ Does it pass, Yes or No? What should be the unit's point value? Give a brief summary. PASS at 240, this was another close match.
Map: .X Marks the Spot (no TU glyph)
Units: .MXYZPTLK, Doomsday, Deathstroke, Doctor Light, Venom and Catwoman for 1395 points Vs. Hal, Kyle, Guy, Kilowog and Green Construct Mech for 1400 points.

Spoiler Alert!

Hal was target of AT so he was hampered big time as he took 2 wounds from rolling 17+ and not only that, but if he rolled high enough for his Fearless Charge turn, he'd have to roll for AT before taking that turn, so he was really playing with fire a couple times. So he laid low for awhile after taking those AT wounds until the end when it was all or nothing for the GL Corps.

Mixalot only attacked one time and stayed in his SZ. OM's were mostly placed on Doomsday and Deathstroke early, then Catwoman got involved with her Whip and Venom got an OM too. Doctor Light sat there. Mixalot certainly was effective in hampering Hal, as well as nearly allowing Doomsday to comeback a third time because Mix was rolling >4 vs. many attacks by the GL's, as the final 3 were ganging up on Mix in his SZ at the end.

Doomsday came back twice and with only Mixalot left, Doomsday was OM3 away from removing final wound to come back a 3rd time, but after Guy whiffed his first attack and was ready to Overextend to attack again, Mix rolled 3 for KLTPZYXMand died, ending the game.

The survivors on T4R11 are:

Guy with 3 wounds and 2 BMs
Kyle with 3 wounds and 2 BMs
Hal with 3 wounds (2 from Antagonizing Trickster rolls) and 4 BM's left.

He has a fun affect in a game and makes his opponent make some tough decisions. Both army tests I did after the changes were made from the first army test were fun and balanced and felt like they could have gone either way.

[IAmBatman]

That initial fail seems kind of like it's going to be an issue here ...

[Griffin]

That first test was clearly unbalanced, but it was also done before some changes were made. I started testing today as well, and my test was incredibly balanced ending with Grundy with 2 wounds as the last man standing.
I will report later, but I think that the OP here is gonna work out fine.

[IAmBatman]

Cool. That's what I get for skimming.

[Griffin]

C3G PLAY TEST FEEDBACK FORM

NAME OF THE TEST UNIT Mr. Mxyzptlk

- THEME TEST/ Check to see if there are any powers or stats on the test unit card that does not accurately reflect the theme or likeness of what the character would and could do. Also consider destructible objects, and whether or not this characters powers should affect them.
YES

- MIRROR TEST/ Check to see if the unit were played against itself, if there would be any loops that would upset the balance of the Game.
YES

- BONDING TEST/ Compare the unit card with all possible currently existing Bonding abilities to make sure there are no continual Bonding possibilities that do not stop appropriately or do not stop at all. This is to prevent loops in Bonding.
YES

- SYNERGIES TEST/ Compare the unit card with all possible currently existing synergies to make sure there are no factors that could break the game by making any unit to powerful or too weak.
YES

- POWER CHECK/ Consider the test unit and all existing units and all glyphs to compare to and check for any powers that could be over amplified and break the game. Each power must define when it takes place, who or what it affects, and What are the stipulations on the power if there are any.
YES

- FUN TEST/ Consider whether or not the design was fun to play.
YES

- FUN COMPETITIVE TEST/ Consider whether or not the design was fun to play against.
YES

- DRAFTING TEST/ Consider whether or not this design is worth drafting.
YES

- USAGE TEST/ Consider whether or not all of the powers on this card were used or at least usable.
YES

- STRATEGY TEST/ Consider whether or not the design offers any real strategy or interesting tactics to the overall game.
YES

- Army Test/ Does it pass, Yes or No? What should be the unit's point value? Give a brief summary. YES, this was a great game. Lots of fun and balanced as well. Mr. Mxyzptlk is a very smart combo with Joker, which is absolutely thematic and awesome.
Map: Alkali Lake.
Units: Mr. Mxyzptlk, Lex Luthor (Battle Suit), Grundy, and Joker VS Supergirl, Hawkgirl, Green Arrow, and Green Lantern (Kyle).

Spoiler Alert!

Solomon Grundy wins with 2 wounds.

Supergirl was the chosen figure for Mxyzptlk. Joker was key to the villains, as he would move orders over to Supergirl's card every chance he had. Supergirl took a total of 4 wounds in the game from just failing her D20 roll by Mxyzptlk, which ended her turn and gave her a wound each time. Mr Mxyzptlk was able to remove orders from her as well as he attacked her and rolled blanks, so she was either having orders removed from her or having to end her turn, but she did get to take plenty of turn too and she did a great job killing Grundy twice, halfing Joker's life, and killing Luthor. Hawkgirl swooped Mr Mxyzptlk several times going for the multiple attacks and finally he died due to Kltpzyxm but then Supergirl's presence brought him back. Grundy also came back on the dam and killed Supergirl. Mr. Mxyzptlk killed Hawkgirl in a round by rolling blanks and landing wounds on his attacks, which obviously wounded her and also took orders off of her. Kyle was able to hit Mr. Mxyzptlk and force him to Kltpzyxm, but then Grundy was breathing down Kyle's neck. With only two batteries left and three wounds, Kyle couldn't hurt Grundy or risk rolling defense, so he shielded the attacks until Grundy finally killed him.

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- Army Test/ Does it pass, Yes or No? What should be the unit's point value? Give a brief summary. Yes, great game. This is a great army build against a team that is as dependent on Order Marker placement as the X men. This was close, and could have gone either way for sure.
Map: Alkali Lake.
Units: Mr Mxyzptlk, Lex Luthor Battle Suit, Joker, and Grundy VS Professor X, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Angel, Beast, and Iceman.

Spoiler Alert!

Joker and Grundy win with 3 wounds on them both.

Angel was chosen as Mr. M's target. Cyclops used his field commander to move Angel when necessary so that Angel didn't have to take many actual turns, but because of Joker placing Orders on Angel, Angel did end up taking 3 wounds due to Mr. M but Angel also Kltpzyxm Mr M as well, then Luthor killed Angel. Jean was wounded early on by Luthor then Grundy used the road on the back side of the trees to circle around and hit Jean for death. Cyclops and Iceman together killed Grundy to avoid more destruction from him, but that proved to be a great distraction as Mr M moved up and started in on Professor. Mr M during the game was able to put lots of preasure on Professor X too, as an attack of 4 or 5 on height is already scary, but he was also loosing orders as well. Professor died earlier than usual when Luthor took to the bridge and blasted him away after Mr M had taken his X from him. Luthor of course kept bringing Grundy back, and any time Iceman or Cyclops would wound the already weakened Luthor, Luthor would allow Grundy to die in his stead. Eventually it came down to Beast (4 wounds) and Cyclops (1 wound) VS Lex (3 wounds), Grundy (2 wounds) and Joker (1 wound). Beast was able to kill Luthor and Grundy miraculously, and Joker brought Grundy back. Grundy destroyed Beast, then Cyclops lined up Joker and Grundy for an optic Blast that put a wound on both of them. Joker then from height and on a ladder shot Cyclops with a normal attack and killed him for the win.

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- Army Test/ Does it pass, Yes or No? What should be the unit's point value? Give a brief summary. Yes. This was fun and balanced.
Map: Alkali Lake.
Units: Mr. Mxyzptlk and Thanos VS Green Lantern (Hal) and Flash.

Spoiler Alert!

Flash wins with 2 wounds.

OK, well Mxy takes height but Flash hauls butt towards him. Mxy gets once shot off from range and removes Flash's Order Marker 3. Once Flash engages him, the special attack with 1 attack die a total of twelve times triggered Kltpzyxm eventually, and Mxy was gone. Thanos took center map but GL cut him off. Thanos hit GL for 3 wounds, which was perfect for some fearless charge frenzies. Hal put a total of 5 wounds on Thanos before losing his last power battery marker and then dying at the hands of Thanos. Flash and Thanos engage on the dam and Mr Mxyzptlk shows back up! However, he shows up adjacent to the antagonized figure before the chsoen figure takes a turn, so Flash sent him home every time by using the SA again and again with attacks of 1. Each time Mxy comes back, he must also leave in the same turn. However, this did help draw a lot of attacks off of the vulnerable Thanos. Thanos got lucky once and hit Flash for two wounds, but then Flash took his last turn without being bothered by Mxyzptlk, and so he punched Thanos in the chest with a normal attack for the win.

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- Army Test/ Does it pass, Yes or No? What should be the unit's point value? Give a brief summary. Yes. 240 still seems spot on to me.
Map: Alkali Lake.
Units: Mr. Mxyzptlk, Batman, and Spider-Man VS Green Goblin, Joker, and Punisher.

Spoiler Alert!

Punisher wins with 4 wounds.

Mr Mx chooses Green Goblin to antagonize.
Joker puts orders on Spider-Man which encourages Spider-Man to go after Joker, but Green Gobby and Punisher were able to really surround him and stack wounds on, although GG did lose a couple of turns taking a couple of wounds from Mxy's antagonizing ways. Spider-Man is almost dead and GG is wounded and Joker is wounded, and then Punisher goes after Mxy and actually kills him with his first attempt from height using the assault riffle. Punisher then outranges Batman and takes him out as well with an initial 5 skull attack on the assault riffle, then the next turn Punisher's rocket launcher took bats out for good. Spider-Man kills Joker finally (man that guy gets some lucky defense on just 3 dice ).
Spidey avoids tons of attacks from Punisher by swinging behind trees to avoid multiple attacks, so GG decides to counter this with his Pumpkin Bomb tactics but he is trumped up by Antagonizing Trickster and so GG dies. Punisher then uses his Assault Riffle once more to Kltpzyxm Mr M one more time (this time on the third shot). Spidey tries to fight back but eventually his luck wore off and Punisher won with 4 wounds.

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- Army Test/ Does it pass, Yes or No? What should be the unit's point value? Give a brief summary. Yes.
Map: Alkali Lake.
Units: Mr. Mxyzptlk, Red Skull, and Huntress (600) VS Catwoman, Iron Man, and Hawkgirl (610).

Spoiler Alert!

Catwoman and Iron man win with 7 wounds on Catwoman and 3 wounds on Iron Man.

Mr Mx chooses Catwoman to antagonize.
Iron Man flies out and takes height while Red Skull tells Huntress to take the road around the lake. Iron-Man hits Huntress but she survives. Huntress uses the road to sneak around and put 4 wounds on Hawkgirl. Hawkgirl then sweeps and with a HUGE ATTACK of 8, she rolls 6 skulls and kills Huntress. Red Skull moves out on his own but gets punked by Iron-Man on height advantage. Mxy starts stealing Orders and attacking and he manages to kill Hawkgirl. Catwoman attempts a turn after turn but fails over and over again taking a wound each time, pluse Mr. Mx is pouring wounds on her as well with his normal attack. But When she got a chance to fight, she whipped Mxy into shape won the game..

[Hahma]

Seems like the changes after my first test have helped. He seemed pretty balanced in that first Army Test you did Griff. I hope to get my next two tests done this weekend. I'm going to play some Classic Scape tonight with my brother in-law and nephew, and finally get to try out some of the new DnD units I haven't tried yet.

[IAmBatman]

Sounds like a fun game!

[Griffin]

OK, I ran that same villain army against the Xmen and had a blast. The villains won and it was very close.

Grundy and Lex are an amazing combination. Because you can avoid wound on Lex (an it is already hard to damage him) by destroying Grundy and then keep feeding Lex orders so that Grundy can keep coming back.

Also, Joker and Mr Mxyzptlk is a great combo. Joker can put the order markers for the round on Mxy's targeted hero for antagonizing trickster, then that target gets a bunch of opportunities to fail the roll, take damage, and lose a turn. Of course Mxy also removes orders from them if he rolls a blank, so there is a lot of tactical flexibility there with just order marker re-management.

[whitestuff]

He is looking like fun.

[Hahma]

Test sheet updated with Army Test 2. Looks good so far and is fun.

[Hahma]

A couple questions:

The line for removing all wound markers in Antagonizing Trickster really only matters if he has his powers negated by Wonder Woman and would actually take a wound for a wound marker, because otherwise he can only be destroyed and not killed by taking wounds. Right? But then again, who puts a wound marker on a 1 life unit when they kill them? I don't. So maybe that line isn't necessary.

For KLTPZYXM I just wanted to make sure whether or not we wanted the opponent to have to roll 1 or more skulls for this to activate. I ran into a situation where Madame HYDRA whiffed attack, but he rolled defense anyway after rolling >4 on the D20. He got a couple blanks and was able remove OM3 from Madame HYDRA's card because of 5th Dimensional Being. Leaving it as is forces him to roll for KLTPZYXM because you have to complete the attack sequence by rolling defense dice, thus he has to roll D20 first and may die from a whiff attack. If it's activated when an opponent rolls 1 or more skulls, then Mix wouldn't die from a whiff attack.

ANTAGONIZING TRICKSTER
At the start of the game, choose a Unique Hero. Before the chosen Unique Hero takes any turn, you must roll the 20-sided die. If you roll a 17 or higher and Mr. Mxyzptlk has been previously destroyed, remove all wound markers from this card and place him on any unoccupied space adjacent to the chosen Unique Hero. If you roll a 17 or higher and Mr. Mxyzptlk is on the battlefield, the chosen Unique Hero must immediately end its turn and receive one wound.

KLTPZYXM
Before rolling defense dice, you must first roll the 20-sided die. If you roll a 1-4, Mr. Mxyzptlk is destroyed. Mr. Mxyzptlk cannot receive any wounds or be destroyed by any means other than the Kltpzyxm special power.

5TH DIMENSIONAL BEING
When Mr. Mxyzptlk rolls attack dice against an opponent's figure, you may remove one unrevealed Order Marker at random from the opponent's figure's card if at least one blank is rolled.