The Book of Magneto

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The Book of Magneto

C3G MARVEL WAVE 1
RISE OF THE MUTANTS

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The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the Infinity Challenge set.
Its model number and name are #127-129 / Magneto.

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Character Bio - "Magneto was born Max Eisenhardt sometime in the late 1920s to a middle class German Jewish family whose father, Jakob Eisenhardt was a highly decorated World War I veteran. Surviving discrimination and hardship during the Nazi rise to power, Kristallnacht, and the passing of the Nuremberg Laws, in 1939 Max and his family fled to Poland where they were captured during the German invasion of Poland and sent to the Warsaw Ghetto. Max and his family escape the Ghetto, only to be betrayed and captured again. His mother, father, and sister were executed and buried in a mass grave, but Max survived possibly due to the manifestation of his powers. Escaping from the mass grave, he is ultimately captured yet again and sent to Auschwitz, where he eventually becomes a Sonderkommando. While at Auschwitz, Eisenhardt reunites with a Roma girl named Magda, with whom he had fallen in love when he was younger, and with whom he escapes the prison camp during the October 7th 1944 revolt. Following the war, he and Magda move to the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, and adopts the name "Magnus". Magda and Magnus have a daughter named Anya, and live uneventfully until one night when an angry mob burned their home down with Anya still inside. Enraged at the mob preventing him from rescuing Anya, the young Magneto's powers manifest uncontrollably, killing the mob and destroying a part of the city. Magda, terrified at Magneto's power, leaves him and later dies giving birth to the mutant twins Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. Wanted by the authorities for the deaths and destruction in Vinnytsia, while searching for Magda, Magnus paid a Romanian forger George Odekirk, to create the cover identity of "Erik Lehnsherr the Sinte gypsy" for him."

"'Erik', relocated to Israel, where he met and befriended Charles Xavier while working at a psychiatric hospital near Haifa. There, lengthy debates are held by the two regarding the consequences humanity faces with the rise of mutants, though neither reveals to the other that they both in fact possessed mutant powers. However, they are forced to reveal their inherent abilities to one another, while facing Baron Von Strucker and HYDRA." Following the battle, Erik (now dressed as Magneto) realizes that his and Xavier's views are incompatible. He leaves with a cache of hidden Nazi gold, which provides him with the financing to launch his goals. (Wikipedia, 2010).
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

• N/A

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

• As a Marvel figure, Magneto has these Marvel Synergies.
• As a figure with a secret identity, Magneto has these Secret Identity Synergies.
• As a Mutant, Magneto has these Mutant Synergies.
• As a figure with Super Strength, Magneto has these Super Strength Synergies.

Outgoing Synergy:

• N/A

Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses:

• As a Mutant, Magneto interacts differently with these special powers.
• As a figure with the Mental Shield special power, opponent's can never take temporary or permanent control of Magneto. Current Special Powers that Take Temporary or Permanent Control.
• As a figure with the Mental Shield special power, Magneto interacts differently with these special powers.
• As a figure with the Super Strength special power, Magneto interacts differently with these special powers.
• As a figure with the Flying special power, Magneto interacts differently with these special powers.

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• While he has no direct synergy, Magneto's Magnetic Throw can help activate many Brotherhood members' abilities dependent on adjacency, such as Mystique's Engagement Strike 13 and Blob's Stuck.

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• PLAYTEST ONE - Pass at 300-310 (Preference 310)
• PLAYEST TWO - Pass at 300-310 (Pereference 310)
• PLAYTEST THREE - (in progress - squad test and melee army test still needed)
• PLAYTEST FOUR - (all but one army test done - passes at 310)