The Book of Sabretooth (AoA)

[Arkham]

The Book of Sabretooth (AoA)

C3G MARVEL WAVE 35
MUTANT MULTIVERSE


Comic PDF


Mini PDF

The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the Uncanny X-Men set.
Its model number and name are #063 / Sabretooth and Wild Child.

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Character Bio - On his home reality of Earth-295, Victor Creed was one of the first mutants recruited by Apocalypse when he began his take-over of North America. In time, Sabretooth grew to dislike killing innocent people in Apocalypse's cullings of America and turned against the Horsemen of Apocalypse. He was subsequently thrown in prison, where he would meet Wild Child. The two feral mutants battled for three full days until Sabretooth finally exerted his dominance. With Wild Child loyal to him, the two broke out of their cell and fought their way out of the prison.

Sabretooth joined with the mutant rebels the X-Men following his escape. Sabretooth remained a mainstay with the X-Men, always with Wild Child at his side, as Apocalypse continued to overrun North America.
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

• Crossover Symbol: The Crossover Symbol next to Sabretooth's secret identity indicates that he is draftable into the same army with other Victor Creed cards. See C3G's Secret Identity Rules.

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

• As a Mutant, Sabretooth has these Mutant Synergies.
• As a Rebel, Sabretooth has these Rebel Synergies.
• As a figure with the Healing Factor X special power, Sabretooth has these Healing Factor X Synergies.

Outgoing Synergy:

• Sabretooth may protect friendly Rebels with his Protective Instinct special power.
• As a figure with the Healing Factor X special power, other figures with the same special power can benefit from Sabretooth revealing the 'X' Order Marker. Current figures with Healing Factor X special power.

Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses:

• As a Mutant, Sabretooth interacts differently with certain special powers. Special Powers that Interact Differently with Mutants.

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• N/A

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial playtest: (Arkham)
• Second & Third playtest: (Karat/Tickle)
• Art: Comic, Figure, Background
• Art by Arkham

[Arkham]

NAME = SABRETOOTH
SECRET IDENTITY = VICTOR CREED

SPECIES = MUTANT
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = REBEL
PERSONALITY = PROTECTIVE

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 7

MOVE = 6
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 5
DEFENSE = 5

POINTS = 270

PROTECTIVE INSTINCT
If a friendly Rebel within 6 clear sight spaces of Sabretooth is targeted for an attack by an enemy figure, you may immediately move Sabretooth adjacent to that Rebel, if possible. He will take any leaving engagement attacks. If a friendly Rebel adjacent to Sabretooth would receive one or more wounds from an attack, you may have Sabretooth receive any number of those wounds instead.

VENGEFUL STRIKE
After moving and before attacking, if there is at least one Wound Marker on this card, you may choose a figure adjacent to Sabretooth and roll the 20-sided die. Add 1 to your roll for each Wound Marker on this card. If you roll 12-18, the chosen figure receives 1 wound. If you roll 19 or higher, the chosen figure receives 2 wounds.

HEALING FACTOR X
After taking a turn with Sabretooth, remove one Wound Marker from this card. At the end of the round, you may reveal an "X" Order Marker on this card to remove one Wound Marker from each Army Card you control with the Healing Factor X special power.

[Arkham]

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[tcglkn]

What does AoA stand for in the title?

[Ronin]

Age of Apocalypse!

Cool to see that starting to get built up.

[Karat]

Nifty

[johnny139]

I'm a big fan of heroic Sabretooth in any context, so he looks like a lot of fun. Very narrow for the AoA with Mutant Rebel being both callouts. You could maybe justify dropping one of those clauses to be universal for all Mutants - but I get that with so many X-People around giving him a narrow field might be better for balance.

[Ronin]

Yeah, I think I like him going all-in on Mutant Rebels. Not just because there are a lot of Mutants already, but because Mutant status isn't something you can easily get around on a new design that you may not want to worry about Papa Sabretooth on. Definitely found myself wishing during Madrox's design that Sage was more restricted in her synergy set.

[Yodaking]

How many Mutant Rebels do we have? Blink?

[Karat]

Originally Posted by Yodaking

How many Mutant Rebels do we have? Blink?

We have Blink, Rogue, and Nightcrawler AOA.

[Ronin]

We also agreed to update Wild Child to a rebel, but not sure if that happened yet.

[Arkham]

I'm gonna do a Magneto to lead them, and there’s potential for a few more Mutant Rebels such as Jean, Cyclops, and Colossus etc.

Keeping it locked to just Mutant Rebels seems best to me. They’re all still Mutants so they’ll have that pool to receive synergy from, but this will be its own thing to build an army around.