The Book of Beast Boy

[Ronin]

yea

[IAmBatman]

Just need johnny, wordsmithing, and art!

[johnny139]

Do we have the reevaluation tests linked anywhere? They should probably be in the first post.

[Zettian Juggernaut]

Originally Posted by johnny139

Do we have the reevaluation tests linked anywhere? They should probably be in the first post.

Good catch, OP updated.

Just need your sign-off to make it official.

[johnny139]

Yea - Testing seems pretty thorough and didn't incur any balance issues.

[IAmBatman]

Cool. We just need @Ronin to put together the final wording and an art update here. Thanks, all!

[Zettian Juggernaut]

This wording by YodaK looks good to my eyes:

BEAST FORMS
You may draft this figure into the same army with any other Gar Logan figures that do not have the species of Metahuman. Start the game with this figure on the battlefield. You can only control one Beast Boy figure on the battlefield at a time. If another Beast Boy figure you control would be destroyed, instead place two Wound Markers on this card and immediately replace the Beast Boy figure you control on the battlefield with another Beast Boy figure in your army, if possible. If this Beast Boy is destroyed, all Beast Boy figures you control are destroyed.

BEAST TRANSFORMATION
Before taking a turn with any Beast Boy figure you control, you may switch any Beast Boy figure you control on the battlefield with one other Beast Boy figure in your army. Switched figures will not take any leaving engagement attacks. After revealing a numbered Order Marker on this card, if this Beast Boy is not on the battlefield, you may take a turn with any other Beast Boy figure you control.

[IAmBatman]

SP updated for art, then! This one's an @A3n (sorry to add more to your plate, mate!).

[Ronin]

That version of Beast Transformation does have a couple small problems, actually, and there are a few redundancies in wording that I think we can get rid of.

I will weigh in with a few suggestions here, just haven't jumped on it because I'm working on an initial for LordVenoc right now.

[IAmBatman]

No worries. I trust you to update the SP when you're ready. Thanks, Ronin!

[Ronin]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

No worries. I trust you to update the SP when you're ready. Thanks, Ronin!

Well, no immediate SP update from me, because I have a couple versions for you to check out.

Here's my first pass at edits:

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

BEAST FORMS
You may draft this figure into the same army with any other Gar Logan figures that do not have the species of Metahuman. Start the game with this figure on the battlefield. Only one of your Gar Logan figures can be on the battlefield at a time. If another Gar Logan figure you control would be destroyed, instead place two Wound Markers on this card and immediately replace the Gar Logan figure you control on the battlefield with another Gar Logan figure in your army, if possible. If this Gar Logan is destroyed, all Gar Logan figures in your army are destroyed.

BEAST TRANSFORMATION
Instead of taking a turn with a Gar Logan you control, you may switch it with another Gar Logan figure in your army and take a turn with the other Gar Logan. Switched figures will not take any leaving engagement attacks. After revealing a numbered Order Marker on this card, if this Beast Boy is not on the battlefield, you may take a turn with whichever Gar Logan figure you control.

HEALING FACTOR
After taking a turn with this Beast Boy, remove 1 Wound Marker from this Army Card.

A lot of those edits are as much about the recent clarification of terms like 'you control' as they are the change here, of course.

Plaintext version of that:

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

BEAST FORMS
You may draft this figure into the same army with any other Gar Logan figures that do not have the species of Metahuman. Start the game with this figure on the battlefield. Only one of your Gar Logan figures can be on the battlefield at a time. If another Gar Logan you control would be destroyed, instead place two Wound Markers on this card and immediately replace the Gar Logan you control with another Gar Logan in your army, if possible. If this Gar Logan is destroyed, all Gar Logan figures in your army are destroyed.

BEAST TRANSFORMATION
Instead of taking a turn with a Gar Logan you control, you may switch it with another Gar Logan figure in your army and take a turn with the other Gar Logan. Switched figures will not take any leaving engagement attacks. After revealing a numbered Order Marker on this card, you may take a turn with whichever Gar Logan you control.

HEALING FACTOR
After taking a turn with this Beast Boy, remove 1 Wound Marker from this Army Card.

While we have the hood up, I'd be really tempted to shuffle the effects around a little bit. I've always felt like the powers on this card were a little stuffed and hard to follow.

I think I'd sooner split the 'taking wounds' stuff out into its own power, and do the 'figure switch' stuff separate from the OM reveal stuff to keep it as clear as possible that the switch doesn't require an OM. (In that last version of Beast Transformation, the OM stuff should really come first, but that does risk readers missing that the transformation doesn't require an OM).

This is, I think, how I'd rearrange it:

BEAST FORMS
You may draft this figure into the same army with any other Gar Logan figures that do not have the species of Metahuman. Start the game with this figure on the battlefield. Only one of your Gar Logan figures can be on the battlefield at a time. After revealing a numbered Order Marker on this card, you may take a turn with whichever Gar Logan you control.

BEAST TRANSFORMATION
Instead of taking a turn with a Gar Logan you control, you may switch it with another Gar Logan figure in your army and take a turn with the other Gar Logan. Switched figures will not take any leaving engagement attacks.

BEAST ???
If another Gar Logan you control would be destroyed, instead place two Wound Markers on this card and immediately replace the Gar Logan you control with another Gar Logan in your army, if possible. If this Gar Logan is destroyed, all Gar Logan figures in your army are destroyed.

HEALING FACTOR
After taking a turn with this Beast Boy, remove 1 Wound Marker from this Army Card.

Totally your call on how you prefer it laid out, Bats.

[chas]

Nice work guys! I've been waiting to use my dolphin...