The Book of White Lantern (Kyle Rayner)

[tcglkn]

The Book of White Lantern (Kyle Rayner)

C3G DC SUPER SECRET EXCLUSIVE 84
FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS: WHITE CHRISTMAS


Comic PDF


Mini PDF

The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the War of Light set.
Its model number and name are #031b / Kyle Rayner (White Lantern).

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Character Bio - After training to master all seven colors Kyle has become a White Lantern. Working with Arkillo (Sinestro Corps), Bleez (Red Lantern Corps), Glomulus (Orange Lantern Corps), Munk (Indigo Tribe), Saint Walker (Blue Lantern Corps) and Fatality (Star Sapphires), he was able tap into each color of the emotional spectrum and learn to control it. As such he is able to lead this rag tag team of Lanterns against the evil Third Army. Because Kyle wields the white light of life and all seven colors of the emotional spectrum, he is shown to be more powerful than any one lantern.
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

• N/A

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

• As a White Lantern, White Lantern can be activated by White Lantern's (Hal Jordan) Light in the Dark special power.
• White Lantern has these Orange Lantern Synergies, Yellow Lantern Synergies, Green Lantern Synergies, and Blue Lantern Synergies due to his Combined Spectrum special power.
• As a figure with Battery Markers, White Lantern has these Battery Marker Synergies.

Outgoing Synergy:

• White Lantern may activate figures who started the game with Battery Markers or Energy Constructs with his New Guardians special power.

Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses:

• N/A

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• New Guardians faction guide

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial playtest: tcglkn
• Second playtest: IAmBatman
• Third playtest: Arch-vile
• Art: Comic, Figure, Background
• Art by tcglkn

[tcglkn]

NAME = WHITE LANTERN
SECRET IDENTITY = Kyle Rayner

SPECIES = Human
UNIQUENESS = Event Hero
CLASS = Savior
PERSONALITY = Creative

SIZE/HEIGHT = Medium 5

LIFE = 4

MOVE = 9
RANGE = 5
ATTACK = 6
DEFENSE = 6

POINTS = 450


WHITE LANTERN BATTERY 4
Start the game with 4 white Battery Markers on this card. For the entire game, White Lantern adds one to his Life number for each white Battery Marker on this card. Before taking a turn with White Lantern, you may remove a white Battery Marker from this card to remove 2 Wound Markers from this card or the card of an adjacent figure.

COMBINED SPECTRUM
White Lantern is additionally considered to have the names Red Lantern, Orange Lantern, Yellow Lantern, Green Lantern, Blue Lantern, Indigo Lantern, and Star Sapphire.

NEW GUARDIANS
If no figures in your army started the game with the same color of Battery Marker on their cards, after revealing an Order Marker on this card and before taking a turn with White Lantern, you may take a turn with any Common or Unique Hero you control that started the game with a Battery Marker on its card or is an Energy Construct. If you do, you may not take any additional turns with other figures you control and White Lantern cannot move this turn.

SUSTAINED LIFEPOWER 19
If an adjacent figure you control would receive enough wounds to be destroyed, you may roll the 20-sided die. Add 1 to the roll for each white Battery Marker on this card. If you roll 19 or higher, that figure takes no damage.

SUPER STRENGTH
FLYING

[tcglkn]

@Arch-vile
@johnny139
@Lord Pyre
@Soundwarp SG-1
@LordVenoc
@MrNobody

[tcglkn]

Think this is the perfect capstone on our Lantern release at the end of the year, a figure that can pull together any combination of Lanterns into one synergistic army. So we'll have the big powerful Event Hero WL and this version of Kyle which will be a sweet SSE.

[Lord Pyre]

So you don't want him to be an event hero? I guess I assumed all WL's would be.

The army building ability looks fun, my only concern is that he's not going to be better than the other lantern's synergy. Like a Red Lantern army with Atrocitus might still be better than grabbing Kyle here and having a weird army.

That's not really a problem with the design, it's just a thought. I like the concept a lot though.

[tcglkn]

I don't really see this Kyle as an Event Hero no. I also changed the battery power to be less powerful than Hal's.

Yea I'm not worried about him being better than in faction synergies, just want some fun cross faction synergies.

[Arkham]

Looks fun

[Arch-vile]

I like Savior for class, Kyle does technically lead the New Guardians but I feel in practice he's usually following somebody else's lead.

Fun design. He's got a lot of goodies so it wouldn't surprise me for him to come in expensive, but I'm guessing around the 400-450 level. Could justify either Unique or Event Hero there.

[IAmBatman]

Looks good. And, yeah, I'd probably put his floor right around 400.

[Tornado]

At 410 he looks good for a Ms Marvel and Cap build.

[johnny139]

I like this take as a New Guardians leader, and I think it leaves enough room for an Omega Lantern version that channels all the colors. Fine with either Leader or Savior for his class, not familiar enough to make a call either way for specifics. And ultimately I think I'm fine either way on him being an Event Hero... he's probably the least "event" of them all, so he'd be the line either way.

Think the powerset works fine. I might organize the lanterns by ROY G BIV order rather than alphabetical, though, even if that breaks our precedent a bit.

[tcglkn]

I went with Savior, changed the order to ROYGBIV and I like keeping him at Unique but I don't think it matters to much on the Event vs Unique front personally.

COMPETITIVE REVIEW BOARD CHECKLIST

Spoiler Alert!

Efficiency- Check to see if your design is providing armies with turns/moves/etc. to a degree that would make it difficult or impossible for an opponent to keep up with your output.

1. Does your design allow itself or figures to move/attack/take a turn/etc. instead of/in addition to your normal turn for revealing an Order Marker? Is it granting these benefits to too broad a range of units? Does it combine with other powers to create overly long or powerful chains of actions?
You can bond with Lanterns instead of moving to allow for Kyle to attack or use a Construct.

2. Does your design allow you to take actions during an opponent's turn? Can it combine with other powers to create tediously long reactions to enemy actions or a restrictive environment?
You can keep people alive

3. Does your design allow you to rearrange your Order Markers or otherwise bypass the costs of Order Marker requirements on the special powers of other figures?
No

4. Is your design doing anything outside of a player's turn, at the start or end of the round? Is the effect too powerful by itself or when combined with other powers?
No

5. Does your design have any powers that trigger anytime it moves as opposed to only when it moves normally on its turn? Will it be too efficient when combined with figures that grant extra moves to figures?
No

6. Is your design adding or subtracting from initiative rolls? Will it pair too easily with other figures that alter initiative or have powers triggering on the results of initiative rolls?
No


Potency- Check to see if your design is wounding/removing/etc. enemy figures, increasing the chances of other figures in your army doing so, or otherwise directly effecting the number of figures available to players to a degree that would make it difficult or impossible for an opponent to recover from.

1. Does your design have a chance to inflict wounds or destroy figures? Is it getting these chances too frequently or having to high a chance of success? Is the power balanced against expensive targets that can cause a massive swing in the game when destroyed?
No

2. Is your design adding to the stats or 20-sided die rolls of other figures in your army? Is it a boosting a broad enough range of units effectively enough to become a 'mandatory' draft or inhibit future design space? Can it be combined with other boosts too easily?
No

3. Will your design benefit from stat boosts or other enhancement to an overpowering degree? Will it restrict future growth within its faction or point cost by limiting available boosts to others?
Probably not, you want Lanterns with him not Star-Lord/Captain America

4. Does your design take control of enemy figures permanently or temporarily? Is it too difficult to for your opponent to regain control of their figure or recover from the losing the figure? Does the method of taking control expose the enemy figure to the powers of other figures in your army that can easily destroy it?
No

5. Can your design heal itself or others or revive itself or others? Is it doing so in a way that an opponent cannot hope to overcome in certain scenarios?
It can heal yourself and other figures

6. Does your design place enemy figures on its card or otherwise have an unconventional method of temporarily removing enemy figures from play? Will it guarantee your victory against a single remaining enemy figure?
No


Chicanery- Check to see if your design is preventing your opponent from taking actions with too much ease or is otherwise causing negative play experience through tactics that make your opponent feel you're 'not playing fair'

1. Does your design restrict the movement of enemy figures, or allow you to move enemy figures? Can it do so in a way that results in an unwinnable scenario for your opponent if they are down to one figure, posses only figures with a range of 1, etc.? Can your design easily combine with other figures to greatly impede enemy figures or otherwise gain an excessive advantage?
No

2. Does your design effect/change the placement of an enemy's Order Markers, or remove their Order Markers entirely? Can it force Order Markers to go onto cards that have no figures on the battlefield? Can your design easily combine with other figures to completely dictate the placement of an enemy's Order Markers or remove all of their Order Markers?
No

3. Does your design inhibit your opponent from attacking your figures or make attacking a losing proposition? Are there scenarios or combinations that make your opponent totally unable to harm your figures through attacking?
Not really, can keep people alive with good d20 rolls

4. Does your design directly negate the powers of enemy figures or otherwise ignore them in a way that can completely disrupt the opponent's strategy or leave them feeling like they are stuck playing figures without special powers?
No

5. Does your design become overly powerful in a podded group of figures, or provide significant benefit to your army without leaving your Start Zone?
I mean he's probably good in pods thanks to him last power.

6. You can attack your own figures in Heroscape, does your design have any powers that will trigger off of doing so or otherwise wounding/destroying your own figures? Is this intentional on your part? Will the design be too efficient or potent when doing so?
No motivation to here.

CONSISTENCY CHECKLIST (SHORT FORM)

Spoiler Alert!

Consistency Concerns
Name and Identity
Verify character is named in a way that is clear, accurate and feels consistent with the way other characters are named.
All good

Uniqueness and Type
Verify that the power text reflects the listed uniqueness and type, that the uniqueness fits the character, and that squad size is listed for squads.
Unique vs Event seems close to me. I am personally leaning Unique.

Left Box
If the character's species, class or personality is reused, verify that the character feels thematically consistent with other figures that have that species, class or personality. If they are not reused, verify that there is no pre-existing species, class or personality that would make more sense.
Yep good.

Size and Height
Verify that the listed size and height are accurate. Standing the mini up next to a stack of tiles, and a few other minis of various sizes, is encouraged.
Yep

Super Strength and Flying
Verify that these special powers are present if they make sense, and not if they don't.
Has both

New Powers - Names
Verify that any new powers are not using power names identical to, or very similar to, pre-existing powers. Verify that any new powers are actually new and not old powers with new names.
Renamed the first power.

New Powers - Effects
Verify that the effect and timing of all new powers is clear. Verify that any logical immunities, benefits, or weaknesses (whether those be necessary for thematic or mechanical reasons) are implemented: consider whether defensive powers that work against normal attacks should also work against special attacks, whether or not a power has an elemental component that some figures should resist, and whether or not unliving figures (such as Undead and Androids) should be affected.
Seems good

Reused Powers
Verify that the design is reusing powers in place of creating new ones, where reused powers could implement the same theme and mechanics with no differences or only trivial differences. Verify that any reused powers have the correct text.
No reuses

Power Level
Verify that the character's movement, attack, range, and defense (in conjunction with any special powers that enhance those stats) feel consistent with the capabilities of characters with analogous powers and abilities. Verify that the character falls into a similar point range to characters with comparative powers and abilities.
Should be expensive.