Sorceress

[IAmBatman]

Sorceress (Teela Na)

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NAME = SORCERESS
IDENTITY = TEELA NA

UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
SPECIES = HUMAN
CLASS = GUARDIAN
PERSONALITY = MERCIFUL

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 3

MOVE = 3
RANGE = 3
ATTACK = 3
DEFENSE = 3

POINTS = 120

BLESSINGS OF GRAYSKULL
During setup, place 1 Blessings Marker on each ally in the Masters of the Universe faction. For the entire game, after a figure with your Blessings Marker on it rolls combat dice or a d20, they may remove that marker to reroll 1 die.

SUMMONING HEROIC WARRIORS
Once per game, after initiative, you may place up to 3 Masters of the Universe allies within 3 clear spaces of Sorceress or a Champion ally. This movement is unstoppable.

SACRIFICIAL INTERVENTION
When an Honorable ally would take 1+ wounds, you may have that ally ignore those wounds. If you do, defeat Sorceress.

FACTION: MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
PUBLISHER: MATTEL
KEYWORDS:
SYMBOLS: FLYING, MAGICAL AFFINITY

RELEASE NAME: One of the wisest beings on Eternia and Grayskull's chosen caretaker, Sorceress rarely leaves her mysterious castle sanctum.

Resources and Rulings
• The suggested figure for this unit is a Masters of the Universe: The Board Game - Clash For Eternia figure
• See this card's wiki page for synergies and strategies!

Credits
• Playtesters:

• IAmBatman
• AlexH12
• Toyhandle
• IAmBatman (after changes)

• Card art: japes
• Comic creators: Mattel

Updates
• N/A

 

[IAmBatman]

She's not one of the Masters of the Universe herself and doesn't fight alongside them per se. She's more of a powerful figure who stays in the shadows and then tends to magically intervene to save their butts. She's incredibly powerful but also falls pretty quickly during direct conflict (she doesn't die or anything, she's just incapacitated fairly easily).

In the comics and the show she rarely leaves Grayskull and at some points is magically bound to the castle unless she changes into her bird form (Zoar). She is the conduit of Grayskull's power and often bestows He-Man with different gifts and abilities to power him up. She can also do all sorts of crazy magical things.

 

[IAmBatman]

I figure in terms of the faction, her summoning will let He-Man move up alone without needing Battle Cat for the faction to function, then she can summon up his allies once per game. She can also help cover the faction's biggest weakness, which is that when He-Man falls, they usually fall apart.

The 120 price point rounds out He-Man (320) and the MotU Story Card (60) for a 500 point block. That goes well with Battle Cat (200), Stratos (150), and Man-E-Faces (150) for (1000) or Teela (170), Man-at-Arms/Ram Man (180), and Stratos/Man-E-Faces (150) for (1000).

 

[Arch-vile]

FYI I think you've got an outdated version of the OP template, Publisher and faction should be swapped and size/life/points are usually spaced out.

Seems like a straightforward start zone sitter. She's got some great passive boosts, should be helpful for the faction. Does Blessings of Grayskull only work if the figure rolls exactly 1 combat die?

Heroic Summoning looks like a great way to drop in the team at the start of round 2. That's the ability that I'd look at exploiting, with it being open to any allies. Easy to drop Blob or some other disruptive figure next to an enemy as long as any Champion is nearby. Hard to say that's actually worth spending 120 points on, but then again Sacrificial Intervention doesn't have a faction lock on it either, so maybe with both of those abilities it'd be worthwhile? Definitely more useful in a MOTU build, but maybe there's a crazy combo out there.

 

[IAmBatman]

Those darn spaces get me every time. Lotta old write ups I copy and paste. Good looking out.

Blessings of Grayskull is exactly 1 combat die, yeah. So mostly useful for swipes, damage dice, knockback damage and the like. I didn't want it come up a lot in attacks and defense just to keep her in check (if you're subtracted down to like 1 defense, though, she'll bless you).

You make some good points. I might need to make things a bit more factional. I was hoping the reroll being factional would strongly pull her there, but that might be the third best ability, so maybe not enough by itself.

 

[IAmBatman]

OK, that has me wanting to make some tweaks already. I didn't properly think through the potential for generalist exploits. I don't want to fully factionally lock her either, so instead I'm going to move around and work in some restrictions that I think are thematic:

SUMMONING HEROIC WARRIORS
Once per game, after initiative, you may place up to 3 allies in the Masters of the Universe faction within 3 clear spaces of Sorceress or a Champion ally. This movement is unstoppable.

BLESSINGS OF GRAYSKULL
If Sorceress is in your start zone when an ally in clear sight rolls 1 combat die or d20, they may reroll it once.

SACRIFICIAL INTERVENTION
The first time each round that Sorceress is in her start zone when an ally with the Honorable Personality would be defeated by taking wounds, that ally ignores those wounds and Sorceress takes 1 wound instead.

1. First ability, she's really only summoning the "Heroic Warriors" which means it should be a factional thing. Title changed to be less general.

2. If she's summoning all of Grayskull's abilities to bless someone, this is the one that seems like it should be most attached to the start zone, so moved that restriction over here. You probably wouldn't want to put her in danger regardless, so I don't think letting her move out of the start zone to summon is too exploitable.

3. I really only care about her being able to save He-Man, since he's the one that's necessary to keep the faction going, so I shifted to basing it on the Honorable Personality (which should get He-Man, She-Ra, and Roboto longterm). It also has Predator Elder, Black Panther, and Katana, so still open to some weird mishmash possibilities I know we all love without, hopefully, leading to any power exploits.

 

[Arch-vile]

I think that solves the generalist concerns. And good call on removing the start zone restriction from the summon.

 

[IAmBatman]

I also removed the clear sight from the intervention since it's restricted based on personality and she and He-Man communicate telepathically, so it makes sense that she wouldn't need to see him physically.

I am happy with those adjustments, so I'm going to update already, but will still allow plenty of time for feedback

 

[Tornado]

Nice take Bats. Feels a little high cost for how soft she is but those are some good passive boosts. Is she better than Oracle, maybe for MotU.

 

[IAmBatman]

Much easier to power her up than power her down, so I don't mind if she feels a little soft. A lot of easy tweaks I could make in there. I also wouldn't mind her down as far as like 100 for team building purposes.

 

[IAmBatman]

About six minutes early, so feel free to consider it only starting in six minutes, but since I'm about to head to bed ... I propose we move to initial playtesting here

 

[Arch-vile]

yea

 

[MrNobody]

Yea, already thinking about how I can build a silly build around this and Avengers BP.

 

[IAmBatman]

Yea, already thinking about how I can build a silly build around this and Avengers BP.

This is the way

 

[IAmBatman]

Just need a couple more

 

[Skinderella]

Yea

 

[Karat]

Just a few minor things wording wise that I'm seeing, mostly order and flow. The roots look good though!

Yea

 

[IAmBatman]

Always open to wording suggestions

This passes. Hoping to get to Mandarin and this initial this week.

 

[IAmBatman]

Been wrestling with this a bit as I get it set up for playtesting, and both to help the faction work better and mechanically, I'm making a couple of small tweaks going into the first test:

1. Removing the clear sight restriction on Blessings of Grayskull. She is able to use magical items in Castle Grayskull to see what's going on in Eternia and shouldn't ever feel like she needs clear sight thematically. Mechanically, if she's going to be built as a start zone sitter, it's annoying to feel like she needs to be shifted around in order to maintain clear sight (got things set up on Sacred Shrine and this realization dawned).

2. For Masters of the Universe, the character compendium I have lists her as part of the group and it does make sense. She stays in Grayskull but it's not like she wouldn't/doesn't fight alongside He-Man when trouble comes there. Letting her be activated through the Masters of the Universe story card should make her a more cohesive fit in team builds.

 

[Ericth74]

I have no issues with testing those changes

 

[IAmBatman]

Got two games in last night (lost a squeaker to JL Trinity and got smoked by TMNT). So far so good.

 

[IAmBatman]

C3G STANDARD PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM
NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: SORCERESS
VERSION TESTED

Spoiler Alert!

NAME = SORCERESS
IDENTITY = TEELA NA

UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
SPECIES = HUMAN
CLASS = GUARDIAN
PERSONALITY = MERCIFUL

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 3

MOVE = 3
RANGE = 3
ATTACK = 3
DEFENSE = 3

POINTS = 120

SUMMONING HEROIC WARRIORS
Once per game, after initiative, you may place up to 3 allies in the Masters of the Universe faction within 3 clear spaces of Sorceress or a Champion ally. This movement is unstoppable.

BLESSINGS OF GRAYSKULL
If Sorceress is in your start zone when an ally rolls 1 combat die or d20, they may reroll it once.

SACRIFICIAL INTERVENTION
The first time each round that Sorceress is in her start zone when an ally with the Honorable Personality would be defeated by taking wounds, that ally ignores those wounds and Sorceress takes 1 wound instead.

FACTION: MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
PUBLISHER: MATTEL
KEYWORDS:
SYMBOLS: Flying, Magical Affinity

Team Test
Map: SACRED SHRINE
Units: Sorceress (120), He-Man (320), MotU Story Card (60), Battle Cat (200), Stratos (150), Man-E-Faces (150) (1000) vs JL Trinity (1000)
Unit Summary: The summoning didn’t play a big role here early with the MotU carrying each other well, but was in their back pocket in case Sorceress was hunted in the start zone. Wonder Woman’s lasso tore up poor Stratos and kept Battle Cat in check. Meanwhile, Sorceress saved He-Man three times and kept the MotU going, proving her worth. With He-Man still relevant down the stretch, the MotU are in the game until the very end, with the Trinity just barely squeezing it out.
Game Summary

Spoiler Alert!

Man-E-Faces starts as a robot.
Initiative MotU. Battle Cat carries up He-Man and Stratos carries up Man-E-Faces. Wonder Woman advances. Battle Cat carries up He-Man and Man-E-Faces and Stratos follows. Man-E-Faces shoots at Wonder Woman and she deflects the blast into He-Man for 1 wound. Batman advances and fails Batarang attacks on He-Man and Man-E-Faces. Battle Cat advances to 2 spaces away from Wonder Woman and tries to use his Courageous Charge to place Man-E-Faces and He-Man. Wonder Woman lassoes Man-E-Faces to height disadvantage instead. He-Man gets off the charge, misses the damage die roll, then Blessings of Grayskull allows for the reroll and it hits Wonder Woman. Stratos flies over Man-E-Faces to rescue him, but Wonder Woman stops that too. He-Man would Power Punch Wonder Woman for 4 wounds but Superman comes to the rescue. He-Man knocks Wondy back but fails the knockback damage die roll and the reroll from Blessings of Grayskull. Wondy’s lasso is undefeated and stops Stratos from doing a flyover. Superman punches down on He-Man and would take him out but Sorceress takes 1 wound to save He-Man from the 5 wound shot. Batman stealths away and throws rangs, hitting He-Man and Stratos with the auto wounds, and Stratos for a wound from the attack. Man-E-Faces gets away unscathed. Wonder Woman punches out Stratos from height.
Wonder Woman uses a marker. Initiative Trinity. Superman punches down on He-Man for a 4 wound defeating blow, but Sorceress takes 1 wound instead. Batman only hits Battle Cat with the attack of the batarangs, but He-Man takes a wound as well from failing the heroic deflection. Wonder Woman takes a vigilant strike wound and fails to hit He-Man. He-Man escapes the lasso but fails the Courageous Charge roll on Batman (twice). He would defeat Batman and Battle Cat would put 4 wounds on Wonder Woman, but Superman saves his friends each time. Man-E-Faces in robot form still catches Superman rolling poorly on defense and puts 2 wounds on him. Man-E-Faces celebrates by going into monster mode. Superman punches down on Man-E-Faces for 2 wounds, rather than risking a sixth wound from a swipe. Battle Cat moves but He-Man’s charge is disrupted by the lasso again. He attacks Superman from height disadvantage, is blocked, but it’s a Power Punch and the knockback damage hits Superman for a sixth wound (without a reroll needed). Man-E-Faces cannot hit Superman, even in monster mode, and Battle Cat can’t touch Wonder Woman. Superman punches down on He-Man, but for only 1 wound. Man-E-Faces tries his chances with Batman and hits for 2 wounds.
Wonder Woman uses a marker. Initiative Trinity. Superman would defeat He-Man again, but Sorceress sacrifices herself to prevent it. Wonder Woman punches down on He-Man for 1 wound. Batman’s rangs auto wound Battle Cat for 1 wound, but fail to do anything else. He-Man, surprisingly, gets a turn. He Power Punches Superman with 5 hits but can’t hit him and fails the knockback damage roll and has no reroll with Sorceress down. Battle Cat slashes down on Wonder Woman for 2 wounds. Monster Man-E-Faces can’t hit Superman but stays in monster mode. Superman punches down on Man-E-Faces for 2 wounds. Battle Cat can’t hit Wonder Woman. Superman finishes He-Man and Man-E-Faces picks up the Power Sword, fails to hit back, and goes Robot.
Wonder Woman uses her last marker. Initiative MotU. Battle Cat takes out Wonder Woman. Superman takes out Man-E-Faces, who had OM2. Superman falls to a Vigilant Strike. Battle Cat pounces on Batman and takes him down to 1 Life. Batman punches back, taking Battle Cat down to 1 Life.
Initiative Batman. He punches Battle Cat out.

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): Inflicted [0] wounds
• SUMMONING HEROIC WARRIORS: did not use.
• BLESSINGS OF GRAYSKULL: Rerolled [3] combat dice and [0] d20s. Was [a nice bonus]
• SACRIFICIAL INTERVENTION: Took [3] wounds to save [He-Man] from defeat [3] times

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Batman with 1/4 Life wins.

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Team Test
Map: GRUNDY’S GRAVE
Units: Sorceress (120), He-Man (320), MotU Story Card (60), Teela (170), Man-at-Arms (180), Man-E-Faces (150) (1000) vs TMNT and Splinter (1000)
Unit Summary: Despite Sorceress’s best efforts, the Green Machine was too relentless here and He-Man still fell fast and the rest of the faction couldn’t finish anyone fast enough.
Game Summary

Spoiler Alert!

Initiative TMNT. Raph rushes forward. Leo and Raph advance. He-Man advances. Leo and Raph pounce on He-Man from height and after all three attacks, He-Man has 2 Life left and is only standing thanks to Sorceress, who has 1 wound. Donnie advances. He-Man would one-shot Raph, but Splinter saves him, and Raph bounces away before he can be knocked back. He-Man has Teela and Man-E-Faces advance. He-Man slashes Leo for 3 wounds and Man-E-Faces shoots Splinter for 1.
Initiative TMNT. Donnie hits He-Man for wound 5. I thought about having Sorceress summon He-Man back to the start zone near her but went for putting Man-at-Arms, Teela, and Man-E-Faces into the scrum with He-Man instead. Leo would take out He-Man, but Sorceress takes a second wound. Teela takes a swipe and fails a Heroic Surge on Leo. Donnie trips He-Man and finishes him. Raph attacks Teela one time for one wound, thanks to Sorceress helping her evade. Man-E-Faces punches Raph for 1 wound and then goes Human. Raph can’t hit Man-E-Faces. Man-E-Faces puts Raph down to 1 Life and goes monster. Teela can’t finish him.
Initiative MotU. Man-E-Faces finishes Raph and stays monster. Leo slashes Man-E-Faces for 2 wounds. Donnie can’t hit him. Mikey can’t hit an evasive Teela. Man-at-Arms hits Donnie for 2 wounds. Splinter hits Man-at-Arms for 3 wounds. Man-E-Faces can’t hit Leo.
Initiative TMNT. Donnie finishes Man-at-Arms with the auto wound. Leo finishes Man-E-Faces, wiping the round for the MotU. Donnie finishes Teela, despite a reroll on her evasion. Mikey Cowabungas to the start zone and finishes Sorceress.

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): Inflicted [0] wounds
• SUMMONING HEROIC WARRIORS: Used round [2] to place [Man-at-Arms, Man-E-Faces, and Teela] within 3 clear spaces of [He-Man]
• BLESSINGS OF GRAYSKULL: Rerolled [0] combat dice and [3] d20s. Was [somewhat helpful for keeping Teela alive]
• SACRIFICIAL INTERVENTION: Took [2] wounds to save [He-Man] from defeat [2] times

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Michelangelo with Full Life, Splinter with3/4 Life, Donatello with 2/4 Life, and Leonardo with 1/5 Life win.

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Team Test
Map: DARK DIMENSION
Units: Sorceress (120), He-Man (320), MotU Story Card (60), Teela (170), Ram Man (180), Stratos (150) (1000) vs Iron Man (270), Captain America (240), War Machine (260), Black Widow (230) (1000)
Unit Summary: The MotU had too much offensive force for Iron Man and too much luck on damage dice for Cap, but War Machine and Black Widow almost made a comeback. Sorceress got some utility out of her full ability set but nothing felt overwhelming.
Game Summary

Spoiler Alert!

Initiative Avengers. Cap advances. Stratos carries up He-Man. Teela advances. Black Widow and Iron Man advance (War Machine flies forward too). Stratos carries forward He-Man and Teela advances. Stratos can’t hit Iron Man from range. Cap can’t hit He-Man or Stratos with his shield. War Machine blasts He-Man for 2 wounds from height. Teela advances. Stratos carries He-Man up next to Iron Man and Black Widow. He-Man Power Punches Iron Man, hitting him for 3 wounds, and Iron Man goes flying, but no knockback damage or molten lava. Stratos gives up his attack and rolls 2 damage dice for flying over Cap, hitting 1. Teela is not in attack range.
Initiative MotU. Teela, Ram Man, and Stratos are summoned around He-Man. Ram Man rams into Cap for 1 wound and knocks him back one space (no knockback damage die). Stratos repositions Ram Man. He-Man can’t hit Black Widow. Teela punches out Iron Man. Ram Man hits Cap for 1 wound from height. Cap smacks Ram Man for 2 wounds. Black Widow double attacks He-Man for 1 wound but fails to stun him. Ram Man rams into Black Widow for 1 wound. Then he activates again due to having 2 wounds and tries ramming Widow but misses the roll and the reroll. Stratos carries He-Man next to War Machine. He-Man Power Punches War Machine for 1 wound (no knockback damage roll), then Stratos flies over Cap and hits both damage dice to finish Cap. War Machine flies over Teela for 1 wound then fails to hit her with a punch (she fails both evasion rolls). Black Widow double attacks Ram Man from height but only scores 1 wound. Stratos moves He-Man and Ram Man activates twice, hitting War Machine and Black Widow for 1 wound each (after a reroll each time). No MotU have attack targets. War Machine flies over Teela and Ram Man, hitting each for a wound, then punches out Ram Man. Black Widow double attacks Stratos to finish him.
Initiative MotU. He-Man power punches Widow for 2 wounds but has nowhere to knock her back. Teela isn’t in range to attack. War Machine can’t get anything done. Teela engages both enemies. He-Man slashes War Machine for 1 wound. Teela fails to hit anyone. War Machine punches He-Man for 2 wounds. He-Man takes down War Machine. Teela can’t hit Widow. Widow is blocked by both of her enemies.
Initiative Widow. She would finish He-Man, but Sorceress saves him, then He-Man takes Widow out.

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): Inflicted [0] wounds
• SUMMONING HEROIC WARRIORS: Used round [2] to place [Teela, Ram Man, and Stratos] within 3 clear spaces of [He-Man]
• BLESSINGS OF GRAYSKULL: Rerolled [3] combat dice and [2] d20s. Was [solid, but most of the rerolls failed too]
• SACRIFICIAL INTERVENTION: Took [1] wounds to save [He-Man] from defeat [1] times

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Sorceress with 2/3 Life, Teela with 2/4 Life, and He-Man with 1/6 Life win

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UNIT SUMMARY: Sorceress feels like exactly the good luck charm He-Man needs to hold up better and for his faction to feel whole. I’m pretty happy with how she plays and what she does for the faction. If she’s feeling a bit underwhelming/overcosted for public testers, I wouldn’t mind a small tweak to let her reroll 1 die when a figure rolls 2 of fewer combat dice or d20s, just so that Stratos’ swoop and Ram Man’s full ramming move can use it more. I think there’s still enough factional stuff that uses it that I’m not concerned, though.

 

[IAmBatman]

Proposing public testing once I have a slot

 

[Arch-vile]

yea

 

[Soundwarp SG-1]

yea