What other ways can you be a wild card?

Wild cards ARE a team ability. There are ways you can be a wild card that don't involve team symbols, sure, but being/using a wild card is always part of a team ability.

BN, page 9

Wild card team abilities allow a character to use any team ability possessed by any friendly character on the battlefield. A character that possesses a wild card team ability is called a “wild card.” Although wild cards can use team abilities, they do not possess the copied team ability nor do they possess the team symbol. Certain game effects only apply to characters that possess a particular team ability or symbol – wild cards would not qualify for these through using another characters’ team ability.

Henchman's trait just says "Henchman is a wild card." I had always assumed this was not a team ability, and that the wording in the rulebook just wasn't printed with wild cards from non-TA sources in mind (though I do see now that the Blackest Night rulebook still refers to wild cards only in terms of wild card team abilities).

If this trait indeed gives Henchman possession of a second team ability, does that mean that Skrull Yellowjacket can outwit his wildcard team ability? Would doing so also counter other wild card team abilities given by traits on the same team?

Hmmm... good question.

I'd think so. Given the way other rulings in the past have gone down, "is" (as in "Henchman is a wild card" as described by his trait) tends to denote possession. And since the Henchman would possess a wild card team ability, he could then be targetted with Yellowjacket's TRAITOR SP.

Where it would get fuzzy is the part of Traitor that allows other characters' TAs to be countered if their TAs are the same as the target characters. Just because a TA does the same thing does not mean that it is, in fact, the same TA (See X-Men vs Titans or HYDRA vs PD, etc). So, most of the time a wild card will be a LoSH wild card or a MoD wild card and so on... in the Henchman's case, though, no actual team affliation is indicated (unless you want to count Batman Enemy ). So while I would suspect that Yellowjacket could counter the Henchman's wild card TA, I don't think TRAITOR would effect anyone else on the team (unless there were mutliple Henchman, I guess).

My 2 cents. I must admit I am very curious to see what the rest of the Oranges Dudes think.

sorry if im repeating something previously stated, but if the henchman mentioned earlier is 'anti-bats' TA then how exactly is he copying anything? doesn't this card ONLY apply to Spidey/Doom/LoS/Calc and the like? i mean the prereq is wild card TA. so unless i misread, people are saying a henchman with batenemy TA can somehow use this card? huh? wha?

Personally, I think that wild cards should be defined the other way around. Maybe a Player's Guide entry that changed the rules to say something like this:

Being a "wild card" allows a character to use any team ability possessed by any friendly character on the battlefield. A team ability that says a character is a wild card is a "wild card team ability." Although wild cards can use team abilities, they do not possess the copied team ability nor do they possess the team symbol. Certain game effects only apply to characters that possess a particular team ability or symbol – wild cards would not qualify for these through using another characters’ team ability.

It seems more consistent, even with the normal wild card team abilities which already say "[Calculator] team members are wild cards" rather than "[Calculator] is a wild card team ability." Under this wording, being a wild card isn't the same thing as having or using a wild card team ability.

I can hope for such a change, I suppose.

The Henchman LE has the following trait:

You’ll Hafta Wear Some Silly Costumes: Henchman is a wild card.


So he is a Batman Enemy, but he is also a wild card. Kind of like how SI Jarvis is both Avengers and Skrulls.

oh...cool! gotta get me that piece then!

If i put Sabortuer and Siphon power on LE Henchman, what t/a's can my opponent copy? Can they copy Siphon Power t/a?

Copy the power your character is copying with Siphon Power? No. Your character doesn't actually possess that power, so others can not copy it.

Copy the actual reworded-wild-card Siphon Power TA? I don't see why not, under the BN rules.