I love building and playing theme teams and it seems like its becoming increasingly harder with the new rules (x number of people per 300 instead of 100). But even with that rule aside, I still have trouble building generic keyword theme teams with some certain keywords.

Armor is near impossible I think. Since its generic, you need 3 per 300 points, so that's 100 points per fig if you split it up evenly. For modern age, there's only 18 figures under 100 points with the armor keyword, and 3 of those are chases! Sure you can play two cheap Iron Man drones, and one high point Iron Man, but that's one of the only options available!

In conclusion, I hate when they make high point characters with generic keywords such as armor or cosmic since they can rarely ever be used correctly for a theme team.

What keywords do you feel this applies to?

Deity. Seriously, good luck with that one, especially under the Highlander rule.

Challenge... accepted!

AVM012 Sif 80
M10A007 Storm 59
M10A021R Dark Phoenix 100
IH027 Amadeus Cho 59
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It's so hard to field a Psychic or Mutant team in today's Modern Age it's starting to make me mad.

Celebrity and Ruler don't have too many cheaper options that work well--Ruler especially, barring Warlord.

Agreed, though, on Deity.

Yep, using that team as soon as I can get an AVM Sif.

On that, I got nothing...

The irony is, when I started playing back when Clobberin' Time came out, I frequently used a Marvel mutant force. I'd have X-Men and Brotherhood figures on teams together since I felt it worked with an "us" vs "them" / Days of Future Past vibe.

Basically I was "keyword" themeing before it became an official rule.

Now that its an official rule, I don't use keyword themes, HOWEVER, if the mutants got their keyword back, I would run mutant keyword themes again...

Obese and Avian have been difficult lately.

Brute used to be difficult before AVM came out.

Has to be ruler for me. they dont have much support.

Assassin. There isn't that much out there.

Assassin isn't a generic Keyword. However there may not be a lot of Assassins, what they have is extremely strong.

Cosmic, for sure in fact up untill DC75 I would have said it's impossible
Warrior, used to be tough untill recently as well
Kid

Those keywords have been removed from the game.
Hammer of Thor has 1 charactor with the psychic keyword, Secret Invasion has 2, and Mutations & Monster has a whole bunch. You've got to go all the way back to Arkham Asylum to find a DC set with the Psychic keyword.

Mutations and Monsters is the Last Marvel set with the Mutant Keyword

I'm not including SDCC Exclusive Stan Lee because well..... his trait is silly

Actually Assassin is a generic keyword. SoG Deathstroke, Lady Shiva, and Daivd Cain all have it as keyword and last I check, Assassins Creed isn't part of the DC universe. So I would say it is a generic keyword.