Getting into the spirit of a new set release I just wanted to bring up what a ridiculously powerful piece White Witch is and complain that no one is complaining about her.

Her Movement SP: MYSTICAL ENERGY: During your turn choose one: Give White Witch a power action, and each opposing character's combat values can't be modified until your next turn; or give White Witch a free action, and each opposing character can't be given more than one free action until your next turn.

Have you ever really counted up how many free actions a typical competitive team uses and just the range of actions she hoses? you are playing against a BoS team, they drop a hammer as a free action to quake and then try to spend another free action (with splitlip) to pick it up, NOPE! Shuma flurries (includes a free action attack) then Mole Man mind controls him to give him another action as a free action, NOPE! Silver Centurion uses a free action to put an acceleration token on his torpedo then tries to use running shot against you, NOPE! I could come up with hundreds of examples of characters that use multiple free actions a turn in normal games. She hoses working together, multiattack (Galactus is a push over with her on your team), duo attack etc etc.

Oh and if that isn't enough instead she can hose any stat modifiers you care to think about. No range no line of fire required for either of these powers, eat your heart out Outsiders TA.

So please do us all a favour and show the women some hate.

That's A-OK fine by me. Competitive clix is all about breaking the rule of actions nowadays, so I'm fine with something that can put the kibosh on that.

I know I was being tongue in cheek, I think she is great and surprised that no one else has been talking about her much. She hoses a lot more than Highfather does and he is getting a huge amount of attention.

I think that may be because she doesn't truly lock down her opponents. Yeah, it's annoying, but you can get around it.

Depending on what you build, a Highfather team could lead to an utterly miserable and/or wasted game.

I don't usually build teams that revolve around one character taking a lot of free actions. Yea, it can hurt the BoS if they were to run that strategy but overall, not too over powering. Also, they do not have to be given the free action for quake. The wording states they "may" use quake as a free action. A lot of times I would rather have the stat boost than the free possible 2 damage assuming they don't have reducers.

Plus, I think a lot of people are more focused on the Chases's traits. Because that is a true resource dampener.

At least you wont have to worry about Team-attack anymore.

Why does it say "Each opposing" instead of "opposing characters"?
Edit: NVM i get it.

My guess is to clarify about the action total.

Each Opposing = One per character

Opposing Characters = possibly only 1.

It is just clearer.

Quoted b/c I agree 100%.

She is good but not broken. She can remove some of your aggression, but she doesn't do much more. I wouldn't be too concerned about her.

I've been quietly excited about her, personally.

I actually think the limiting of the combat value modifications is more powerful. That's real nice.

Agreed. I was happy to pull her, although I still need Black Witch...

I'm going to be running Blight theme teams for a while just for the anti-free action aspect the Science police bring.

Screw free action shenanigans. I'm tired of them.

She can remove a lot more than some. You have a 300pt team base she can remove half your actions. She hoses mole man + monsters because you can bet they use more than one free action a turn. Against other teams she slows them down and they can lose tempo and stops some shenanigans dead. Outwit + Poison, charge + flurry, perplex + move and attack, there are a lot of very common interactions that require 2 free actions. Stopping your stats being modified can make a huge difference. Her stats aren't bad either so give her Nuls hammer and let her run around and incap people or push her on to her second click for barrier and support. This is a lot more subtle and not in your face like Highfathers affect but could be just as effective.

That might be why she's flown under the radar the last couple of days. I'd hadn't thought about all the things done for free within other actions.

Trinity of Sin members will certainly hate her. GCPD teams too. And she'll make Doc Ock just cry (perplex 4x).