Haha another diamond double named character. So if Roy Harper • Arsenal is a 3 drop, then Roy Harper • Speedy better a 1 drop. The first effects cool, but the KO a resource ability is a bit costly....unless of course theres a Titan twist similar to The New Brotherhood...

Well, there are 8 1- and 2-drops in the Titans - so Speedy fits right in (how many other choices are there...?)

With a roster of several dozen bordering on nearly 100 that have been a Titan, a reserve, an ally, or an aid, UDE can take several Titans for 1 and 2 drops actually. Like Speedy and Robin from the original days. Changeling before he learned control (as in, his early Beast Boy days) the ORIGINAL Batgirl (now...Flamebird isn't it?), and heck, Vic Stone (Cyborg's) dad, the creator of Titan's Tower.
Why there's a nice 1 drop. An architect type that prevents the KO of a location in your resource row if you shuffle the character back in your deck (or KO it). Goes nicely with Arsenal. The KO goes nicely with Arsenal -and- Starfire.

If Baby Wildebeest gets on the team at all (and I hope he does, because I love him to death) he'll probably be a one drop, because of his obscureness.

8 characters below the 3 drop spots is exactly the same as the Brotherhood, so that gives us some indication of how big this team might be.

And the Grabher-Meister is back! I thought you said you wouldn't be doing any previews, you sly fella. Well I'm glad you are because I can't get enough of them.

Yeah, I was pretty dang surprised, actually. O_O Pleasantly so.

It was sort of a fun one to write since Harper's one of those characters whose obscurity (to some people) justifies a little recap of who he was and how the card portrayed him. I think a big appeal of Vs. is that the characters aren't just numbers and effects: they're often surprisingly cohesive portrayals of real characters, and I like having an excuse to highlight that.

...I think my overall geekatude just rose like, 8%.

Now I just need to figure out what to name my new column...

-JD

Gloomy, you really are one of us.

How about... "The Same Game".

Thanks for doing the recap on his background. Hopefully we can get sort of a comprehensive background for the lesser known DC characters that come out on this site after the set comes out and future DC sets. *Hint hint Bizarro* :P Outside of Batman and some Superman stuff my DC knowledge fades. Which kinda sucks because some of the stuff looks cool and I like to have some sort of idea of who the characters are that I might play. Can't wait for some new stuff to come out, I'd like to see the field vary a bit at the qualifiers.

-JT

Locke if you wanna catch up on some other characters, a quick google search can lead to a couple hours of VERY entertaining reading :p

I don't think that it will be necessary for me to anything, as DC will probably get it's own Beyond Creative.

If you have any questions though, don't hesitate to ask.

KO a resource!!!!!!!!!!!

I will hold judgement until we see the whole set, because I'm sure UDE knows what they are doing =) You can imagine your opponents surprise though when you pump up Arsenal several times, then have this measely 3-drop KO their big guns.

And thanks for the character description. That was great.

Yeah, not knowing the Teen Titans well, I was pleased to see the nice character description. Keep up the great work, Gloom!

BTW, is Arsenal DOR-051? Can't quite make it out.

I'm glad to see Arsenal! I find him to be very interesting. His first power is absolutely awesome. Equip a little Smoke Cloud on this strapping young man and you have yourself one nasty guy that can attack without fear of being stunned. Roy alone makes it look like the titans and brotherhood are going to go together quite well. Pump up with 1 cost characters then whack someone huge or Blind Side a little guy and watch the opponent cry. Marvel Team-Up and you have a nice target for savage land.

The cons to poor Roy? very easily overloaded (but having him equiped with a smoke cloud should protect him when attacking, correct?) and I don't see using his second ability often. Most def levels are close to the attk levels and you're KOing a resource just to save Roy? I like him but I'm not THAT fond of him.

If you didn't have to exhaust him to use his second option I'd like him much better and I'd actually use the second option, but if that were the case EVERYONE would be playing him.

All around, great card. I'm dying for the first week of July to come around so I can get my hands on these wonderful cards.

Wouldn't he work better with the X-Men and their school?