Exactly what does it mean when it says.....recovers the next time? How many times do I have to recover it?

I am hoping this means if I play Childern of the Atom and recover a character it will ready. But just want to be positive.

can you post the whole card? It would be easier for us to help you that way :grin:

The whole text is:

Activate, exhaust an X-Men character you control >> Whenever target stunned X-Men character you control recovers for the next time this combat phase, ready it.

Yeah, if tht's the text then it would ready if you played Children of the Atom on it.

-Mike

It is worded that way so that it only works once. If the character were to get stunned again and recovered again, it would not ready again.

this is a example of how outback stronghold works.
player a attacks player b wolverine with thier sabretooth. player b flips and activates outback strong hold and exhausts wolverine. player a passes his attack and player b activates children of the atom to recover wolverine. he ready's.

the whole "next time" wording is just used so you can't use multiple children of the atoms or all the other recovery card's the x-men have ib their arsenal to ready the same charcter time and time again.

if the wording next time wasn't present on this card ( of course the could of used something simpler like use this cards activated effect once per turn or somrthing of the sorts.) THE X- MEN WOULD DEFINATLY BE SUPER BROKE. SPECAILLY NOW WITH WEOPON OF CHOICE FOR A HALF WAY DECENT TUTOR.
but over all i FREAKING LOVE IT. OPENS ALLOT OF STUFF FOR X-MEN. ALLREADY WORKING ON IT.

That is not correct. You would need to activate and exhaust a different X-Men and then recover Wolverine. The target for Outback Stronghold is a stunned character, not the character you exhausted. It may not be used until there is one.

So, more proper, would be Sabretooth attacks and stuns Wolverine. Player exhausts Nightcrawler and activates Outback Stronghold targeting Wolverine. Effect resolves. Player recovers Wolverine with Children of the Atom. Wolverine readies.

Or better yet, you attack opponent's curve drop that turn with your curve drop that turn for a double stun. You recover your character and ready for another attack down the curve. This is a fantastic card. Finally more purpose to all the X-Men recovery.