Text: "Play in Current Battle to ressurect one KO'd teammate in next battle. Teammate is discarded at end of battle."

Characters who have this Special: Dr. Strange, Alpha Flight.

Rules of play:
• This card has no affect to the current battle.
• At beginning of next battle, before draw phase, a dead character is resurrected for the remainder of battle.
• If 3 characters are already in the front line, you may play with 4 characters in the front line for one battle.
• This character may be KO'd as normal by Spectrum of Cumulative KO.
• Cards that were placed on or in play on the resurrected character are not in play.
• If this card is in play with only one character left in play, and that character dies in the battle, the battle is immediately over, the current Venture is decided and the next battle begins with the resurrected hero. If the hero can knock out the opponent's heroes and/or win the Venture in that battle, he wins the game, if not, he loses.

*error beep* Wrong! What are the benefits of having that other character back on your team anyway? Well, for starters you don't have to discard any unusable special cards for that character. Also, if you're playing in a shift deck, you can shift all of the attacks to the resurrected character where they won't do any harm. Maybe the character you're bringing back has a nice inherent like "Team is +2 to venture total" that could be useful.

But hold on! There's no guarantee that the resurrected character's special cards will come up next battle (if there are any to come up at all). If any come up, it will probably be no more than 1, in which case you're giving up a card in this battle to get a card in the next battle!

Shifting decks are very popular so maybe this card could have some worth to it there. Unfortunately, Alpha Flight and Dr. Strange don't particularly fit in those decks and I can think of many other cards I'd rather have as my OPD under a battlesite.

As for that all important "+2 to Venture", since it's only in play for one battle, it has about as much effect as a standard AF card "+3 to Venture total", except it's worth a little less. So what good does this do you? And on top of that, it wouldn't affect current venture anyway!

On the other hand, "The Infinity Gauntlet", another ressurection card, is EXTREMELY useful! First off, Guantlet is in play for the remainder of the game. Second, you get to choose when to play it and you can choose to play it at the beginning of the battle, so you know if it would be worth while to play it (i.e. when you have cards for the dead character in your hand).

Some may just play this card for the fun of having four characters on the front line for a battle, and in my books, that's all it's worth.

Created 11/12/97

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