Note: Several problems were discovered with this article after printing. Voyager can only carry figures she shares a theme with. Also, bystanders created that turn can’t use poison.

Greeting fellow Clixers,

I (like a lot of people) have been looking over the previews for House of X and theory Crafting teams. One of the figures that I’ve been looking at is this:

Her special power states, “SCIENCE COMMANDER OF ORCHIS Leadership. // UNIQUE MODIFIER – Friendly bystanders within 5 squares modify their combat values +1.” So I’ve been looking at characters that generate bystanders like caa054e Captain Marvel, ABPI030 Medusa, WKMP19-105 I.S.A.A.C. and xdp048 Jason Wyngarde. But that’s not who I am going to use today. Today I’ve chosen to go with:

That’s right, it’s the 2018 Team Championship figure previewed on clixnexus.com, Maggott.

Here’s the team:

• Name: Eaten by Maggotts!!
• Theme: General Butt Kicking/General Icky-ness
• Theme Map Bonus: We don’t need no stinking Map Bonus
• ABPI017 Voyager (50 points)
• ABPI017 Voyager (50 points)
• HoX051 Maggott (40 points)
• HoX051 Maggott (40 points)
• HoX051 Maggott (40 points)
• HoX051 Maggott (40 points)
• HoX016 Dr. Alia Gregor (20 points)
• SVAC014 Mary Jane Watson (15 points)
• EAXLB-ST Iron Avengers, Assemble (5 points)
• Total = 300 points

This team is heavily inspired by the team that won the “David Newmark open” (which had UC Thanos as the prize). That 400 point team was two voaygers, a bunch of medusas, and some red aim guys for empower. It just mobbed people with endless hair bystander tokens. So why am I switching Medusa to Maggott? 5 reasons:

• He’s ten less points (which is important because I am trying to shrink the team from 400 to 300)
• He’s got probability control (and his tokens are tiny so he can see over them to use it)
• His tokens offer him options on what to use during his alpha strike as opposed to always just using the hair bystander
• His tokens don’t weaken as he takes damage
• His Meany token has poison. So you can carry the 4 Maggots across half the board and just melt anything that doesn’t have a damage reducer without rolling dice. Also, with two Voyagers on the team you can use her outwit to take away opposing damage reducers on a lot of figures.

So this team can make all the way across the board in 2 turns (even phasing through walls) and doesn’t need to equip items at the start of the game. The turn you move up to the opposing team you can use 2 outwits, drop 4 Meanys, use poison 4 times, and make four Meany attacks (boosted by Dr. Alia and backed up by 4 prob controls). Turn 2 you can pick the the Meanys up and put them down again so they can do it all again. But, then the 4 Maggots can also attack (possibly with boosted stats if their Meany hit) and Mary Jane can spawn her Paparazzi bystanders (who can also attack this turn). You can do all of that in the same turn because Mary Jane and every bystander you generate all have Autonomous and Dr. Alia has Leadership.

That’s it for today. Leave a comment and let me know what you think about this team.