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World Tour: International Incident
LUCHADORS
Medium
Search for and play actions on other players' minions, especially Set-Up actions, as a requirement to activate or play cards with much greater effects.
Description
The Luchadors are one of the 4 factions from the World Tour: International Incident set.
They focus on playing actions on other players' minions, particularly Set-Up actions, in order to trigger other cards' effects.
Their complexity rating is: Medium.
Other factions from the same set: Mounties, Musketeers, Sumo Wrestlers.
Cards Overview
The Luchadors have the usual 10 minions and 10 actions. The total minion base power (not counting any abilities) is the usual 30 or an average of 3 per minion. There are several abilities that can boost the power of minions beyond their base value. Unlike most factions, they have only one pair of identical actions, compared to the usual two pairs.
Among their actions, there are:
* 5 play-on-minion actions: Pin (2x), Powerful Set-Up, Quick Set-Up, Smart Set-Up,
* 0 play-on-base actions,
* 5 standard actions (3 that affect one or more minions, in bold): Cheap Pop, Out for the Count, Reversal, Señor Muchoslam vs the Monsters, Tag-Team,
* 2 actions that directly increase a minion's power: Cheap Pop, Powerful Set-Up.
1x Cheap Pop - Give one of your minions +2 power until the end of the turn, or +4 power instead if a minion there has a Set-Up action on it.
1x Out for the Count - Choose a minion with one or more of your actions on it. Return one of those actions to your hand. Destroy that minion.
2x Pin - Play on a minion with one of your actions on it. Ongoing: This minion’s abilities are cancelled, and its power isn’t added to its controller’s total power here.
1x Powerful Set-Up - Play on another player’s minion. Ongoing: Each of your minions here has +1 power.
1x Quick Set-Up - Play on another player’s minion. You may play an extra action.
1x Reversal - Special: Before a base scores where you are not winning, take control of a minion there with a Set-Up action on it until the end of the turn. Destroy any number of your actions on that minion.
1x Señor Muchoslam vs the Monsters - Choose any number of actions from your discard pile. Place one that can be played on a minion into your hand and shuffle the rest into your deck.
1x Smart Set-Up - Play on another player’s minion. Ongoing: After the first time each turn a minion is played here, draw a card.
1x Tag-Team - Play an extra minion at a base where you have a minion.
Actions
1x Cheap Pop - Give one of your minions +2 power until the end of the turn, or +4 power instead if a minion there has a Set-Up action on it.
1x Out for the Count - Choose a minion with one or more of your actions on it. Return one of those actions to your hand. Destroy that minion.
2x Pin - Play on a minion with one of your actions on it. Ongoing: This minion’s abilities are cancelled, and its power isn’t added to its controller’s total power here.
1x Powerful Set-Up - Play on another player’s minion. Ongoing: Each of your minions here has +1 power.
1x Quick Set-Up - Play on another player’s minion. You may play an extra action.
1x Reversal - Special: Before a base scores where you are not winning, take control of a minion there with a Set-Up action on it until the end of the turn. Destroy any number of your actions on that minion.
1x Señor Muchoslam vs the Monsters - Choose any number of actions from your discard pile. Place one that can be played on a minion into your hand and shuffle the rest into your deck.
1x Smart Set-Up - Play on another player’s minion. Ongoing: After the first time each turn a minion is played here, draw a card.
1x Tag-Team - Play an extra minion at a base where you have a minion.
Characters
1x Señor Muchoslam - power 5 - Place an action from your discard pile into your hand. Talent: Play an action on another player’s minion as an extra action.
2x Capa Roja - power 4 - Special: Before this base scores, you may destroy a minion here with printed power 3 or less controlled by each other player.
3x Flor Loca - power 3 - Ongoing: If another player’s minion here has one of your actions played on it, this minion has +2 power.
4x Yellow Demon - power 2 - You may search your deck and/or discard pile for a Set-Up action and place it into your hand.
Mechanics
Search for and play actions on other players' minions, especially Set-Up actions, as a requirement to activate or play cards with much greater effects.