I have no idea in what situation this card would be viable. Villain schemes for at least 3 per usual so you will have to thwart that and add it to the cost of this card... just to get measly tough... wow this card is useless.

if this card cost 0 and gave you draw it would still be crap because on higher difficulty levels (expert and heroic) villain no longer scheme for 3, they scheme for 6-8 and mitigating the scheme is much harder and more costly.

comparing this card to swift retribution - the other one at least brings you closer to victory, it may be used as a finisher. this card only brings you closer to defeat.

Leadership X-23 can have fun with this card even if she she has honey badger as the only ally in play. Use this card, she acts, she readies by damage, she acts, honey badger acts and readies her, she acts, she uses some card (probably game time) to ready badger, badger acts and readies her, she acts. In many of her decks, that would have been a bad turn to play this card on her and you got 6 points of very flexible damage/thwart. That alone makes it worthy of consideration when you have her around on the team IMO.

3-ER for 3 tough status cards. 1ER per tough card is actually crazy.

I won't say it's overpowered, but the only reason it's not overpowered is because of all the crazy stuff other teams can do. This card alone probably won't make Defenders a better tribe for Leadership than Avengers or X-Men. But the ability to produce 1-ER tough cards is still insane and will keep you protected from attacks through the whole game, making it very difficult for the villain to land hits without using piercing damage.

Edit: Above, I reviewed the card mechanically, but there's more I want to say about it thematically.

I like that this gives Defender tribal decks a very clear theme focused on tough cards and blocking. The result is that the Defender leadership decks will play very differently from Avengers, X-Men or Web-Warriors, With each of those, you're usually going to be chump blocking a lot. Defenders actually want you to keep your allies in play so they can protect you and your teammates, and that's a pretty cool change from how Leadership usually likes to play.

Hulk is good now!

This is such an insane card!

This is not an ally you should just throw into any deck. You really want to build around it. It has to be continuously healed to get the most use out of it, and it takes quite a bit of consequential damage at a time. But damn, is it crazy to just have an ally that can technically gain infinite attack.

This works best if you hardly ever go alter-ego, and even better if you can make the villain attack you with cards like Taunt.

It's a Basic Ally and can be used in any aspect, but it's going to find its home in Protection which has the most cost-efficient ally healing, is built where you can most easily take a hit, has access to Ready for a Fight so you can recover and flip back to take an attack, and has access to plenty of cards that make the villain attack more.

We still may not have a good Hulk player deck, but at least we have an ally that will be fun to build around.

Grapnel Launcher is one of my favorite new cards.

For 3 ER you get a pseudo-Ready, 1 THW and a patrol / crisis bypass. If you can benefit from the bypass this effect is above rate, otherwise it is on rate. In a vacuum, it is okay. If your hero cares about basic activations though, the value goes up.

This becomes a build around tool for a number of heroes opening up some interesting lines; Black Panther, Cable, Iceman, Jessica Jones, Jubilee, Nick Fury, Nova, Psylocke, Quicksilver, SP//dr, Spider-Woman, Wasp, X-23 all can benefit from a free basic thwart action timed when you want it.

The restricted key word is unlikely to matter as the only other restricted card in Justice is Sonic Rifle.