Dead weight in late game in exchange for a good early with tutoring and threat removal of player side schemes.

Heroes with non-victory side schemes (or that can return, like cable's Technovirus Purge via Technovirus Resurgence) can still get some benefit of this card in late game.

> Be Venom/Flash Thomsom.

> be hit by Shadow of the Past, get 3x Enraged Symbiote in your board.

> look at that "Bring It!" in your hand. Smile.

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"Hero Interrupt" kills this card in single-player, since you won't be able to play it when the villain schemes 'normally' as you'll be in Alter Ego - it's only relevant if the villain draws an Advance, and you're probably not going to hold back a Protection card and two untapped characters on the off-chance of that happening. At best, you could use it to negate the automatic villain-phase threat, exhausting your hero, and then pseudo-block the villain's attack by tanking with the Toughness card on your identity. Note that you can't block with the ally you exhausted and gave a toughness card to because, well, they're exhausted.

(Which is annoying, as it would be a decent effect if it were just an "Interrupt")

Much more useful in multiplayer, where you're using it to negate the villain's scheming when one of your team-mates is flipped down, but it's a bit expensive at two cost and two exhausts.

His obligation card makes non justice (and perhaps non leadership) Cables miserable.

The only reliable way to clear Technovirus Resurgence in one go is with a Mind Scan + basic thwart. You miss a ready or fail to find one of these 3 copies in your deck, and become punished with an accel and no PSIONIC trait for you.

What is worse, his nemesis set is a complete shutdown on cable; with Stryfe not only having villainous, but stopping you from playing any of your 6 identity specific events (including the most needed Mind Scan); and Back to the Future adding a cable-specific super crisis icon that prevents him from removing threat from else than that side scheme.

Finally, to add salt to the wound, there is a limit to player side schemes in play, converting some hands into dead weights with almost nothing to play because that limit; or what is worse, becoming unable to change a side scheme for another that could adapt better to the board's situation.

In resume, you are highly tied to the benevolence of RNG. Unless playing in justice, getting your obligation or Shadow of the Past will punish this hero with a long and painful trip to the purgatory.

This card is what makes non justice (and perhaps non leadership) Cables miserable.

The only reliable way to clear Technovirus Purge in one go is with a Mind Scan + basic thwart. You miss a ready or fail to find one of these 3 copies in your deck, and become punished with an accel and no PSIONIC trait for you.