From Panel To Play: Ms. Marvel

CP62 Ms. Marvel

Being a teenager is no easy task. You’ve got school and social obligations to juggle, planning for your future, and coming to grips with the alien mists that granted you incredible superpowers. #relatable. That’s right, this time on from Panel to Play, we’re taking a look at the one Avenger who cosplays at comic conventions as herself, Ms. Marvel!

Kamala Khan used to be a regular Pakistani-American teenager from New Jersey who was obsessed with Carol Danvers, a.k.a. Captain Marvel. A cloud of Terrigen Mists dropped on the Jersey Shore when she was a teenager, and she was accidentally exposed. Kamala realized she possessed morphogenetic power after she awoke from Terragenisis, allowing her to change her appearance, recuperate from injuries, elongate her body, and change her mass at command. Kamala took up the role of Ms. Marvel out of respect for her hero and lends her strength to groups like the Avengers, where her utopian attitude and encyclopedic knowledge of superheroes come in useful… not to mention the smackdown of her embiggened fists.

Ms. Marvel brings all the power of her mass-controlling abilities to the tabletop with a new spin on a power you might already be familiar with. Ant-Man and the Wasp introduced characters who can go from regular size to a smaller version. Ms. Marvel performs this feat in reverse, transforming from a standard Size 2 to a massive Size 4!

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Kamala only has a single attack, the Morpho-Punch. Stretching her limb, she clocks a target within Range 4 before grabbing a handful of their costume and dragging them a Short move closer. Or she can pick up a target or bit of terrain and throw it a short distance instead! And thanks to her inhuman status after Terragenesis, she gets to reroll 1 dice in either her attack or defense rolls!

But all of this changes when she transforms—or embiggens. The Embiggened form for High Five, which trades out a bit of range for some extra hitting power. Her extra size and wider wingspan gives her the ability to interact with objective tokens at a longer distance, too, thanks to the Polymorph innate power. Being able to stretch across the battlefield to flip switches or grab rare Wakandan herbs makes her a useful ally on any team.

Being as big as the Hulk is going to draw attention to her, so Ms. Marvel might not want to stay Embiggened through a whole crisis. Fortunately, she can choose to shift back to her normal size (and get a little bit extra out of it in the process) with her Morphogenetics innate power. With it, when she brings her oversized hand down on a target smaller than her she rerolls 2 dice in the attack roll, reverting back to normal in the process!

That’s it for our first look at this Jersey girl and her size-altering-stretching superpowers. Be sure to check back for yet another installment of From Panel to Play, the series where we give you your first look at how your favorite characters transition to the tabletop in Marvel: Crisis Protocol. Pre-order your own copy of the Ms. Marvel Character Pack at your local game store or through our webstore today.

Until then, Atomic Mass Transmissions, signing off!