From Panel to Play: Black Swan

CP81 Black Swan

It’s always nice to expand your horizons and explore new places… at least, it is when you aren’t forced to by a multiversal incursion into your world that leaves you the last survivor of an entire planet.

This time on From Panel to Play, we’re looking at the dimension-hopping princess and sole survivor of an alternate Earth: it’s Black Swan!

Black Swan was once a princess who lived in the Hidden City of Earth-1635. When interdimensional invaders attacked her home, she was able to escape into the Library of Worlds. There she was found by the Black Swans, and raised to be a dimensional duelist of limitless potential.

Black Swan has powers ranging from potent optic blasts and flight to telepathy and superhuman strength—she has quite a toolbox of abilities!

Her basic Strike can push her opponents back, perfect for knocking them away from vital objectives, and she can sear them at a distance with an Eye Beam that leaves them burning and can pierce through their armor. For a devastating one-two combo, Everything Dies lets her slam into an opponent with a Strength 8 Physical attack, possibly fling them away a short distance, and while they’re tumbling through the air, follow up with a free Eye Beam that ignores Range and Line of Sight!

Black Swan will be able to get in close to use her attacks, thanks to the synergy of her Flight and Charge superpowers. A Charge leading into Everything Dies can mess with your opponent’s plans if you have the Power to spare.

And that’s not the only way Black Swan can unravel the opposing team’s tactics. She has a pair of reactive superpowers that can manipulate the Modify Dice step of an attack—one for when she’s defending, and the other for when she attacks. Midnight Field allows her to respond to an attack with a befuddling energy field that lets her spend any amount of Power, converting a Wild into a Blank for each Power spent. On the flip side, she can use a Telepathic Suggestion when she is on the offense, subtly manipulating her opponent into leaving an opening to her strike and forcing a reroll of one of their defense dice!

That’s it for our first look at this interdimensional terror. 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 Black Swan & Supergiant Character Pack at your local game store or through our webstore today.

Until then, Atomic Mass Transmissions, signing off!