Will Power?

[Dillie-O]

Hey guys,

I know I'm still behind the curve a bit (sentinel pun included) on VS lately, but my wife and I picked up a couple packs of The Green Lantern series as Walmart and I noticed a lot of the characters have this thing called Will Power now. Can anybody explain it to me briefly?

The artwork on these is pretty tight. Given the diverse Lantern Universe, I'm looking forward to picking up a lot more of them.

 

[helpoemer316]

To be honest, it's nothing that you really need to worry about. Willpower by itself doesn't do anything, but added with effects it does.

For instance what I mean, look at Uppercut, your attacker gets +X ATK where X is it's willpower. That's one of the uses of Willpower, or Ring has Chosen, you can search for a character with a cost equal to or less then the total willpower you control on the board... or Oa which does the same thing as Uppercut basically (only difference is with Uppercut you don't deal breakthrough), there are cards out there that allow you to gain endurance equal to the total number of willpower among characters you control. And then there are cards like the 7-drop Sinestro, which checks at the start of the recovery phase and if you control characters with a combined willpower greater then your opponent's endurance total then you win the game.

As you can see, it's something that's just used in the game with other effects as a modifier, nothing else. Willpower by itself does nothing, it's just simply there. Characters that have no printed willpower on it (so a few in Green Lantern and every other character ever printed before Green Lantern came out) has an understood willpower of 0. Can you give these characters willpower somehow? Yes, you most definitely can, any character can have willpower.

A stunned character also has an understood willpower of 0, even if it is a character with a printed willpower on it.

But that's simply it, it didn't really change the game so much like concealed did so it pretty much came in under the radar a little. It's not that big of a change to the game.

 

[Dillie-O]

Gotcha. That's cool. I was noticing the modifers for plot twists, but wasn't sure if it did extra stuff like loyalty or the like.

THanks!