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CardName: Captain America Cost: 2WW Type: Legendary Creature - Human Soldier Pow/Tgh: 3/4 Rules Text: First-strike Inspired - Whenever Captain America becomes untapped, if there is no Shield counter on Captain America, put on Shield counter on it. {W}, Remove a Shield counter from Captain America: Target creature gains protection from the color of your choice until the end of turn. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Superhero Rare

Captain America
{2}{w}{w}
 
 R 
Legendary Creature – Human Soldier
First-strike
Inspired – Whenever Captain America becomes untapped, if there is no Shield counter on Captain America, put on Shield counter on it.
{w}, Remove a Shield counter from Captain America: Target creature gains protection from the color of your choice until the end of turn.
Illus. Marvel
3/4
Updated on 20 Nov 2014 by 10vernothin

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2014-08-19 04:16:44: 10vernothin created the card Captain America
2014-08-19 04:18:07: 10vernothin edited Captain America

Making him Patriotic colors is cute, but I'm pretty sure the Captain is mono-white. There's not anything blue about him, at any rate, and I struggle to see the red.

You know, of all the crazy things, I was just thinking about this yesterday. The blue is harder to justify, but I think it does a good job balancing red, which really is Captain America. Or least, Captain America was red during the Civil War storyline, or when he's taking umbrage with Tony Stark over forming an Illuminati. Steve Rogers believes in the ideal America, not necessarily the one we got. And whenever the government turns against its people, he fights to protect the rights of the everyman.

Or to put it another way, I've heard Captain America explained as being "What Democrats wish Republican were." Libertarian, but society building. I don't want to drag politics into this... I'm only bringing this up to point to the fact that Steve Rogers seems to be a dichotomy of both Red and White. Just not red's violent side.

I'd say that all the things jmgariepy describes could fit on a monowhite character. Monowhite doesn't have to be authoritarian.

"Fighting to protect the rights of the everyman" sounds like something that could fit in either white or red, to me.

Fair enough. White does have its fair share of rebels.

Yeah; but colour identity can take a BIG back seat here, to the obvious "Look at him, that's the actual physical colours he is; shut up"

And the ability, to protect another creature, but only one at a time, seems very flavourful. Though yes, mechanically, pure white.

I thought American colors would bring out the patriotism in Captain America.

Making him Mono-white seems mechanically make sense, but compromises flavour. Maybe I'll add haste since he's always the first to battle. Blue is indeed harder to justify, mechanically he has inspired, which is a blue/black mechanic. I guess you can also say that he got his powers in an experiment and super serums and pretty blue IMO

2014-08-20 18:27:44: 10vernothin edited Captain America

The super serums thing doesn't make cap blue, only those involved in creating the experiment that granted him the powers.

I agree with Alex here that Cap is mono white. Blue can hardly be argued as part of his character and as we established, most of his red elements overlap with white.

Also, "American colors" are also British colors, Netherland's colors, Frensh colors, Australian colors and many more. So while it might bring out the patriotism for everyone living in the US, everyone else (like me) will read the card and go "Huh, what's supposed to be blue about cap?"

Mechanically, it bugs the hell out of me, that Cap's toughness is 3,5 times Thor's toughness. Also, he is a master of martial arts who is admired for his close combat skills by some of the best in the Marvel universe. You might want to put first strike or even double strike on him.

2014-08-28 01:21:07: 10vernothin edited Captain America
2014-09-15 19:06:25: 10vernothin edited Captain America
2014-11-06 20:37:29: 10vernothin edited Captain America

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