Phoenix - Mental Paralysis Home Rule

Mental Paralysis is widely thought to be a dead card.  It's hard to find anyone who has ever used it.  This is the essence of bad hero design.  Useless cards.  Looking at Marvel CDB, one reviewer had 40 playthroughs with Phoenix, and zero uses of Mental Paralysis.  We need another home rule.  

Restrained needs some love, but I like how Unleashed affects her cards, so I'm doing that with the home rule.

Attach to an enemy, treat an enemy's attachment as blank.

Forced Response: at the end of the round, remove one counter from the Phoenix Force or discard Mental Paralysis.  

Unleashed: discard Mental Paralysis, discard the enemy attachment ==> confuse that enemy.

Is this too powerful?  Well, it depends on the villain.  Permanent attachments like the Infinity Gauntlet cannot be discarded, but it would be cool to be able to blank them for a round or two.  The key here is that attachments are hard to get rid of.  They often require you to spend 2-3 specific resources (this is also 3 total resources, but you can spend any 3).  This can blank an attachment which can't be discarded (rare), and it can keep an attachment from being shuffled back into the deck.

Why would I make a slightly OP rule?  There's only one in her deck.  It's OP, but it's short-lived (until she becomes Unleashed), and that can happen pretty fast.  Sometimes, you might get this card late.  This works with Restrained and Unleashed, and it might be one of the few cards which are better on the Restrained side, depending on what you're blanking.  Bottom line, it's more playable.  Also, you may not want to blank a permanent attachment, as the confuse won't trigger if it can't be discarded.

Options:  

  • Could be a one or zero cost card (more tempting to play it), but you'll lose Phoenix Force counters.

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