Beyonder can play on a team with 2 people with 8 energy. Strength has Hulk, Morlocks, Thing & old Namor as options (one per team though). Intellect has Mr. F and he's a great anchor for a team. But fighting....3 grid and 4 grid heroes are expensive even the 7's! an AO user worth 17 and 7 fighting : nice! A hero with 8F @ a cost of 17 NIce(r). Chuu's Babes expansion has a lot of fighting heroes that are cool but none 8F at 17. I guess this is my birthday/holiday wish list. thanks for allowing me to vent
happy birthday!
can't help with the fighting 17, but here's a deck that could be interesting
beyonder
maverick
x-babies
any one of the four 3-grid 10 heroes (jubilee/morph/Samson/doppelganger). they would all work great
you'd have a lot of flexibility with this deck. you could stash maverick in reserve to keep an 8 grid longer, or put him up front to double up on the power card avoid/draws. you could also use 2 or 3 legacy regressions, and any number of devastating events; or just go with the straight forward ko event.
doppelgangers 'great power' would work great with mav's avoid/draw (putting it back on top, and redrawing it to avoid discards), as would his anti-concede card when you know you'll be drawing.
Samson works great for the additional 7s tw, and the KL if you want to use a site
jubilee of course brings 3 fantastic defensive specials
morph has a bunch of different attacks, and his two massive opds
I have seen what you are looking for....
but whether you'd ever be allowed to use them would be in question.
from homemade cards i have seen over the years, any of these characters would "fill your bill":
Ballistic - 3833
Batgirl - 2834
Cassandra Cain: Batgirl 2843 {i think that was chuu's, & he ended up upping I to 4}
Daken - 2843 & 1844 (no IA one either, so his cards only, not wolvie's)
Elektra - 1835 {i think that was an early bios card, but i'm not sure}
Iron Fist - 5844 (IA Counts as 17 for TDB) {this came from justabgkid's emporium}
Red Monika - 5822
Shang Chi: Master Of Kung Fu - 2843 {i think this was from jack in an OPOnline release}
X-23 - 3833
i apologize to whom it may concern if i cited the wrong source for some of the cards. some i don't remember where i found them (been doing it for a long while). none of them are my work, so i can't post them without permission. but i do so love how people have expanded the game since it went out of production.
happy birthday!
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There's an 8F at 17 points in my upcoming DC core set, and some other cheap ones later on in my first expansions.