Split variant heroes

[The Dude]

So in my earliest days of homemades I wasn't making cards that got shuffled into a deck. I actually started with Locations first because I love them and I wanted the Avengers and the villains to have more homebases and then it was on to DC Locations. But one of the first heroes I made in this era was Harley Quinn and since I wasn't making specials yet, I gave her the inherant of "May Play Joker non-opds with Poison Ivy opds." It wasn't very powerful without homemades but it was fun for something different and it seemed to fit. (Plus her grid was just 15 points at 2-6-3-4).

Eventually I wanted Aspects for the existing excluded Marvel homebases and my DC ones and soon the floodgates to making homemades into the decks. Harley Quinn got a different hero card with her own specials and the split idea laid dormant.

So fast forward to about a month ago I stumbled upon my old Harley and the split hero variant seemed like a nice fit for Vulcan (non opd Shiar with opd Havok) who I kinda wanted in the game due to his connection to key X-men heroes but not enough to bother tracking down artwork for six special ideas for him. And it also solved my Caliban problem (who I wanted for a Horseman of Apocalypse homebase) but didn't want another Morlocks variant since Calisto exists (hence may play Morlock non-opds with Apocalypse opds).

So I post this here for two reasons

1 - just to see what people think in general of split hero variants as way of creating variety in the game. The idea is always to mix a set of non-opds from one hero with a set of opds from a different hero to create a fairly standard set of specials like a regular hero has just in a different combination.

2 - because I noticed ppl mentioning Amalgram heroes a few posts down; and I just started working on them earlier this week because I was enjoying the possabilities of the split-hero variant and this was the most obvious place to find more heroes for it. My first of these was Spider-Boy who combines non-opd Superboy with OPD Scarlet Spider for a really nice special set. Followed by a Super Soldier of non-opd Cap with OPD Superman which isn't too shaby either.

[BartHillDaredevil]

I have always played the Amalgam characters like this: AMAZON "May play all Wonder Woman and Storm Specials." I included all OPD's.

I also have used Character cards with two characters; Rogue and Shadowcat, I averaged their grids and allowed the use of all Rogue and Shadowcat Specials. I did the same with Cable and Deadpool. The play was good, just had a lot more specials in the deck.

Your idea of Non-OPD of "character" / OPD of "character" for Characters that do not have specials is interesting. I'm gonna try this. Thanks.

[Demacus]

I must admit, this is a concept that I hadn't considered before.  It has a lot of room for developement.  I like it.