Card of the Day Archive
September 11, 2003: Ironsides

Ironsides

This 4VP War/Cyber gladiator is fast. Using his Quick Deploy, Quick Equip, and Efficiency abilities, you can play negative or undetermined cards as positive (with the level and discipline restrictions of course i.e. only level 1 Cybernetics cards on his level 1).
As he gets bigger, he gets a new ability, Shielding. Useable only when he is raging, he can put up a shield around himself to reduce the DMG of an attack by 1. (Like all responses, he can only use that ability once per attack. So you can't pay 4 to reduce the DMG by 2.)
His ADMG as he goes up in level is great: 2, 3, 3, 4.
He's good on teams with Version 9, Striking Dragon, and either Stallion or Berserker. For variations try teams with Cray Phillips, Freakshow, Lothar, Mannequin, Maximillion, Bull's Eye, H'Ronka, Leetah Kalynda, or Pago.