Backtimers

Gameplay

A second time-travel faction has hit the Smash Up...

Gnarly! Tubular! i was born in 2001! The Backtimers are all about thinking ahead, planning their future turns until they can go back to them and wreak havoc with devastating action chains. They make use of their unique stasis mechanic to store cards for future plays, while also being able to manipulate the timing of those cards to make them as impactful as possible. Without the stasis mechanic, a lot of the Backtimer cards are actually relatively weak. Very few of them do anything significant when they're played, the main strength is being able to delay them until you can combo them with other cards in a later turn. The Backtimers are perhaps one of the best support factions out there, you can make great use of stasis for factions that could use extra cards but lack the tools themselves. Dinosaurs can set up a dangerous King Rex + Augmentation + Rampage combo to get a whopping 22 power spike in a single turn, Mythic Greeks benefit greatly from an extra action or two, and you can just go all in and play a million actions in a turn as the Wizards. The Backtimers feature the standard minion power distribution (4 2s, 3 3s, 2 4s, and a single 5) and these mainly interact with stasis rather than other minions. Alex P McGlide is the main powerhouse of the faction, his talent allows him to place a +1 power counter on a minion if a card came out of stasis that turn while also being able to put a card in stasis when he's played. Alex is more steady growth than sudden spike, outside of Great Wolf Spirit shenanigans he can only give +1 power a turn with his talent, so favours a steady stream of stasis cards rather than a burst play. As alluded to earlier, the Backtimers' main weakness is their lack of ways to affect the board - they've got no cards that target opponent's minions or actions at all - securing their place as the ultimate support faction.