9th-Level Mastermind Abilities

Choose one of the following abilities.

Blot Out the Sun! (11 Focus)

What makes a good soldier? The ability to fire four shots a minute in any weather.

Area	Main action
📏 3 burst	🎯 Self and each ally in the area

Effect: Each target can make a ranged free strike that gains an edge against any enemy marked by you within distance of their ranged free strike. A target ignores banes and double banes when making this strike.

Counterstrategy (11 Focus)

I've identified a way to negate their strengths.

-	Main action
📏 Self	🎯 Self

Effect: You gain 6 surges. Until the end of the encounter or until you are dying, whenever the Director spends Malice (see Draw Steel: Monsters), choose yourself or one ally within 10 squares. The chosen character gains 2 of their Heroic Resource.