Joker

The Joker is a random support that can produce a variety of effects in combat. When you click on the Joker in your hand, a set of four possible effects will appear, and you can choose one of them to play. The Joker then acts like that support. The possible effects are chosen randomly from this list:


 * Transformation
 * Enhanced Personal Shields
 * Gas bomb
 * Armageddon
 * Mass landing
 * Double Personal Shields
 * Ionite Carbonite Bomb
 * Unstable Carbonite Bomb
 * Drop pod of Wasteland
 * "Smashing" landing troop
 * Landing

If you choose one of the landing-type options, you will have the normal restriction of only being able to use it on your side of the battlefield.

Note that the Joker always costs 3 deployment points, regardless of what effect you choose. However, if you choose an effect with a higher cost (such as a gas bomb or mass landing), you must have that many deployment points to use the Joker, even though it will only actually deduct 3 when you use it.

Because of the landing effects, the Joker is also not allowed in any mission where landing-type supports are not allowed (like most Heroic Mode challenges).