Character Spotlight: Jean Grey
Today, we are introducing the immensely empathic telepath and original host of the Phoenix Force — Jean Grey — to the MARVEL SNAP Universe!
Ongoing: Players must play their first card here each turn. (if possible)
Jean Grey first uncovered her mutant abilities at the age of 10, when experiencing an array of traumatizing emotions surrounding her best friend’s death. Her telepathic powers began to manifest and soon she was taken under the wing of the mutant specialist Professor Charles Xavier, who is a telepath himself.
Jean was enrolled as the final student to be admitted into the school of mutants’ first class and took up the alias Marvel Girl. She became a member of the original X-Men, along with Gambit, Wolverine, Jubilee, Cyclops, Storm, and Beast.
Later, Jean Grey was selected by the powerful cosmic entity, Phoenix Force, who intertwined with Jean and subsequently adopted a new identity as Phoenix. This transformation into Phoenix brought Jean’s mutant powers to even greater heights and rendered her capable of causing monumental levels of both good and evil — destruction and rebirth.
It wasn’t long until Jean became corrupted by Hellfire Club and rose as Dark Phoenix, causing immeasurable death and destruction. However, Jean Grey’s conscience prevailed in the end and she was able to sacrifice herself to prevent further harm.
Upon her resurrection, Jean Grey made the choice to permanently reject the Phoenix and change her direction by forming a new X-Men team. Most recently, Jean and her husband Cyclops reformed the X-Men as a Krakoan superhero team who fights to protect mutantkind.
Due to her unmatched telepathic and empathic powers, Jean Grey has been classified as an Omega Level Mutant, Omega-Level Telepath, and Omega-Level Telekinetic. She excels at astral combat and is the most skilled telepath in the entire Marvel Universe, as well as among the most powerful psions.
When Jean Grey became one with the Phoenix Force, she became the second most powerful Abstract Entity in the Earth-616 universe, second only to the One-Above-All. The Phoenix Force was drawn to Jean Grey as its rightful host because of her capacity for empathy — her ability to control, manipulate, and alter the feelings, sensations, and emotions of others.
In her most dangerous form as Dark Phoenix, Jean manifested cosmic-level powers that made her a global and universal-level threat. Jean’s array of telepathic and psychic abilities make her a formidable opponent and near-impenetrable on the mental front of the battlefield.
Jean Grey’s impeccable empathic, telepathic, and psychic powers are demonstrated in MARVEL SNAP through her effect:
Ongoing: Players must play their first card here each turn. (if possible)
Jean Grey is well known for her powers of manipulation. In SNAP, her telepathy extends to controlling both players’ ability to play other characters — limiting them to just the location Jean Grey occupies!
Once the location Jean occupies is filled with 4 cards, that player then becomes able to play their cards at other locations. As such, there are several ways that players can strategize to maintain their agency when playing with Jean Grey.
Try filling the location Jean occupies with movable cards such as Nightcrawler, Jeff, and Vision, and using other controlling cards such as Polaris or Stegron to extend the use of Jean’s effect on your opponents!
Sandman can combine with Jean to force a contest in a singular location and synergize with cards like Doctor Doom, Hela, or Ultron to contest other locations.
Of course you can also move Jean Grey around the board with help from the likes of Cloak, Ghost-Spider, and Heimdall!
Let’s welcome the ever-powerful telepathic mastermind, Jean Grey, to MARVEL SNAP!
