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Name: Behemoth
Type: Character, beast (11/11)
Brigade: Good Blue / Evil Gold
Verse: JOB 40:15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

Sa: May band to any Genesis character but must be banded to enter battle. Both Behemoth and banded character are immune to other Genesis characters. Behemoth may not play enhancements. Remove from game after battle if Noah or his Sons were in the battle.

(I know the ability is fairly long)

This is new and exciting.

Band to a Genesis character, Otherwise withdraw from battle. Immune to Genesis characters. Prevent enhancements played on Behemoth. Remove from game after battle if Noah or his Sons were in battle.

I think thats a better way to phrase his ability. Not quite identical to what you had, but it flows better and is shorter.

It's not a restrict because the ability does not target a player.

I know the card wouldn't see alot of playing time, I just thought it was a cool idea.

I had it so Behemoth couldn't play enhancements so that it wouldn't be able to play a Bible Icon in a block, or a Skull Icon in a rescue attempt. The ability would limit you to playing enhancements on the banded character keeping the appropriate Icon on it's side of battle.

I toyed with making it immune to OT characters except Giants and Giant Slayers, or Immune to characters with reference from the Torah (First 5 books of the Bible)

In the end I went with the weakest to avoid being Op but if one of the other two options sounds better I can edit the Sa.

Love the idea, not very excited about the actual SA.

Not really relevant to the original idea but it's another idea:

Behemoth
Character, Beast 11/11
Brigade: Good Blue/Evil Gold
Verse: Job 40:15
Negate and discard and an old testament artifact. Negate special abilities on enhancements. May band to a Genesis character. Cannot be negated.

Might be a little OP'd but seeing what characters are capable of it could be okay and the artifact part was to try to get it to not be affected by Household idols which didn't really work because household idols makes it so he can't enter battle. Thoughts?

Good Blue/Evil Gold
11/11
SA: I don't know...something.
Identifiers: May be added to battle. Withdraw this character from battle if a character is unopposed by a human. Cannot play enhancements.

I really like the idea of having it's own icon because you could remove the part in the ability saying (character may not play EC's) and the character is actually neutral, Giving you more room to toy with abilities.

As part of the identifier with the class it could be ruled that if not banded into battle must withdraw. Much like the territory class enhancements, it dosen't say how to play it on the card but everyone knows how to because of the symbol.