Photographic Reflexes

**Photographic Reflexes** is a Specialty in Taskmaster's Villain deck.

### Text

After another player plays an Effect card from their hand, you may immediately pay 1 Power to attach that Effect to Photographic Reflexes.ACTIVATE: On your turn, you may use an activate action to play the Effect attached to Photographic Reflexes, then discard the Effect to its original Villain's discard pile.

## Clarifications

* You **must** pay any cost to play a card that is already attached to Photographic Reflexes. After you pay 1 Power to attach an Effect to this card, that attached card will be played as normal using an Activate action, paying any cost associate with that card.
* As noted in Taskmaster’s Villain Guide, there may only be one Effect card attached to Photographic Reflexes at any given time.
* As this card is written, any Effect card played from Photographic Reflexes will still follow all card text including the Villain’s name. For example, Escape Plan must still be used to relocate a Hero from Madame Masque’s Domain to any other Domain.

## Strategy

The following is a list of the best Effect cards from each other Villain to attach Photographic Reflexes to:

* **Thanos**: Taste of Cosmic Power and Deliver Judgement can place +1 Strength tokens to your Allies. You may also take A Small Price to Pay if you are strived for Power.
* **Hela**: You may take Price of Life if you are strived for Power and to remove a Soul Mark from a Hero. Other than that, Hela does not have a lot of useful cards for Taskmaster to benefit from.
* **Ultron**: Technoforming can place a +1 Strength token to any of your Ally and relocate them to an Event. You may also take Every Contingency Covered to scry your deck for an Item or Effect, or Assimilate Knowledge to manipulate the Fate deck.
* **Killmonger**: Although Killmonger will rarely play this card, Overpower can place a +1 Strength token to all Allies in your Domain, making it the best card to take for Photographic Reflexes. Taunt can relocate either any of your Ally with 5 or more Strength to a different location in your Domain or another character in your Domain for you to defeat. You may take Killmonger's Fury if your Domain is swarmed with opposing characters.
* **Loki**: With Just Trust Me, Taskmaster can gain Mischief to spend for himself. Then, if you have the opportunity, take Games Within Games to either relocate Viking Loki (if it is in play) to your Domain or place a Multiverse card in play to your discard pile (and eventually, your deck). Multiverse cards in Taskmaster's hand may be played by Taskmaster to any Domain (including his) except for Loki's.
* **Madame Masque**: On the Hunt can relocate any of your Allies with 5 or more Strength to Madame Masque's Domain to complete your Objective. You may also take Escape Plan or Line of Sight to vanquish any Hero to boost your Allies' Strength. If you take and play No Mercy, you can gain Power via a Contract vanquish from its ability but keep in mind that it will also give Madame Masque 1 Vendetta.
* **M.O.D.O.K.**: A.I.M. Attack allows you to scry your deck for an Ally and immediately play it for a Cost of 0 Power. Infinite Calculations lets you perform any available action in your Domain. M.O.D.O.K. Superior can remove a bothersome Hero (such as Butterball or She-Hulk, Avenger) in your Domain, but you will have to sacrifice an Ally to do so. If you do, you may choose Trainees or any other weaker Ally for this ability.
* **Venom**: Take It's Me, Eddie or Let's Visit Peter to relocate Heroes in your Domain for your Allies to vanquish. This will also limit Venom's copies of those cards, making it difficult to relocate Spider-Man Heroes to his Domain. Slander is also useful for gaining Power and removing Symbiote tokens on characters such as Spider-Man Heroes if Venom is close to completing his Objective. Cards that add Symbiote tokens to your Allies such as Internal Struggle or Self-Preservation can save your Allies from being defeated when they are in another Domain or discarded after resolving an Event, though this will reduce their Strength by 1 for each Symbiote token on them, so utilize these cards wisely.
* **Doctor Octopus**: Take Always Inventing if you need to shuffle your discarded Allies or Items to your deck. Genius Scientist is also useful for scrying through your deck if needed. Keep in mind that you cannot take Effects played from Vulture.
* **Titania**: I'm Right Here lets you play a Hero to your Domain if no other player is giving you Heroes for your Allies to vanquish. Take It's Only Round One if you need a card from your discard pile and add it to your hand. If Carl Creel is in play, you may take Villains in Love if you need to perform extra Actions. **Do not** take this card if Carl Creel is not in play, as it will play Carl Creel to Titania's location for free. Although Titania will rarely play this card, Friends in Tight Spaces can remove a character in Titania's location (including her Allies) and she will also lose a Strength, so play this card precisely.
* **Kang the Conqueror**: Take Butterfly Effect if you are strived for Power and to remove a Variant from any Domain except yours & Kang's so that Kang will have less Variants to defeat. You may also take Rewrite Destiny if you need to shuffle your discard pile back to your deck. Though situational, you may take Divergence to add Variants in Kang's Domain so that Kang cannot utilize Conqueror of the Multiverse, Keep in mind that you cannot take Effects played from 40th Century Tech.

## Identical Cards

There are **definitely**, **absolutely**, **without a doubt**, no cards that are identical in function to Photographic Reflexes.

 **Villain deck**
*4 Copies:* Conduct Exercise
*3 Copies:* Trainees • Training Academy
 *2 Copies:* Redeploy • Shadow Initiative • Trainer for Hire • Training Dummy
 **Fate deck**
*4 Copies:* Found by the Avengers
*3 Copies:* Scarlet Spider Clone
*1 Copy:* Butterball • Scott Lang • Solo • Government Work