Yes, he is very versatile, but versatile at what? How many of those abilities are actually ones of high usefullness?

There are very few times I would want to evade my 5 drop ceterus-parabus, lest I be setting up some sort of combo such as venom burn. I have no idea what energize does yet.

Invulnerability? Ok, I’ll give him that, that is useful.

… but let’s look at the rest.

Make them discard a card of their choice – future foes strategy? Burn them for 3 – not very powerful for a 5-drop activation. Make them replace a face-up resource of their choice … more likely to benefit them than anything else in most cases.

Now in context of what he is, a skrull, his core useful abilities being non-agressive? No, he’s barely a skrull at all. And if you just to use him to get a billion team-affiliations to abuse with Ethan Edwards and Tarnax IV, TeenTitans/Outsider-Roy Harper with a Quantum bands + The Initiative does the job much better, and more importantly, much QUICKER.

Is he still playable? Of course. Is his versatility still useful and of note? Sure … but I think he case #5028 of us getting to excited over seeing the new card.

He’s not all that and a bag of chips. He’s no where near a bag of chips at all.