Marvel's Midnight Suns Magik Gameplay Breakdown

gamerant.com:

In Marvel’s Midnight Suns, each playable character has unique traits and cards that players must learn to combine and strategize on the battlefield. Attack, heroic, and skill cards are all played with status effects and abilities in mind, and choosing which characters will accompany Marvel’s Midnight Suns’ Hunter will be no simple task as a result. Thankfully, YouTuber Christopher Odd’s gameplay showcases have invited fans to learn about each character’s play style in-depth.

The latest character to receive their own gameplay showcase is Illyana Rasputin’s Magik, a mystical mutant wielding the Soulsword and capable of “extraordinary teleportation abilities.” One of the arguably lesser known characters in Marvel’s Midnight Suns, Magik has also been seemingly hidden from most of the game’s marketing thus far. This may or may not imply her narrative significance, but Magik’s abilities are surely exciting as a character who can manipulate the environment, particularly through the inter-dimensional portals that she manifests.

Midnight Suns Gets Surprise New Release Date, Coming This Year

These aforementioned portals are absolutely integral to Magik’s gameplay in Marvel’s Midnight Suns, and also make for some fascinating animations and cinematics. Portals are used to “move enemies, allies, and objects around the map,” which is simple on paper, but can generate high-damaging Knockback effects if portals are placed appropriately.

Indeed, Magik is considered by Odd to be “Knockback-heavy.” For example, playing Magik’s Quick Soulslash attack card could hurl an enemy backward through a portal aimed at an electrical box. Magik’s Gather heroic card orients crowd control on the stage as it damages and moves each enemy in an area to the