Pretty sick huh? The art kicks ass for sure. Locke is easily my favorite Final Fantasy character, was the first card I worked on, and now, the first card I'll reveal.
One unique thing you may see, is that Locke has the "Thief" trait.
When thief characters defeat other characters, the defeated character's controller must choose and discard a card from their hand. It's a good way to promote control as a strategy. As of current there are 3 thief characters in the game (Locke, Edge, Zidane) , and running all three in tandem (in x3's) would make a nice little control backing.
I decided to make general thievery a trait, because of characters like Locke. He's generally not a petty thief, but he certainly has the ability to do so (stole his clothes too!)
As he would probably agree, I see Locke as more of a treasure hunter than thief, since the whole point of the game is to collect relics, none should do it better than him, this is why he always gets the higher of the two leadership scores. (which means you get the bigger party.)
While the ability looks good on paper, it gets better when you realize that some of the location cards give you more characters for playing the preferred class, but will also reward you for picking a less effective class and handicapping yourself a little. In this case Locke gets the best of both worlds.
He just strikes me as a good character, he is the poster boy for versatility, I don't see why you wouldn't see him in every deck.
If you like the art, check out the rest of Nekki's gallery on deviantart, there's a lot of cool fanart in there for you FF heads.
http://nekki.deviantart.com/
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