If cards like Seasoned Travelers, Quick Study, Nice Shot, or Martin Lloyd have you down -- or if you're just having a hard time dealing with the big Combat/Ingenuity characters like Jack O'Neill and Cameron Mitchell -- then this obstacle is just what you need. Homicidal Robotic Clone is the perfect antidote to the "super character" who keeps piling up a skill higher and higher, because it keeps pace with most any trick your opponent can come up with. Not many obstacles have the potential to add 5 or 6 (or more!) to the difficulty of a mission.

For best effect, you'll want to try to draw your opponent into using those tricks before you Clone his best character. For example, if he's met a mission's requirements and you have yet to play any interference, you might choose to play a complication first instead of this obstacle (especially if you suspect you'll wind up playing one later in the mission anyway). By just raising the difficulty to 1 more than he needs, you encourage him to use those special tricks like skill-enhancing events and boosting, rather than assigning another character. The more you can make him pile his eggs in one basket, the more fun it will be when your Homicidal Robot smashes that basket to pieces.