Leadership
Ally

Psionic. X-Force.

Cost: 3.
Health: 3.
Attack: 2. Thwart: 1.
Resource:

Response: After Caliban enters play, discard cards from the top of your deck until an X-FACTOR, X-FORCE, or X-MEN ally is discarded. Add that ally to your hand.

NeXt Evolution #14.
Caliban
Reviews

If I had no allies with the X-Factor, X-Force or X-Men traits in my deck would I just discard until I went through my deck? Adam Warlock could benefit quite nicely from that with Soul World if so. Just a thought.

Glockenspeel · 83
Correct. After your deck runs out, you just stop and reshuffle — Stretch22 · 748
Note too that, since it's not a Forced Response, I don't believe you *need* to discard your deck if you don't want to. — matchu · 27
I was just thinking this. Make sure to run White Fox and 3 copies of Digging Deep so it activates all of those along the way. — Turbowombat · 34

Caliban is a solid ally with a Call for Aid-style response upon entry. This can be used in a few different ways - it can find a specific ally your deck is built around like Fantomex if that's the only target, it can load up your graveyard to increase the versatility of Make the Call, or it can activate Digging Deep/White Fox, which is a very strong use. Even without a combo, it's above rate for a 3-cost ally due to drawing a card when it comes in. The psionic trait also makes Caliban premium for psionic-theme decks. A very nice card!

Stretch22 · 748