Autism Powers

Not to be confused with Austin Powers.

“	Yeah, baby!	”
	— Austin Powers on Autism Powers

Autism Powers are a set of skills which can be channeled into playing cards. Due to their rainbow-like nature, they're often confused with Austin Powers' multicolored stage prescence.

List of Autism Powers cards

2 Health	Egg	2 Attack
1 APP	Summons 1 simple egg. How intriguing!	1d4
Upgradable (3 APPs)	"Truth be told, I want to hear the screams of every living being in the universe..." - Magolor	Tier 1

1 Health	Howling Wraiths	5 Attack
4 APPs	*blows up pancakes with mind*	3d10
Upgradable (3 APPs)	"Born of god and void." - Pale King	Tier 3

1 Health	Autism Blast	3 Attack
2 APPs	Blasts raw, unfiltered autism right into your foes.	2d10
	"I'm sure you'll have a BLAST using this." - Whyze Guy	Tier 2

Variable	Fixation Conjuration (Item)	Variable
10 APPs	Conjures any item, fictional or otherwise, right in front of you, as long as it's part of your Fixations. Permanently discard after 5 uses.	Variable
	The most powerful weapon concieved or a nice cold brew, all on demand. Thanks Amazon!	Tier 5

Variable	Fixation Conjuration (Self)	Variable
5 APP	Alter yourself to take the appearance of something from one of your Fixations, fictional or otherwise.	Variable
	Make your arm into highly experimental technology! What could possibly go wrong?	Tier 4

3 Health	Abyss Shriek	8 Attack
8 APPs	my fuckin pancakes-	4d20
	"If your paths were ever to align, I imagine you might gain yourself a powerful ally." - White Lady	Tier 4

1 Health	Sick Riff	N/A
5 APP	Play a really sick guitar riff, boosting all your card's Attack by 3 and your opponent's card's Attack by 1.	N/A
	Aerodynamic.	Tier 5

History

Autism Powers series

Joseph Robinette Biden is an avid fan of Autism Blast.

Autism Blast is one of many offensive spell cards that's part of the main Autism Powers name. As its name implies, it allows the user to blast the opponent with raw autism energy. This spell costs 2 Autism Power Points (APPs) to cast, and deals 2d10 magic damage. It's widely considered the most basic spell card in it's category, however experienced Autism Power users agree that it's simplicity makes it a valuable asset. Due to having basically no downsides aside from cost, scholars across the globe recommend having at least two Autism Blasts in any given deck. As with many other cards named after autism itself, it was one of the first cards introduced.

Fixation series

Fixation Conjuration has two cards sharing the same name; an (Item) form and a (Self) form. Both forms of the card spec into the Fixation mechanic, which are things or pieces of media that the user of the card enjoys an incredible amount. With the (Item) form, due to the variable nature of it, it's difficult to predict what one could summon with it. One could easily create a sword of pure light to smite their foe into next Tuesday, or something as simple as a nice cold Bloxy Cola to enjoy, if one source is anything to go by.

However, it does have limits to its power. For instance, it cannot summon anything outside of the users Fixations. If the user wished to summon a weapon from God of War, but they weren't spec'd into that, the card would fail to function and return the spent APPs. It also has a very high cost, for potentially little return. Even in decks maximizing APP gain, 10 APPs is a steep price. Additionally, the card can only be used a total of five times before being permanently discarded, and unable to be drawn again. Overall, the (Item) form of Fixation Conjuration can be unwieldy for certain decks, and symphonic in others. This card (both (Item) and (Self) forms) was also introduced early on in the game's life, first seen in the Fixation expansion deck, along with the Fixation mechanic itself.

The (Self) form functions a slight bit differently. Instead of summoning an item, the user instead alters their physical appearance to be more similar to a desired character or thing from a chosen Fixation. Like (Item), it cannot apply the appearance of something outside of the user's Fixations, but it also cannot apply the appearance of something that would kill the user, such as explosives. In cases where the user could potentially get hurt were it to backfire, the user is altered further to prevent such a case from happening, like making the user acid-resistant if applying acidic appearances.

(Self) form is significantly easier to integrate into decks, due to both it's lower cost and lack of a use limit. It's function, however, is still far from universal, due to how it relies on the user doing things rather than summoned characters. For this, decks heavily reliant on summons find little use out of this card. For a card that's 5 APPs, it's not that bad, and overall get's around high to mid B-tier in professional tier lists.

Autism: The Musical series

Sick Riff let's you play a really sick guitar riff, like the one from Aerodynamic, Freebird, or Bad to the Bone. It's pretty freakin' sweet, and widely agreed upon to be one of the best cards purely because of how awesome it is.

Hollow Knight series

Autistic icon The Knight is known to have a wide array of Autism Powers, including Howling Wraiths.