Choose a path of Light [marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com]or Dark [marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com]to unlock Hunter cards, collars and suits.

Or choose neither and follow the path of balance.

Knockback Crossbones into the attack zones of his own grenade's [marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com]as well as the gunship's, to maximize damage.

Next turn, the heroism cost is 5.
Then 4. 3. 2...

A decreasing arithmetic progression.

Easy.
Going in the other direction is Storm's Crushing Blow[marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com], increasing by +1 heroism Next Turn but also increasing damage by +358, in this example:

After 8 Next Turns, Crushing Blow has as DPS of 2897, easily able to one-shot a Dread Maiden.

In the above gamma coil analysis, cards revealed with a mod are marked by a star. They are one of COMMON, RARE, EPIC or LEGENDARY. See List of Mods[marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com].

Opportunist has:

+1 Redraws

This is a COMMON mod.
At 51.28% or ~50%. That is 1 roll in 2 approximately.

Banish has:

Draw the last Attack played

A RARE mod.
30.77% ~ 33%. Or 1 in 3 approx.

Brooklyn Handshake has:

On redraw, gain 1 Resist

EPIC.
15.38% or approx. 1 in 6.

LEGENDARY mods reveal approx once every 40 cards (at 2.56%).
Consider that when you roll a Quick/Free/Conceal.

(Mathematical Expectation = Average = Arithmetic Mean).
Though Salem's Saviour[marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com]is an obscure Hunter suit, its math is simple, so let's start with it:

When Hunter KO's 1 or more Lilin, 50% chance to draw a card.

The mathematics is the same as a coin toss: if you toss a coin 2 times you expect 1 to be heads.

This doesn't mean you will throw exactly 1 head and 1 tail. You may in fact throw 2 heads or none at all. But the mathematical expectation is what you will get in the long run (over many coin tosses): 1 head in every 2.

So for every 2 lilin Hunter KOs, you can expect to draw 1 card.


In the above screenshots there is a knockback chance of approx. 50% for both soulless: one a Soulless Brute[marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com]; the other a Soulless Beast[marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com].

The math is just like for the Salem's Saviour suit, you would expect to drop KO one of the soulless for every two knockback cards. Or you would expect to drop KO a particular Soulless, if they were knockbacked twice.

Concluding: knockback in Marvel's Midnight Suns allows you to punch well above your weight.
Consider this mod [marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com] on Blade's Daywalker[marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com]:

25% Chance to Apply 1 Bleeding

Daywalker is a chain 4. That is it strikes 4 times or up to 4 targets.
For 4 separate targets you would expect 1 of them to bleed[marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com].
Or on a full combo[marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com] you would expect to apply bleed.

Again, although you have a mathematical expectation of 1 on a single card play, there is no absolute guarantee you will bleed the target.

Storm Attacks and Heroics have a 10% chance to apply Stun. Stun chance increased by 5% for each Storm card in your hand.

Above, for 8 Storm cards:
8 x 5% + 10% = 40% + 10% = 50% stun chance.

With Rising Storm II[marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com] playing Gale Force[marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com] to knock back a target, Storm will expect to stun 1 (if not KO-ed) for every 2 card plays.

Notably in general, once you have unlocked her level 2 passive, you can comfortably expect Storm's Arc[marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com]to stun a boss on full-combo, while keeping Live Wire[marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com]) in hand.

50% chance to apply 1 Bleed when dealing damage.

Expect 1 in every 2 Turned Trooper[marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com] attacks to bleed.

This may cause 1 in 4 Vampyre minions[marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com] to turn elite. Rapid Growth. Or for an Elite vampyre to gain Blood Frenzy[marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com].

Combined, these passives can be catastrophic, as demonstrated in Firaxis' Developer Live-stream for Storm.

Playing a card with Bleed in a room full of 13 vampyres (incl. elites and a Hemalisc[marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com]), you would expect at least 3 of them to turn elite/frenzy (or for the hemalisc to birth). In this clip Joe plays Venom's Symbiotic Senses with Bleed and only two minions turn elite, he gets lucky!

In this next clip he plays Spike Burst, also with Bleed with 9 remaining vampyres (excluding the KOs) and 3 turn frenzy and/or elite, more than expected. Unlucky!

The full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_kMhVVLJrQ
Golden Rule

Never play a bleeding card

Apply Stun, 1 Marked, 1 Vulnerable, or 1 Weak (selected randomly when drawn)

For every 4 draws of Nico's Curse [marvels-midnight-suns.fandom.com] expect 1 to Stun.

Redraw/play and deck two copies to increase your odds.