This card combined with Show of Empathy should work so incredibly well. Add in Master Manipulator and you have an unkillable Ally that removes 3 threat or does 2 damage every single turn. Since Kingpin is not elite you can take it with Show of Empathy and while Master Manipulator is out the Kingpin ally can't take any damage and there is no icon on Master Manipulator that makes you want to defeat it.