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  Sorry for the delay on these, I was away for work the last couple of days and at the start of this year the MCP topics seem to just pile up on top of each other. But let's get into the meat of the article:  We have seen the healthy side for Valkyrie and Elendil at the Ministravaganza already and now got confirmation that they are exactly the same on the back side. I remain quite positive about the duo as they seem very fast with good attacks and superpowers. Defensively they aren't especially stellar with below average defenses and no defensive tech but hopefully Guardian of Valhalla will keep them on their hoofs.  In terms of Asgard leaderships I think they like Thors to add more healing to their innate and Loki, Prince of Lies (Loki 2) both more than Jane Fosters as the attack in Range 2 is probably the one you want to use the least. A defensive reroll outside of range 2 is a good thing for them though. So in the end all Asgard leaderships have value for Valkyrie and ...

  In the wides of the Web the 2026 timelines Document has been spotted and while I don't have a lot of interest in the format itself seeing as I'll absolutely never have a chance to play it (the intended way) myself there's still some conclusions to draw from it:  Affiliations for new characters:  Blue Marvel: Mighty Avengers (not listed in Defenders, though we have one precedent of a character having had different Affiliations in timelines in Killmonger 2) Spectrum: Mighty Avengers  Moondragon: Avengers, Defenders, Guardians of the Galaxy  Quasar: Guardians of the Galaxy  Adam Warlock: Guardians of the Galaxy  Valkyrie & Elendil: Asgard The Warriors Three: Asgard  Rescue: A-Force, Avengers, SHIELD  Iron Monger: Criminal Syndicate, Cabal Iron Lad: Unaffiliated (he'll be Young Avengers when they come out at the end of the year or whenever that's actually going to be) Kang, the Conquerer: Cabal (leadership)  New TTC and who I think th...

  Ben Ransom has dropped the Mighty Avengers affiliation list over the rules forum and we can finally start building lists now:  Characters (11) * Spectrum (4) Ant-Man (3) Black Panther, Chosen of Bast (3) Black Widow (2) Blue Marvel (5) Captain America (Sam Wilson) (3) Captain Marvel, Cosmic Avenger (5) Iron Man (3) Luke Cage (3) She-Hulk (6) Steve Rogers, Captain America (4) We of course start with Spectrum who is the Affiliations only leader with a really strong leadership on a very good character. You definitely don't mind playing her every game.  Ant-Man was already confirmed to get an update come Adepticon but he's already an interesting piece here. He doesn't need a lot of power for himself so he's going to be able to feed other characters well with power he'd usually gain per the leadership. Black Panther, Chosen of Bast is fast, has stealth and good attacks. He's just a solid model with no particular synergy with the leadership in my opinion.  Original...

  Some other content creators who got sent the Blue Marvel and Spectrum pack have been given the information about what was wrong with her card, which as it turns out is misprinted in the pack itself, so we can finally do our Hot Takes on her.  Monica brings a 3/4/4 6/6 defensive profile on a small base Long Move with flight and the Immunites to Bleed, Incinerate and Poison to the table, in a 4 threat package. That stat block is already on the higher end for a 4 and she also adds a "Reverse Pierce" innate superpower that can change an opposing success into a blank for each wild in her defense roll and giving her a power for every die changed that way. It's even better than Supreme Stranges version because Spectrums works against every attack type.  Offensively Monica had three different attacks, two being Gainers and one Spender. Gamma Strike is a Range 2, 6 dice physical attack with a wild Stun, after damage is resolved. It's fine. You certainly aren't mad to hav...

  The new year starts out with a giant tournament in London the coming weekend, from the Across the Bifrost Team Championship, hosted by Jaime and Norbert. The rosters for the event are locked now, so let's take a look:  The event hosts 24 five person teams, for a total of 120 players. Just like WTC you are limited to singleton characters across your team but TTCs and Crisis Cards aren't limited.  10 of 24 teams chose to not include the clear cut best affiliation in the game, Servants of the Apocalypse, in their team. But as weird as that sounds at first I think it's still understandable. You do need someone comfortable with piloting it and just picking the affiliation up for the event is probably a recipe for disaster.  Criminal Syndicate is always a safe pick and in a team format you can either throw them out first or pick a match up that should favor them so it's very understandable that half the teams chose to have a CS player.  Webs are hugely popular in Eu...

  Happy new Year! 🎊  Welcome to the December 25 stats article. As always we look at All Events (AE) first and Rated Singles Events (RSE) further down.  Servants of the Apocalypse are the unquestioned number 1 in the game. All the recent changes have helped them and they remain popular and successful as a result.  November: 3. +2 Not super many games played but extremely successful were the New Mutants.  November: 8. +6 SHIELD has seen a huge improvement in terms of popularity and Namor (who led them in 3/4 of the games played) has rewarded that trust with an incredible 60% win rate.  November: 11. +7 Dark Dimension really loved the buffs to Dormammu and even beat out Servants of the Apocalypse in terms of games played while the win rate isn't much worse either. I would be extremely surprised if the majority of teams for the AtB Team Championship in January wouldn't include Dormammu somewhere.  November: 4. Same With their new packs finally available e...