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  Ben Ransom is the head Developer for MCP at AMG and is the person responsible for picking the Challenger Crisis Rotation. He was nice enough to answer some of my questions which we will dive right into:  1. Unlike last year with War of Kings, all 10 new Crisis Cards from Operation Zero Tolerance made it into the Challenger Rotation this year. Was that a choice you made based on wanting players to have the new ones in, increasing the value of the set for competitive players, or did they just fit the theme of the rotation this year?  Ben: With Operation Zero Tolerance, we designed the Crisis Cards from the ground up to really change the way the game plays when they are in play, particularly with the Source Extracts. The Challenger rotation is meant to challenge players to confront those changes by getting those new mechanics on the table. Having all of the new Crisis Cards in Challenger match thematically is more of a nice addition. In general, our base assumption is that...

  While impatiently waiting for the updates to finally come out and something else that isn't in my control it's hard to find something interesting to write about so I asked my Discord and one of the suggestions was this: my favorite sculpts. So let's do that counting down from 10 to 1 and giving some honourable mentions at the end. Very few minis in the range are actively bad, with Captain America, First Avenger being the worst offender by far and even there it's an homage to a terrible comic cover and it does fit that.  #10: Sandman  Sandman has an imposing presence and looks very dynamic. I've added sand structure paint to mine.  #9: Ultron, Metal Tyrant  Definitely my favorite sculpt out of the Earth's Mightiest Core Set and a great representation of the character. It also shows just how much the design studio has improved in short time when compared to the OG Ultron (who honestly already looked pretty good).  #8: Lizard Doctor Conners here has been amo...

  Welcome to the May 26 Affiliation Stats article. We have some big surprises this month especially compared to the April 26 stats.  As always we start with All Events (AE) and further down we have Rated Singles Events (RSE).  It's a weird in-between time where we wait for the (delayed into July) big character update and where some people and Events still use the former Crisis Rotation while some already use the new one.  All Events:  SHIELD has been dominating for some time now mostly relying Namor, who stays unhealthy above 60% but in May Nick Fury also got back on track with an even higher win rate (in a fraction of the games played). It's only 23 games but a 65% win rate before the update is impressive for Hellfire Club, the first big surprise of the month.  Convocation in the top 3 is not that big of a surprise for regular readers but going over 60% is not that common even for them.  Wakanda is back with a vengeance. King T absolutely dominated a...