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July 26 Affiliation Stats

  Welcome to the July stats article. Unexpectedly this wasn't the first month after the big update but (hopefully) now finally the last one without it...  As always we go over All Events AE first and Rated Singles Events RSE second.  You can find June's stats here .  Inhumans reign supreme in AE and Queen Medusa adds another surprise in winning over 3/4s of her games in June.  Hydra often has some good months sprinkled across the year and July has seen them as successful as they've basically ever been winning them second overall.  While Namor continues to be a problem Nick Fury and Invincible Iron Man also more than delivered in their very few games for SHIELD.  In Wakanda King T has taken the crown as main leader and as usual he's also the most successful. I too currently play a pure King T leadership Wakanda list and it's certainly a lot of fun.  Wait what? Winter Guard in the top 5??? They patiently await their re release pack but seem to be ge...
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June 26 Affiliation Stats

  Welcome to the June 26 Affiliation Stats article. See here for last month.   As always we start with All Events AE and further down we have Rated Singles Events RSE.  It's the last full month with the current meta where next month we might start to see the impact of the upcoming updates depending on when exactly in July they do release. Say it with me kids: kill the double bubble AMG! Namor, who is set to rerelease so could have gotten a deeper look for the updates leads SHIELD to first overall and every other leader for the faction (in fractions of the games played) had a good month as well.  Slowly but surely King T has is in the process of taking over the mantle of Wakandas default leader and his leadership has become much better with more terrain on the average table. He is certainly a character that could use a little tweak down (personally I'd take away that he gains power when allies take damage) but his leadership is cool and fun and I don't think it will c...
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Interview with Ben Ransom (AMG) about the new Challenger Rotation

  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...
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My personal top 10 Sculpts in the game

  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...
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