Asmodee have just announced two new four character packs which combine most of the existing Guardians of the Galaxy characters into two packs: the Affiliation pack with Star-Lord, Rocket, Groot and Cosmic Ghost Rider. The last one may seem odd at first but he and Star-Lord were single model packs and they combine to bring all the affiliated TTCs with them. The other pack is the "Galaxy's Deadliest" character pack with Nebula, Gamora, Drax and Ronan. This simply joins their packs into one bigger one.
Why does Asmodee (I'm sure it's them and not AMG themselves) do this? Because it uses store space more efficiently but more than anything else: to have the translated versions of the characters out. Now I'm not so sure about Spain and France but I can say that the competitive scene (all 10 of us 🙈😫) in Germany and Austria couldn't care less about German translations but that having everything translated into your native language is important for more casual players and increases the popularity and accessibility of the game a lot. It is often also a requirement for shops to even offer the product.
With the why out of the way let's see which packs I think will come in the future (so that I can say I told you so when they get announced 😂). Characters I have considered here are those who came out before the Earth's Mightiest Core Set and who aren't available in an affiliation pack yet, as I guess those will be translated as they are sooner or later.
Starting with the obvious ones, where existing packs will just be joined into one bigger one:
Asgard:
Angela, Enchantress, Skurge and Heimdall
"Across the Bifrost" character pack.
Enchantress could be changed for Beta Ray Bill here for a reason you'll find out later below.
Update: original idea confirmed for Q2 2025. Just the name is different: Warriors of Asgard
Inhumans:
Black Bolt, Medusa, Lockjaw, Crystal
Might even get a reprint of Inhuman Queen and will be the affiliation pack.
Winter Guard:
Crimson Dynamo, Darkstar, Ursa Major, Red Guardian
Another clear cut affiliation pack.
Convocation:
Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme, Clea, Ancient One, Baron Mordo
Once again an affiliation pack.
Web Warriors:
Amazing Spider-Man, Black Cat, Spider-Woman, Agent Venom
Will probably not be called an affiliation pack as that already exists even if this here would meet the criteria for that name as it includes a leader.
So it will be named something spidery character pack instead.
Update: Confirmed for Q4 2025
X-Force:
Cable, Domino, X-23, Honey Badger
Affiliation pack
Update: confirmed for Q4 2025
Brotherhood:
Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Pyro, the Blob
"M-Day" character pack.
SHIELD (Invaders):
Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos, Steve Rogers, Captain America, The Original Human Torch
"The Invaders" character pack.
These here are bit more speculative, as they often split up existing packs:
Defenders:
Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Punisher
The fourth member is debatable here and might be a bigger solo pack mini like Hulk or Ghost Rider but I have a different idea for those.
Either Affiliation pack or "Marvel Knights" character pack.
Update: not quite correct. It's going to be a unique five character affiliation pack containing Doctor Strange, Wong, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and Daredevil.
Midnight Sons:
Blade, Moon Knight, Doctor Voodoo, Ghost Rider
Affiliation pack.
Update: officially revealed to be this pack exactly coming out April 25th.
Hydra:
Red Skull, Master of Hydra, Baron Strucker, Arnim Zola, Taskmaster
Affiliation pack
Criminal Syndicate /Spider-Foes:
Kingpin, Rhino, Mysterio, Carnage (not CS affiliated)
"Street level Negotiations" character pack.
Update: Q2 2025 Sees the release of the Criminal Syndicate Affiliation Pack which contains Kingpin, MODOK, Hood and Bullseye.
Criminal Syndicate:
Shadowland Daredevil, Elektra, Klaw, M'Baku
Affiliation Pack.
X-Men/Brotherhood:
Emma Frost, Rogue, Gambit, Jean Grey (not BH affiliated)
"Playing both sides" character pack (this is a joke name and doesn't fit Jean at all)
Update: Rogue and Gambit are part of the new X-Men starter set releasing Q3 2025 that doubles as a Brotherhood of Mutants starter set.
Servants of the Apocalypse:
Magik, Colossus, Mr. Sinister, Cassandra Nova
"Four Horsemen" character pack update l forgot that I was planning on having Psylocke in here. She'd replace Cassandra Nova.
SHIELD:
Nick Fury, Hawkeye, War Machine, Winter Soldier
Affiliation pack.
Cabal:
Sin, Viper, Bullseye, Hood
"???" Character pack
Update: Bullseye and Hood are part of the Criminal Syndicate Affiliation Pack.
Avengers:
Captain America (Sam), Vision, Ant-Man, Wasp
"All new all different" character pack
Black Order:
Thanos, Black Swan, Supergiant
"Inevitable" character pack
A-Force:
She-Hulk, Squirrel Girl, Gwenpool, Black Widow, Agent of SHIELD
Affiliation pack
And finally we have the most unlikely ones:
Sentinels:
Sentinel Prime MK4, Sentinel MK4, Sentinel MK4
Affiliation pack. It's more likely they will get a re-realse in their current packs though.
Cabal:
Malekith, Ulik, Enchantress (if Bill is replacing her in the Asgard pack) Update: if Cassandra Nova is replaced by Psylocke in the Servants of the Apocalypse pack like seen above she could slot in here to get this pack to 4 characters.
"War of the Realms" character pack
Defenders:
Doctor Strange, Wong, Hulk
"Back to the roots" character pack
Update: Strange and Wong are part of the Defenders affiliation pack.
Characters left out:
Currently these characters would not be in any of my predicted new joined packs:
Characters (10)
Bob, Agent of Hydra (2)
Deadpool (3)
These two obviously come with the taco truck making it hard to imagine they will be split up.
* Hulkbuster (6)
Juggernaut (5)
M.O.D.O.K. (5)
* M.O.D.O.K. Scientist Supreme (4)
Ms. Marvel (3)
Omega Red (4)
The Immortal Hulk (7)
Dormammu (8)
Dormammu, Hulkbuster, Juggernaut, OG MODOK, and Immortal Hulk would all be likely candidates to get translated version re-released in singles packs, but MODOK 2, Omgea Red and Ms. Marvel could very well end up in a pack I haven't forseen somewhere.
That's it for today. Tomorrow we'll continue with the Affiliation Overviews.
Cheers from Germany 🍻
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