I'll of course cover the event in detail after the fact but this is a fun little project to warm us up and see just how far from the truth I was.
Let's start:
Full stat card reveals:
Phoenix and Phoenix Unleashed.
Here we get the confirmation (again) that she is a transformation character and will see the reserve keyword appear on a stat card for the first time as Phoenix Unleashed will spawn Grunts after the transforms.
We'll get at least three more reveals of the front side of the stat cards for the June releases. I'm guessing it's going to be Exodus, Avalanche and Ronin but it could be any of the six. Highly unlikely to see all of them though. Probably a TTC from each pack will be revealed alongside them.
We're also going to see them fully painted for the first time.
New Characters
Spider-Verse pack.
We already know that Spider-Man 2099 is going to be in the pack and that there will be more inside. I'm predicting: Spider-Ham, Spider-Punk and Silk. All of them showed up on TTCs already.
New Mutants pack
It will contain Wolfsbane, Cannonball, Danny Moonstone and Magma. And make the New Mutants an actual affiliation.
Sebastian Shaw
With the changes to Hellfire Club having an actual affiliation list it is only a matter of time for the Black King to show up and bring some affiliated TTCs with him.
Nimrod
We know he's in the pipeline and Sentinels are in desperate need of help.
Scorpion
Being the main villain in Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man only means he's gotten more famous lately but it's already very obvious that he's in the pipeline for the game appearing on multiple TTCs and the box art for Just the Parker Luck.
The Fantastic Four and Doctor Doom
Yeah you can all finally stop asking after this panel. They might not come out until Q1 or 2 2026 but the FF and Doom will have finally been greenlit by Marvel with the movie coming out shortly (and yes that is the reason they aren't already. Marvel has to greenlight every character AMG wants to use first. There's a reason the FF also don't show up on any TTCs for example when many characters not yet in the game do).
Shard and Forge
Two new members for the X-Force and Forge will be confirmed to be the second leader.
Bastion
He's only going to show up as an art piece at the very end of the panel (or the MCP Part at least) and he's going to be the model in the 2026 X-Men 97 focused crisis card pack.
Single Person starter sets
We learned at the trade show GAMA that there will be single person starter sets containing some reprinted characters as well as dice and range/ movement tools. Shown off, without spoiling their full contents were X-Men and Spider-Foes. I think it's a pretty safe bet to expect Brotherhood of Mutants and Web Warriors to be in the mix for this kind of deal box at the very least. Maybe even more.
What I don't expect:
Updates to existing characters. Ben Ransom said those would happen "at an event you'd expect something like that to happen" which to me sounds more like Ministravaganza as that always brought the big changes.
That's it for today.
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Where do you think FF and Doom will land in affiliation? Are you predicting they will be in Avengers and Cabal respectively, or do you think there will be FF and FF Villain affiliations (maybe some sort of Cosmic Conquerers affiliation for FF villains, which would be thematically appropriate for Blastar or Annihilus?)
ReplyDeleteAlso cheers from the US my friend.
I think FF would be their own Affiliation. She-Hulk, Medusa and maybe one or more of the Peter Parkers could be affiliated with them. Doom is more difficult. He's sure to have the peerless keyword. Cabal is definitely possible but maybe also a new Affiliation.
DeleteKeeping my fingers crossed for a FF villains affiliation box with Mole Man
DeleteOnce they are in the game (which is a question of when not if) there's a high chance for that.
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