SG Protocol

  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...

  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...