Vs. System Trading Card Game: Marvel Evolution Preview - Starjammers and Purifiers
Marvel Evolution Preview - Starjammers and Purifiers
Hey Vs. fanatics,
Welcome to the final week of Marvel Evolution previews! It's been a fun ride, and I hope you have enjoyed getting a sneak peek at all the goodies in this set. The final week of previews highlights a couple more boutique teams, Starjammers and the Purifiers. This week will also highlight a couple of cool non-team stamped cards (generics).
The Starjammers are a band of interstellar pirates, lead by Scott Summers father, Christopher Summers. Using his pilot codename of Corsair as his hero name, he formed the Starjammers after escaping the slave mines of the Shi'ar Empire with some former prisoners. In attempting to create this mini-team for Marvel Evolution, I wanted to make sure that the team felt "piratey". Apart from adding "arrrr" to the end of text boxes, we decided that discard - a theme that hadn't really been explored since the Future Foes would be a good representation of piracy, but decided that it would have to have more "targetted" discard to differ the play patterns from Future Foes, as well as more benefits from the discard. As the leader of the Starjammers, Corsair embodies his team well:
Welcome to the final week of Marvel Evolution previews! It's been a fun ride, and I hope you have enjoyed getting a sneak peek at all the goodies in this set. The final week of previews highlights a couple more boutique teams, Starjammers and the Purifiers. This week will also highlight a couple of cool non-team stamped cards (generics).
The Starjammers are a band of interstellar pirates, lead by Scott Summers father, Christopher Summers. Using his pilot codename of Corsair as his hero name, he formed the Starjammers after escaping the slave mines of the Shi'ar Empire with some former prisoners. In attempting to create this mini-team for Marvel Evolution, I wanted to make sure that the team felt "piratey". Apart from adding "arrrr" to the end of text boxes, we decided that discard - a theme that hadn't really been explored since the Future Foes would be a good representation of piracy, but decided that it would have to have more "targetted" discard to differ the play patterns from Future Foes, as well as more benefits from the discard. As the leader of the Starjammers, Corsair embodies his team well:
Potentially devastating over turns, Corsair can rip the heart out of a strategy that relies on a particular card in hand. Note that you can't play anything after the player who controls Corsair has named a card, since it happens in the resolution of the effect. Look for cool unusual discard powers this week, as well as a way to take advantage of your opponent's discarded cards.
The Purifiers are what I like to call an "amalgam" team. By this I mean that it is basically a kind of retool thematically of an old team, in this case Sentinels. the Purifiers are a group that seeks to "Purify" the world of mutants, much like the Sentinels tried to do a few decades ago. What makes the comparison more stark is that both Nimrod and Bastion are affiliated with the Purifiers - which means that it was a perfect time to bring them back into the Vs. mythos.
As you can see, Bastion bears striking similarity to his previous incarnation. But he's a new villain for a new era, and comes with Shift (added thanks to the fact that he originated from a different timeline) and a more targetted power. Instead of working with just Sentinels, his fuel is any army character, and as you'll see tomorrow, the army character of choice for this man-machine is a little 1-drop called the Purifiers. Most of the engine of the entire team involves using these army characters as fodder to achieve victory. Bastion is more than willing to walk over a few of the devoted to achieve his goal of the elimination of the mutants.
With the release of MEV next week, this brings my part in the previews to a close. But this isn't quite the end, with a few more blogs/podcasts showing previews:
18-Nov Full Body Transplant http://fullbodytransplant.
19-Nov Lost Hemisphere http://losthemisphere.word
19-Nov Seventh Soldier of Apathy http://vsexplosion.blogspo
20-Nov The Inky Blot http://theinkyblot.wordpre
20-Nov Lost Hemisphere http://losthemisphere.word
21-Nov Brave and the Blog http://thebraveandtheblog.
21-Nov The Kamiza http://the-kamiza.com/vs/
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Catch you on the flipside,
TBS