Marvel Evolution set review – Starjammers

The Starjammers are one of the minor teams represented in Marvel Evolution. They are a bunch of Space Pirates who spend their time fighting against various villainous elements within the Shi’Ar (usually involving Deathbird). And of course where the Shi’Ar are involved, so are the X-Men often as not. Even more complicated, Corsair turns out to be Major Christopher Summers, Cyclops long-lost Dad who was actually kidnapped by aliens instead of dying in a plane crash. I love comics sometimes. Their primary card themes turn out to be piracy and sabotage, represented by their various abilities to steal your opponent’s cards, force them to discard and otherwise restrict their ability to put their own game plan into action. Of course the Starjammers don’t have that much of a plan themselves, but they sure will be annoying, and for some people that is more than enough. Not to mention the chance that their semi-random acts of pillage will occasionally wreck their opponents completely.

Marvel Evolution set review: Weapon X

Today’s chunk of the set review will focus on Weapon X.  Weapon X’s featured keyword is Hunter, which reads, “When this card enters play, choose an opposing character. That character becomes hunted by you.”

• Becoming hunted doesn’t do anything by itself, but other cards refer to it.
• Each player may only have one character that is being hunted by them at any one time. If another character becomes hunted by you, all other characters stop being hunted by you.
• A character stays hunted by you until it leaves play or another character becomes hunted by you, even if it becomes stunned or loses its powers.

If you remember the four Weapon X cards from the MUN set, this mechanic may seem oddly familiar.  Before ‘hunter’ was actually a keyword, it was already the theme of Weapon X.  Take Sabretooth, Government Assassin for example.  His text reads:

The Ring has Chosen Episode 68

Cliff, Squire, and special guest Charles (Obsidian3d) close out the year chatting, about VS, blogging, MEV, and why we love this game. To wrap up this epic episode we’ve included lost footage featuring Joe10lo, BigBossMan, and Ludin Romero.

Special Thanks and shout-outs to The Kamiza, and the Lost Hemisphere crew.

The Ring has Chosen Episode 68

This Week Cliff and Joe take a crack at the next part of the MEV set review.

Sweep The Leg: MEV first play – Hunter

Finally, I’ve managed to play a few games with Marvel Evolution!  Last night I managed to get some time online for a few games of VS. System on Magic Workstation.  Normally I like to wait until I get my hands on the cards themselves before embarking on a voyage of discovery, but with the import situation for MEV looking a little shaky, I decided to go for it.

With the patch downloaded (if you scroll down and look to the right of this post you’ll see the file – provided by Flashback81), I decided to put together a simple deck deck and give it a run out.  Although Black Box had just been errated I’m aware that MEV still holds some massively powerful tricks – Exiles to name but one.  I decided to step aware from the obvious lure of the power-play and look at something a little more subtle - Weapon X.

Rules Page update

Better late than never I guess.  I have updated the Rules Documents page on this site to include the new Marvel Evolution FAQ as well as info on all the current tournament formats.  Check it out.