Marvel Evolution set review: Weapon X

23 12 2008

vscorpsToday’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:

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Sweep The Leg: MEV first play – Hunter

10 12 2008

Sweep the LegFinally, 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.

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Marvel Evolution exclusive preview: Weapon Plus Satellite

6 11 2008

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Marvel Evolution exclusive preview: Iron Man, Earth-2020

4 11 2008

Preamble that you’re not really interested in, but is kind of obligatory. In fact, it’s become something of a challenge for preview writers to come up with something interesting and original here, with most defaulting to some kind of humour. So, this guy walked into a bar and . . . OK, I’ll shut up.

Iron Man, Earth-2020

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