I do wish abilities were in the game, but otherwise the gameplay has me smiling so much. This feels like the Pokemon game I imagined as a kid when watching the anime. There’s something immersive about actually running around with your mom, dodging moves and timing shit and using terrain.
I have no idea on Flamewar. She’s from the comics I think. Have watched Sunbow, Beast Wars, Earthspark, and now most of the way through Animated, and none of them have Flamewar.
She looks cool, and I guess none of the other iconic Decepticon ladies are in Shattered Glass.
Slicer is not in the Sunbow cartoon. Pretty sure his G1 toy was an Action Master. Most transformers fans are unlikely to be familiar with this guy, though they would clock him as a Wheeljack recolor. He might be hear just for the SH tie-in… but SG Slicer is Wheeljack. Weird.
Saved Goldbug for the last set of these as he’s technically a Season 3 (4?) character. Effect is simple but flavorful, fitting Bee’s role as the kid appeal Autobot with the human friend. Do have to dock points though for the art pairing Goldbug with teen Spike. Spike should be a grown ass man here.
Cyclonus might be one of the worst adaptations out of these cards. Cyclonus is among the more well defined characters in G1, being loyal to the death to Galvatron, as well as having a strange sense of honor for a Decepticon. This card meanwhile could have been basically any Seeker. Art’s nice.
Arcee is our second movie character, and she’s okay. She plays well with the others, though she doesn’t feel especially Arcee. Not sure what that entails though. G1 Arcee doesn’t really have much there yet. Love her in Earthspark. watch Earthspark.
Love Ultra Magnus. I like that he brings in more dudes bringing to mind his cat carrying alt mode, though I don’t know why vehicles aren’t included. Or why it’s the front side. Have thought about making a commander deck with him. He can’t handle this right now.
The only other season 2 transformer, Blaster is a fine choice. His abilities are cool, supporting his fellow Autobots. Actually playing this card as a commander might present difficulties. Modular is great, but he resists getting counters himself, making it harder to win off commander damage.
Ooo, a Triple Changer. Would have preferred Astrotrain or Octane, but Blitzwing is cool.
The random aspect of the card weirdly captures the personality swapping aspect of the character that crops up after G1. Cards fine, but not the most exciting.
Anyway did yall know there is an alchemy exclusive Tiana? Huge fan of the original. This one looks a little funny, looks a lot thinner than the old Tiana to me but might just be the art style. Anyway the effect is neat enough, though I’m always iffy on alchemy cards, especially the perpetual stuff.
I do think that that Hydras being the fewest makes sense. Green arguably is the type that needs its “iconic” the least. It’s got plenty of big creatures. Same to a lesser extent with blue and its big sea monsters.
Not sure what motivated this. Will say I’m not surprise or anything. While these are the five iconics, I probably didn’t need Scryfall to guess that Magic leans heavily towards legendary Dragons out of these.
Lowkey gonna be pissed if EverCrisis actually has an EoS next year. The main reason I was excited for this game when it was announced was the idea that we’d have access to the less accessible Compilation stories like Before Crisis, and now the game will likely disappear without ever tackling it.
I understand frustrations with the Secret Lair system. That out of the way, shoutout to the redditor who’s upset they didn’t get the Kieran Yanner SL cause they wanted it to bring their EDH deck to the next level.
Got to hand it to them, the scalpers prevented at least one Armageddon player.
Wild that my first thought on reading Skyfire/Jetfire’s card is “I wish you were Wheeljack”. Slicer has charisma though. This guys debut episode was cool. After that he served as the first of many taxi transformers that existed to get people places.
Soundwave Superior. This card is awesome jank, got a really unique energy to it. Let’s you do funky and versatile things. It’s also among the better cards to build a deck around, which fits as Soundwave is the only reason the Decepticons can accomplish anything.
Ratchet is a pretty generic cleric type card, but that works well for Ratchet. I am usually whelmed to draw this guy when playing my Optimus deck. God I wish Jazz got a card.
