Leaked from Cybertron- Optimus Prime as featured in the Transformers Trading Card Game

Has anyone seen the playtesting on this game? I'm very, very curious, but I'd need to get rid of my baseball cards first. I only have about 40,000 of them...

Yup! Plenty of playtesting I've done on my own. Autobot Cars seem very good, and Nemesis Prime is a close second. I'm tinkering now with Insecticons and this new Prime paired with Shockwave -- I'll let you know what I find out.

Oh by the way, I've got some scans that I was waiting to drop since I didn't want to swarm you guys with just single card reveals.

Here's Inferno:



This guy is a tank. He hits so hard, and he defends so much, that this guy is frankly idiotic to try to take down. You'd think that the best thing about him is his ability -- and you would be wrong. It's about every other little detail about this guy added up to make a formidable tank. With three base defense, this guy blocks most damage that he is dealt. Being Ranged, he can also make use of the Rapid Assault Armor Battle Card, giving him four defense and disrupting your opponent. He also has a base eight attack, which is one of the highest in the game along with the newly revealed Optimus Prime. But even more than that, with such a high defense, you can heal off the majority of damage you take with Team Up Tactics thanks to the fact that he is a Truck.

In fact, I built Shockwave / Inferno just last night and playtested it against Cars, which I thought would be an autowin. But I was wrong. The problem is this: His ability to return cards to your opponent's hand sounds great in theory, but when your opponent plays Turbo Boosters to untap their characters to attack you ad infinitum, you really don't want to put those cards back into your opponent's hand.

It's also a tall build, meaning you only have to characters to attack with, putting you at an even bigger disadvantage to Cars. You just end up losing because you attack a total of three times in a game. You can't even take advantage of Ready For Action. Shockwave as a partner is just not cutting it.

But on his own? Inferno can really bring the pain. Just imagine him with someone to supplement his healing, using their smaller attacks to set up knockouts before finishing them off with a huge attack from Inferno. The only problem is finding someone to fit that bill. Great potential, bad partners for the moment.



This isn't a character, but I like the picture of Bombshell playing with himself.



But anyway, to my thoughts.

This card is really, really good. Forget about the card being scrapped from your opponent's hand -- if they've been playing the game at all, they can afford it -- but the upgrade being scrapped and a card being drawn for you? That's fantastic.

But here's the thing. The reason why I'm so excited about this isn't that your opponent is punished for knocking out a bug on your side -- why I'm so excited is that you can use this on your turn. You can pop this thing with Skrapnel's insect mode, which knocks out one of your Insecticons to forcefully tap one of your opponent's characters. Meaning, you can choose a target and lock your opponent out of an attack with that character at the same time. But with this, though, you even get to disrupt your opponent and draw a card while you're at it.

Es wunderbar, ja?

Thanks #Sideways# and thanks again for your playtest diaries and thoughts. What method are you using to play test these?

ZeroWolf wrote:Thanks #Sideways# and thanks again for your playtest diaries and thoughts. What method are you using to play test these?

Proxying. I print out their pictures and sleeve up decks of them, trying out the mechanics. Paper with a worthless Pokemon card behind them, yes, but still very effective at getting the general idea of the game.

#Sideways# wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Thanks #Sideways# and thanks again for your playtest diaries and thoughts. What method are you using to play test these?

Proxying. I print out their pictures and sleeve up decks of them, trying out the mechanics. Paper with a worthless Pokemon card behind them, yes, but still very effective at getting the general idea of the game.

I thought it was something like that I did the same when me and a group of friends were deep into magic and tried making our own set it was fun, a bit exhausting at times, but fun.

ZeroWolf wrote:I thought it was something like that I did the same when me and a group of friends were deep into magic and tried making our own set it was fun, a bit exhausting at times, but fun.

For sure, man. I pretty much proxy everything, especially new Pokemon decks that I play. It's cheaper than buying expensive cards, only to find out that the deck you built is mediocre.

Since I can't get my hands on the cards physically, I've been obsessing exploring possibilities on the early metagame. May as well get an optimal deck ready to beat up some scrubs at a local tournament! lolol

I'd love to do weekly article about the game once it hits, though I think I'm going to be snowed under with stuff at that point.

I hope wizards are going to support this game, there's a lot of scope for design

Following on from yesterday's Leaked from Cybertron article about Optimus Prime//Battlefield Legend, and thanks to fellow Seibertron user, #Sideways#, we now have another Autobot to reveal for the upcoming Official Transformers Trading Card Game.

That Autobot is Inferno (sporting his Universe appearance)!



Here is #Sideways# offering his take on the card and it's abilites.

#Sideways# wrote:This guy is a tank. He hits so hard, and he defends so much, that this guy is frankly idiotic to try to take down. You'd think that the best thing about him is his ability -- and you would be wrong. It's about every other little detail about this guy added up to make a formidable tank. With three base defense, this guy blocks most damage that he is dealt. Being Ranged, he can also make use of the Rapid Assault Armor Battle Card, giving him four defense and disrupting your opponent. He also has a base eight attack, which is one of the highest in the game along with the newly revealed Optimus Prime. But even more than that, with such a high defense, you can heal off the majority of damage you take with Team Up Tactics thanks to the fact that he is a Truck.

In fact, I built Shockwave / Inferno just last night and playtested it against Cars, which I thought would be an autowin. But I was wrong. The problem is this: His ability to return cards to your opponent's hand sounds great in theory, but when your opponent plays Turbo Boosters to untap their characters to attack you ad infinitum, you really don't want to put those cards back into your opponent's hand.

It's also a tall build, meaning you only have to characters to attack with, putting you at an even bigger disadvantage to Cars. You just end up losing because you attack a total of three times in a game. You can't even take advantage of Ready For Action. Shockwave as a partner is just not cutting it.

But on his own? Inferno can really bring the pain. Just imagine him with someone to supplement his healing, using their smaller attacks to set up knockouts before finishing them off with a huge attack from Inferno. The only problem is finding someone to fit that bill. Great potential, bad partners for the moment.

There's also been a new upgrade card revealed:

Bug Bomb



This upgrade can only be used on Insecticons, and the art features Bombshell tinkering around with what appears to be a small version of himself. Again #Sideways# shares his thoughts on this card and the ways it might be used once released.

#Sideways# wrote:This card is really, really good. Forget about the card being scrapped from your opponent's hand -- if they've been playing the game at all, they can afford it -- but the upgrade being scrapped and a card being drawn for you? That's fantastic.

But here's the thing. The reason why I'm so excited about this isn't that your opponent is punished for knocking out a bug on your side -- why I'm so excited is that you can use this on your turn. You can pop this thing with Skrapnel's insect mode, which knocks out one of your Insecticons to forcefully tap one of your opponent's characters. Meaning, you can choose a target and lock your opponent out of an attack with that character at the same time. But with this, though, you even get to disrupt your opponent and draw a card while you're at it.

What do you make of these new reveals? Let us know in the comments and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews.

good looking cards

Oh man, I just want posters of some of that sweet card art.

Kyleor wrote:Oh man, I just want posters of some of that sweet card art.

Most of card art is from that transformers card game that got cancelled

i would put all the cards in a baseball card binder

Courtesy of fellow Seibertron user, #Sideways#, we've been alerted to a hasbro press release for the imminent arrival of Metroplex in the Official Transformers Trading Card Game. This news comes to us via allspark.com. We've previously reported on the existence of the set here.



The press release is as follows:

Hasbro wrote:PAWTUCKET, RI AND RENTON, WA–SEPT. 7, 2018 – Hasbro, Inc., a global play and entertainment company, and Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro and the publishers of the seminal trading card game Magic: The Gathering, provided more details today about the METROPLEX Deck, the first expansion for the TRANSFORMERS Trading Card Game.

“The character METROPLEX is a Titan – he converts into an entire city and towers over most of the other giants of the TRANSFORMERS universe. Keeping that in mind, we knew that METROPLEX deserved an even bigger card than the game’s standard oversized character cards,” said Drew Nolosco, TRANSFORMERS Trading Card Game Brand Manager. “The METROPLEX character card is 200mm tall – almost 8 inches. Whether in bot mode or alt mode, METROPLEX is one of the biggest TRANSFORMERS characters around, and now he has a suitably Titan-sized trading card.”

The METROPLEX Deck will see the AUTOBOT Titan enter the TRANSFORMERS Trading Card Game’s ranks for the first time, but he won’t be alone. During the game, players will be able to use the METROPLEX character card to deploy his three component bots: SCAMPER, SLAMMER, and SIX-GUN.

Will you be deploying this titan? Let us know in the comments and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews.

he's an inch longer than my hand

i guess there's no concealing that card for surprise attacks

Spicy leaks, straight from the source with a bit of extra comments from the devs!

Transformers TCG Facebook Page wrote:Here are a couple of brand new Battle Card reveals, with some commentary from Case Kiyonaga, one of our amazing game designers!

"Are you having trouble dealing damage in your defensive deck? Energon Axe will give you a nice boost and will still do a bit of damage even if it’s blocked!"

"Grenade Launchers got you down? Is your friend attacking for 12 at a time? Do you have a surplus of d4s? Then I have the card for you! Force Field is here to keep your bots whole, hale, and (mostly) healthy! Be careful though: you never know when it might get scrapped!"

Pics are sloppily attached below as I'm doing this on my lunch break lol

Thanks for all the help #Sideways# we'll get these newsed!

We've got several new pieces of information for Wizards of the Coast's Official Transformers Trading Card Game, which is due for release later this month.

First off, we start with two new card reveals and a tid bit from one of the games developers, Case Kiyonaga, who talks about the two cards revealed, this comes courtesy of the Transformers TCG Facebook Group.

Energon Axe



Force Field

Transformers TCG Facebook Group wrote:Here are a couple of brand new Battle Card reveals, with some commentary from Case Kiyonaga, one of our amazing game designers!

"Are you having trouble dealing damage in your defensive deck? Energon Axe will give you a nice boost and will still do a bit of damage even if it’s blocked!"

"Grenade Launchers got you down? Is your friend attacking for 12 at a time? Do you have a surplus of d4s? Then I have the card for you! Force Field is here to keep your bots whole, hale, and (mostly) healthy! Be careful though: you never know when it might get scrapped!"

Secondly, Hasbro have produced another one of their Leaked from Cybertron series, and following in the footsteps of the Optimus Prime//Battlefield Legend edition, today's segment is all about Megatron//Living Weapon!

Transformersofficial wrote:Autobots beware, Megatron // Living Weapon is ready for action! Find this Rare @TransformersTCG card exclusively in booster packs! Stay tuned for our final card reveal next week!

Thanks to fellow Seibertron user, #Sideways#, for pointing us in the direction of these news items.

Lastly, the social media accounts linked to the Official Transformers Trading Card Game have gone live, with the Facebook account of the game previewing all 32 character cards and more!

Facebook
Twitter.
Instagram.

So! I am sure this question has been answered, buuuut... I honestly don't feel like looking for it - When and where will we see a general release of this sucker? (If you answer the question, please link me a source)