Transformers Trading Card Game Matrix of Leadership, Jetfire, Dinobot Sludge & Nemesis Prime Reveal
Monday, July 30th, 2018 12:41PM CDT
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First up we have Sludge of the Dinobot! Or just Dinobot Sludge as Wizards of the Coast have dubbed him.
Next up, we have Jetfire, boasting his Classics toy design.
Here we have the Matrix of Leadership, something all Transformer fans will be familiar with now.
Last up is Nemesis Prime, everyone's favourite black repaint!
Check out https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/tradingcardgame for more details about this forthcoming game from Wizards of the Coast, and stay tuned to Seibertron.com for more updates when we get them!
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Posted by Terrsolpix on July 30th, 2018 @ 1:41pm CDT
Posted by Victinoko on July 30th, 2018 @ 1:51pm CDT
Posted by ZeroWolf on July 30th, 2018 @ 2:21pm CDT
Nicorange wrote:Nemesis Prime looks nice! Can't wait to see what Sunstorm and Demolisher will look like.
I'm quite liking his effect, I wonder how workable it is though to try and build around it
Posted by Kyleor on July 30th, 2018 @ 2:59pm CDT
Posted by Victinoko on July 30th, 2018 @ 4:37pm CDT
ZeroWolf wrote:Nicorange wrote:Nemesis Prime looks nice! Can't wait to see what Sunstorm and Demolisher will look like.
I'm quite liking his effect, I wonder how workable it is though to try and build around it
Hopefully they make some cards that allow you to discard your deck quickly then, or else it just becomes a neat novelty ability.
Posted by SkyFire Prime on July 30th, 2018 @ 4:44pm CDT
Posted by #Sideways# on July 30th, 2018 @ 4:50pm CDT
Son, you 'ain't seen nothin' yet.
Posted by ZeroWolf on July 30th, 2018 @ 4:53pm CDT
Posted by #Sideways# on July 30th, 2018 @ 4:54pm CDT
Posted by ZeroWolf on July 30th, 2018 @ 6:09pm CDT
Posted by Dude Gatsby on July 30th, 2018 @ 6:24pm CDT
Posted by WreckerJack on July 30th, 2018 @ 7:51pm CDT
SkyFire Prime wrote:Thanks for giving the game attention, I want this game to be popular.
Me too. I really hope we get tournament support and play groups.
Posted by Va'al on July 31st, 2018 @ 4:05am CDT
The deck also features Scamper, Six-Gun, and Slammer, plus some special battle cards to use with this first enormously oversized Titan foil card, and lends itself to speculate that once the Decepticon side is brought into the game we'll be seeing some giant purplesaur too. Check out the image of the deck in packaging below, and let us know what you think!
Posted by WreckerJack on July 31st, 2018 @ 5:04am CDT
Posted by Amelie on July 31st, 2018 @ 5:14am CDT
Dude Gatsby wrote:Would love to see an original combiner named Royal Flush.
Only if the combined mode is a golden toilet
Posted by steve2275 on July 31st, 2018 @ 5:30am CDT
Posted by Anonymous on July 31st, 2018 @ 5:43am CDT
On the deck cycling, i think decks will cycle quickly as you draw when battling. May be more about having a deck full of cards to keep your characters alive whilst waiting for the deck to cycle.
Posted by ZeroWolf on July 31st, 2018 @ 6:31am CDT
Posted by Rodimus Knight on July 31st, 2018 @ 7:12am CDT
Posted by Kyleor on July 31st, 2018 @ 7:54am CDT
Rodimus Knight wrote:So for people who collect these things, where to get get card sheets to hold this extra large cards?
Depending on the actual card size something like a document protector for a full sized sheet of paper will probably work.
Posted by #Sideways# on July 31st, 2018 @ 9:19am CDT
Rodimus Knight wrote:So for people who collect these things, where to get get card sheets to hold this extra large cards?
They make toploaders for cards this big. But oddly, not for the regular "medium" character cards.
Posted by WreckerJack on July 31st, 2018 @ 2:49pm CDT
#Sideways# wrote:Rodimus Knight wrote:So for people who collect these things, where to get get card sheets to hold this extra large cards?
They make toploaders for cards this big. But oddly, not for the regular "medium" character cards.
I bet these would work. Though they may be hard to come by.
Posted by #Sideways# on August 2nd, 2018 @ 9:32am CDT
(The pics are in my attachments)
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 2nd, 2018 @ 10:41am CDT
Posted by Iron Prime on August 2nd, 2018 @ 2:58pm CDT
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 2nd, 2018 @ 3:05pm CDT
Iron Prime wrote:How do you get Sunstorm from Game Stop? Just ask or do you have to buy a deck with him in it?
Don't quote me on it but it may work like one of those deals where you buy so many boosters and then they give him to you (or maybe it's for participating in a tournament, but I think it's more you buy from them, they give to you)
The more I see this the more I want to play, but the more I lament that I'll probably have no one to play with...
Posted by Va'al on August 2nd, 2018 @ 4:28pm CDT
Check the river of mirrored images below, and let us know what you think of the game so far.
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 2nd, 2018 @ 4:34pm CDT
Posted by dragons on August 2nd, 2018 @ 5:42pm CDT
ZeroWolf wrote:This is shaping up to be quite fun! I wonder why Ramjet appears to be the only character without any effects?
ramjet have effects these where taken with phone of course with flash on kinda hard see at first glance if these pictures where taken with dslr camera with lens hood you can see effects easily look for rainbor colors on card cell phones dont take good pictures of certain things for macro up close shots
Posted by Emerje on August 2nd, 2018 @ 5:53pm CDT
dragons wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:This is shaping up to be quite fun! I wonder why Ramjet appears to be the only character without any effects?
ramjet have effects these where taken with phone of course with flash on kinda hard see at first glance if these pictures where taken with dslr camera with lens hood you can see effects easily look for rainbor colors on card cell phones dont take good pictures of certain things for macro up close shots
Uh, no, it's definitely blank. You can even see the background behind where the text would be. Plus the other photos from there down appear to be taken by the same person and the text shows up perfectly clear on all of them. Plus plus there's no sign of flash glare on the cards, they appear to be taken under normal room lighting. Plus plus plus that's not the only blank card, the Ironhide, Red Alert, "Primary Laser" and "Armor Plating" cards are also blank.
Emerje
Posted by #Sideways# on August 2nd, 2018 @ 6:33pm CDT
^ Instant friggin' staples
Spicy. Spicy indeed.
Posted by Tommy T. on August 2nd, 2018 @ 6:34pm CDT
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 2nd, 2018 @ 6:42pm CDT
Posted by #Sideways# on August 2nd, 2018 @ 6:45pm CDT
Posted by What's Crackin'? on August 2nd, 2018 @ 7:20pm CDT
Posted by WreckerJack on August 2nd, 2018 @ 9:44pm CDT
ZeroWolf wrote:Ah so ramjet isn't an anomaly then as others are also "vanilla" I wonder if they'll be new versions of them in later sets that have different stats? Assuming the game makes it that far of course
That is pretty much it. In the Starter set there is Optimus Prime // Autobot Leader but the booster has Optimus Prime // Battlefield Legend. This is done so they can reuse characters but also differentiate the cards and effects. They do this in a lot of card games, for instance in magic there are planeswalker characters that get different titles like Jace Beleren is featured on many different cards but they give him a different title. Jace The Mindsculptor does something very different from Jace, Memory Adept.
This also helps the company reuse characters in the case of set rotations if things wind up working out really well. I also wonder if they will make the cards from all the different shows, it would be cool to have some guys from TFA and TFP in their own art style. I'm probably jumping the gun here but there are so many posibilites here.
Posted by atraus on August 2nd, 2018 @ 10:11pm CDT
Posted by Victinoko on August 3rd, 2018 @ 1:32am CDT
Posted by #Sideways# on August 3rd, 2018 @ 7:04pm CDT
^ Apparently the man who was holding the card was an official of some sort who expressly asked that the photographer not take a photo of the stars at the bottom of Chop Shop, or leak the star count. Sad, but understandable.
Blurry images that shows us what Kup looks like since that's all he's good for.
Hound is just
Posted by #Sideways# on August 4th, 2018 @ 5:09pm CDT
But now... More cards. MORE. MOAR.
^ For reference.
These cards are just so much gas. Who's ready for the Dinobot meta? XD
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 4th, 2018 @ 5:15pm CDT
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 5th, 2018 @ 10:12am CDT
Of note is we see more Dinobots and more insecticons and a couple of battle cards to help the two teams be a real force to be reckoned with.
Barrage (Bot mode)
Barrage (Alt mode)
Dinobot Slug (Alt mode)
Dinobot Slug (Bot mode)
Chop Shop (Alt mode)
Chop Shop (Bot mode)
Dinobot Swoop and Sergeant Kup (Alt mode)
Dinobot Swoop and Sergeant Kup (Bot mode)
Autobot Hound (Both modes)
Dinobot Sludge (Bot mode)
Dinobot Sludge (Alt mode)
Dino-Chomp!
Dinobot Snarl (Bot mode)
Dinobot Snarl (Alt mode)
Bombshell (Alt mode)
Swarm!
Do these reveals give you any ideas for competitive decks? Don't forget to drop in on the forums to discuss these reveals!
Stay tuned to Seibertron.com for more updates when we get them!
Posted by Skritz on August 5th, 2018 @ 11:49am CDT
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 5th, 2018 @ 2:09pm CDT
Posted by Blitzwing is bae on August 5th, 2018 @ 4:57pm CDT
Posted by Ultra Markus on August 6th, 2018 @ 12:04am CDT
is there like a play you can do if you have all combiner team members to unite them?
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 6th, 2018 @ 2:14am CDT
Ultra Markus wrote:this seems like a Yu-Gi-Oh! style card game
is there like a play you can do if you have all combiner team members to unite them?
As far as revealed there is no combiner teams yet but who knows what the future brings...
Posted by #Sideways# on August 7th, 2018 @ 9:26am CDT
Anyway, here you go:
Robot: "When this is attacking --> Flip extra battle cards equal to his [Defense]."
Tank: "When you flip to this mode --> Draw a card for each of your other Tanks."
This thicc boi is going to be so hard to remove from the field, and he's gonna hit even harder. With a Flamethrower, though, you'll be flipping around eight-ish cards a turn if you flip a white card.
I absolutely adore this art for Arcee. Prime Arcee is the best, and this combines Prime with G1 and I'm just
Five points is nuts, and she hits like a dang truck. Hopefully other Motorcycles will be five points as well, and judging from Flamewar, we're just one more reveal from a pattern.
Hey, look, another great draw card!
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 7th, 2018 @ 9:41am CDT
Posted by #Sideways# on August 7th, 2018 @ 10:30am CDT
And yeah, the world needs more Unicron Trilogy in its life. Whereas Prime is probably my favorite in terms of plotline and storytelling, UT had so much innovation in it.
(And not just because of my namesake. lol)