Upper Deck Offer First Glimpse At Legendary Expansion
February 22, 2013 in News, Stand Alone Card Game by brennon
If you were a fan of Upper Deck’s Marvel: Legendary card game then you will be pleased to know an expansion is on the cards. Check out the first pieces of artwork from Dark City below…
This new set will contain 350 new cards including seventeen new heroes, six new groups of villains, two new henchmen groups and five new masterminds which include the mighty Apocalypse and Kingpin.
The expansion will hit on the 25th of June so mark this date in your Marvel calender!
What do you think of the artwork and prospect of more heroes?
Let me know below!
Someone please explain to me the appeal of random booster games. Why buy something when you don’t know what’s in the box/booster before opening it? Is it the same rush as gambling only with lamer prizes (not cash) for the few who win? I don’t get why gamers don’t just kind of demand that all of these types of games go to the LCG format where you always know what’s in the box.
There’s no game-mechanics reason for it. Any kind of balance that is achieved by randomness could just as easily (actually more easily) be achieved through better deck construction rules, and the upshot of that would be that no one could get around the balancing rules by simply outspending their opponents, which is exactly what happens in Magic and every other random booster card game. I get why the companies make the games (they are cash cows, designed to encourage players to outspend each other to win). Why do players still buy them? Seems like a money sink to me (more so than everything else in this hobby).
LCG beats CCG hands down.
BoW Ben
what does the “L” stand for? in that card game?
Living Card Games.
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/5337/living-card-game
thanks ill look at that now
Gambling Addiction.
I totally agree mpopke. I got into Magic and bought a shed load of blister boxes (lots of money to burn at the time). Bearing in mind that I did not know what I was doing, I beat most people because the amount of cards I had. Nothing more than that, as I wasn’t a really talented player and lost all the time when playing with even decks (switching around decks etc). I actually felt a bit sorry for a few of them. This one lad aged about 18 looked like he was homeless, but he had HUGE amounts of cards archived cause he couldn’t use them any more. He must have spent thousands on MtG!! He invited me to his house one day in order for him to teach me to play a bit better. Well when I got there I was shocked!!! Such a really nice house his mum and dad had got. It might sound a bit rude me saying these things, it’s just you get first impressions of people and all that. He was a really nice guy, I just couldn’t help thinking what he could have been achieving if he spent/saved his money more wisely. Of coarse it is not my decision to make, but he definitely had issues with MtG. It was shortly after this that I stopped, as I know I can “sometimes” have an obsessive personality.
I did make me feel like a little boy again though opening my football stickers, but sadly I didn’t get any bubblegum or a little A5 poster that I did when I was a kid, hehe. I still have all the MtG cards in 3 cardboard boxes, which I knew someone to sell them to.
I bought a few WoW cards also, that game plays so much better to me but you never seem to see many people that play it. SO I gave up while the going was bad, hehe.
I like the art work on these cards, really bold and eye catching.
I took a look at the Living Card Games on a few sites and saw Android Netrunner, I recall you liked that one mpopke? Am I correct in saying so? What do you like about it? Really trying hard to get my mates in to “SOME” sort of gaming. We have been mates since senior school when we were still called 1st years (and everyone used to threaten to flush your head down the toilet, hehe. Kids are cruel.
) so thats nearly 26 years. We all used to play Risk when we were kids and we had such a laugh doing so. Guess its only me that is still a kid then, hehe 
I like Netrunner for the mechanics. Every one of these games has to strike a balance between luck and tactics. The luck of the draw always factors in any card game, but some games offer players more opportunities to mitigate bad luck. Netrunner does a good job of giving an unlucky player some options (at least options to stall until they get some better cards). It started life as a typical TCG, and I loved the mechanic of the game at the time, but I just couldn’t keep up with my opponents who all apparently had more disposable income than I did. They were using decks comprised almost solely of rare cards and the game really suffered under those conditions.
Now that it’s an LCG everybody is pretty much on the same footing. There’s still an upkeep cost to any expandable card game, but it’s a predictable and manageable cost now (and significantly lower cost as well). The game really sings when both players have well-tuned decks and know what they’re doing.
I like Magic too. I like the game mechanic. It’s a well designed game. Richard Garfield should be commended for it. But I can’t play it. I don’t want to buy a random collection of cards that I’ll mostly be unhappy with only to store most of them or trade most of them away. Nor do I want to just start buying grossly overpriced singles. The game is good, but it’s not that good. It’s not good enough to put up with that purchasing treadmill, especially when there are really good deck-building games out there that don’t require me to spend as much to have fun. Games like Netrunner, which was also designed by Richard Garfield and is faster paced and has more tactical depth.
I think the biggest problem with LCGs is coming into the game after it’s been out for a while. Every other player already has all of the expansions and the initial investment for someone down the road may be a lot higher than it was for me. I guess I can understand why Magic starts over every year or so, but Magic players still end up spending more in one year than I do in two or three on LCGs.
I think it would make more sense to have an LCG that resets every once in a while. Release a cycle of the game that runs for a couple of years, and then start over with a new expansion and use deck-building rules to keep old cards out of new decks. That way new players can get in without having to catch up on five years worth of expansions. And players who have been playing for a long time could set up special “Open” leagues where anything goes. Give the new players some place to start, and give the old players some place to have fun. Everybody wins without breaking the bank.
Thanks buddy, Might look into it. I shouldn’t be a big problem with lots of expansions as we will be a closed off social group who could have fun with just the core game and then progress when we are ready. I don’t perceive any of us playing in a competition, hehe. I’ve played before in a comp in the RAF but that was RPG based. Didn’t want to play table top comp as everything is just over micro managed. Games at any level should always remain fun first and foremost and then a real ale drinking contest a close second.
If you want to play with a group of people (not just two), Netrunner may not be your best choice. I think it’s an awesome game, but it is very decidedly a two-player game. The Lord of the Rings LCG is better suited to games of up to four players, but you have to go digging around on BoardGameGeek to find house rules that make games of that size more fun (the default rules for 4-player games make the game far too easy). The nice thing about LoTR is that a lot of the player base spends time working on their own scenarios and sharing them online, so you don’t necessarily have to pay to keep the game interesting. The other nice thing is that it’s a cooperative game so it makes it slightly more appealing to people who are not necessarily gamers. I find that getting non-gamers to game is generally easier if they think they’re playing WITH the guy who knows all the rules already rather than AGAINST that same person.
Ahh, you may be onto something there, but I think it’s just plain scared of games. they tend to sit in front of Sky a lot and anything else is just plain babyish. :S
I was planning on getting a 1+ player board game and playing it myself when they come around for a brew. Then every time I roll a 6, I can scream like a little girl and act all excited. This way they can see that it is fun.