VS2PCG
December 24, 2016 By: PauperTim
X-Men X-Mas

X-Men give all year 'round but here is some things that might be on their Xmas list this year that they are looking for in the Marvel Legacy VS2PCG set even though it isn't expected to come out until March.

In the past week and a half I have gone over the X-Men Main Characters. In the last article I went over a few of the flaws of their cohesiveness as a team.(HERE). IN this article I will highlight some things that they might want.

What Storm Wants

"What a girl wants, what a girl needs" - Christina Aguilera"

Storm needs low costed characters with relevant aggro abilities. 3 our of the 4 X-Men Main Characters are aggressive and all of them share this wish. Something that could fly and team attack in the air would be a bonus. Magik SC and Cyclops SC just don't do enough to warrant them into an aggressive deck. Their powers are situational at best.

X-Men X-Mas

What Wolverine Wants

"I'm the best there is at what I do. But what I do best isn't very nice." - Wolverine

Wolverine doesn't want much, perhaps a new aggressive plot twist (as uncanny defense is defensive and way too situational) or a way to deal with counters earlier than Cable can come out. Storm would back Wolverine's choice, especially since often he isn't the most enthusiastic team player. Storm also could use a plot twist but wouldn't want to ask for too much.

I'm not sure what could be done to help Wolverine if he doesn't level up really quickly as if he is stalled out for a few turns it can be an uphill battle for him. Something to fill that niche would be good, but not required.

What Deadpool Wants

"Oh, that's because it's Christmas Day, Dopinder. And I'm after someone on my naughty list. I've been waiting one year, three weeks... six days and, oh... 14 minutes to make him fix what he did to me." - Deadpool.

Deadpool is pretty happy with Aliens. He would back up Wolverine with the plot twist idea... or not really care, take your pick. He was unavailable to comment due to being knee deep in an Alien hive making some new friends.

What Professor X Wants

"Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn't mean they're lost forever." - Charles Xavier

World Peace. Or a 6 and 7 drop that can help close out the game. He is meant to go late game yet there is no one to back him up except Colossus. Emma is only really played in a few fringe decks at the moment and Colossus while powerful only has 1 health. A drop that greatly affects the board and can stay on the board for a while while making a big impact would be great, though it may be too much to ask for. He doesn't have an on team 7 drop to play as the X-Men 7 drop is himself.

X-Men X-Mas

What The Curve Wants

A 3 cost character with 2+ health so that this team can have a decent 2 health curve that is very powerful and popular in deck designs now. Namor, 3 drop, Beast, Wolverine would be a great curve. I wouldn't count Emma into it as she isn't for every deck. Having a board presence is often very hard for X-Men. Multi wound characters would help with this issue. Deadpool Supporting character is an option, however getting a 3 cost character back over and over isn't the most effective use of Might Symbol resources.

What The Faction Needs

Most of the X-Men have low defense and one health. We have 2 flying characters not including Hope. Namor and Storm. Both only have 1 health. It is hard to protect all of those easy to take out characters without any flying. Perhaps another flying character with multiple health or a character that can make it harder to take out all of your 1 health characters. A defensive plot twist that doesn't require very specific situations to be good would also be nice.

What The Fans Want

MC Cyclops: Seriously a leader who's only card is delegated out to being a 2 drop that isn't even that good. X-Men could use another MC and Cyclops should have already been a MC. We know there are pushes for certain things both with licensing and giving yourself room to grow the game later and still have primary popular characters to be excited about, but Cyclops needs to be an X-Men MC.

Nightcrawler: A fan favorite. MC would also be great but a SC would satisfy most fans. A SC that would be flavorful would be great. Some utility in doing some effect similar to uncanny defense, but not as situationally bad as a requirement. Being a pacifist would be interesting with a huge stats but only being able to daze. There are a lot of interesting things you could do with Nightcrawler. The fans are begging for it.

Rogue: Most that I have talked to want this to be an X-Men MC. I could see it being an A-Force MC as well though. Rogue doesn't have a SC even and to a lot of X-Men fans they see that as a Christmas Ham with a "S" in front and an "E" behind it, a true shame. Legacy is the perfect opportunity to fix that.



About the Author

PauperTim is this websites owner and has always been into games of all sorts. He is a founder of the Pauper format for Magic: The Gathering. You can find him on facebook, twitter or OCTGN as PauperTim or as TheOrangeMitten on Magic Online.