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2022
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As Charles Xavier’s first student, nobody is more dedicated to the Professor’s dream of peaceful coexistence than Scott Summers, better known as the hero Cyclops. Armed with powerful optic beams and tactical genius, Cyclops leads his fellow X-Men on their missions as a brilliant field commander.
This commander of the X-Men blasts his way into battle with this expansion pack, which introduces Cyclops as a new playable hero along with his fifteen signature cards. With a pre-built Leadership deck ready to play from the get-go, you’ll be able to lead the X-Men’s charge into battle from the moment you open the box. With his powerful optic blasts and tactical brilliance, Cyclops is a natural leader and a fantastic addition to any team.
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Board Games UnLocked Review at 0:16 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- Can enable powerful ally-focused combos.
- Thematic integration of X-Men training and coordination.
- Ruby Quartz Visor is a strong card that synergizes well with Optic Blast.
- Field Commander card allows tactics to remain after the round ends, enabling stronger coop plays.
- Priority Target offers card draw when defeating minions.
Cons
- Found to be lackluster and one of the weakest heroes released personally.
- Very ally-dependent, which is not the host's preferred playstyle.
- Allies are expensive to play.
- Many tactic cards are 'temporary' and disappear at the end of the round.
- Optic Blast ability requires an upgrade attached to the enemy and costs a resource, making it inefficient.
- Field Commander card has an awkward effect of ensuring the first player always goes first, which the host dislikes.
- Feels like a support character rather than a primary actor.
- The big damage combos are seen as unrealistic for pre-built decks.
Thematic elements
- Leadership focused on allies and controlling the battlefield through coordination.
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Ally Focus — Cyclops's deck is very centered around allies, often requiring players to spend multiple cards to bring them out, and many of his cards buff or synergize with allies.
- Ally limit increase — The 'Utopia' card is mentioned as increasing the ally limit, allowing for more allies to be in play simultaneously.
- coordination — Cards like 'Coordinated Attack' and 'Teamwork' facilitate synergistic plays between allies and the hero.
- Temporary Keyword — Several of Cyclops's tactic cards have the 'temporary' keyword, meaning they last only until the end of the round, which the reviewer found limiting.
- training — The 'Danger Room training' cards are discussed as upgrades that can be attached to allies to increase their attack and health, fitting a thematic element of X-Men training.
- upgrades — Cyclops has several cards that attach as upgrades to enemies, which are then used to trigger his abilities or enhance damage.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I don't like Cyclops I think this is actually for me personally in my play style one of the weakest Heroes to actually come out.
- I just found him to be overall lackluster.
- He's very heavy support.
- I just don't like that they're temporary.
- I just find it in almost an [ __ ] card because normally when every single time I've played and people draw their hands and they're like oh man I'm gonna be either now I'm gonna do some cool stuff on my turn and but then you're like field commander yep you can still do cool stuff on your turn but I'm gonna go first.
- I just don't particularly like him I think he has too much against him to to warn him being super solid.
- So on a scale of 1 to 10 I think I'm gonna give him a five.
- This is the lowest in quite some time in quite a few Heroes.
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The Dice Tower Top List at 9:33 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Feels like the leader
- Gets everybody to work together
- Enjoys the way the deck makes the leader feeling come across
- Cool leader
- Consistent damage
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Leading the X-Men
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deckbuilding Flexibility — Can include X-Men allies from other aspects in his deck.
- First Turn Advantage — The 'Field Commander' ability allows the player to take the first turn of the round.
- Targeted Enemy Attachments — Attaches cards to enemies that provide benefits while attached, like making them weaker or directing attacks.
- Upgrade Synergy — Optic Blast attacks enemies with upgrades attached.
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Quotes (from this video)
- It's a game I very much adore.
- It's my top 10 characters I enjoy playing. I feel good while I'm playing them. It has nothing to do with how powerful they are, how weak they are.
- They feel good to me. They feel like they're characters in many ways, the the the the comic characters they're attempting to represent.
- It feels broken a little bit.
- This is my top 10 heroes in Marvel Champions.
- It is just These are characters I very much enjoy bringing to the table, shuffling up and playing. They feel good to me.
- I love the idea of progression in Marvel Champions. That That feeling of your character getting better and better at whatever it is that they do.
- Ironheart, my number two, literally does this by upgrading her card, the card that represents you in the game, by taking her card here from version one of the Ironheart suit to version two, to eventually version three, which is tremendously overpowered basically.
- You're you're racing the villain to see who can outpace the other.
- The characters that play risky tend not to be my favorites. The characters that really tow the line where you're living dangerously for lack of a better term.
- My number one is the character that I guess the exception that proves the rule, let's call it, and it is also happens to be one of my favorite, thematically one of my favorite characters in the game, and that is Wolverine.
- Wolverine has an ability here where at the beginning of your round you get to heal two damage, which is tremendous, but the reason for that is because you're going to be taking a whole bunch of damage with your claws.
- this whole paying for cards things, that's for the birds. I'm going to live dangerously by spending my life total to be able to drop this card that costs four for free, and I still have all my cards left.
- It's insane, it feels tremendous.
- My favorite character in the game. That is Logan i.e. Wolverine.
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