I like the sketch variants as a way to increase collectability as they don't have any gameplay difference. So if you want to collect them, great. But you wont be at a disadvantage if you dont

Is this another attempt by Wizkids to make Heroclix more like Magic by introducing their version of foils?

I think making translucent versions of all figures would have been cooler.

Too true. This feels a little lackluster, though. We'll see how much it helps.




... of course, it will, because there will always be a hardcore completionist mindset among certain sets of the playerbase. More things I don't need, though. Hooray!

Sketch variants? Meh...Not really that impressed. We'll see....

The sketch variant will be incomplete without a foil/holographic character card.

Not this one...

I don't know, it sounds sketchy to me.

I get this argument - it's not a wasted figure because the dial is the same - but I just disagree with it. I have no interest in sketch variants; I want the normal looking Clix. So yeah, I kind of am at a disadvantage because, on release day, my booster likely contains something I have no interest in keeping merely due to its aesthetics.

The concept was cool for the Turtles chases because it kind of made sense. But this announcement goes completely overboard IMO, and I'll likely try to avoid the entire situation by buying a secondary market CUR instead. And those will probably be more expensive as well since variants will mean more product necessary to put one together.

Agreed cyke, black & white turtles make sense, the original comics were black & white. But spider-man characters, outside of the newspaper strip & random issues, have always been colorized. So for me, no interest, but hopefully I can trade then off easily.

I love the idea for the same reason CD likes it.

I'm also guessing that the frequency will be low enough that it won't effect people negatively.

Hmm. This brings up an interesting question (to me anyway): What are characters with colored translucent effects going to look like? Let's use UXM's Scarlet Witch as an example.



Would they paint her purple aura black and white (essentially making it no longer translucent), to match the figure, keep the aura purple, and only make the figure itself black and white, or, and this is probably least likely, use a clear plastic for the aura, similar to what they used for SR Iceman?

The pic of Hydro Man is black and white, and I'm sure the water part of him is translucent.

I would prefer a holo character card and a translucent clear figures with the oil rainbow prismatic effect.

This just seems stupid and moderately lazy. White paint, black wash. I asked at the Player Appreciation shindig and was told that the sketches will have a parallel collation ratio to their painted in color counterparts.

So the common sketches will be far more common than the chase sketches unlike the comic book card parallel sets they got the idea from that had an equal run of every card in foil/shiny form.

But how is that any different from people that don't like certain characters/sculpts/dials/etc.? And I'm not saying to try and like these but...it's not that big a deal, man. It's blind product, you're going to get stuff you don't like like all of us do (unless we're super lucky).

It's going to be okay.

That would be kinda cool (maybe colored linked to rarity?).

And now, we'll probably see those in a few years...

Gimme my 24kt Gold Plated variant, there's your foils!