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Metagame: Batman Starter Preview: Spoiler, Wildcard
Hey, everyone! It’s Danny Mandel here with your weekly Design vs. article. Man, I hate Humpherys. Did I mention that I am very tall?* Perhaps you’d like to hear some stories about my dog. Do you like robots?**
Okay, okay, I give up. The truth is that I am not Danny Mandel. My name is Justin Gary and I’ve taken over this week’s Design vs. series because I was lead designer on the upcoming Batman starter deck. Don’t worry—Danny will be back on Friday with a preview from the Batman starter (and I promise it will be a good one). Over the course of this week, we will be showing you five preview cards from the upcoming Batman and Fantastic Four starter decks. Today, since I’m taking over the column, I’ll be talking about our goals in designing the starter decks and some of the differences between designing a starter and designing a normal set. In addition, since this week is about spoiling some of the new cards coming out, we’d better get to the spoiler:
Hah! Get it? It’s a spoiler of Spoiler! You see, it’s funny because the word spoiler describes the article but is also the name of the card . . . Well, I thought it was funny, anyway.
Spoiler is one of my favorite cards in the starter because does a good job of highlighting what we wanted to accomplish with the starter deck cards. This is the first time that we have designed cards exclusively for release in a starter deck. This naturally leads to the question: