different dice? sign me up

This looks pretty sweet anyway, but an Xavier promo card? Yeah, they've sucked me in.

My venue told me that wk are doing two of these one for avx with a storm promo. And then the uncanny xmen with prof x. Don't have a link but thats what he heard.

Both of these are true. The only difference between the two set up boxes are the full art promo card.
There is on the other hand another playmat coming out for the Uncanny Xmen.
Same layout, different art

Did the first ones ever actually come out?!

Either way, I'd like to try to get a couple X-men ones if they don't vanish immediately.

Wk's only made one playmat. It has the avengers on one half and xmen on the other.

i think he means, did they ever get released? It seems like they must have, but I never actually saw any in stock anywhere.

MDM seems to be pre-order or GTFO so far.

Which has got me worried UXM is going to be hard to collect too. But I don't want to pre-pay 3 months in advance again. I'm torn between my dice and my monies. It would also help if ANY one else had even a passing interest in it locally.

My venue got in three. I bought the last one and there were several other people i know that would want them.

Right - there's definitely desire, but I have yet to see one. Even online they're impossible to find.

My store got two play mats and I purchased one, because why not? I hadn't realized they were so hard to come by. The actual game material, sure, but play mats? Never even crossed my mind you couldn't just get those whenever.

Having used it a couple times, I am actually a little disappointed. In the middle of the mat is the same diagram that is inserted in the center of the rule book showing you the different areas. But unlike the RB diagram, there are no arrows showing you where stuff goes and at what times. I really liked that, as it was a great way to keep track of stuff as I was learning and even now helps if I have a brain fart. I am really thinking of just printing off enlarged versions of the diagram in the RB and laminating them.

This was my complaint too. I've heard that the answer is that "once you learn, you don't need it." But my retort to that is that WITH the arrows, the game becomes much easier to TEACH. To a NEWBIE. Who DOES NOT know.

(sigh)

do any of you even know how much it would have cost to add arrows? you want them to be 50$ each?

or

They're saving the arrows so you'll buy the next mats. It's mat power creep.

So its more or less confirmed that the organizers in the Set Up Boxes are identical to the ones from Quarriors, which is fine. The new email newsletter from WizKids has pics and its pretty cut and dry. I'm probably going to hold off on these since I've already got extra trays but I do encourage others to consider this option.

And yes, the clear plastic tray does hold the dice firmly in place. I avoid putting dice in the clear top tray though since spillage is almost guaranteed. I also tried stacking multiple trays but that didn't help. Bottomline: you'll probably need one tray per expansion.

Which is why there seems to be an AvX box coming out soon as well as the uncanny xmen box.