I haven't seen this discussed much, but Dylan's report confirms the fact that Marvel Superstars will have no stack, no chain, no responding to opposing Action cards.

Whoa. I think this may be the key to getting the average joe and josephine to play a Trading Card Game.

Nice.

How will that work? Are abilities limited to your turn? That makes Iron Man a bit worse.

I'm not sure how I feel about that. No "haha, your hero's ally fell down a ditch!" responses? Villains always have responses to stuff. Heck, even Pokemon now has a way to negate opposing actions.

If they can make it work where it can appeal to us control-type people too, then cool.

However it works, it gives me a great shot at playing with my wife. The easier, the better.

In fact, some gamers might even get laid for the first time. Girls will enjoy playing with Hugh Jackman!

...No chain.....wow. That.....that sucks. I will agree with Orange Soda........

No amount of effort can ever get over the way a Superhero Card Game looks to mainstream people Stu. I don't see how it can ever appeal to anyone outside of the Hobby Shop crowd. The normal person won't even start with it being a card game.

well the idea is that Wally world and drug/medical stores will carry packs [like they already do for pokemon and yugioh and bakugan].

That will be OUR job. We need to make new friends, and bring them into the cult of the Trading Card Game.

We can do this. Yes we can.

It worked for pokemon and yugioh. People saw the card game based off the tv show / videogame and bought it. Marvel superstars may not bring in as many people as the other two, since the movies aren't geared directly towards kids, but it does have a decent amount of former vs players to make up for it.

We've been clamoring for years that vs doesn't have a tv show or video game like yugioh or pokemon to back it up. Now we get a card game based off of the movies with wide appeal, and people are still clamoring

Pokemon and YGO have cartoons, and are heavily marketed at children. Big difference. VS I never saw ANY marketing outside of hobby shops.

They buy the packs at Wal Mart and play where? At hobby shops of course. At some point they are going to be in that environment, and than the normal person is going to be turned off by the D&D , card games, and Miniture games going on. I can talk my friends into playing Castle Crashers on my xbox, or video games, but any kind of card game discussion is usually laughed at off the bat and dismissed. Its just how mainstream feels about Card game hobbys deserving or not.
People have asked me about Magic, and its always ''You still play Pokemon / YGO'', because its the only perception they have of card games. Than I sit and explain Magic is older than either, and is marketed more at adults. Doesn't stop the perception card games are for kids.

ill drop the issue for now, but I've seen nothing that gives the average Magic player or similar to care and get involved. If I get proven wrong so be it, but as it stand Zendikar is coming in October and I see no reason to save my money for Marvel instead.

Wow like what the hell, I was really lookin forward to this game as I'm not enjoying the other games out now (epic,magic, yugioh, etc). But I don't know now. how could ude take the one of the most interesting aspect of a card game out. Now the game is gonna be just dule and quick.
Its like ude is trying to fuse yugioh with some vs aspects minus the chain. This is crazy stuff.

Not to happy hear. (But don't get me wrong I will try out the game once release. But its keeping me interested may be the problem. And without the chain there is only so much "fun" I can have.)

Quick question though. Is there now or in the past ever been a card game where the chain wasn't involved. And if so how was its success?

Answer is Pokemon, and that game has been around for around 15 years with amazing success at worldwide levels.

I don't play it, I've played a couple games but that's about it. Aside from it being about pkmn, I enjoyed it. If there was a VS clone that used the pkmn engine, I'd 'prolly play it.

If they can sell this card in every Wal-Mart, Target, and Toys R Us in the world, they can make serious dough, and that it a lot easier with pictures of the movies on them instead of pictures of Cosmic Boy and Mr. Sinister on the boxes.

However, the chain is a good part of any game. It's nice, everything has a place, everything can be traced. I am not a big fan of static abilities.

"When does it happen?"
"Right now."
"Can I respond to it?"
"No sorry, it just happened."
"When"
"Just then."
"But I thought it was now."
"You just missed it."

walmart restock plz