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What is your favorite card in this new Nightcrawler pack?

Worth sprinting home for! (Wish I could have BAMF'd.) Nightcrawler looks amazing and just my style!

First they give me Iceman to get into the game. Now Nightcrawler. Love it.

That little critter in the corner is called a Bamf. They're little "demons" that are associated with Nightcrawler and sort of listen to him.

This could be the hero that finally gets me into protection.

Spider Gwen loving “change of fortune.”

I’m so excited for Kurt I’m listening to this a second time ❤

Change of Fortune is absolutely crazy in Ghost Spider perfect defense decks with Spider UK

Notice that "Under Control" doesn't discard after the minion attacks and/or takes damage, so if you put it on a beefier minion, they can take multiple instances of damage from it (I'm looking at you, prelates of Apocalypse!) Also, it says "After a hero defends...", so as the minion is passed with the first player, the new first player can trigger it if they defend and don't take damage, it's not just you or your hero that can trigger it. I'm envisioning a deck with this and "Containment Strategy" where you deal damage and remove threat simply by playing a perfect defense.

Love the collaboration you guys are awesome!

Awesome video - so glad you recorded the joint reaction video! I think Under Control is very good for perfect defense heroes. Oftentimes the villain is punching too hard to reliably trigger a perfect defense, so if you have ample allies to chump block the villain but want to use your defense each round, I think this card is exceptionally strong and incentivizes defending more than just the villain - Particularly when you pair it with Change of Fortune and Unflappable (to kill the minion, draw 3 cards, maybe remove threat with hard to ignore).

Amazing video. I love your collab with villantheory. I have almost all the collection despite it's really hard to keep it up in Russia. Really love the game. ❤ from Russia!

Always love heroes that are built heavy with protection in mind.

I love Teleport Drop. I’ve never seen nightcralwer as an offensive menace due to most of the allies/enemies he’s shown with. But dropping someone out of the sky and letting gravity do the heavy…pulling…is quite effective on many marvel villains.

I'd love if Nightcrawler's signature ally was the Bamfs from that one comic, but that seems unlikely. Otherwise, this is just perfect for me and since Nightcrawler is my favorite X-Man I couldn't be happier. A cheap kit with a unique and interesting mechanic, good for Protection, and a form-changing card. Let's gooo!

the 2 allies are crazies : Rogue with ally Prof X, you thwart fort 8 + confuse or 13 ! With Gambit, MPV ally in a shield deck (Global logistic/Blindlofd) or Scarlet Witch (her capacity) and her crown (plus one) ! With him, more the deck is harder, more better he is

Worth mentioning; you can use Rapid Teleportation to fetch the Bamf! from discard if you need a Strength resource. Pretty narrow case, but it came to mind.

Looks like that character in the corner is Beast. It’s the cover of 2013 Amazing X-Men #1. Rest of it has the X-Men team. Loving the art choices on this one. Did our boy Kurt proud 😁 same for Rogue and Gambit allies!

Rogue gives you a way to actually kill deadpool, so that's funny. Love that Nightcrawler is finally announced!

ooh, imagine pulling "Dragon" (From Mojo mayhem) out for Gambit (4 boosts), and boosting Gambit and healing him. He'd like another full hero on your board if you could keep him alive. Of course, that would be super situational, and a one in a million pull. But I'd love to focus a deck on that just to try and make it happen. :)

A 3 player game with iceman nightcrawler and cyclops is gonna go crazy

So happy about this!!!! Thank you!

I cannot wait! And it releases just before my birthday!

Super hyped for this pack! Great preview guys!

In the comics there are Bamfs from hell. They are miniature elf nightcrawler clones that help him in various storylines. Wouldnt be shocked if he gets 2-4 of them. Im guessing 3 bamfs, and his sword to round out the kit or 2 bamfs and 2 swords.

Unadvertised cards I'm expecting for his kit: A 2 cost rapier/ cutlass upgrade that gives him +1 attack and retaliate. Maybe this could be two 1 cost upgrades if they want to make them a pair like Drax's knives Some sort of Chapel support card that gives him a conditional heal or helps cycle cards back into his deck An Amanda Sefton signature ally Azazel as his Nemesis, with a side scheme that does damage whenever a Bamf! enters the discard pile due to a card effect

31:57 that was my first thought on him. He can keep a card out of the villain deck.

Very excited for this pack. Great art, and I gravitate towards perfect defense shenanigans.

Yasssssssss

Rogue will be insanely powerful with someone who has a high attack. Thinking of someone like Hulk, maybe Wolverine

Maybe this has been answered with other cards but Under Control brings up an interaction question with Valkyrie. Assume we are playing true solo. If Valk defeds against the minion and it has Death-Glow and Under Control attached, did Valkyrie defeat the minion for the Death-Glow trigger? Sentence 1&2 seem to contradict in this case. • Upgrades - Unless attached to a different character, upgrade cards are considered to be an extension of the controlling player’s identity. Attacks, thwarts, defenses, action abilities, and triggered abilities that resolve on upgrades in play under a player’s control are also considered to be resolved by that player’s identity.

Regarding hero defense and Under Control - Couldn't you play something like Jump Flip, since you typically know how much a minion will hit you, so it makes you 'defend' the attack, reduces the damage taken, removes threat, and whacks the minion for 4 damage. It's 3ER if you include the Under Control cost for 4 damage, 2 damage reduction, and 2 threat off the main. It's an interesting card. Something to keep an eye on as the card pool grows.

Looking at the numbering, I'm betting on three copies of Bamf! in the deck. It's card 6 of the whole deck and card 5 in Nightcrawler's set. Card 7 for the whole deck is 'Port and Punch, which is card 8 in his set. So 5, 6, 7 of his set should be Bamf! I'm super excited for this pack. I've been wanting Nightcrawler since X-Men were first announced. Now they just need to give me Beast.

I'm a bit excited about the Queen keyword. If we get a Hellfire Club Scenario Pack, we'll potentially have Black, White, and Grey Queens and Kings. They could do a lot with those Key-Words. Might be fun if we get a Magneto hero pack (believe he was the Grey King when he led the X-Men).

Good stuff!

Makes that side scheme upgrade from angel that removes threat when you defend and don’t take damage, much more playable now

I think we still shuffle for Gambit. Similar to Hawkeye’s Quiver

I'm most excited to get change of fortune on Black Panther, with a bunch of extra retaliate on him.

Great vidéo ! I am so excited about Diablo, I like everything I saw : love the character, protection, bamf mechanic, signature cards, new archétype with the green upgrade, allies, combine so well with Cyclop…September is so far ?!

Astonishing X-Men has to be misprinted. Having a 5 threat side scheme that players can thwart to instantly stun and confuse all enemies seems way overpowered (not to mention weird if nobody is playing with x-men). My guess is that you can’t thwart it regularly.

Iceman got two snow clones so perhaps Nightcrawler will get two bamfs.

I think we might see like 4 Bamfs in the deck, that would be cool. what i like is that there is a use for them other than just attaching to enemies, so if you are playing a scenario that doesn't have many minions it still has a use. I also really like the green cards, I love playing a retaliate/punishing the enemies for attack me deck, so they will just be more tools in my kit :D

IMO, Astonishing X-men is missing something: "per player icon" and/or Hinder combo even if "2: hinder3". We have these existing mechanics for a reason :( Also, Executioner, on reveal, will "Attack" (not merely "activate") vs target even if the player is in AE! For those going home to rest on lowHP...and may/may not have a chump-block at the time. AND he WILL just target an ally on 1-2HP remaining (leaving a healthy ID alone) and thus you have to actively block with some other "healthy" source. He gonna be a BAD MAN! He gonna EAT allies!

blew my mind. Finally something new! finally lots of new ideas in cards from Kurts to the allies to the minions. This is what keeps the game alive. Need this now not september :'(

Change of Fortune HYPE

Let's goooooo

What do you guys think are going to be the remaining Nightcrawler cards? Bamf started at card number 5, so what are cards 1-4? His sword? An ally? Any other predictions?

I think rogue is so obviously good she's making Gambit fly under the radar in leadership recurring gambit with like to me my X-Men pixie and make the call you could see/control so many villain cards

The text in the article says Rogue can get Gambit's boost, but wouldn't that contradict the "printed stat" rule?

Bamf! makes Bait and Switch really tempting.

Nelson - which Villains do you think have the best decks to test a new charachter on pls? Great channel ☺️

Let's GOOOO FUZZY!!!

I am very excited for protection to get so many new toys! Also, his name is pronounced with a V, so "Vagner".

Wait, I interpreted Bamf as redirecting enemies attacks to yourself without declaring a defense, meaning you don’t get to defend you just take the hit. Are you saying that. Bamf allows you to re-direct AND defend for 3 without exhausting?

My first thought with Rogue is using her in protection X-23. The damage can ready X-23 and make Rogue a 4 thwart in protection which is huge. X-23 protection can usually handle threat fine anyway just because she’s so strong but being able to focus on attacking mostly while Rogue does huge chunks of thwart could be huge. Rogue also is amazing with Professor X or Nick Fury, since you don’t care about pinging them with damage and they can boost her stats wildly.

OK, so Rogue becomes a web-warrior and when she goes away triggers Web of Life and Desteny

I'd guess we'll have Nightcrawler's blade to add +1 to his ATK

Thinking if you could get rogue and wolverine together in a Cyclops deck. Wolverine taies just the one damage, and then heals up.

Looks like the first hero that makes me want to play protection! re: Gambit, what villains/mod/encounters have the most cards with 3-4 boost icons on them?

I don't think he'll have a signature ally since Rogue is his "sister" and she's already Gambit's, I can't think of anyone else, but he might have a sword or two (or three with the tail) as upgrades. BTW, in the Asmodee store you can see Azazel is his Nemesis (DNA father), so it will be interesting how he counter the BAMF with his own BAMF

bamf bamf bamf 💥

My first guess is that the first three cards will be an ally, his rapier/sword, and an alter-ego Cathedral support. Hoping the ally will be Beast and they have a Team-up card called “Blue(s) Brothers” or something like that

Is bamf permanent upgrade?

Weird thought... Running a 40 card deck with a bunch of weak allys, intentionally recur executioner to thin out your deck so that you get your hero cards much more often? Nightcrawler getting bamf and his events much more often?

Rogue in a Hulk deck?

No audio!

So... "WAG-ner"?

The hero I'm most excited for and i cant hear a damn thing.