Rise of the Combiners Booster Packs

[Sharky]

Website has been updated to include the Rise of The Combiners Booster Box Product

https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-a...game/combiners

[KELPIE]

Website has been updated to include the Rise of The Combiners Booster Box Product

https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-a...game/combiners

The TCG mobile app has been updated as well.

[griffin]

Quick question, as I'm still getting the hang of the rules... when it says that you can only have a team that is equal or less than 25 stars, how are you able to play with the Optimus Maximus team, in order to make their combiner, since their total stars equals 46?
And if you want to use Metroplex, you can't use any others (other than his three bots hidden under him), because he has the maximum 25 stars.
And why limit it to 25 stars? Why not have an amount that is agreed to by both players (like 10-15 if you want a quick game, or 50 to 100 if you want a longer game that can involve more strategies to make the game more complex and interesting), and that is the limit in that game.

[KELPIE]

Haven't opened my Combiners set yet, so I can't help you, apologies.

I can confirm that my box of boosters came with Omega Supreme.

[BigTransformerTrev]

PART TWO of my Review of the RISE OF THE COMBINER BOOSTER PACKS is up now. You can view it HERE.

My review looks at the new cards in play, specifically I pit MENASOR against METROPLEX.

Some of the things you need to remember when deploying a Combiner (in this case Menasor):

* First off, don’t worry about if some of your Stunticons are KO’ed. You can still make them into Menasor.
* Unlike the G1 cartoon, to join all your characters together they all need to be in robot mode, even your KO’ed ones.
* You need to employ the Stunticon Enigma card. If this has been thrown to the discard pile, don’t worry, being a green card, it can be retrieved and swapped with one of your own.
* Once combined, Menasor will carry over any damage points taken by the individual Stunticons, so try to get him to combine before they get too hurt.
* When combined, you will discard all the Utility, Attack and Defense cards your individual bots were sporting, except one from each catagory which can then be applied to Menasor.

Haven't opened my Combiners set yet, so I can't help you, apologies.

I can confirm that my box of boosters came with Omega Supreme.

Yeah, I got an email from Hasbro asking to just spread around that that is the only way you get Omega Supreme (buying a whole booster box), they were worried about confusion regarding how to obtain him.

Quick question, as I'm still getting the hang of the rules... when it says that you can only have a team that is equal or less than 25 stars, how are you able to play with the Optimus Maximus team, in order to make their combiner, since their total stars equals 46?

You have a couple of characters hang back, only putting out characters that equal up to 25.

[griffin]

You have a couple of characters hang back, only putting out characters that equal up to 25.

Okay... so is that the one exception (and they are only used when formingg the combiner, fresh with no damage), or could you do that all of the time? In other words, can you have one combiner card at the front with some non-combiners as your fighting team, and the rest of that combiner team as "extra character cards at the back", to then be activated when forming the combiner, as it appears to be with Optimus Maximus?
(is all of this stuff covered in their rules updates on facebook, and I should just keep up with them?)

[BigTransformerTrev]

The combiner cards and this game have me really interested. Just a shame there appears to be no distributor here in Japan that I know of. Trev, find out for meeeeeee!

Odd considering how much Japan loves card game things.

I received a reply about this today mate, apparently no sadly, the cards will not be released in Japan and you would have to import them.

Okay... so is that the one exception (and they are only used when formingg the combiner, fresh with no damage), or could you do that all of the time? In other words, can you have one combiner card at the front with some non-combiners as your fighting team, and the rest of that combiner team as "extra character cards at the back", to then be activated when forming the combiner, as it appears to be with Optimus Maximus?
(is all of this stuff covered in their rules updates on facebook, and I should just keep up with them?)

As far as I know, this is the one exception as otherwise you could not make Combiner Characters whose Individual Component Characters had more than 25 Stars total. I don' believe you are allowed to use regular character cards in reserve.

[Sharky]

Quick question, as I'm still getting the hang of the rules... when it says that you can only have a team that is equal or less than 25 stars, how are you able to play with the Optimus Maximus team, in order to make their combiner, since their total stars equals 46?
And if you want to use Metroplex, you can't use any others (other than his three bots hidden under him), because he has the maximum 25 stars.
And why limit it to 25 stars? Why not have an amount that is agreed to by both players (like 10-15 if you want a quick game, or 50 to 100 if you want a longer game that can involve more strategies to make the game more complex and interesting), and that is the limit in that game.

Not Sure on the Op Max but there is room for for customisation in the game, if you and your opponent want to change the format limits/deck size thee is room for it


WotC Sent me a little Care Package, whilst i haven't gotten enough team members to complete a combiner you can read my initial thoughts if you wish

https://atouchofsharky.blogspot.com/...card-game.html

[BigTransformerTrev]

Not Sure on the Op Max but there is room for for customisation in the game, if you and your opponent want to change the format limits/deck size thee is room for it


WotC Sent me a little Care Package, whilst i haven't gotten enough team members to complete a combiner you can read my initial thoughts if you wish

https://atouchofsharky.blogspot.com/...card-game.html

Great write-up and pics mate!

[KELPIE]

Woo, I get a mention - I'm famous!!

Good write up mate.