Transformers TCG Series 3 out June 28th

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Soundwave and the cassettes Ravage & Laserbeak from facebook... which are regular cards (not a special pack which I had mistakenly guessed a few posts back).
Each one has a rank/role like most of the 3rd series Character Cards, with Soundwave being a Major, and the cassettes being Raiders.
They all use their WFC toy modes on the cards.

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Rare character card Skywarp (with special abilities relating to Secret Actions), and battle cards that utilise the element of transforming between modes... but the cards are only useful if the characters have a special ability that is activated when they transform.

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From the latest battle card reveal, I think I might have an idea of what the new black icon cards might be for (if not already revealed and I just missed it).

The different coloured battle cards so far (the icon on the top right of the card), when drawn during a battle...
Orange - for attack.
Blue - for defence.
White - to draw two more cards if drawn first.
Green - allows a swapping of green cards between hand and in battle? (introduced in series 2)
Black - "Pierce" during attack. (introduced in series 3)

In other words, if you draw a black icon during a battle and you are the attacking party, it looks like you add one "pierce" (guaranteed damage) to your "pierce" count (up to your total attack number).

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Some more card reveals while we were offline...


Firecons - Raider Flamefeather, Raider Cindersaur, Sergeant Sparkstalker.
Those were revealed on the Kotaku website, so it looks like WOTC are having some series 3 reveals done through other sites (most are being done through their own sites this time though).


Captain Elita-1 - who appears to have some special abilities relating to an episode of the cartoon, in which she can do a fair bit of repairing of others, at the expense of herself though.


Emergency Defence shield - a "rare" upgrade card that protects against "even numbered" damage in battle, of any amount, for a single use only.



Callous Leadership & Heroic Team Up - a couple of allegiance-specific battle cards, which only applies to Autobots or Decepticons on your team.

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Those Firecons are amazing. Marcelo knocked them out of the park!

I hope this kicks Hasbro up the whazoo and gets them made into toys. Though that Kotaku article wouldn't have helped

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Three battle cards have been revealed, which are all from the new "Secret Action" gimmick, which allows you to have a card in play that only gets revealed if needed.


And following the reveal of the three Firecons, comes a Firecon Battle Card.

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More character cards revealed (can there be too many more?)...



General Optimus and General Megatron.


Raider Blowpipe.