At long last, the delayed-by-Corona World set Justice League Unlimited is out! Here’s a (hopefully) complete checklist for both the figures — main set and starter set — and the 120-ish Team Up Cards.
Above is a low res preview. You get two copies of the pocket checklist and one list for the Team Up Cards.
Download the PDF from this link:
Every year, a batch of clix heads off into Golden Age. And every year, Heroclixin’ feels some type of way.
5-Figure Booster Sets (including Organized Play game elements and incentives associated with each set)
Fast Forces Packs
No one in Heroclixin’ bought any of this set. Rurouni KJS has thought about picking up some of them individually, but talked himself out of it every time.
In the height of X-Men ID card meta, I guess Rusty was usable? Or am I confusing him with the regular set version?
The Cyclops was a bargain basement option for the ID card(s), but that’s over. It’s canceled.
The Hawkeye was kinda OK and of course I love Black Panther. Otherwise there was not one damn thing apart from Giant-Girl that anyone cared for in this.
I may have bought the Donatello as a single from this set. Maybe. I’m sure I played it once if I did. I think?
Starter Sets
Ah, the starter set, where many a new Heroclix player gets a shot at learning the game … or would if we vets didn’t buy up every one in search of new maps, a new rulebook and the possible meta piece in each one.
Scant weeks before a fully revamped rulebook was set to release in late summer 2017, WizKids put out this, the second of TWO last-gasp starters with the old ruleset.
Kinda fitting that we never used one damn single piece from it.
(Well, OK, maybe Rurouni KJS used the Cyborg from it once maybe)
Now THIS was the real thing: the new rules and all. And it included Hulk, a figure that would always be meta-adjacent at minimum.
Heroclixin’ only got one fig from this set, but webmaster pal Chadd loved the HELL out these pieces and put them to great use more than once.
Micro Sets
A rare excursion by WizKids into non-license territory, this set was a lot of F.U.N. and almost entirely void of meta potential, so no great loss for it going Golden.
I liked getting black Valkyrie and Heimdall in this, but neither got much play in Modern.
A few of the Foot generics saw the meta field. It’ll be good to be able to officially play the chase Donatello in Golden Age even without the character card (that was missing from boosters more often than not due to WizKids’ famous Quality (out of) Control)
Convention Exclusive and Limited Edition Game Elements
Usually, con exclusives get a longer lease on Modern life and these releases from 2017 were no exception.
2017 Convention Exclusives and Limited Edition Game Elements:
2018 Convention Exclusives and Limited Edition Game Elements:
But WHOA. Here’s the exception: This stuff released months after even the most recent sets in this round of retirement:
WizKids just decided that ID Card meta will no longer be a thing in HeroClix anymore. And we of Heroclixin’ are ALL FOR IT. Much like feat cards and resources did before, IDs reduced high-level play too much to fighting elements off the board with no counter apart from one or two silver bullets among hundreds of pieces available in Modern Age.
Good riddance!
Finally, there’s these departures:
Monthly Organized Play Sets
As hinted by the opening image, yours truly (Rurouni KJS) will miss … um … Miss America.
COVID-19 continues to disrupt our lives in America. Heroclixin’ is no exception. Ye olde webmaster Rurouni KJS is preoccupied with finding new employment, so I haven’t been thinking much about keeping this blog fresh. And it’s not like we’re able to get much in the way of tabletop F.U.N. with social distancing being a thing.
But I can’t abandon Heroclixin’ entirely, or even at all. So it’s time for me to spend a little of this extra time digging out some posts that have been languishing in draft status for A WHILE.
The first is an installment in a little series I INTENDED to publish in recognition of Heroclixin’s 10th anniversary last year: How yours truly and fellow board members Sceritz and Taylor even got started playing this great game.
So this is a mea culpa to Taylor, aka The Baker Tay, aka TBT, who answered the call early and I just sat on his writeup for a whole dang year.
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Heroclix started in my life as a goal.
My first piece was Hypertime Aquaman #52. I grabbed him off a “free” table at my first anime/games/etc convention at Otakon in Baltimore, Maryland.
It was the coolest thing ever.
Jump ahead a few years, and I found the Watchmen Fast Forces at a local music and games shop. I loved that store, I was still interested about the game, and one day I knew I’d play it with someone. I picked it up. I still had no clue how to play.
It was the coolest thing ever.
I’m a mostly full-grown adult, moved a (literal) thousand miles away, and I took a vacation back to a convention with a bunch of friends that I missed dearly. In that con was my first game of Heroclix. In a sealed event of War of Light, It was me against another new player. The judge was probably the epitome of an enthusiast, and he got to me. I loved the game. I played the Lost Lanterns Arisia and Graf Toren with an Orange Lantern Construct, and I can’t remember what my opponent played. I didn’t care. It brought comic books to life. It was intoxicating, even with the loss I took that day. The judge gave me a Kyle Rayner LE (yes, THAT Kyle Rayner) as a thank-you for playing, and the Green Lantern Battery. I couldn’t stop thinking about it all vacation.
It was the coolest thing ever.
I go back home to the great “A”, with a determination to play this game more than once in ten years. Thanks to the internet, I find a local game store, play more consistently, meet Rurouni KJS and Sceritz… and it snowballed from there. I still love that stupid, very-strong Kyle Rayner. I also hope I find that guy who taught me how to play. I owe him a game or two.
Coolest. Thing. Ever.
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And that was the coolest intro to HeroClix ever!