Hello everyone and welcome to another Atomic Mass Games transmission!
The Marvel: Crisis Protocol documents have been updated to include the new characters and Team Tactic Cards in CP129: Blue Marvel and Spectrum and remove The Great Refuge Team Tactic Card from the Standard Format. You can find the Base Size, Affiliation List, and the new Formats documents on the Rules page for Marvel: Crisis Protocol on our website. The Challenger document can be found on the Organized Play page for Marvel: Crisis Protocol.
Since releasing The Great Refuge, we have noticed an emergent play pattern centered on early KO’s with little counterplay. This kind of interaction does not align with our design philosophy, so we have made the decision to remove The Great Refuge from the Standard Format.
We’ve noticed some confusion around Marvel: Crisis Protocol and how the Banned and Restricted list, The Challenger Event Document, and the Timeline Event Document interact and relate to each other so we’d like to take a moment and chat about all that!
We’ve renamed the Banned and Restricted document to the Formats document and moved the list of all legal cards for a format into that document from the Challenger Event Document. The changes were made to clarify what is meant for Standard games of Crisis Protocol and what is meant for players using the Challenger Event rules for Crisis Protocol.
The “Standard” format is what we here at Atomic Mass Games develop and design the game for primarily – this is every day play between friends, colleagues, and even strangers meeting up to play Crisis Protocol. That is not to say that we do not pay attention to and wish to curate the experience of Challenger players, but Standard is our primary focus. Standard is the primary driver of what we put our efforts into and what we describe in the Core Rule Book.
There is no mention of any of the above documents in the Core Rule Book, however we do suggest that people playing Standard play adhere to the “Standard” format Banned and Restricted list – this list is put together to remove cards or restrict access to cards that have been problematic from a balance perspective. We consider the Standard list of cards balanced and appropriate for every day play. Any additional formats with their own Banned and Restricted lists are also contained inside of this document and should be played by players wanting a more open and less restricted access to all of the components previously released for the game. You may notice the name of these lists have changed from Timelines to Formats – more on that in a moment!
The Challenger Event Document is meant for players that want to engage in more competitive events and is designed around tournaments. It gives an even more restrictive way to play than the Standard Format by further reducing the number of options available to players in the form of Crisis Cards. Players playing non-Challenger games should feel free to utilize any and all Crisis Cards legal in the format they wish to play (Standard or Extended for example), but the Challenger Event Document further restricts what Crisis may be included in rosters due to several reasons ranging from balance to play experience or even narrative.
The Timeline Event Document has not seen an update at this time, but we would like to call out the change in name from the Banned and Restricted list document to no longer call out “Timelines”. The use of this name in two different places to mean two different things, while very thematic, was confusing. We’ve removed the references to Timelines from all non-Timeline Event documents to decrease this confusion.
Hopefully that helps bring clarity to everything! Thank you all for tuning in!
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