Welcome to the first and already delayed
Living Legacy design blog. I'm Guglio (but of course you know this).
For those that don't know, I am part of the wonderful team of Fantasy Card Creators on TCGPlayer called The Set Masters. Concieved by myself and Comic_Book_Guy over a year and a half ago, I am the only member since its inception to remain on the team (much like the Doom Patrol and Robotman).
This time, we put out a set filled with all sorts of random teams. Over the course of whenever I have time to create these, you'll be hearing from me and Kaku Fan (the two designers on this project) about what we did, and why we did it.
Today, the subject is
Checkmate.
We know you all love Checkmate! Except of course, Checkmate really means Team Ahmed Samsarra. That's the first thing we set out to fix. We wanted them to be a good mono team as well as team up team.
Another addition was the Great Ten. With August General in Iron becoming a Black Bishop in the Hierarchy of the shadowy organization, I felt it was necessary to have them included. It allowed us to shave off unnecessary characters no one cared about and use the brand new Chinese team.
After that, it was simple. Choose the best 5 cards to reprint (we used Pawn of the Black King, Traitor to the Cause, Maxwell Lord, and the Brother Eye / I Satellite). Max became the legend, and was outfitted with all sorts of cool abilities.
Not much to say on Checkmate, so this introduction is good enough as is. I'll see you guys next time when we examine The Rogues.
Cheers,
Chris "Guglio" Guglielmelli
Tags: Checkmate Set Masters
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