The Monthly Venture Issue 1
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Welcome to The OverPower Legion!
As the official publication of The OverPower Legion, The Monthly Venture will take you inside OverPower with helpful tips on playing, information about top OverPower players and their strategies for winning, plus inside information about the people who bring it all together.
Most of all, the Legion is about you -- the OverPower player. AS your forum for OverPower news and updates, we need your input to make it successful and keep it successful. After all, without you, none of this would be possible.
Tell us what we're doing right -- and doing wrong. What you want to see and what you don't want to see. Do you have a favorite deck that you think is unbeatable? Tell us what it is! Do you have a picture of you and your friends playing? Send it to us!
Send letters to: Address removed (Sorry but we won't be able to return anything you send us.)
Next month: The Galactus Hero Card!
Until then -- venture well!
9 Really Fine Facts About OverPower
- The original name of OverPower was Power Players.
- The original game mechanic was designed by brothers Michael and Theo Stern, both active in the gaming field for over nine years.
- The original hero cards had both offensive and defensive Power Grids as well as rating for movement and flight -- allowing them to "climb" onto Universe cards.
- Todd McFarlane (Spawn) did the pencils for the Web-Headed Wizard card. (The pencils were originally used for the cover of Wizard #50.)
- The art used on Mission Cards that were based on actual Marvel storylines (like The Infinity Gauntlet) was scanned into a computer right from the original art from the comic books. Computer coloring was used then to further enhance the images.
- Richard Garfield (creator and designer of Magic: The Gathering) play-tested OverPower at the Origins Convention in Philadelphia in July, 1995. He loved it!
- There were over 60 heroes scheduled to appear in the first release of OverPower. Due to odds of getting your favorite hero being low, the number was trimmed to 39 and most of the heroes later appeared in PowerSurge and soon, Mission Control.
- Two versions of the Wolverine Fighting 6 card exist. One was a promo card distributed at conventions that had Wolverine's name on it. The other, and final version, appears without Wolverine's name. The promo card is now highly collectible!
- There were no icons on the original OverPower cards.
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OverPower Tournament News
We're here, we're there, we're everywhere! Fleer's first sanctioned OverPower Tournament was held this past November at the Kansas City ComicCon. Congratulations to our winners, Rockwell Green and Darren Fisher. They're now proud members of the OverPower Legion!
More recently, we visited the Philadelphia ComicCon the weekend of January 12-14. Congratulations to our winner, Anthony Winters. For his efforts, Anthony took home an uncut sheet of rare PowerSurge Specials. We try to get to every major convention we can. Unfortunately, not all of you live in a city nearby. But, we still want you to play in a sanctioned tournament! Tell the retailer where you buy OverPower that we're here to help them hold sanctioned tournaments in their store! all they need to do is call 1-800-OP-RULES. We'll send them all the information they need to do it!
So... What's It to Yue?
Get to know OverPower's #1 guy on the Internet, Frank Yue.
As our #1 voice of reason on the internet, Frank Yue (pronounced "you") seems to have more information about OverPower than Fleer does.
Asked how he got into the game, Frank replies, "Spider Man. I love Spider-Man" So much so, that he even has an "All Spider-Team" deck -- consisting of Spider-Man, Carnage, Venom and Spider-Woman (who may have since been replaced with Scarlet Spider from PowerSurge).
But, Frank's true killer tournament deck is what he called the "Hef Heh" deck. "The term Hef-Heh means 'Hit-Em-Fast-Hit-En-Hard.'" says Frank. "Originally my Hef-He deck came to life because I wanted to try to build a competitive deck with a balanced team. Up to this point I was using single skill decks. The Hef-Heh deck was build around a strong balanced team, using Teamwork cards to complement them. My original Hef-Heh deck has Professor X, Sabretooth, Thing and Iron Man in reserve. In the deck, I put 22(!) Teamwork cards and a lot of Power cards. There were no Universe items or Training cards and only 10 Specials. I hoped that I could play teamwork cards and high power cards with the teamwork bonus to KO a hero very fast. Since this team is essentially defenseless, I need to either concede or KO their heroes quickly."
Believe us, we've seen the Hef-Heh deck in action ... it's truely amazing! Make sure you check out Frank's super-cool web page! You can locate it at: Address removed
Commander's Corner
This month, we're talking Power cards and the Power Pack!
Assume you have selected your four Heroes; their Power Grids total less than 58. You've chosen the appropriate Specials, Universe, and Training cards that you deck will contain. Now you're ready to add some Power cards. How many should you put in? Which ones? How many MultiPower cards should you use? As a guideline, when selecting Power cards try to stick to about four of any given value Power card. Examine your Hero's Power Grids. Start with Energy and find the highest possible value one of your Heroes could use. Place one or two of that Power card in your deck. If more than one Hero can use that Power card value, place two. Continue to examine the different values in descending order. If only one Hero can use a particular Power card, select one or none at all. Repeat this process with Fighting and Strength Power cards. When you're done, you continued on Page 3
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