Monumental OverPower
Released middle 1997, made "team characters" a major game concept (though this was not the first OverPower appearance of "team characters", as they had already appeared in DC OverPower with the release of Commissioner Gordon and the GCPD and Metropolis SCU, and even earlier in Mission Control with the release of the Brood and the Sentinels), character cards that represented a team, while its specials represented the members of that team. Monumental also introduced the location cards, that added new mechanics to the game. 289 cards, being 22 characters (16 new and 6 reprinted promotional characters), 118 specials (6 for each new character, 1 Any Character, and 21 of the previous Marvel characters also got a new special), 30 locations, 36 power cards (reprints with new artwork), 26 universe cards, 20 tactic cards, 2 missions of 7 cards each (14 cards total) and 23 events (6 for each new mission and 1 for each of the previous missions). Sold in 65-card random decks and 15-card booster packs. Some cards, like the missions, were only available in decks. New Characters: The Acolytes, Alpha Flight, The Enforcers, The Hand, The Hellfire Club, Hydra, Inhumans, The Kree, The Marauders, The Morlocks, New Warriors, The Reavers, The Serpent Society, The Shi'ar, The Starjammers and X-Babies.
There were also three variant cards: Shi'ar Lilandra special (with Shi'ar misspelled Sh'iar in the card text), The Hellfire Club Tessa special with a JA code (instead of AA), and The Hellfire Club Sebastian Shaw special without the TM code. These are all common enough and make a complete set 292 including variants.
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