OverPower - Card Sets

Card Sets

  • Marvel OverPower - The original release of the game, released middle 1995 by Fleer. Easily identified by the solid gold graphic on the borders of Special cards.
  • Powersurge - Released late 1995. Easily identified by the flame graphics on the borders of Special cards.
  • Mission Control - Released early 1996, introduced event cards. Easily identified by the computer chip graphics on the borders of Special cards.
  • DC OverPower (aka Batman/Superman OverPower, since all its characters were from these two heroes' storylines) - Released middle 1996, introduced the Intellect Power type. This set also introduced the inherent abilities, a line of text present in some character cards that enhanced (or restricted, in some cases) the character; and the allies, a new type of universe card.
  • IQ OverPower - Released late 1996, brought the Intellect Power type to Marvel characters, reprinting all Marvel characters released so far, now with Intellect values. This set also introduced eight new heroes.
  • JLA OverPower (JLA stands for Justice League of America) - Released early 1997, introduced the new tactic (doubleshot) cards.
  • Monumental OverPower - Released middle 1997, introduced the location cards, that added new mechanics to the game.
  • Classic OverPower - Released late 1997, introduced the artifacts, a new type of tactic card. This was the last set produced by Fleer.
  • Image OverPower - Released middle 1998. Strange as it may seem, the first set released by Marvel Comics introduced characters that, at that time, were published by Image Comics.
  • X-Men OverPower - Released January, 1999 was the second set produced by Marvel, and the last OverPower set ever released. It introduced the aspects, designed to make locations more useful as homebases. X-Men Overpower cards were cut incorrectly, being slightly larger than the other cards, which made decks mixing X-Men sets and other sets very hard to shuffle without sleeves.

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