Another day of awesome Wave 3 news from the Transformers Trading Card Game crew, with Designer and Creative Lead Matt Smith placing Captain Wheeljack into the mix and explaining nuances within this most recent batch of reveals:

• While you might find reasons to flip them back to alt mode, these characters mostly just ask to be flipped once per game, letting you spend your flip economy elsewhere.
• Each character that starts with a “signature” card is featured on that cards artwork. Wave 1 (when applicable) and in the new Siege set.
• Each character’s bot mode ability synergizes with their signature card. If you fulfill your Brainstorm you’ll get a free draw from Wheeljack, Ratchet will buff his attack, Trailbreaker will have Brave, and Ultra Magnus will prevent the spread damage he does to himself.

Waiting only hours in between Wave 3 card news today, the official social media accounts for the Transformers Trading Card Game give a signal boost to Pojo’s exclusive reveal of Private Mudslinger:

Here’s a set of tires it’s probably best not to kick. Guard your ramps, because PRIVATE MUDSLINGER is gonna launch off of ’em!

Review all of our Wave 3 coverage here, then chat away on the 2005 boards!

Mere days after the reveal of Private Trailbreaker, Transformers Trading Card Game Designer Scott Van Essen debuts another Wave 3 card while explaining in his Confessions of a Lazy Game Designer column the reasons for select reprints:

“When you have a character that is tightly associated with “doing a thing”, and that thing is representable in the game, you want to put the character and the mechanic on cards that can be tied together. In War for Cybertron: Siege I, we have chosen to do this with three characters whose alt modes let you start the game with a thematically relevant reprint card in your hand and a bot mode that is synergistic with that card. I’m sure you’ve figured out by now that I’m building up to a reveal, and I am happy to say that this was not only one of my favorite cards in the set, and the core of the deck I playtested the most, it’s also a character we haven’t printed yet that we’ve gotten a lot of requests for. Who is it? Take another look at that sweet new Medic! art.”

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Transformers Trading Card Game Design Lead Ken Nagle brings great wave 3 news to us today, with the reveal of Private Trailbreaker:

Trailbreaker is a good-humored Autobot with the power to create forcefields. He is a light in the darkness. In the TransformersTCG, Trailbreaker is part of a 3-card cycle of characters that each find a “signature” battle card. You do this before the game begins so there’s not a halt during the game to find a particular card. It’s a bonus card in your opening hand so it helps you start the game ahead.

Read the full details of this character reveal here, then join in the discussion on the 2005 boards!