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| ==Transformers Trading Card Game== | | ==''Spotlight'' images== |
| After the launch of the ''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' in toy form, its character models and design sensibilities soon filtered into other ''Transformers'' media, first with the [[Transformers (2019 comic)|2019 ongoing comic book]] and later with the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|Netflix-original cartoon]] on the horizon. It's no surprise, then, that [[Wizards of the Coast]]'s [[Transformers Trading Card Game]] also adopted some of ''War for Cybertron'''s conventions, beginning with its third wave, entitled "''War for Cybertron: Siege I''". While broadly following the same ranking system as the toyline, the card game has its own idiosyncrasies: for starters, the actual insignias are not used, and while each character receives a division and rank, units are usually absent. Each character also receives a function; for example, Optimus Prime's ''Siege I'' card is named "General Optimus Prime – Infantry · Leader", where "Leader" is his function.
| | I been working on replacing all pre-digital IDW comics images with versions taken from Comixology and Humble Bundle releases. ''Spotlight'' as a category is ''massive'', so I've made a checklist for myself to keep track of which volume I need to be looking at. |
| ===''Siege I'' Autobots===
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| ! scope="col" width="10%" | Infantry
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| ! scope="col" width="10%" | Recon / Intelligence
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| ! scope="col" width="10%" | Engineering
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| ! scope="col" width="10%" | Special Ops
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| ! scope="col" width="10%" | Artillery
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| !'''General'''
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| |[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]<br>[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]
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| |[[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]]<br>[[Overdrive]]
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| !'''Private'''
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| |[[Red Hot|Red Heat]]<br>[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]<br>[[Stakeout (G1)|Stakeout]]<br>[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]]
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| |[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]<br>[[Camshaft (G1)|Camshaft]]<br>[[Downshift (G1)|Downshift]]<br>[[Mudslinger (G1)|Mudslinger]]<br>[[Tote]]
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| '''Ground Command:'''<ref name="artillerycommand">In what is going to become a recurring theme for [[Battle Master]]s, the cards for Firedrive, Lionizer, Pteraxadon, and Smashdown all use a "division · unit" layout instead of the standard "unit · function". Since all four have the "function" of "Artillery", this table has elected to put them in the Artillery ''unit''.</ref><br>[[Firebolt (G1)|Firedrive]]<br>[[Lionizer (G1)|Lionizer]]<br>[[Smashdown]]
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| '''Air Command:'''<ref name="artillerycommand"/><br>[[Pteraxadon]]
| | <center><gallery widths="100px" heights="100px"> |
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| !'''Specialist'''
| | File:SLBlurr starscream recruits blurr.jpg |
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| | File:Spotlight Blurr simultronic.jpg |
| |[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]]
| | File:Spotlight Blurr The Circle exterior.jpg |
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| | File:Spotlight Blurr The Circle interior.jpg |
| {{reflist|close=1}}
| | File:SpotlightBlurr Citadel.jpg |
| | | File:SpotlightBlurr-ImTheNews.jpg |
| ===''Siege I'' Decepticons=== | | File:SpotlightBlurr-Optimus.jpg |
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| | </gallery></center> |
| ! scope="col" width="10%" | [[File:Symbol decept reg.png|50px]]
| | ====Jazz==== |
| ! scope="col" width="10%" | Infantry
| | <center><gallery widths="100px" heights="100px"> |
| ! scope="col" width="10%" | Espionage
| | File:Predacons SL Jazz.jpg |
| ! scope="col" width="10%" | Medical
| | File:Shuttle spotlight jazz.JPG |
| ! scope="col" width="10%" | Applied Sciences
| | File:SpotlightJazz FirstAid Tracks.jpg |
| ! scope="col" width="10%" | Black Ops
| | File:SpotlightJazz-BeachcomberCosmos.jpg |
| ! scope="col" width="10%" | Weapons
| | File:SpotlightJazz-promise.jpg |
| ! scope="col" width="10%" | Transport
| | </gallery></center> |
| ! scope="col" width="10%" | "Air Force"<ref name="needlenose">The cards for Needlenose and Triggerhappy list "Air Force" as their unit, when it usually considered a division. Unlike the Battle Masters, their functions do not concretely correspond to a proper unit: Needlenose's function is "Soldier", while Triggerhappy's is "Gunner".</ref>
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| | <center><gallery widths="100px" heights="100px"> |
| !'''General'''
| | File:SpotlightDrift Deadlockisdead.jpg |
| |[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]
| | File:SpotlightDrift-car.jpg |
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| | File:Turmoil pinned by Drift.jpg |
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| | File:Turmoil MainPic.jpg |
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| | </gallery></center> |
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| | ====Cliffjumper==== |
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| !'''Major'''
| | File:SpotlightCliffjumper Kita.jpg |
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| |[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]
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| | ====Metroplex==== |
| |[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]
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| | File:SixshotTank SpotlightMetroplex.jpg |
| !'''Captain'''
| | File:Spotlight Metroplex Chase.jpg |
| |[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]
| | File:Spotlight Metroplex Searchlight Goldbug Rollbar.jpg |
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| !'''Sergeant'''
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| |[[Shrapnel (G1)|Skrapnel]]
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| | ====Prowl==== |
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| |[[Sparkstalker]]<br>[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]
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| | </gallery></center> |
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| | ====Orion Pax/Omega's Conundrum==== |
| !'''Raider'''
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| |[[Detour (G1)|Detour]]<br>[[Ion Storm]]<br>[[Road Hugger (G1)|Road Hugger]]<br>[[Runabout (G1)|Runabout]]<br>[[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]]<br>[[Storm Cloud (G1)|Storm Cloud]]<br>[[Whisper (G1)|Visper]]
| | File:Bludgeon Thundercracker SLOrionPax.jpg |
| |[[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]]<br>[[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]
| | File:Rack and ruin spotlight orion pax.jpg |
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| |[[Cindersaur (G1)|Cindersaur]]<br>[[Flamefeather (G1)|Flamefeather]]
| | File:OmegasConundrum-AlphaTrion.jpg |
| |'''Ground Force:'''<ref name="artilleryforce">As with the Autobot Battle Masters, the cards for Aimless, Blowpipe, and Nightstick list their ''division'' "Ground" or "Air Force" as their unit and the ''unit'' "Weapons" as the character's function.</ref><br>[[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]]
| | File:Omegasconundrum-awesomerescue.jpg |
| | | File:OmegasConundrum-Kaput.jpg |
| '''Air Force:'''<ref name="artilleryforce"/><br>[[Aimless]]<br>[[Blowpipe (G1)|Blowpipe]]
| | File:OmegasConundrum-Metroplex.jpg |
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| |[[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]]<ref name="needlenose"/><br>[[Triggerhappy (G1)|Triggerhappy]]<ref name="needlenose"/>
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| !'''Specialist'''
| | File:Wheeljack mouths are in Omegas Conundrum.jpg |
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| |[[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]]
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| | ====Thundercracker/The Hunting Party==== |
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| | | File:Bludgeon altmode TheHuntingParty.jpg |
| The fourth wave of the card game expanded the roster with "''War for Cybertron: Siege II''". As with the toyline, the importance of the ranking system saw a decline, introducing many inconsistencies with the units and divisions that came before it. ''Siege II'' also introduced the [[Mercenary]] faction in advance of the ''Earthrise'' toyline; none of the Mercenaries made use of the ranking system.
| | File:Bumblebee stomps Barrage The Hunting Party.jpg |
| | | File:Guardminder The Hunting Party.jpg |
| ===''Siege II'' Autobots=== | | File:Nightbeat The Hunting Party.jpg |
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| ! scope="col" width="10%" | Medical
| | ====Megatron==== |
| ! scope="col" width="10%" | Engineering
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| ! scope="col" width="10%" | Special Ops
| | File:SLMegatron stealth bomber mode.jpg |
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| | File:SLMegs just do it.jpg |
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| | File:Soundwave Spotlight- Megatron.jpg |
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| !'''General'''
| | ====Bumblebee/The Question==== |
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| |[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]<ref>Optimus Prime's card completely omits any kind of unit, calling him only "General Optimus Prime · Galactic Commander", representing his [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#S40|"Galaxy Upgrade" toy]]. As such, we can confirm that he is a general, and infer that he is in the Space division, but any choice of unit would be speculative.</ref>
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| !'''Major'''
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| !'''Captain'''
| | File:Spotlight- Trailcutter forcefield face.jpg |
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| |[[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]
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| !'''Sergeant'''
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| |'''Ground Command:'''<ref>Another ''Siege'' Battle Master, Dazzlestrike's division and unit are misrepresented as their unit and function respectively.</ref><br>[[Dazzlestrike]]
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| '''Ground Force · Demolitions:'''<ref>Needler follows the pattern set by Vanguard and Turbo Board in that he is given a division and function, but no unit.</ref><br>[[Needler (G1)|Needler]]
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| ===Cards with no rank=== | |
| Discounting the deliberately rankless Mercenaries, only two characters ended up with no place in the military structure: noted non-combatant Alpha Trion, and a variant of Megatron that drops his "General" and "Infantry" titles for the more evocative "Lord Megatron – Conqueror of Cybertron".
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| {{Featuredcharacters
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| '''''Siege I'''''
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| *[[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]]
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| '''''Siege II'''''
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| *[[Megatron (G1)|Lord Megatron –<br>Conqueror of Cybertron]]
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| |h4=[[Mercenary|Mercenaries]]|c4=
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| '''''Siege II'''''
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| *[[Drift (G1)|Deadlock]]
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| *[[Detritus (G1)|Detritus]]
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| *[[Lockdown (G1)|Lockdown]]
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| *[[Mudflap (G1)|Mudflap]]
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| *[[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]]
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| *[[Octane|Octone]]
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