UniVersus’ Critical Role Set Reveals Trailer And First Cards

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UniVersus' Critical Role Set Reveals Trailer And First Cards



Key Takeaways

  • UniVersus’ Critical Role set, Heroes of Exandria, launches on March 7 with characters and artifacts from the popular live play series.
  • The set includes boss fights against characters like The Manticore and The Briarwoods, with special retaliation attacks.
  • All cards are legal in Standard, and you can create on-theme decks, or mix with other properties like My Hero Academia.

After the hugely successful Challenger Series decks released earlier this year, we’ve just been given the first look at UniVersus’ first full Critical Role set, Heroes of Exandria.

Set to launch on March 7, Heroes of Exandria brings 20 characters from across ten years of Critical Role into a proper booster set, with starter decks, alternate art treatments, and an entirely new PvE format complete with bosses to face.

The trailer gives us a big look at some of the names and faces we’ll be seeing in Heroes of Exandria. Alongside major names like Grog, the barbarian of Vox Machina, we’ve also got somewhat deeper cuts, like Lady Kima of Vord, and the Firbolg Pumat Sol.

Boss Fights Are Coming To UniVersus

Interestingly, the trailer also teases an entirely new mechanic coming in Heroes of Exandria: PvE. New boss cards include The Manticore and The Briarwoods, whose life total is set by the number of players facing it. Each of these have a suite of ‘retaliation’ attacks, which are decided by rolling a D6 dice whenever a number of different conditions are met.

UniVersus Boss Card.

The cards appear to be similar to the boss events held with the release of the Challenger Decks a few months ago. Whether it is bringing the event to the game wholesale, or makes tweaks to how it played, has yet to be confirmed.

The trailer also unveils the set’s two starter decks, with one based on Beauregard Lionett, and the other on Percival de Rolo. We don’t know what attributes they have, or even how they play – simply that these two are the faces of the decks this time around.

UniVersus Heroes of Exandria products.

Judging by the key art and the cards we’ve now seen, it appears that this set is focused primarily on the first two campaigns: Vox Machina and The Mighty Nein. A third campaign, Bells Hells, is currently running and is also set in Exandria, though, so we may see more from the third campaign either closer to release, or in a potential second Critical Role set.

All of Critical Roles: Heroes Of Exandria’s cards will be legal in Standard, meaning you can run decks that include it and other properties released in the last three years, like My Hero Academia and Attack on Titan. Alternatively, you could play it in Spotlight Constructed and only use cards from Critical Role, if you want an on-theme deck.

Critical Role: Heroes Of Exandria launches on March 7, but prerelease events for the set will be running in local game stores a week earlier.

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