Starting this coming Sunday, we will have a weekly challenge that we're calling the Weekly Prime Directive, or WPD for short.

Inspired by our older Open Play Night, you will have the entire week to play a a best-of-3 match with the WPD. We do prefer games are played on Discord rather than in person, but that won't be strictly enforced.

Once you've completed your match, you (or your opponent) can go to transformers.cards/wpd to report your game. The other player will receive a notification to confirm that they played the game, and once they do you will both receive 25.

"Why do we need to confirm?"
It's a small measure to help dissuade cheating the system. The point of WPDs is to get people playing with each other, so don't want people simply clicking a "yup, I played, now give shanix" button.

"Can I play multiple matches in a week?"
Absolutely! However, you will only receive shanix for your first match. If one player already received shanix and the other hasn't, then only the one who hasn't will receive it.

"Where can I see the next Weekly Prime Directive?"
Next week's WPD will be displayed on the site's front page on Thursday.

"Does it matter how I play?"
Nope! Play on webcams, TTS, OCTGN, play in person even! We just ask that you make a good faith effort to stream it in the community Discord when possible.

• When viewing a list of cards, Banned cards will have a red background like they do when viewing the card's page. Likewise, Beta cards will have a yellow background.
• Decks with Nightracer & Stealth Mission will no longer be flagged as having too many ★ if they have 1-2★ worth Secret Actions in their deck.
• When viewing a deck and sorting it be wave, it will ignore whether the cards are in deck/sideboard/out of game. This should make pulling cards from your collection easier.

We're going to be at TFcon LA this weekend! There will be open play in the Transformers TCG room all weekend. Saturday morning at 10:00 is the Transformers TCG panel. Also Saturday, we'll be holding a raffle at 2:30 & 6:30 giving away full sets. There will also be smaller giveaways throughout the day.

All members who sign up before TFcon will receive 20 if they create a new deck during the convention. Please note that this 20 is not instant, and will be will be given out in the days following the convention.

New items have been added to the Shanix Store!

• Wave 2S: Bumblebee vs. Megatron Starter Set for 100
• 2019 Promo Smashdown for 20
• 2020 Promo Arcana for 20
• 2020 Promo Tidal Wave for 60 (all three components of Tidal Wave)
• 2020 Promo Perceptor & Convex for 50 (Perceptor & Convex)
• Doubledealer (Thrilling 30) for 300
• Core Shockwave (Studio Series Bumblebee) for 60

All those items were all very generously donated by Matafer!

Additionally, the following items have had their price lowered:
• Ironhide (Movie Masterpiece) lowered to 1000
• Ultra Magnus (Kingdom) lowered to 300
• Galvatron (Kingdom) lowered to 300
• Silverstreak (Buzzworthy Bumblebee) lowered to 120

We're happy to announce that our newest subset, Wave 9A: The Shadow Emperor, is released! Scorponok enters the battle and is bringing some of his gear.

Scorponok starts with Lord Zarak attached as his head. Before the game begins, you can equip him with his Electro-Stinger to have some Pierce, or you can leave it in your deck in hopes that you can equip it for the 2 damage.

Scorponok can equip two copies of Imperator Claw, giving him the ability to do 2 damage to all of his enemies. What's more, any non-Autobot can equip a claw, while Decepticon Titans can equip two! Just be careful, as the damage hits all characters with fewer stars.

Zarak Shield gives Scorponok +2 , but more importantly it gives Zarak a force field that can't simply be broken by damage, prolonging how long he stays on the battlefield.

We're very happy to finally have this guy out there! Now, if only there was a big event to use him in... stay tuned!