Greetings faithful Vs. System 2PCG fans! Welcome to our first look at the new Symbiotes Arc for the game. The first 55-card Issue, that we are going to look at today, focuses on Venom and some other symbiotes. It introduces a new Evil team, the Symbiotes (). The second Issue takes a look at Carnage and “friends” (more Symbiotes). The final Issue involves some more Spider-Friends who are involved with symbiotes.

Before we look at the cards, a quick design note about symbiotes, hosts, and AKA. From the rules:

AKA is used quite a bit in the Arc, as the symbiotes change hosts often. And it can be confusing with symbiotes in particular, as they are sentient beings as well. For example, the character Venom could have the AKA of every other hero and villain who ever used the same symbiote, like Agent Venom. Then Agent Venom would need AKA Venom as well. But we’ve already made Venoms and Agent Venoms without these AKAs. Our solution was to focus on the hosts, so any character with Eddie Brock as its host has AKA Venom.

Spoiler!

Let’s dive in to the goo!

Just as a reminder, here is an earlier Venom with Symbiosis.

Found in 2016 Vs. System 2PCG: The Defenders set.

Remember that Symbiosis is still on when the character is face-down, so any stunned characters with Symbiosis on your side will get counters as well.

But is this plot twist enough to drive you into…Mania?

And here’s where it all started!

Venom doesn’t usually like to share! But sometimes he doesn’t mind…but here is the “main” man now!

We don’t have a lot of main characters with more than one team affiliation, but Venom is very unpredictable! And because one of his teams is Good (Spider-Friends – ) and one is Evil, he is both Good and Evil, a pretty accurate depiction of Venom if we do say so ourselves!

Note that his Lethal Protector power only counts face-up characters because the game rule is that face-down characters never count as being protected.

Remember that Lethal means that if he wounds a defending supporting character, KO it.

Is there another Venom in a later Issue? Yes! Yes there is! But for now, we hope you’ve enjoyed our very first look at the Symbiotes Arc! Join us next time for some different types of Venoms!

The Symbiotes will rise when Vs. System 2PCG: Lethal Protector unleashes in stores October 27th.