https://theroarbots.com/exclusive-reveal-optimus-maximus-joins-the-transformers-trading-card-game/

This also explains that Sentinel card

This also brings our character count to 30
Acid Storm - 01
Autobot Hot Rod - 04
Autobot Mirage - 05
Autobot Novastar - 06
Bluestreak - 10
Blurr - 11
Breakdown - 13
Dead End - 15
Decepticon Drag Strip - 16
Decepticon Venin - 17
Dinobot Sludge - 18
Dinobot Slug - 19
Dinobot Snarl - 20
Dinobot Swoop - 21
Divebomb - 23
Grimlock - 27
Ironhide - 28
Megatron - 29
Motor master - 30
Off Road - 31
Optimus Prime - 32
Prowl - 35
Predacon Headstrong - 33
Predacon Rampage - 34
Razorclaw - 36
Sunstreaker - 42
Thrust - 43
Torox - 44
Windblade - 45 (unconfirmed)
Windblade - 46

My other guesses are of course Dirge at 22 and sports 2 and 3 are “Airielbot x” and Airielbot Y”.

 

Well wasn't this predictable. Glad they are moving away from strict G1, but white Optimus? wtf?

I really wish they would do alternate versions of optimus each time, so many different figures available to pull inspiration from, yet it's 99% g1 on all these.

Rare ops could have been G1, then Uncommon be classics prime, etc. It' sthe one thing I'm very disappointed in, the lack of variety.

 

Awesome, all the other cards revealed too.

 

Huh? Since when is CW combiner Optimus "g1"?

 

I love that he is uncommon. I’m also trying to figure the mechanics of flipping characters in the KO pile

 

So two Uncommon combiners, 1 Common combiner, and 1 Rare combiner. Will the last two be one Rare and one Common? Or two more Commons to... make them more common.

 

So devastator is possible now?

 

It's not, the game isn't G1, it's Generations. Hence Demolisher, and Nemesis Prime, and Flamewar... And Vulcanicus...

 

> Optimus Maximus cards

> but it's been 4 years

 

It's kind of a bummer now that Blackjack didn't get a card.

 

Damn I was not expecting them to go this route. All bets off now. Rest could just as easily include Sky Reign and Orthia as it could be Abominus or Defensor.

Also love they gave the members a team name.

 

  My god, that is atrocious looking  

 

Huh, this group seems pretty interesting mechanically. But also, why did they opt to have optimus be melee in vehicle mode instead of truck like with Motormaster? It just seems weird that they'd be inconsistent with tribes between these two specifically.

 

I will buy the cards when they make cards of BotBots.

 

Could well be Defensor

 

With those characters not many gestalts can actually fit the free spaces left. Superion is obviously there, and Powerglide might not be a part of him this time, but the final one is tricky. I think it might be either Sky Reign with Ratchet and Smokescreen, but no Hound, or a FOC-inspired Ruination, where Impactor gets some prefix.

 

I don't really follow this game. Is it normal that alt-mode Optimus is not classified as a truck?

 

It's a balance issue, he's got great stats and he's a Sentinel which will get support. Also Melee is awesome by itself. Good eye

 

I suppose Truck not Melee will not become the new Trukk not Munky.

 

Wait... How come Hot Rod is included as part of the Optimus Maximus combiner but there's no Blackjack card for Menasor? Blackjack is visible on Menasor's chest in the card art so what gives?

Also it seems like the cards are forming random parts of the combiner now. With the sets of five it looked like each character actually turned into that part of the combiner but with Optimus Maximus you got the right arm and most of the torso all on the same card and at card that has the combiner head isn't even the Optimus Prime card, it's Sunstreaker.

I kinda get it, having a six character combiner doesn't exactly work as neatly in card form but I thought that was why they left Blackjack out of the Menasor set, because keeping it to the core five characters looked better as cards... but then they go and put Hot Rod in the Optimus Maximus set anyway? WTF?

I think they should either do Menasor the same way including Blackjack or exclude Hot Rod from Optimus Maximus. Pick a style and stick with it, don't do both.