Marvel Puzzle Quest 4th Anniversary Details *Updated (10/10/17)

Brigby

Hi Everyone, 

MPQ's 4th Anniversary is almost here, so check out the information below for all the details!

Marvel Puzzle Quest 4th Anniversary

Starts at 12:00pm EDT October 5th
Ends at 3:00am EDT on October 16th

Anniversary Events

General

• Double Iso-8
• Anniversary Vault tokens
• Everyone gets a free Anniversary Vault token at the start of the Anniversary

Story Events

• The X-Men vs. Apocalypse
• Starts 12:00pm EDT 10/5
• Honor Among Thieves
• Starts 7:00am EDT 10/8
• Simulator (X-Men Edition)
• Starts 7:00am EDT 10/12

The X-Men vs. Apocalypse
Details

• Alliance Boss Event
• One Boss mission and five Supporting Character missions

Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur)

• Apocalypse cannot be Stunned or sent Airborne
• The Four Horsemen
• Passive Black Power
• Apocalypse calls forth his four horsemen at the start of the battle
• The Horsemen cannot be matched away or destroyed by normal means
• Famine
• Destroys the player's AP. 
• This tile is destroyed when the player has enough AP in their strongest color
• War
• Player's matches deal less damage. 
• This tile is destroyed when the player has dealt enough damage.
• Pestilence
• Creates Attack tiles for Apocalypse.
  
• New tiles have a chance to become Attack tiles for Apocalypse.
• This tile is destroyed when there aren't any Special tiles on the board for Apocalypse.
  
• Death
  
• When another Horseman is destroyed, creates a countdown tile that downs the character in front.
• This tile is destroyed when it is the last Horseman tile on the board
• The Strong Will Survive
• Red Power
• Deals damage to the lowest level enemy
• Rejuvenate
• Passive Yellow Power
• At the start of the turn, if there are any Horsemen on the board, return Apocalypse to full health.

Mission Rewards

• Supporting Character
• 1,000 Iso-8
• Boss
• Command Point
• 1,000 Iso-8
• 500 Iso-8
• Command Point
• 1,000 Iso-8
• Command Point
• 500 Iso-8
• Random Boost

Alliance Rewards

• Round 1 - 90,000 (Anniversary Token)
• Round 2 - 150,000 (Gambit (Modern) Black Cover)
• Round 3 - 390,000 (Gambit (Modern) Red Cover)
• Round 4 - 985,000 (Gambit (Modern) Purple Cover)
• Round 5 - 1,970,000 (X-23 (All-New Wolverine) Purple Cover)
• Round 6 - 3,000,000 (X-23 (All-New Wolverine) Red Cover)
• Round 7 - 4,400,000 (X-23 (All-New Wolverine) Green Cover)
• Round 8 - 5,900,000 (Mes Amis Legendary token)

Individual Rewards

• 5,000 Points - Anniversary Token
• 10,000 Points - 200 Iso-8
• 20,000 - Power Boost
• 31,500 - Health Pack
• 52,700 - Stockpile
• 80,000 - 280 Iso-8
• 112,400 - Wolverine (Astonishing X-Men) Red Cover
• 149,000 - 280 Iso-8
• 189,000 - Anniversary Token
• 234,000 - 280 Iso-8
• 281,500 - Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) Green Cover
• 332,000 - 500 Iso-8
• 385,000 - 25 Hero Points
• 441,500 - 500 Iso-8
• 500,000 - Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) Blue Cover
• 553,500 - 1,000 Iso-8
• 627,000 - 25 Hero Points
• 711,000 - Anniversary Token
• 802,500 - 2,000 Iso-8
• 900,000 - Mes Amis Legendary Token

Versus Events

• Class of 2017
• Starts 8:00pm Edt 10/5
• Let's Be Frank
• Starts 8:00am EDT 10/8
• Danger Room
• Starts 8:00pm EDT 10/10
• This will be an all-new X-Men themed Versus tournament that features Hazard tiles.
• Hazard tiles will sometimes drop onto the board from the top, and they will either destroy an entire row or column (listed on the tile itself)
• RRRAAAWWWR!
• Starts 8:00pm EDT 10/12

Deadpool's Daily Quest

• Sweet
• Starts 6:00am EDT 10/5
• Crash of the Titans
• Devil Dinosaur (Gigantic Reptile)
• Savory
• Starts 6:00am EDT 10/12
• Crash of the Titans
• Devil Dinosaur (Gigantic Reptile)
• Rewards a Fan Favorite Legendary Token

Cover Stores and Vaults

Anniversary Vault
The Anniversary vault has 100 items, and its contents can be found below.

• 3 Fan Favorite Legendary Tokens
• 9 random Devil Dinosaur (Gigantic Reptile) covers
• 7 random 4-Star covers
• 3 Hero Point items
• 2,900, 1,000, and 600
• 11 Iso-8 items
• 1 10,000
• 6 3,500
• 4 1,000
• 27 random 3-Star covers
• 40 random 2-Star covers

Remy Lebeau Limited Vault

• 40 Items
• 1 Mes Amis token
• 1 random 4-Star cover
• 3 Gambit (Modern) covers (1 of each)
• 6 Heroic tokens
• 4 2,500 Iso-8
• 6 1,000 Iso-8
• 5 500 Iso-8
• 14 random 2-Star covers

Fan Favorite Legendary Store

• Available for the entire duration of the Anniversary
• Tokens can be purchased for 25 Command Points
• Reward from Crash of the Titans mission that starts October 10th
• 8 5-Stars at 15%
• Black Bolt (Inhuman King)
• Black Panther (Civil War)
• Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff)
• Doctor Strange (Sorcerer Supreme)
• Jean Grey (Phoenix)
• Silver Surfer (Skyrider)
• Thanos (The Mad Titan)
• Wolverine (Old Man Logan)
• 12 Fan Favorite 4-Stars at 42.5%
• Agent Coulson (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
• Blade (Modern)
• Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers)
• Deadpool (Uncanny X-Force)
• Iceman (All-New X-Men)
• Jean Grey (All-New X-Men)
• Luke Cage (Power Man)
• Medusa (Inhuman Queen)
• Moon Knight (Marc Spector)
• Peggy Carter (Captain America)
• Professor X (Charles Xavier)
• Wolverine (X-Force)
• All other 4-Stars at 42.5%

Mes Amis Legendary Store

• Available for the entire duration of The X-Men vs. Apocalypse
• Tokens can be purchased for 25 Command Points
• Reward from top round reward and top progression reward in The X-Men vs. Apocalypse
• 3 5-Stars at 15%
• Gambit (Classic)
• Jean Grey (Phoenix)
• Wolverine (Old Man Logan)
• 12 Latest 4-Stars at 42.5%
• All other 4-Stars at 42.5%

Powered-Up List

Fan Favorites

• October 5th to the 11th
• 4-Stars
• Blade (Modern)
• Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers)
• Deadpool (Uncanny X-Force)
• Medusa (Inhuman Queen)
• Wolverine (X-Force)
• 3-Stars
• Deadpool (It's Me, Deadpool!)
• Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange)
• Iron Man (Model 40)
• Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel)
• Thanos (Modern)
• 2-Stars
• Daken (Dark Avengers)
• Storm (Classic)
• 1-Star
• Hawkeye (Classic)
• Juggernaut (Classic)

Class of 2017

• October 12th to the 18th
• 4-Stars
• Agent Coulson (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
• Gamora (Awesome Mix Volume 2)
• Iron Fist (Danny Rand)
• Rocket & Groot (Awesome Mix Volume 2)
• Sand Man (Flint Marko)
• 3-Stars
• Elektra (Assassin)
• Hawkeye (hawkguy)
• Human Torch (Classic)
• She-Hulk (Modern)
• Star-Lord (Peter Quill)
• 2-Stars
• Magneto (Marvel NOW!)
• Wolverine (Astonishing X-Men)
• 1-Star
• Storm (Modern)
• Venom (Dark Avengers)

kennn712

@Brigby will the Fan Favorites duplicate draws be swappable by CS? 

Starfury

Apocalypse looks like an interesting (and quite puzzly) boss.

Hope it'll be fun!

@Brigby: Suffering from age-related insomnia?

HxiiiK

• One Boss mission and fire Supporting Character missions

Finally 4* human torch confirmed?

Also @Brigby, are the fan favourites 5* covers swappable? Otherwise we seem to be looking at a 25% more expensive classics token.
I mean.. is not getting Banner worth the extra 5cp, when you think about it?

shardwick

I was hoping for Vulture to be the reward for the boss event but X-23 is one of my favorites too and I only have six covers for her right now so definitely looking to getting a handful of covers for her.

@Brigby, will the boss event have its own boosted list or is it the same as the Fan Favorites one?

The rockett

I know some above asked about the Fan Favorites 5* dupes, but also the Gambit store. All
other releases for 5* had that release alone as the 5* until DareDevil.  I know with the DD release they did not let you swap covers for the other 5* in that vault. Since this is a 25CP as is the Fan Favorite, and the Cosmic store was the same way, will they let you swap from both of these stores?  I think they should with the 5 extra CP tax for these vaults. @Brigby

bluewolf

@Brigby  Can you please post the list of boosted characters for X-Men vs Apocalypse?  The prior post was formatted in a way that caused some confusion.  Also, please verify whether there will be required 1* side missions.  

Thank you, and thank you for posting so late!  I am sure you are trying to prep for NYCC and are crazy busy.

DAZ0273

Brigby said:

• Death
  
• Creates a countdown tile that downs the character in front when another Horseman is destroyed.
• This tile is destroyed when it is the last Horseman tile on the board

Trying to get my head around this one. Death can only be destroyed when it is the last tile on the board but it kills you everytime you destroy another Horseman? 3 Horsemen destroyed = 3 characters downed then Death gets killed? So does that mean all your characters are going to die in order to defeat Death??!? I guess clarification of what the countdown tile actually does might make things clearer, maybe the power only works after the countdown is resolved? Otherwise bye bye health packs.

CrookedKnight

I'm reading that to be "creates a countdown tile that, if allowed to resolve, downs the character in front." So whenever you beat a horseman it starts a race against the clock to get rid of the Death CD (or win the entire fight). Jean Grey should come in handy there.

DAZ0273

That makes much more sense. Kill the other 3 Horseman before Death's countdown tile resolves. Then you can damage Apocalypse without him healing.

pandrek

Yeah!!! Apocalypse!!!

broll

I'm a little bummed about the fan favorite store.  Based on the wording previously I though it was only going to have the 8 5* and 12 4* and 0% chance on the other 4*s.  Since I have all 12 favorites already champed it would have been fantastic to be able to chase 5*s without worrying about 4* cover waste... Well now it doesn't seem worth spending CP... shame....

Everything else looks good though, still excited.

On Apocalypse, if you are able to do enough damage in a single turn to down him can you kill him while the horsemen are still up?  For example with whales, whales, whales?

jamesh

Brigby said:

• The Horsemen cannot be matched away or destroyed by normal means
• Pestilence
• Creates Attack tiles for Apocalypse.
  
• New tiles have a chance to become Attack tiles for Apocalypse.
• This tile is destroyed when there aren't any Special tiles on the board for Apocalypse.
  
• Death
  
• Creates a countdown tile that downs the character in front when another Horseman is destroyed.
• This tile is destroyed when it is the last Horseman tile on the board

Do the Horsemen count as Special tiles for the purpose of Pestilence's powers?  I'm assuming not, since otherwise Pestilence and Death would seem to deadlock each other and make it impossible to win.

vinsensual

Is Apocalypse going to be a tile mover?  I'm also curious about how/when Pestilence checks for special tiles.

rainkingucd

CrookedKnight said:

I'm reading that to be "creates a countdown tile that, if allowed to resolve, downs the character in front." So whenever you beat a horseman it starts a race against the clock to get rid of the Death CD (or win the entire fight). Jean Grey should come in handy there.

I'm thinking the same, and reminds me of Boss Ock.  

His 4 tentacle tiles preventing you from destroying the reactor;  so something similar.  Death tile can't be matched until the other 3 are matched, and each has varying countdown components, like the Tentacle tiles.  

DapperChewie

@Brigby does Apocalypse make matches? Or does he sit back on his throne and let his horsemen do all the work? 

smkspy

So 12 fan favorites at 42.5% chance

All other 4s at 42.5% chance.

What's the point of having fan favorite 4s if they have the same odds as all the other 4s.

And love the x force wolverine fan favorite troll.

DAZ0273

Another question on Famine: it says you need to collect AP in your strongest colour - is this the strongest colour of the whole team or the strongest colour for any one character?

fmftint

Why isn't vault iso doubled?

Blindman13

smkspy said:

So 12 fan favorites at 42.5% chance

All other 4s at 42.5% chance.

What's the point of having fan favorite 4s if they have the same odds as all the other 4s.

And love the x force wolverine fan favorite troll.

They are not the same odds. It is similar to the hybrid vaulting we have now in Legendary tokens: the latest 12 are at 42.5% and all others are 42.5%. 
So, you will be roughly 3 times more likely to get a fan favorite than one of the others.

Blindman13

Brigby said:

The X-Men vs. Apocalypse
Mission Rewards

Supporting Character

• 1,000 Iso-8

Boss

• Command Point
• 1,000 Iso-8
• 500 Iso-8
• Command Point
• 1,000 Iso-8
• Command Point
• 500 Iso-8
• Random Boost

FTFY

First time I read it I thought "Supporting Character" and "Boss" were rewards.