Apparently in the chat on Friday Christopher stated that all the Heroes in Oblivaeon would be people we had seen before. I think it's basically confirmed that one will be Lillian Corvus and another will be Baron Blade, and that none of them are Scions or Proletariat. That still leaves...quite a lot of people.
Anyway, I would like to put forward my guess, which is the ape from Quando? Ahora! because seriously, great ape.
I think Cold War is a good possibility. I don't have the quote in front of me but I believe they said he was not a promo in the first Q&A.
I see Fright Train as a possibility since much like the incap side of Baron Blade it specifically states villain turn. All of the other three villains from that set don't specify villain turn.
But in the first Q&A, I am pretty sure he also said none of the alternate reality heroes would be getting their own decks. Instead, they'd be showing up in other ways. (There's been speculation that maybe they are going to be in envorinment decks.)
My bet is Harpy, Blade, Fright Train, and Ermine. And I'd say the last was Proletariat, but that's a confirmed "No", right? And Deadline has lost his tech, so he probably isn't a good option. Have to think about that last one...
I'm actually wondering if the grown-up Dreamer might become a hero deck. It's not clear how essential Project Cocoon is to the creation of the Visionary; without it, Vanessa might grow up to be an entirely different hero (or villain post-Dreamer). It's clear that she's powerful.
Here's one idea that hasn't been mentioned: La Commodora. After all, if the theme is "villains on the side of heroes", Future Good Capitan would certainly qualify.
I'm hoping for that Setback/Legacy combo and maybe Lucky Strike, the Setback from Quondo? Ahora!
My hopes and dreams are on decks consisting of multiple crazy alts of characters we already know who are fighting together in a single Sentinels-style deck. That fulfills the statement that the alts don't get decks of their own and the statement that we'll be seeing them in other ways, while also fulfilling my heart's desire.
Tony Taurus. What was he doing in the Coloseum after all?
I am hoping for a kraken deck. After all, why wouldn’t the environments fight back too.
Every card is a target with keyword "TENTACLE."
That'd combo nicely with Super Scientific Tachyon.
Each time a card named Tentacle is destroyed, reveal cards from the top of deck until two cards named Tentacle are revealed.
I like Spiff's idea. And I think that we may see a lot of decks that are neither heroes, villains or environments in the "traditional" sense - like a deck of allies, or a deck of quests…
I'd consider Citizen Dawn for a hero deck. She'd probably try first to ally with OblivAeon, or use him/it, but once she understands that he/it is a danger for her citizens, she won't hesitate allying temporarily with her former ennemies. Also, it's good public relations.
And if OblivAeon wins, she probably has an Ark already built to leave the planet and go build a new civilization somewhere else 
Yeah... I think that we'll be seeing Dawn again RSN.
While I would like seeing Spiff's suggestion, those styles of heroes just take such a beating from AoE damage. I mean, for The Sentinels (and a certain Cauldron promo), it is a drawback built into the deck, sure, but it is offset by the amount of healing that deck has. I don't know if I would enjoy another deck of too similar a gimmick.
Maybe its just me, but I hate when everyone else takes 2 damage from an attack and my poor Sentinels team takes 8.
The Ennead. So you can play out Ra's final charge against OblivAeon.
Just because there will be no Proletariat hero doesn't mean the man behind the mask won't show up as a hero. We've seen this tricky wording before when it was stated there will never be a Matriarch hero deck.
Except that Proletariat still goes by that name in Tactics. So I rate it as unlikely.
In this case we know he is still called the Proletariat in Sentinel Tactics though. Whereas with the Matriarch we know she shows up under a different name in Tactics. If he does show up under a different name that would be quite odd.
True.
I'm not sure Fright Train is a possibility either. Isn't he the current Bunker?
He is only Bunker for F6 in the Iron Legacy timeline
Calling it now here folks! Here are my predictions for our 5 hero decks!
Tony Taurus. What was he doing in the Coloseum after all?
Join the Tony Taurus = Heartbreaker theory bandwagon. Theres plenty of room!
Seems odd to have a hero deck for the Dreamer since that would just be a essentially still a child Visionary. I'm calling for Fright Train still since he as the same incap message as Baron Blade specifying villain turn.
I am quiet enamoured with grysqrl suggestion that The Wraith's Hairdryer will be a playable hero.
What about a Man-Grove deck?
My guesses:
Baron Blade
The Harpy/Matriarch/Pinion
Cold War/Proletariat
Man-Grove
La Capitan (alternate time version)
I would love to see a hero deck that has some bonuses for being in a group with other specific other heroes, sort of like how the Naturalist's cards get extra effects when he is in a certain form. Or how some of the newer villain cards have targets in their deck that get an extra effect when certain heroes are in play.
I love this list.
Is there any in the game to hint this?
I'll make my guess as well...
1. Blade
2. Harpy
3. La Captain
4. Deadline
5. Dreamer and the Ape with a Sentinels style shared deck
Ooh, yeah, a Man-Grove deck or a Dreamer/Ape deck would be cool. Either way, we’ll find out (some) tomorrow!
I was hoping for some kind of newish hero who has appeared on a card, but we know little about. In terms of hero archetypes we haven't seen a teleporter yet. What other archetypes are people looking forward too?
Well, Baron Blade would be kind of newish at being a hero and we have seen from tactics that he may have a teleporting device (which may or may not be displacing).
The theory is pieced together from a bunch of circumstancial evidence that is slowly building up. Not everyone likes the theory though but you can find it around
Well, that raises the question: What characters in the cards do we not know an identify for yet? Are there any potential peole we're still waiting to learn identities for?
Also, perhaps we'll see Catastrophe and Verge, the new characters from Tactics? They appear in the story about this time, so maybe. (Though, I don't think this is likely, since it seems like they might be kids just now.)
Not for nothing, but Baron has some limited teleporting abilities through his tech.
Dreamer with the Ape would be an amazing deck.
She obviously hasn't trained the same way Visionary has, and riding a bg ape into battle would definitely change things up.
Other potential Villain turned hero options:
A Dawn related deck. (Every deck Baron does, she does better.)
Akash. (Who is more jealous of the Earth than Akash? Also hints seem to show she was affected by the fight, makes even more sense if she was involved.)
A Hero Citizen Dawn deck would be great, because if the other rumors are true, this would mean all the original gen villains would be back: Baron Blade and Citizen Dawn as "heroes", Omnitron as the fully reformed Omnitron-X/U, and Grand Warlord Voss as a traitorous sellout to Oblivaeon.
I find it difficult to see Citizen Dawn working with the heroes. She gives me the feeling that she would rather die than work with those that are beneath her.
I honestly think she's too powerful to be played as a hero, in any case. Something would have to have weakened her down to that level...
Eh, she's not really any more powerful, plotwise, than people like Legacy or Argent Adept, at least in my read.
She is playable in Tactics.
I think you greatly underestimate the ceiling of her power. Dawn would poop all over Argent 1v1. Legacy would be hard pressed to beat her 1v1 if she gets full on "imma kill you" mode and merges with the sun.
Thematically Dawn feels like she can't maintain that level for long.
I think her peak power level is insane, but it wears her down and going too strong could weaken her for a while.
Legacy vs. Dawn would come down to if Legacy can last through Dawn's worst.
Dawn would lose to Expat though.
The power of the Sun is insignificant compared to the ability to never run out of bullets. (which is clearly her super power)
Yes. And in it she has Devastating Aurora, and it's the single most powerful card in the game. (Not so much in terms of victory conditions, because of the rule about its incaps not counting towards a victory, but in terms of sheer power.)
From the kickstarter update, we have the following:
[list]
[*]Luminary (hero Baron Blade) from the expansion
[*]Akash'Thriya (hero Akash'Bhuta) from the expansion
[*]The Harpy (hero Matriarch) from the expansion
[*]Stuntman (hero Ambuscade) from the stretch goals
[*]Benchmark (new hero?) from the stretch goals
[*]2 more heroes from the expansion
[/list]
At least 2 more heroes to guess at, perhaps more might come with stretch goals.
Benchmark is related in some way to Revenant.
The last two are probably La Capitan and Deadline. (The first one in theory could be Miss Information, but it seems less likely. And we will know soon enough, as we've already passed that stretch goal)
*sigh*
Looking like no playable "Anubis & the heroic Ennead" deck. I so wanted to be able to play out Ra's final charge.
(Of course, maybe it's still buried in the locked Stretch Goals. Hope springs eternal.)
Stupid question, but who is 'Revenant'? I tried looking him up, but could only find one zero-info mention on the wiki.
That wiki has all the details we know about him. zilch. nadda. We know Revenant works for Revocorp however. Thats about it.
I thought we knew that he was a head honcho at Revocorp?
I thought we knoew that too, but have no idea why I seem to remeber that.
I dont think he is. We thought that because of Tactics maybe?
Revocorp is funded by something/someone. Whoever supplies the money runs the show. Idk if its jsut the alt-universe, the the description for SD Benchmark says its Angel/Investor funded…think its also Angel/Investor funded in our main timeline? That SCREAMS "Host" to me…
pretty sure that came from a podcast interview with Christopher. Might be misremembering.
The moment I read those words, I thought about exactly the same thing. Since Christopher mentionned there wouldn't be more reveals from the Host in OblivAeon, I'm guessing we'll see more of it either in the RPG or in Tactics…
While I'm thinking about it, RevoCorp, Revenant… It feels lke these dudes are toying with life itself, like bringing back people from the dead… Who else are better suited to do that than entities living in Heaven (or Hell? or both?), Angels…? Now I even more want to know about this Host…!
Huh, I thought I recalled Revocorp being the front Baron Blade used in his pre-Vengeance super powers experiments, which lead to the creation of Setback. Granted, just because he used it as a front at one point doesn't mean it can't continue on its own.
Outline of the 400k stretch goal looks like it could very well be Deadline. It would make a lot of sense.
Reckless and I asked him at the gathering of heroes.
Where is this “Host” mentioned? This is the first I’m hearing of it.
It's in Apostate's profile, in the list of his affiliations.
I ALSO asked him at the Gathering of Heroes. He is, in fact, the owner of RevoCorp. It's named after him, after all. And it's pronounced REE-vo corp, not REV-o corp. So there's that.
I think one will be Spiderman. Hey, he didn't say we'd seen them before *in Sentinels*, right?
I think the 350k reveal in Miss Information. The 'ray gun' looks more like her mask than a gun. However, I think she'll be a mini expansion rather than the fourth OblivAeon hero. They've been sandwiching mini expansions between the regular variant announcements and its clearly Deadline om the 400k outline.
This would also complete the symmetry of having a hero for the villains from each expansion. The stndard gme expansions in the main box, the minis, Vengeance and VotM as mini expansions.
I'm thinking that the 500k is the la Capitan announcement, as I still think she's another likely villain turned hero, combined with another evnironment.
Based on the ARG cover here, I'm guessing Ermine will be a character. It spoiled Akash’Bhuta, so it looks like a good chance.
Apostate is also a possibility, though that could be just an alt promo for Fanatic.
I've noticed something with the revealed heroes so far.
Luminary == Baron Blade == Core set
Harpy == The Matriarch == Rook City
Akash'Thriya == Akash'Bhuta == Infernal Relics
We have five heroes total, and the first three announced are, sequentially, from the first three standard (i.e., non-Vengeance style) expansions.
So I'm betting the last two heroes will be villains from Shattered Timelines and Wrath of the Cosmos.
I've also called elsewhere that I think the power for the revealed Visionary promo will be damage dealing rather than deck manipulation.
@mwc146 I think that's been mentioned a few places which adds to the idea that the unlocks for "promos" will reveal an alternate La Capitan and Deadline. It should also be added that Stuntman would represent a hero version of mini expansion villains.
Someone else (sorry, can't remember who to give them credit) pointed out that the 2 mini-expansion heroes represent alt-universe versions of villains from the mini-expansions and V/VotM which would complete the symmetry.
@jffdougan From her little bio-text, I was more thinking that it would be some kind of self damaging power ( I have one in mind, but better not to write it here!).
Okay, i keep seeing it mentioned so I want to clarify: an angel investor is a real world business term, referring to a wealthy individual who invests a large portion, if not all, of the startup funds for a business. Like if you needed a million dollars of equipment, and someone said "here’s 800 thousand to get you started. "
Not trying to be a jerk, just not convinced it has anything to do with the host.
It could be a double pun. Why not both? Like Warren Worthington III who was Angel from X-Men, looke dlike an angel, and was also an angel investor for the X-Men team, supplying gadgets, room, rent, and technology for the mutant team.
So: Prediction for today:
Mystery box two is the variant for Deadline's hero deck,
and his new name is Lifeline.
Because it's too obvious a joke.
Wouldn't it be "Lifecircle" with the ability of "hakuna matata"?
Hah! Called it!
Choose a hero other than Lifeline. Place a warthog token on that hero. The hero is now out of the game.
Only if sitting downwind from you.
Well done.
I recall hearing, long ago, that Revenant and Setback were either the first two or just among the first two characters created in the Sentinels multiverse, so I'd assume there's a ton of reveals left to hear there.
The five villain-heroes we got were my first guesses, but there's still a part of me hoping for a last minute reveal of Proletariat. He's got a cool power, and doesn't sound like such a bad guy - just someone betrayed by what he once held dear. But I'm gussing that these multi-target heroes are a lot harder to balance…
Ridiculous proposal for La Comodora’s base power:
JUMP THROUGH TIME
Power: Every other player destroys one ongoing or equipment card. Then, every other player in turn order puts the top card of their deck into play.
I actually messed around with a powr that went:
Power: Destroy a non-character, non-relic card, if you do reveal the top 2 cards of that deck, put one into play and discard the other.
It was fun because you could destroy a villain card at the cost of playing a new one, or destroy a hero card and get to play a new one.
I excited to see what unique mechanics they could use for the 11 new heroes. I doubt that all have something really special but I could be wrong. Could some of them be 1 complexities?
Part of of me wonders if they'll do something interesting for akshbhusta. Could the hero version mirror the villain's mechanic of having a high hp and targets that effect her hp? Thinking about it I doubt that would pull off but maybe?
Maybe Akash's mechanics will revolve around the environment -- like maybe an Ongoings that let her draw or play a card when the environment puts out a Target, some kind of buff based on how many environment cards are out, etc.
I guess Akash OR Lifeline could have Environment effects to them, right?
I would imagine there will probably be at least one complexity 1 hero in the base box - they did that with the last mega expansion that had 5 heroes. I would bet on Luminary if that is the case
Given that he was a 1 villain it makes sense, but I really hope it's Stuntman.
Stuntman won't be in the box?
I am reasonably certain he's a mini-expansion in his own right.
Yes, Stuntman is a mini expansion hero and not in the OblivAeon box.
I wonder f any of the new heroes will have the ability to take a card out of the game. We've seen it in villain and environ so maybe now heroes too? They've done quite a variety if mechanics thus far, so I'm slightly intrigued, and curious how they could do 11 new heroes and give them all unique ways to play their decks.
It would make a lot of sense for Lifeline, since Deadline as a villain could do this.
thats what I was thinking when I wrote it. However, I would also be content if a hero unrelated to deadline could do it since deadline and the wastelands aren't tied together.
Maybe Deadline will have a mechanic like Savage Mana specific to Environment cards -- destroying them and holding the cards for some kind of buff, representing him drawing power from the leylines.
Some Void Guard variant predictions:
Void Guard Idealist will be able to play a very small (possibly only one) target that is the Giant Robot. Then she'll play lots of Equipment cards on the giant robot to enhance its abilities.
Void Guard Writhe will be like Unity or Captain Cosmic, playing targets (or possibly Devices) to affect the game state.
Edit: clarify that I'm talking about the just-revealed variants.
The thing is that what you are describing are deck mechanics, the varients have the exact same decks as the regular Void Guard, just different powers.
I must admit, though, I too find it intriguing that the varients seem to indicate how their decks will work much more strongly than the regular versions do.
Possible because we haven't gotten any lore on the non-variant versions?
(How they came to be in the first place, sure. But no individual bios such as we have for the promos.)
New Writhe and Baron Blade are all about inventions.
I wonder if they will be more equipment or devices?
Up till this point devices have been exclusive to villains and environments right? I'm not sure they would change that. Equipment seems more likely, but maybe.
They'd either be equipment cards or have another keyword if they have targets. Due to advanced Omnitron would increase the damage they do and reduce the damage they take if they have the Device keyword. They would also cause Omnitron to continue after being reduced to 0, as there would be devices still in play.
Also, Incapped Golem Unity would be able to destroy them.
I'm also curious what the nemesis icons could be fir the new heroes. Will they're icon stAy the same like with omnitron x? But then again omnitron doesn't have a different hero nemesis.
In Omnitron-X's case, it's not so much that he kept the same icon, but that Omnitron is O-X's nemesis (because the whole point of O-X going back in time was to reduce the amount of damage that Omnitron does), so Omnitron has O-X's icon. But the fact that the icon fits very well for Omnitron itself (since they're the same character) and Omnitron appeared first means that it's easy to get the causality confused.
The new heroes aren't trying to stop earlier versions of themselves (even La Comodora, who could reasonably expect to fight herself), so they have no reason to match the earlier icons. Also, those icons are already associated with heroes (as you mentioned).
So they will all get brand new icons. I'm guessing that they will have nemesis in OblivAeon's villain decks (probably some Scions, and who knows what else), and that OblivAeon itself will be a nemesis of every hero. Probably won't have every nemesis icon, though.
Also, I'd bet that the Void Guard either each gets an icon with their quarter of the Sentinels Icon, or they get one with their Oblivion Shard on it.
Other guesses:
Luminary - the light schematic from his picture
Harpy - her mask or a wing or feather
Akash-Thriya - a rock, maybe?
La Comodora - the skull & crossbones on her sleeve
Lifeline - I don't know, but it's going to be red.
Benchmark - the RevoCorp logo on his chest
Stuntman - his rose
Then they will be called "Doohickeys", or "Thingamajigs". Boom, done.
And no hero card or power working on equipment could be used on them ? It would be losing lots of possible combos… Salvage Yard, Unity's power, Pervasive Red Dust…
About "reformed villains" nemesis - I'd like the Baron to keep his Nemesis, for instance. It would make things interesting when he is paired with Legacy, especially if he has cards that can hurt fellow heroes for benefit 
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(Side Note : Super Sentai Idealist is awesome! )
I would call Lumnary's devices INVENTIONS! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
One thing about Idealist: It would be awesome if she could have, say, a crazy prejection creature always with her (Think Star Sapphire's Predator). If it were a character card, it could also be replaced by the robot with the Super Sentai variant. This probably won't happen, but it would be awesome if it were actually made.
Oh, yeah, right. Good call. I got confused looking at new variants for heroes I don't already know, and was just thinking of them as new heroes.
Well, Devices are targets that are independent machines. Why couldn't a hero get them?
It would interact with Omnitron, which makes sense that he would boost them on advanced, he's boosting the effectiveness of machines in the area. And Vengeance Blade would just protect them.
Outside of that:
Charged attacks would trigger off their destruction.
Omni-Blade would give them health if Omnitron-X is in the game.
Internal Defense Grid, Techno Pursuer and Partial Omni Drone would not deal them damage.
Resource recycler could put them into play from the top of the trash.
Base Omnitron you couldn't win if they were still in play.
That's it. I don't think that is a prohibitive set of effects. It only would happen in four decks, and the only one that would give pause would be the win condition on base Omniron, and I don't even think that is a big deal.
Because any equipment destruction would not work on them?* It's the opposite reason to why Friction's Stolen Gear changed to a Device rather than the Equipment card it was originally (which would be themeatically awesome but game play confusing).
*And I really don't want a retcon that says "Hero Devices can be Destroyed by equipment destruction".
But there is some precident for non-equipment cards, like Unity's Bots. Granted, Bots aren't devices either, but there are cards out there unique to one hero.
Also, Omni-X has components, too (though, sadly, no devices, which I was really hoping for when that deck came out.)
It would certainly be an interesting to see how things played out if some heroes did get devices.
Also, as for the Void Guard promos, I was thinking that Dr. Malpractice's power might be something like "Until you next power phase, whenever you would heal a target, deal that much energy damage instead."
Heros don't need "devices". They already have devices. They are called "equipment" in hero decks. Honestly, the keyword device just means "villain equipment card" for all intents and purposes.
I do suspect, after a ton of cards in VotM awkwardy have wording about damaging all cards in a given play area, that at least one new Hero will follow in Unity and Cosmic's footsteps of having targets. My guess would be Akash and/or Idealist before the tech types, but many things are possible.
Omni-X's components are also Equipment. Adding a new keyword is not a big deal, what does require more thought is having a Hero card that isn't part of the standard One-Shot/Equipment/Ongoing trichotomy. (That's only done so far for Unity and Captain Cosmic, right?)
I imagine Lifeline will have equipment with the relic keyword much like his villain deck does. I'm curious how Lifeline and The Harpy will work their magic compared to Nightmist. Benchmark feels like he will be equipment heavy.
Visionary as well.
Also The Visionary with her Decoy Projection- Distortion.
I’d imagine The Harpy will as well. I would not be shocked if Luminary had cards similar to constructs but with negative on destruction effects.
I'm still really curious about the icons. It would make sense as a possibility for there to be nemeses within the three Oblivean villain decks. it might be interesting if one of the new heroes was a loner vigilante that prided in doing things himself and didn't care whether he damaged the other heroes. He'd be doing his own thing, but that would be a different aspect for the game. The player would decide how much he wanted to damage the others at the risk of having to do damage to the villain himself later. Weird, but interesting.
I'm excited to find out what the new heroes damage types will be. I imagine a few will be Melee and maybe projectile. It seems like a good majority gave Melee or projectile I think.
I think maybe OblivAeon won’t be anybody’s nemesis. He’s everyone’s equally, so no icon.
I suspect that will be the case, with the *possible* exception of the Scholar. Thematically he'd work, but otherwise, I suspect Oblivaeon's mechanics will make nemeses moot.
I hope some of the mission deck rewards will allow you to gain cards in play that give you a nemesis symbol for him, like something that makes you more dangerous to him, but therefore focuses his attention on you.
5000 irreducible damage + 1 nemesis damage, just in case 
Also between Lifeline and The Scholar, both have powers related to the Ley Lines, correct?
I understand that all the new heroes will get new icons, but in a way I was hoping they'd match up with a villain in the normal play style. But it's probably unlikely that they'd overlap wth another character isn't it? Unless they have personal grudges against certain heroes? This would only really effect anything if a villain had a hero damage another hero, or effecting all targets.
