I see the future... regular C'Tan's with stickies saying "I'm Transcendent".

[shwnlyns]

is there a way of buying a transcendent without springing for the $160 teseract vault?

[Grimwulfe]

Ebay

[andalucien]

One thing you could do is find someone who wants an Obelisk, and split the purchase with them 50-50.  They get the obelisk (and now have the only superheavy that can be run in a 500pt tourney!) and you get the transcendent c'tan.

[Sir_Prometheus]

It's also just humanoid model about the same size as the current C'tan, floating. (I guess roughly promarch sized)

The list of appropriate models is endless.  Conversion opportunities are endless.

Rules wise, none of it should be.

[SiniStarR]

My buddy bought the Tesseract Vault and we played with it last Thursday. As far as the model of the C'tan is concerned. its actually smaller than the normal c'tans. I wouldn't have a problem personally with someone using a normal c'tan model as the Tesseract C'tan, provided its on the right size base and all. Aside from that it has a huge price tag in points so I'd imagine it would be very rare unless it was a 2000 point game.

[andalucien]

Huh, interesting.  From the pictures, I always assumed the Transcendent one was bigger. 

Sigh, I guess from that perspective all Necron players who started in 5th edition ALREADY have a superheavy.   

To be fair, GW did change what this model was supposed to represent in the new codex... it used to be a fully fledged God-thing, and they came out with a new entry saying "no, now it's actually just a bound 1/10000000 fragment of something that used to be a god-thing".