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Permanent. Setup. You get +3 hit points. Your hero gets +1 DEF.

Setup. Hero Action: Discard this card and remove it from the campaign log → deal 5 damage to the villain and each enemy engaged with you.

Permanent. Setup. You get +1 hit points. Your hero gets +1 ATK. Hero Response: After you defeat a minion, exhaust this card → draw 1 card.

Setup. Hero Action: Discard this card and remove it from the campaign log → ready your hero and heal 5 damage from them.

Permanent. Setup. You get +4 hit points. Your alter-ego gets +1 REC.

Permanent. Setup. You get +2 hit points. Your hero gets +1 THW.

Permanent. Setup. You get +1 hit points. Your hero gets +1 ATK.

Setup. Hero Action: Discard this card and remove it from the campaign log → draw 5 cards.

Setup. Hero Action: Discard this card and remove it from the campaign log → search your deck and discard pile for an ally, put it into play, and give it a tough status card.

Linked (Captain America upgrade). Restricted. Your hero gets +1 DEF and gains retaliate 1.

Linked (Specialized Training). Your hero gets +1 THW. Hero Response: After your hero performs a basic thwart, exhaust this card → draw 1 card.

Linked (Specialized Training). Your identity gets +4 hit points. Response: After your identity takes damage from an enemy attack, exhaust this card → draw 1 card.

Linked (Specialized Training). Your hero gets +1 DEF. Hero Response: After your hero performs a basic defense, exhaust this card → draw 1 card.

Linked (Specialized Training). Your hero gets +1 ATK. Hero Response: After your hero performs a basic attack, exhaust this card → draw 1 card.

[star] Namora gets +1 hit point for each other ally you control.

Hero Interrupt: When you reveal a non-ELITE minion, exhaust an AERIAL character you control and discard this card → cancel the effects of that card and discard it. Then, reveal another card from the encounter deck.

Attach to an encounter card in play. Max 1 per encounter card. While paying costs on attached card, any player may help pay those costs.

Alliance. Hero Interrupt: When a friendly character would take any amount of damage from an attack, exhaust an avenger character and a guardian character → prevent all of that damage. Deal that much damage to the attacking enemy.

Alliance. (The players can pay this card's costs as a group.) Hero Action: As a group, the players put a total of 1 Avenger ally and 1 Guardian ally into play from their hand(s).

Action: Shuffle this card into the encounter deck (without looking) When Revealed: Remove 2 threat from the main scheme and remove this card from the game. This effect cannot be canceled.

Attach to a non-Elite minion. Max 1 per minion. Interrupt: When a friendly character attacks, deal 1 damage to attached minion.

As an additional cost to play this card, if you do not have the Eternal trait, confuse your identity.

Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Interrupt: When a character makes a basic attack against attached minion, that character uses their THW instead of their ATK.

Alliance. Hero Action: Exhaust an X-Force character and an X-Men character → defeat a non-Elite minion.

Action: Shuffle this card into the encounter deck (without looking) When Revealed: Draw 1 card and remove this card from the game. This effect cannot be canceled.

Attach to a side scheme. Max 1 per side scheme. Interrupt: When attached side scheme is defeated, discard a non-ELITE minion.

Play only if your identity has the Champion trait. [star] Divide damage from Bombshell's attack among each enemy as evenly as possible.

Restricted. Max 2 per deck. Hero Action (attack): Discard Bazooka → deal 1 damage to an enemy for each [crisis], [acceleration], [amplify], and [hazard] in play. This attack gains ranged.

Hero Interrupt (defense): When your hero defends against an attack, it gets +2 DEF for that attack. If you take no damage from that attack, discard an attachment on the attacking enemy with the text "Hero Action" or "Hero Response".

Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy and exhaust any number of Avenger characters you control. Deal 1 additional damage to that enemy for each character exhausted this way.

Alliance. Hero Action (thwart): Exhaust an avenger character and a guardian character → remove X threat from each scheme, where X is equal to the combined THW of those characters.

Action: Shuffle this card into the encounter deck (without looking) When Revealed: Deal 2 damage to the villain and remove this card from the game. This effect cannot be canceled.

[star] Interrupt: When Shatterstar attacks a minion, engage that minion. If you are already engaged with that minion, Shatterstar gets +1 ATK for this attack.

Action: Shuffle this card into the encounter deck (without looking) When Revealed: Heal 2 damage from your identity and remove this card from the game. This effect cannot be canceled.

Play only if your hero has the PSIONIC trait. Hero Response (attack): After you defend against an enemy attack, deal 3 damage to that enemy and stun it.

Alter-ego form only. Action: Discard Recruitment Drive and choose a player → reduce the resource cost of the next ally that player plays this phase to 0.

Action: Spend a [mental] resource → heal up to 2 damage from Warlock.

[star] Swordsman's basic attacks gain piercing. Hero Response: After a boost card is turned faceup during an undefended attack, declare Swordsman as the defender without exhausting him.

Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to the villain. Deal X additional damage to the villain (to a maximum of 3), where X is equal to the villain's stage number.

Play only if there is a side scheme in the victory display. Hero Response: After you attack an enemy, stun it.

Hero Action: Exhaust War → discard the top card of the encounter deck. Take 1 damage for each icon ([star] and [boost]) in the boost area of that card. Discard the top card of your deck. Deal damage to an enemy equal to that card's cost.

Forced Response: After you play Scarlet Witch, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If it is a treachery card, resolve its "When Revealed" ability.

Attach to a non-ELITE minion. Max 1 per minion. Attached minion cannot activate.

Alliance. (The players can pay this card's costs as a group.) Hero Action: Choose an avenger character and a guardian character → ready each of those characters.

[star] Forced Response: After Thor makes a basic thwart, discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until you discard a minion. Put that minion into play engaged with you.

[star] Response: After Rictor attacks, discard the top card of your deck. Deal 1 damage to each minion engaged with you for each resource on the discarded card.

Alliance. Max 1 per deck. Alter-Ego Action: Take a group break. Leave the table. Read a comic book. When you come back to the game, heal 1 damage from each identity for every minute you were away from the game.

Hero Action (attack): Defeat a non-Elite minion with an upgrade attached. Ignore any "When Defeated" abilities on that minion.

Team-Up (Hercules and Thor). Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Search your discard pile for an identity-specific upgrade and add it to your hand. Ready Hercules and Thor.

Play only if your identity has the PSIONIC trait. Hero Interrupt (defense): When an enemy attacks you, choose a different enemy → damage from that attack is dealt to the chosen enemy instead of you.

Hero Action: Discard 1 stun or confuse status card from your hero.

Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy (5 damage instead if that enemy has the guard or patrol keyword).

Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Hero Action (thwart): Remove 2 threat from the main scheme. Remove X additional threat from the main scheme (to a maximum of 3), where X is equal to the villain's stage number.

Alliance. Hero Interrupt: When any amount of threat would be placed on the main scheme, exhaust an X-Force character and an X-Men character → prevent that threat and give each of those characters a tough status card.

While your identity has the Aerial trait, reduce the amount of damage you take from each enemy attack by 1. Forced Interrupt: When your turn begins, discard this card.

Alliance. Hero Action (attack): Exhaust an avenger character and a guardian character → deal X damage to an enemy, where X is the combined ATK of those characters. This attack gains overkill.

Action: Exhaust and discard Moondragon → choose a minion. That minion attacks another enemy of your choice.

Play only if your identity has the X-MEN trait. [star] Response: After Longshot attacks a non-ELITE minion, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card has a star icon ([star]) in the boost area, defeat the attacked minion.

Hero Action: Give your hero a tough status card.

Toughness.

Forced Response: After Sentry enters play, search the encounter deck for a side scheme and reveal it. (Shuffle.) If no side scheme was revealed this way, place 6 threat on the main scheme.

[star] Hero Interrupt: When Deathcry makes a basic attack, deal your hero 1 damage → Deathcry takes -1 consequential damage ([cost]) for this attack.

Team-Up (Cable and Deadpool). Max 1 per deck. Hero Action (thwart): Deal 1 damage each to Cable and Deadpool. Remove 3 threat from a scheme and 3 threat from a different scheme.

Action: Exhaust Deadpool Corps Ship and deal yourself 1 facedown encounter card → put a 'Pool ally into play from your hand.

Power Man enters play with 2 chi counters on him. Action: Discard any number of chi counters from Power Man → he gets +2 ATK for each chi counter discarded this way until the end of the phase.

Hero Action: Heal 2 damage from an enemy → confuse that enemy.

Interrupt: When Protector would take any amount of damage, spend a [mental] resource → reduce that amount by 1. (Limit once per round.)

If you overpaid for Firebird, put 1 rebirth counter on her. Interrupt: When Firebird would be defeated by consequential damage, remove 1 rebirth counter from her → heal all damage from her instead.

Play only if there is a side scheme in the victory display. Hero Interrupt: When a treachery card is revealed from the encounter deck, cancel its "When Revealed" effects.

Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to the villain (5 damage instead if your hero's remaining hit points are equal to or greater than your hero's starting hit points).

Retaliate 1. Toughness. When Defeated: Deal 1 damage to an enemy.

Hero Interrupt: When an identity would take any amount of damage from an attack, prevent up to 5 of that damage. Discard cards from the top of your deck equal to the amount prevented this way.

Hawkeye enters play with 4 arrow counters on him. Response: After an ally makes a basic thwart, remove 1 arrow counter from Hawkeye → deal 2 damage to a minion.

Hero Action (thwart): Remove 2 threat from a scheme.

Hero Action: Deal 1 damage to the villain and each minion engaged with you.

Hero Response: After Patriot enters play, choose a champion character → that character gets +1 to each of its basic powers until the end of the round.

Attach to an Aerial ally. Max 1 per ally. Interrupt: When another Aerial ally would take any amount of consequential damage, exhaust attached ally → prevent 1 of that damage.

[star] Forced Interrupt: When Havok attacks, discard the top card of the encounter deck. For each boost icon ([boost]) discarded this way, Havok gets +1 ATK for this attack and takes +1 consequential damage ([cost]).

Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to the villain (5 damage instead if there is no threat on the main scheme).

Play only if your identity has the X-Force or X-Men trait. [star] Response: After Elixir attacks or thwarts, heal 1 damage from another friendly character.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 Team card per player. If each of your characters has the S.H.I.E.L.D. trait, this card gains: "Interrupt: When you reveal an encounter card, exhaust this card → cancel the effects of that card and discard it. Then, reveal another card from the encounter deck."

Hero Action: Discard an ally your control → remove threat from a scheme equal to that ally's printed cost.

[star] Response: After Feral thwarts, discard the top card of your deck. For each resource icon discarded this way, deal 1 damage to the villain.

Team-Up (Gwen Stacy and Miles Morales). Max 1 per deck. Alter-Ego Action: Heal 3 damage each from Gwen Stacy and Miles Morales.

[star] Interrupt: When Misty Knight thwarts, look at the top 2 cards of the encounter deck and discard 1 of those cards. Misty Knight gets +1 THW for this thwart for each icon ([star] and [boost]) in the discarded card's boost area.

Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Hero Action: Give up to X friendly characters a tough status card (to a maximum of 3 characters), where X is equal to the villain's stage number.

Hero Interrupt: When an ally uses a basic power, exhaust your hero → add your hero's matching power to that ally's power for this use. That ally does not take consequential damage for this use.

Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Deal 10 damage to the villain. Deal 1 damage to each enemy and hero for each [crisis], [acceleration], [amplify], and [hazard] in play.

Hero Action: Discard an ally your control → deal damage to an enemy equal to that ally's printed cost.

Alliance. (The players can pay this card's costs as a group.) Hero Action: Remove 3[per_hero] threat from a side scheme.

Play only if your identity has the X-MEN trait. Interrupt: When the villain would scheme, discard Tempus → cancel that activation. Deal yourself 1 facedown encounter card.

Play only if your identity has the X-MEN trait. Hero Action (thwart): Exhaust your hero and any number of X-MEN allies → remove X threat from among schemes in play, where X is the total THW of those characters.

[star] Response: After Siryn attacks, stun a minion.

Play only if your identity has the Aerial trait. Hero Action (thwart): Choose X schemes. Remove 2 threat from each chosen scheme (3 threat instead if you overpaid for this card).

X is equal to the number of facedown cards attached to Spider-Man Noir. Response: After you resolve a treachery, if you control another Web-Warrior card, attach that treachery facedown here (to a maximum of 3).

Interrupt: When a treachery is revealed, deal 2 damage to Negasonic Teenage Warhead → cancel that treachery's "When Revealed" effects.

While there is no threat on the main scheme, reduce all consequential damage Venom takes by 1.

Reduce the cost to play Git Gud by 2 if you did not win your previous game of Marvel Champions. Forced Interrupt: When a player would be defeated, they set their hit point dial to 1 and change to alter-ego form instead. Remove this card from the game.

Play only if your identity has the SPY or THIEF trait. Action (thwart): Remove 3 threat from a scheme.