Angel of Life — Response: After you play an AERIAL event, draw 1 card. (Limit once per phase.)
Regrowth — Action: Heal 1 damage from Warren Worthington III. (Limit once per round.)
Angel of Death — Response: After you play an AERIAL event, deal damage to an enemy equal to that event's printed cost. (Limit once per phase.)
Interrupt: When Cannonball would take any amount of consequential damage, reduce that amount by X, where X is the number of AERIAL cards in your hand.
Hero Action: Exhaust Team-Building Exercise → play a card from your hand that shares a trait with your hero, reducing its resource cost by 1.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When an AERIAL character you control uses a basic power, exhaust Soaring Acrobatics → that character gets +1 to that power for this use.
Play only if your identity has the MUTANT trait. Max 1 per player Resource: Exhaust X-Gene → generate a [wild] resource for an identity-specific event.
Hero Response: After Vivian enters play, choose an attachment, non-Elite minion, or non-permanent side scheme. Until the end of the round, treat that card's printed text box as if it were blank (except for Traits).
Max 1 per player. Action: Exhaust Helicarrier → choose a player. Reduce the resource cost of the next card that player plays this phase by 1.
Play only if your identity has the MUTANT trait. Response: After a MUTANT alter-ego changes into hero form, exhaust Moira MacTaggert → that hero's controller draws 1 card.
Team-Up (Angel and Psylocke). Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Search your discard pile for an identity-specific event and add it to your hand. Ready Angel and Psylocke.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After you change form, discard this card → ready your hero.
Play only if your identity has the aerial trait. Hero Action: Ready your hero and remove 2 threat from the main scheme.
Play only if your identity has the aerial trait. Hero Action (attack): Deal 7 damage to an enemy. Deal 1 damage to each other enemy.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an identity-specific upgrade and put it into play. (Shuffle.)
Interrupt: When Starhawk takes damage exactly equal to his remaining hit points, return him to your hand.
Response: After you play Sunspot from your hand, choose a player → deal 1 damage to the villain and each minion engaged with the chosen player for each [energy] resource used to pay for Sunspot.
Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust X-Mansion → heal 1 damage from a MUTANT or X-MEN character. Any player whose alter-ego has the MUTANT trait may trigger this ability.
Play only if your identity has the Aerial trait. Hero Response (attack): After your hero attacks, deal 4 damage to an enemy.
Max 1 per player. Action: Exhaust Avengers Mansion → choose a player. That player draws 1 card.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for a support with a cost of 3 or less and put it into play. (Shuffle.)
Play only if your identity has the Aerial trait. Hero Response (thwart): After your hero thwarts, remove 3 threat from a scheme.
Requirement ([mental][mental]). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When you play an Aggression Attack event, if you paid for that event using a [mental] resource, increase the amount of damage that event deals by its printed cost.
Forced Response: After Professor X enters play, choose one: confuse the villain, stun a minion, or ready an X-MEN character. At the end of the round, if Professor X is still in play, discard him.
Toughness. Hero Response: After Warpath defends against an attack, play an event with a "Hero Action" ability from your hand (paying its cost).
Hero Action: Exhaust Cloud 9 → choose a player. Until the end of the phase, each Aerial character that player controls gets +1 THW.
Play only if you have the X-FORCE or X-MEN trait. Response: After Marrow enters play, deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player who does not control a SPECIALIZATION upgrade chooses 1 set-aside SPECIALIZATION upgrade and puts it into play under their control.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Aggression (red) card.
Increase your ally limit by 1. (This allows you to control more than 3 allies.)
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 DEF.
Alliance. (The players can pay this card's costs as a group.) Hero Action: Ready up to 3 AERIAL characters.
Hero Action: Exhaust Aero → choose a player. Until the end of the phase, each Aerial character that player controls gets +1 ATK.
[star] Response: After Siryn attacks, stun a minion.
Interrupt: When a character would take any amount of damage from an attack, exhaust an AERIAL character you control → prevent up to 3 of that damage.
Hero Response: After you change form, give your hero a tough status card.
Play only if your identity has the aerial trait. Hero Action (thwart): Remove a total of up to 5 threat from among schemes (as you choose).
Uses (3 command counters). Action: Exhaust Command Team and remove 1 command counter from it → ready an ally.
Play only if your identity has the Aerial trait. Max 1 TEAM card per player. If each of your allies has the Aerial trait, increase your ally limit by 1 and this card gains: "Response: After you play an Aerial card, exhaust this card → ready an ally you control."
Hero Action: Choose up to X enemies, where X is equal to the number of aerial characters you control → deal 3 damage to each chosen enemy.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW and +1 ATK.
Play only if your identity has the X-FORCE trait. Hero Action: Exhaust IPAC and deal 1 facedown encounter card to a player → that player draws 2 cards.
Hero Action: Exhaust an AERIAL character you control and choose a player → deal 3 damage to the villain and each minion engaged with that player.
Reduce the cost to play Storm by 1 if your identity has the MUTANT or X-MEN trait. [star] Interrupt: When Storm thwarts a scheme, move 2 threat from that scheme to another scheme.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your alter-ego gets +2 REC.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After a side scheme is defeated, exhaust Skilled Investigator → draw 1 card.
Play only if your identity has the MUTANT trait. Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Weapon X and take 1 damage → discard cards from your deck until you discard an identity-specific card, then add that card to your hand.
Attach to an identity-specific ally you control. Max 1 per deck. Attached ally gets +2 hit points and is your "sidekick." Response: After you make a basic recovery, heal 2 damage from attached ally.
Resource: Exhaust The X-Jet → generate a [wild] resource for a player whose identity has the X-MEN trait.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Martial Prowess → generate a [physical] resource for an Attack event.
Wasp gets +1 hit point for each pym counter on her. Interrupt: When Wasp enters play, place 1 pym counter on her (to a maximum of 3) for each [energy] resource you overpaid for Wasp's cost.
Response: After Quasar enters play, remove 1 threat from each scheme in play.
[star] Captain Britain takes -1 consequential damage after he thwarts a side scheme or attacks a minion.
Max 1 per round. Hero Action: Search the encounter deck for a side scheme. Reveal that side scheme → draw 3 cards (shuffle the encounter deck).
Hero Action: Ready your sidekick → ready your hero and choose one: • Heal 1 damage from both characters. • Both characters get +1 THW and +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
Response: After Falcon enters play, look at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. For each treachery looked at this way, remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Response: After Adam Warlock attacks or thwarts, discard 1 card at random from your hand. If that card's printed resource has: [physical] – Remove 3 threat from a scheme. [energy] – Heal 3 damage from an identity. [mental] – Deal 3 damage to an enemy. [wild] – Choose one of the above.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 3 threat from a scheme (4 threat instead if you paid for this card using a [mental] resource).
Response: After you defend against an attack, place 1 fatigue counter here. Alter-Ego Action: Remove each fatigue counter from here → heal 1 damage from your identity for each fatigue counter removed this way.
Alter-Ego Action: Search your deck and discard pile for an ally and an upgrade that can be attached to that ally. Add them to your hand. (Shuffle.)
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Each X-Factor, X-Force, and X-Men character you control gains the X-Factor, X-Force, and X-Men traits.
This card generates [wild] for each ally you control (to a maximum of 3)
Response: After Hugin & Munin enter play, search the top 10 cards of the encounter deck for a minion and put it into play engaged with you → ready 1 character you control for each icon ([star] and [boost]) in that minion's boost area.
Action: Ready an ally.
Forced Response: After Nick Fury enters play, choose one: remove 2 threat from a scheme, draw 3 cards, or deal 4 damage to an enemy. At the end of the round, if Nick Fury is still in play, discard him.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Justice (yellow) card.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After you defend against an attack and take no damage, exhaust Unflappable → draw 1 card.
Action: Exhaust X-Bunker and choose a player whose identity has the MUTANT trait → that player searches the top X cards of their deck for any card, where X is the number of side schemes in the victory display, and adds that card to their hand. (Shuffle.)
Response (attack): After your hero thwarts and removes all threat from a scheme, deal 3 damage to an enemy.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Leadership (blue) card.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 ATK and its attacks gain ranged.
Hero Action: The villain attacks you. Other characters cannot defend against this attack. Draw 3 cards.
Response: After Cable thwarts and defeats a side scheme, draw 1 card.
Play only if your identity has the MUTANT trait. Alter-Ego Action: Choose up to 2 identity-specific cards in your discard pile and shuffle them into your deck. If X-Mansion is in play, draw 1 card.
Response: After X-23 attacks and defeats an enemy, ready her.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 THW.
Play only if your identity has the X-FORCE trait. Attach to a friendly character. Max 1 per character. Attached character gets +1 hit point and gains the X-FORCE trait.
Uses (3 medical counters). Action: Exhaust The Night Nurse and remove 1 medical counter from her → heal 1 damage from a hero and discard 1 status card from it.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 DEF.
Response: After you play Ironheart from your hand, draw 1 card.
Hero Response: After you attack and defeat an enemy, heal 1 damage from your hero for each point of excess damage dealt to that enemy by that attack.
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.
Response: After you play Sunfire from your hand, spend a [energy] resource → choose an attachment with the text "Hero Action" or "Hero Response" and discard it.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Each ally you control gets +1 hit point.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy. Deal 3 damage to another enemy.
Response: After Mockingbird enters play, stun an enemy.
Action: Search the top 4 cards of your deck (top 7 cards instead if you are in alter-ego form) for an attack event and add that card to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 ATK.
Hero Response (attack): After you change form, deal 3 damage to an enemy (4 damage instead if you paid for this card using [physical] resource).
Hero Action: Discard an ally you control → heal damage from your hero equal to that ally's printed hit points and give your hero a tough status card.
Attach to a scheme. Max 1 per scheme. Hero Interrupt: When any amount of threat is removed from attached scheme by a thwart, discard this card → remove an equal amount of threat from a different scheme.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Sense of Justice → generate a [mental] resource for a Thwart event.
Response: After you defeat a minion, place 1 glory counter here. Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Hall of Heroes and remove 3 glory counters from it → draw 3 cards.
Response (thwart): After your hero attacks and defeats an enemy, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Action: Exhaust any number of allies you control → draw 1 card for each ally exhausted this way.
Forced Interrupt: When Deadpool would be defeated by consequential damage, heal 3 damage from him instead. Add an acceleration token to the main scheme.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an ally and put it into play. (Shuffle.)
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player heals a total of 5 damage from among characters they control.
Hero Response: After you play an Attack event, exhaust this card → your hero gets +1 ATK until the end of the phase. (Max 1 per Attack event.)
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Crew Quarters → heal 1 damage from an alter-ego.
Max 2 per deck. Hero Interrupt: When you spend this card to play a Attack event, that event deals 1 additional damage.
Response: After your hero defends, discard indomitable → ready your hero.
Attach to an X-MEN ally. Max 1 TRAINING upgrade per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW, +1 ATK, and +1 hit point.
Player under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After you defend against an attack, deal 1 damage to the attacking character.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 ATK.
Uses (3 stronghold counters). Alter-Ego Response: After you change form, exhaust Hidden Base and remove 1 stronghold counter from it → give your identity a tough status card.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 8 damage to an enemy. If your hero's remaining hit points are less than half your hero's starting hit points, this attack gains overkill.
Jessica Jones gets +1 THW for each side scheme in play.
[star] Response: After Banshee thwarts, confuse a minion.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +2 hit points.
Attach to an Avenger ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gains Aerial. Action: Exhaust Sky Cycle → ready attached ally.
Requirement ([physical]). Hero Action (attack): Deal 4 damage to an enemy. For each point of excess damage dealt to that enemy by this attack, discard the top card of your deck and add each Aggression (red) card discarded this way to your hand.
Uses (3 reflection counters). Interrupt: When you would take any amount of damage, remove 1 reflection counter from here → prevent 1 of that damage and deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Response: After Maria Hill enters play, each player draws 1 card.
Ant-Man gets +1 hit point for each pym counter on him. Interrupt: When Ant-Man enters play, place 1 pym counter on him (to a maximum of 4) for each resource you overpaid for Ant-Man's cost.
Requirement ([energy]). Hero Action (thwart): Remove 1[per_hero] threat from each side scheme. Deal 1 damage to the villain for each side scheme defeated this way.
Requirement ([physical]). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When an enemy would scheme, discard Ready for a Fight → change to hero form. That enemy attacks you instead.
Response: After Snowguard enters play, place up to 3 shift counters here. While the shift counters here are equal to (X), she gets: (1) +3 ATK and her attacks gain overkill. (2) +3 THW and gains the Aerial trait. (3) +5 hit points and gains retaliate 1.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 2 threat from a scheme. If this removes the last threat on that scheme, draw 1 card.
Play only if your identity has the X-FORCE trait. Response: After you resolve the "When Revealed" effects of a treachery card, heal 1 damage from Pete Wisdom.
Reduce the cost to play Angel by 1 if your identity has the MUTANT or X-MEN trait.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 2 threat from a scheme. If you paid for this card using a [mental] resource, remove 2 threat from a different scheme.
Victory 0. Each X-Men character gets +1 THW while making a basic thwart against this scheme. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an identity-specific event and add it to their hand. (Shuffle.)
Hero Response (thwart): After you change form, remove 3 threat from a scheme (4 threat instead if you paid for this card using a [mental] resource).
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, ready your hero.
Hero Action: Discard a Tech upgrade you control → ready your hero and choose THW, ATK, or DEF. Until the end of the round, your hero gets +X to the chosen power, where X is equal to that upgrade's printed cost.
Uses (6 energy counters). Max 1 per player. Forced Interrupt: When you would take any amount of damage, remove that many energy counters from here. For each energy counter removed this way, prevent 1 of that damage.
Response: After you play Spectrum, tuck 1 card used to pay for her under her. If that card's printed resource has: [mental] – Spectrum gets +2 THW. [physical] – Spectrum gets +2 ATK. [energy] – Spectrum gets +2 hit points. [wild] – All of the above.
Response: After you play Pixie from your hand, add an X-MEN ally from your discard pile to your hand.
Hero Action (attack): Exhaust 3 allies you control that share a Trait with your hero → deal X damage to an enemy, where X is the total ATK of those allies and your hero.
Action: Exhaust Beat Cop → move 1 threat from a scheme to here. Action: Exhaust and discard Beat Cop → deal 1 damage to a minion for each threat here.
Forced Response: After Angela enters play under your control, search the top 10 cards of the encounter deck for a minion and put it into play engaged with you. Shuffle the encounter deck. If a minion was not put into play this way, discard Angela.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Give each identity a tough status card.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 TEAM card per player. If each of your characters has the X-FORCE trait, each ally you control gets +1 THW and takes -1 consequential damage ([cost]) after thwarting a side scheme.
If each of your allies has the X-MEN trait, increase your ally limit by 1. Response: After an X-MEN ally enters play, exhaust Utopia → ready an X-MEN character.
Attach to the main scheme. Max 1 per scheme. Increase the target threat value of attached scheme by 4.
Max 1 per deck. Your identity gets +1 to each of its basic powers, +1 hand size, and +10 hit points.
[star] Wolverine's attacks gain piercing. Response: After your turn begins, heal 1 damage from Wolverine.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy. This attack gains piercing.
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.
Response: After Brawn attacks, remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Response: After Daredevil thwarts, deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup during an attack, deal 1 damage to Northstar → cancel all boost icons ([boost]) on that card.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When an enemy would attack you, discard Invisibility Gear → that enemy schemes instead.
Response: After Wiccan thwarts, discard the top card of the encounter deck. For each boost icon discarded this way, deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Response: After Throg enters play, give him a tough status card if you are engaged with a minion.
Restricted. Uses (2 charge counters). Hero Action: Exhaust Stun Gun and remove 1 or 2 charge counters from it → if you removed: • 1 charge counter, stun a minion. • 2 charge counters, stun the villain.
Response: After Triage enters play, heal 2 damage from an X-Men character.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Each ally you control gets +1 ATK.
Attach to an X-MEN ally. Max 1 TRAINING upgrade per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW point and +2 hit points.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 6 damage to a minion. For each point of excess damage dealt by this attack, remove 1 threat from the main scheme.
Response: After Forge enters play, search your deck and discard pile for an X-MEN or X-FORCE support and add it to your hand. (Shuffle.)
Hero Interrupt (defense): When an enemy attacks, declare your hero as the defender without exhausting them.
Uses (3 charge counters). Action: Exhaust Cell Phone, remove 1 charge counter from here, and choose a player → that player makes a basic attack or thwart with a character they control. That character gets +1 THW and +1 ATK for this use.
Response: After Captain Marvel enters play, discard the top 4 cards of your deck. If you discard a printed [energy] resource, deal 3 damage to an enemy. If you discard more than one printed [energy] resource, also stun that enemy.
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.
Interrupt: When you spend this card, exhaust up to 3 allies and/or supports you control that share a Trait with your identity → generate the printed resources on each card exhausted this way.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an Attack event and add it to their hand. (Shuffle.) Until the end of the phase, each Attack event deals 1 additional damage.
Response: After Squirrel Girl enters play, deal 1 damage to each enemy.
Action: Pay the printed cost of an ally in any player's discard pile → put that ally into play under your control.
Uses (3 mental counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Awareness and remove 1 mental counter from it → generate a [mental] resource.
Response: After Beast enters play, search your deck and discard pile for a resource card and add it to your hand. (Shuffle.)
Hero Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic thwart, it gets +2 THW for that thwart. After that thwart ends, if your hero removed all threat from a scheme that way, heal 2 damage from your hero.
Victory 0. When Defeated: The player who defeated this scheme deals 5[per_hero] damage to the villain.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Attacks against attached minion gain overkill.
Alliance. Hero Action: Exhaust an X-Force character and an X-Men character → defeat a non-Elite minion.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy (5 damage instead if that enemy has the guard or patrol keyword).
Response: After Cyclops enters play, choose an enemy. Until the end of the phase, increase the amount of damage that enemy takes from each attack by 1.
Response: After Phoenix enters play, choose an X-Men ally → ready that ally and heal 1 damage from it.
Max 1 per player. Hero Response (attack): After you take damage from an enemy attack, discard Counterattack → deal an equal amount of damage to that enemy.
Hero Interrupt: When a treachery card is revealed from the encounter deck, cancel its "When Revealed" effects. The villain attacks you instead.
Hero Response: After your hero defends against an attack and takes no damage, exhaust Hard to Ignore → remove 1 threat from the main scheme.
Hope Summers gains each TRAIT on your identity. Response: After you play Hope Summers from your hand, search your deck for a SUPERPOWER card and add it to your hand. (Shuffle.)
Hero Action: Choose a hero. Until the end of the round, that hero gets +1 THW, +1 ATK, and +1 DEF
Victory 0. Assault. (Basic thwarts against this scheme use ATK instead of THW.) When Defeated: The player who defeated this scheme removes 5[per_hero] threat from the main scheme.
Hero Action (attack): Confuse an enemy. If you paid for this card using a [physical] resource, deal 3 damage to that enemy.
Attach to a friendly character. Max 1 per character. Hero Resource: Exhaust this card and deal 1 damage to attached character → generate a [wild] resource.
Uses (3 warrior counters). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When your hero attacks, remove 1 counter from here → that attack deals 1 additional damage.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Increase your ally limit by 1. Response: After a player plays a guardian ally, exhaust Knowhere → that player draws 1 card.
Uses (3 snoop counters). (Enters play with 3 counters. When those are gone, discard this card) Action: Exhaust Surveillance Team and remove 1 snoop counter from it → remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Attach to an X-MEN ally. Max 1 Training upgrade per ally. Attached ally gets +3 hit points.
Action: Heal 2 damage from any character.
Play only if your identity has the X-Force or X-Men trait. Response: After White Queen enters play, discard a status card from a character.
Hero Action: Choose an ally with a TRAINING upgrade attached → ready that ally and heal 1 damage from it.
Max 1 per player. Response: After an ally thwarts and defeats a side scheme, exhaust Command Center → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Response: After Kaluu enters play, search the top 5 cards of your deck for an event → add that event to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
Response: After Speed thwarts, ready him. (Limit once per round.)
Response: After you play White Tiger from your hand, draw X cards (to a maximum of three), where X is equal to the villain's stage number. If the villain has no stage number, draw 1 card.
[star] Yondu's attacks gain ranged.Ranged attacks ignore retaliate.)
[star] Forced Response: After White Wolf attacks, place 1 threat on the main scheme.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 1 damage to a minion. If you have the Aerial trait, engage that enemy.
Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After an ally you control is defeated, discard Rapid Response → put that ally into play from your discard pile and deal 1 damage to it.
Attach to a side scheme. Max 1 per scheme. Interrupt: When attached side scheme is defeated, search your deck and discard pile for an ally and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
Max 1 per player. Hero Response (attack): After a minion enters play, discard Prism Dust → confuse that minion and deal 2 damage to it.
Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic attack, it gets +2 ATK for that attack.
Setup. Max 1 per deck. Setup: Search your collection for an identity-specific ally for an identity not in this game. Shuffle that ally into your deck. Discard 2 cards from your hand and remove this card from the game.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If this attack defeats that enemy, heal 2 damage from your hero.
Play only if your identity has the champion or genius trait. Response: After you play Moon Girl from your hand, draw 1 card for each [mental] resource used to pay for her.
Uses (3 operation counters). Action: Exhaust The Douglass and remove 1 operational counter from it → remove 2 threat from each scheme, ignoring any crisis icons ([crisis]) in play.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, deal 1 damage to the villain.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Search the encounter deck, discard pile, and set-aside area for your nemesis minion and reveal it → ready your hero and draw 3 cards. You cannot attack the villain this phase. Remove this card from the game.
Play only if your identity has the Genius trait. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Ingenuity → generate a [mental] resource.
Attach to a side scheme. Max 1 per scheme. Interrupt: When attached scheme is defeated, deal 4 damage to an enemy.
Response: After a minion schemes, exhaust Quake → deal 2 damage to that minion.
Response: After you play Spider-Girl from your hand, stun and confuse a minion.
Hero Response (thwart): After the villain attacks you, remove 1 threat from a scheme for each damage you took from the attack (to a maximum of 5).
Response: After Manifold enters play, choose a player. That player searches their deck and discard pile for a player side scheme and adds it to their hand.
Uses (3 medical counters). (Enters play with 3 counters. When those are gone, discard this card.) Action: Exhaust Med Team and remove 1 medical counter from it → heal 2 damage from a friendly character.
Reduce the cost to play Colossus by 1 if your identity has the MUTANT or X-MEN trait. Toughness.
Hero Response: After you change form, your hero gets +1 THW, +1 ATK, +1 DEF until the end of the round.
Hero Response: After Deathlok enters play, choose an upgrade in any player's discard pile with a cost of 1 or less that can be attached to Deathlok. Attach that upgrade to Deathlok.
Max 2 per deck. Uses (2 training counters) Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust this card and remove 1 training counter from it → choose an Aggression (red) event in your discard pile and shuffle it into your deck.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Heal 2 damage from each ally.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When you defend against an attack, you get +2 DEF for this attack. If you take no damage from this attack, stun the attacking enemy.
Attach to a non-permanent side scheme. Max 1 per side scheme. Response: After a hero defends against an attack, remove 1 threat from attached scheme (2 threat instead if that hero took no damage from that attack).
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.
Max 1 per phase. Hero Action: Draw 1 card for each minion engaged with you.
Uses (3 attack counters). (Enters play with 3 counters. When those are gone, discard this card) Action: Exhaust Tac Team and remove 1 attack counter from it → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Restricted. Uses (3 charge counters). Hero Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic attack, exhaust Hand Cannon and remove 1 charge counter from it → your hero gets +2 ATK for that attack. That attack gains overkill.
Action: Choose an ally in your hand that shares a trait with your identity → put that ally into play. If that ally is still in play at the end of the phase, discard it.
Hero Response: After you exhaust your hero to make a basic thwart or attack, discard an ally you control → add that ally's matching power to your hero's power for this use. Ready your hero.
[star] Forced Response: After Blade thwarts or attacks, choose to either spend a [physical] resource from your hand or discard Blade.
Hero Interrupt: When an ally you control attacks, it gets +3 ATK for that attack. After that attack resolves, discard that ally.
Alter-Ego Action: Heal damage from your alter-ego equal to your REC.
Hero Action: Discard an ally your control → deal damage to an enemy equal to that ally's printed cost.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When you would take any amount of damage, prevent 3 of that damage. If you paid for this card using [energy] resource, deal 1 damage to that enemy.
Response: After you play Spider-Man from your hand, choose THW or ATK. Spider-Man gets +2 to the chosen power until the end of the phase.
Response (thwart): After your hero defends against an enemy attack, remove threat from a scheme equal to your hero's THW.
Response: After Dazzler enters play, confuse an enemy.
Hero Action: Exhaust Government Liaison → play a S.H.I.E.L.D. card from your hand, reducing its resource cost by 1.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After you thwart and remove the last threat from a scheme, discard Justice Served → ready your hero.
Restricted. Hero Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic attack against a unique enemy ([unique]), exhaust Godslayer → your hero gets +2 ATK for that attack.
Restricted. Uses (2 charge counters). Hero Action: Exhaust Sonic Rifle and remove 1 charge counter from it → confuse an enemy (deal 3 damage to that enemy instead if it is already confused).
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 6 threat from the main scheme. If you paid for this card using a [mental] resource, this thwart ignores the crisis icon ([crisis]).
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.
Max 1 per player. Hero Response (attack): After a minion engages you, discard Lie in Wait → deal 3 damage to that minion.
Reduce the cost to play Leo Fitz by 2 if your identity has the S.H.I.E.L.D. trait. Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Leo Fitz → search you deck for a Tech card and add it to your hand. (Shuffle.)
If Fantomex is not in play, discard E.V.A. Action: Exhaust E.V.A. → choose: • Remove 1 threat from a scheme. • Deal 1 damage to an enemy. • Heal 1 damage from Fantomex.
Response: After Fantomex enters play, search your deck and discard pile for E.V.A. and put it into play. (Shuffle.)
Uses (3 leadership counters). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When an ally makes a basic thwart or basic attack action, remove 1 leadership counter from here → that ally gets +1 THW and +1 ATK for that action.
Alter-Ego Response: After an X-MEN ally enters play, exhaust Danger Room → search your deck and discard pile for a TRAINING upgrade and attach it to that ally. Any player whose alter-ego has the MUTANT trait may trigger this ability.
Forced Response: After Hulk attacks, discard the top card of your deck. If that card's printed resource has: [physical] - Deal 2 damage to an enemy. [energy] - Deal 1 damage to each character. [mental] - Discard Hulk. [wild] - All of the above.
Action: Deal 1 damage to another friendly character → until the end of the round, Rogue gains each of that character's Traits and adds that character's printed THW and ATK to her matching powers. (Limit once per round.)
Play only if your identity has the X-Men trait. Response: After you play Shadowcat from your hand, choose a side scheme in play → that scheme loses each [acceleration], [amplify], [crisis], and [hazard] icon until the end of the round.
Response: After you play Beak from your hand, remove 1 threat from a scheme for each X-Men ally you control.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 4 damage to an enemy. If you paid for this card using only [physical] resources, stun that enemy and draw 1 card.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +2 ATK and takes +1 consequential damage after it attacks.
Max 1 per player. Response: After you defeat an enemy with a basic attack, exhaust Blood Rage and take 1 damage → draw 1 card.
Victory 0. Forced Interrupt: When threat is removed from this scheme, place that threat on a non-Elite minion. If that minion has threat on it equal to or greater than its remaining hit points, add Show of Empathy to the victory display and attach 1 set-aside copy of Redemption to that minion.
Requirement ([physical]) (While paying for this card, spend the listed resources.) Hero Action: Heal 2 damage from your hero → ready your hero.
Alliance. Hero Action (attack/thwart): Exhaust an X-Force character and an X-Men character → remove X threat from among schemes in play and deal X damage among enemies in play, where X is the combined THW of the two exhausted characters.
Hero Action: Discard Civic Duty → your hero gets +1 THW until the end of the phase.
Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Dr. Sinclair and spend a [mental] resource → heal damage from your alter-ego equal to your REC. You may discard 1 status card from your identity. Any player may trigger this ability.
Hero Response: After your hero makes a basic attack, heal 1 damage from Bug.
Forced Response: After Nick Fury, Sr. enters play, choose one: Remove 3 threat from a scheme, draw 2 cards, or give a S.H.I.E.L.D. character a tough status card. At the end of the round, if Nick Fury, Sr. is still in play, discard him.
Hero Interrupt: When your hero's attack deals any amount of excess damage, increase that amount by 1.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When your hero defends against an attack, it gets +3 DEF for that attack.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When a boost card on an enemy attacking you would be turned faceup, discard it instead.
[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.
Victory 0. Play only if your identity has the X-Men trait. When Defeated: Each player chooses 1 set-aside New ally and adds it to their hand.
Response: After you reveal an encounter card, deal 1 damage to Venom → deal damage to an enemy equal to the number of icons ([star] and [boost]) in that card's boost area.
Hero Action: Discard cards from the encounter deck until you discard a minion. Put that minion into play engaged with you → play an ally from your hand, reducing its cost by 3.
Action: Exhaust Boom Boom → add 1 boom counter to her. Then, you may discard Boom Boom to deal 1 damage to each enemy for each boom counter on her.
Max 2 per deck. Hero Interrupt: When you spend this card to play a Defense event, draw 1 card.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Hero Response: After Gamora attacks or thwarts, discard cards from the top of your deck until you discard an event, then add that card to your hand.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Protection (green) card.
Hero Action (attack): Stun an enemy. If you paid for this card using a [physical] resource, deal 3 damage to that enemy.
X is the number of boost icons ([boost]) on the card under Gambit. Response: After Gambit enters play, look at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck and tuck one under him so that only the boost field is visible.
Response: After you play Karma from your hand, choose a non-ELITE minion. While Karma is in play, take control of that minion and treat it as a CONTROLLED ally with a blank text box. Its THW is equal to its printed SCH and it takes 2 consequential damage after it thwarts or attacks.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Nerves of Steel → generate a [energy] resource for a Defense event.
Hero Action: Discard cards from the encounter deck until you discard a minion. Put that minion into play engaged with you → heal 3 damage from your identity and give your identity a tough status card.
Victory 0. Response: After an X-Men character defends against an enemy attack and takes no damage, remove 1 threat from this scheme. When Defeated: Stun and confuse each enemy in play.
Response: After Brother Voodoo enters play, search the top 5 cards of your deck for an event card and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to the villain. Hero Interrupt (attack): When a minion initiates an attack, deal 2 damage to that minion.
Iceman enters play with 3 freeze counters on him. Response: After a minion enters play, remove 1 freeze counter from Iceman → stun that minion.
Requirement ([energy]). (While paying for this card, spend the listed resources.) Hero Action (attack): Exhaust your hero → deal damage to an enemy equal to the total of your hero's THW, ATK, and DEF values.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Resource: Exhaust Quincarrier → generate a [wild] resource.
Response: After Heimdall enters play, look at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. Discard 1 of them and put the others back in any order.
Reduce the cost to play Hercules by 1 for each minion engaged with you.
Retaliate 1. Toughness.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Drax cannot attack minions.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Response: After Groot defends against an attack, heal 2 damage from him.
Response: After Martyr takes consequential damage from performing an attack, if that attack defeated an enemy, give her a tough status card.
Action: Exhaust and discard Moondragon → choose a minion. That minion attacks another enemy of your choice.
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, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Max 1 per player. Response: After you discard a Preparation card you control, discard Practiced Plan → return that card to your hand from your discard pile.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, heal 1 damage from your hero.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Interrupt: When Rocket Raccoon attacks a minion, he gets +3 ATK for that attack. That attack gains overkill.
[star] Star-Lord's attacks gain ranged. Forced Response: After Star-Lord enters play under your control, deal yourself 1 facedown encounter card.
[star] Response: After Melinda May uses a basic power, look at the top card of the encounter deck. You may discard that card.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After you defeat an enemy during the villain phase, exhaust this card → draw 2 cards.
Max 1 per player. Response: After you play an ATTACK event, place 1 test counter here. If there are 5 test counters here, discard this card to deal 5 damage to an enemy.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. While your hero's remaining hit points are less than half your hero's starting hit points, your hero gets +1 ATK and -1 THW.
Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup during a scheme activation, cancel its boost icons.
You may play the event attached to Jocasta as if it were in your hand. Response: After Jocasta enters play, choose a Defense event in your discard pile and attach it to her facedown.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If this attack defeats that enemy, deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 5 damage to a minion. If you paid for this card using a [physical] resource, this attack gains overkill. (Excess damage from this attack is dealt to the villain.)
Hero Action: Spend a [physical] resource and discard this card → ready your hero.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 5 damage to an enemy.
Max 1 per player. Response: After an ally is defeated by consequential damage, exhaust Med Lab → place it here. (Limit 1 ally at a time.) Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Med Lab → play the ally here as if it was in your hand. It enters play exhausted.
[star] Interrupt: When Dust attacks a minion, she attacks each minion in play. Dust takes +1 consequential damage ([cost]) after this attack.
Response: After you play Thor from your hand, deal 2 damage to the villain (3 damage instead if you paid for this card using a [physical] resource).
[star] Response: After Wolfsbane thwarts, name a card type, then discard the top card of your deck. If that card is of the named type, you may add it to your hand.
Play only if your identity has the X-MEN trait. Attach to a friendly character. Max 1 per character. Attached character gets +1 hit point and gains the X-MEN trait.
Max 1 per player. Response: After you defeat a minion, exhaust Interrogation Room → remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Attach to a non-permanent side scheme. Limit 1 per side scheme. Attached scheme gains assault. (Basic thwarts against this scheme use ATK instead of THW.)
Response: After Valkyrie enters play, deal 2 damage to a minion (3 damage instead if you paid for this card using a [energy] resource).
[star] Response: After Legion uses a basic power, discard the top card of your deck. If that card's printed resource has: [energy] — Deal 2 damage to an enemy. [mental] — Remove 2 threat from a scheme. [physical] — Heal 2 damage from Legion.
Hero Action (thwart): Discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until you discard a minion. Put that minion into play engaged with you → remove 3 threat from the main scheme.
Hero Action (thwart): Exhaust your hero → remove threat from a scheme equal to your hero's ATK.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After your hero attacks and defeats a minion, deal 1 damage to your hero and discard Battle Fury → ready your hero.
Response: After you play Magik from your hand, spend a [mental] resource → choose a non-Elite minion engaged with an X-MEN hero. Shuffle that minion into the encounter deck.
[star] While Shark-Girl is attacking an enemy, she gets +1 ATK for each upgrade attached to that enemy.
Alliance. Hero Action: For each different Trait on friendly characters in play, choose: • Remove 1 threat from a scheme. • Deal 1 damage to an enemy.
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.
[star] Response: After Cypher attacks and damages a confused enemy, draw 1 card.
Response: After Polaris enters play, give an X-MEN character a tough status card.
[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.
Uses (3 energy counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Reflexes and remove 1 energy counter from it → generate a [energy] resource.
Play only if there is a side scheme in the victory display. Hero Action: Until the end of the phase, allies you control do not take consequential damage.
Attach to an X-MEN ally. Max 1 Training upgrade per ally. Attached ally gets +1 ATK and +2 hit points.
Hero Interrupt (attack/defense): When an enemy initiates an attack, deal 4 damage to that enemy.
Hero Interrupt: When an enemy initiates an attack, that enemy gets -3 ATK for that attack.
Play only if your identity has the MYSTIC trait. Hero Action: Choose one: • Heal 3 damage from an identity. • Remove 3 threat from a scheme. • Deal 3 damage to an enemy.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Action: Exhaust Plan B and discard 1 random card from your hand → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Max 1 per player. Hero Action: Exhaust Deft Focus → reduce the resource cost of the next superpower card you play this turn by 1.
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.
You may play Lockjaw from your discard pile during your turn (paying his resource cost).
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.
Max 2 per deck. Uses (2 training counters). Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust this card and remove 1 training counter from it → choose a justice (yellow) event in your discard pile and shuffle it into your deck.
Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After a boost card is turned faceup, discard Target Acquired → cancel that card's boost ability.
Hero Interrupt: When you make a basic attack against an enemy with an upgrade attached, you get +2 ATK for this attack. If this attack defeats that enemy, ready your hero.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 7 damage to an enemy with an upgrade attached.
Max 2 per deck. Interrupt: When you spend this card to play an ally, that ally gets +1 THW and +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
Response: After you play Eros from your hand, confuse a minion for each [mental] resource you used to pay for him.
Play only if your identity has the Mystic trait. Action: Draw 2 cards. Choose and discard 1 card from your hand.
Play only if you have the Mystic trait. You get +1 hand size while in hero form.
Hero Response: After your hero makes a basic attack and damages an enemy, confuse that enemy. If that enemy is already confused, stun it instead.
Response: After Blindfold enters play, look at the top 5 cards of the encounter deck. Discard 1 of those cards and put the rest back in the same order.
Response: After Caliban enters play, discard cards from the top of your deck until an X-FACTOR, X-FORCE, or X-MEN ally is discarded. Add that ally to your hand.
[star] Chamber takes -1 consequential damage ([cost]) after he attacks a confused enemy.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When a character you control attacks a confused enemy, increase the amount of damage that attack deals to that enemy by 1.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for a WEAPON upgrade with a cost of 3 or less and put it into play. (Shuffle.)
Reduce the cost to play Martinex by 1 if your identity has the Guardian trait.
Psylocke enters play with 2 psionic counters on her. [star] Interrupt: When Psylocke attacks an enemy, remove 1 psionic counter from her → confuse that enemy and deal 1 damage to it.
Hero Action: (attack): Deal 3 damage to a confused enemy.
Reduce the cost to play Spider-Woman by 1 for each confused enemy in play.
[star] Interrupt: When Husk uses a basic power, spend up to 3 resources → if you spent at least 1: [energy] — Husk gets +1 to that power for this use. [mental] — Heal 1 damage from Husk. [physical] — Ready Husk after this use.
Alliance. (The players can pay this card's costs as a group.) Hero Action: Remove 3[per_hero] threat from a side scheme.
Hero Action: Discard cards from the top of your deck until you discard an Avenger ally, then add that ally to your hand.
[star] Response: After you use one of Domino's basic powers, swap a card in your hand with the top card of your deck.
Interrupt (thwart): When the villain schemes, reduce the amount of threat placed on the scheme by 1.
Response: After your turn begins, place 1 time counter on Quinjet. Action: Put an Avenger ally from your hand into play with printed cost equal to or less than the number of time counters on Quinjet. Then, discard Quinjet.
Response: After White Fox is discarded from the top of your deck, put her into play under your control.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, heal 1 damage from an ally you control.
Hero Action: Discard 1 stun or confuse status card from your hero.
Action: Exhaust Atlas Bear → look at the top card of a player deck. If that card is an event, you may deal 1 damage to Atlas Bear to add that card to its owner's hand.
Play only if your identity has the MUTANT trait. Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Cerebro → search the top 5 cards of your deck for an X-MEN ally (search your whole deck instead if you control a PSIONIC character) and add that ally to your hand. (Shuffle.)
[star] Gentle takes +1 consequential damage ([cost]) after he attacks the villain.
Grant Ward cannot defend. Forced Response: After you reveal a treachery, you may spend a [mental] resource. If you do not, take damage equal to Grant Ward's ATK and remove Grant Ward from the game.
Max 1 per player. Response: After an ally defends against an attack and is not defeated, exhaust this card → ready that ally.
Response: After Mirage enters play, choose an enemy whose SCH is less than Mirage's THW → stun that enemy.
Response: After Multiple Man enters play, search your deck and hand for a copy of Multiple Man and put it into play. Shuffle your deck if it was searched this way.
Interrupt: When a treachery is revealed, deal 2 damage to Negasonic Teenage Warhead → cancel that treachery's "When Revealed" effects.
Restricted. Uses (3 charge counters). Hero Action: Exhaust Plasma Pistol and remove 1 charge counter from it → deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Action: Exhaust Plot Convenience → choose: • Attach 1 aspect card from your hand facedown here (to a maximum of 3). • Add 1 card attached facedown here to your hand. Any player may trigger this ability.
Max 1 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates if your identity has sustained less than 5 damage (triple the resources instead if you have sustained no damage).
Max 1 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates if your identity has sustained less than 5 damage (triple the resources instead if you have sustained no damage).
Max 1 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates if your identity has sustained less than 5 damage (triple the resources instead if you have sustained no damage).
[star] Response: After Agent 13 attacks or thwarts, choose a S.H.I.E.L.D. support → ready that support.
Action: You get +1 hand size until the end of the phase.
Hero Action (thwart): The villain attacks you. Remove 4 threat from the main scheme.
Response (attack): After your hero defends against an enemy attack, deal damage to that enemy equal to your hero's ATK.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. While your hero's remaining hit points are equal to or greater than your hero's starting hit points, your hero gains retaliate 1.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After you play a Defense card, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.
Counts as 2 restricted cards. Max 1 per deck. Your hero gets +1 ATK for each [crisis], [acceleration], [amplify], and [hazard] in play (to a maximum of +4 ATK).
Victory 0. Each identity gets +2 hand size.
Play only if your identity has the X-MEN trait. Hero Interrupt (defense): When an enemy attacks, put an X-MEN ally into play from your hand. Exhaust it and declare it the defender for this attack.
Interrupt: When an X-MEN character would take any amount of damage from an enemy attack, spend a [energy] resource and return Nightcrawler to your hand → prevent all of that damage.
Retaliate 1.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Spend a [physical] resource and exhaust this card → ready your hero.
Hero Action (attack): The villain schemes. Deal 4 damage to the villain.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 4 damage to an enemy. If that enemy is defeated by this attack, give your hero a tough status card.
Restricted. Response: After your hero attacks an enemy, spend a [physical] resource → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Response: After Kid Omega enters play, choose: • Spend a [energy] resource → deal 1 damage to each enemy. • Spend a [mental] resource → remove 1 threat from each scheme.
Hero Action: Choose a player. Each character that player controls gets +1 THW and +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
Toughness. (This character enters play with a tough status card.)
Attach to an X-FORCE or X-MEN ally. Max 1 per ally. Response: After attached ally defeats a minion or side scheme, discard 1 card from your hand → heal 1 damage from attached ally for each resource on that card.
Your hero gets +1 ATK. Your basic attacks gain piercing. (Discard any tough status cards from the target before dealing damage.) Forced Response: After you make a basic attack, discard Brute Force.
Attach to a guardian ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW and +1 hit point.
Play only if your identity has at least 14 printed hit points. Hero Action: Ready your hero.
Hero Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic attack, exhaust a Weapon upgrade on your hero → your hero gets +3 ATK for this attack.
Reduce the cost to play Mission Leader by 1 if your identity has the SOLDIER trait. Hero Response: After a side scheme is defeated, exhaust Mission Leader → each player draws 1 card.
Response: After Tigra attacks and defeats a minion, heal 1 damage from her.
Play only if your identity has at least 14 printed hit points. Your identity gains steady.
Max 1 per player. Response: After an ally attacks and defeats a minion, exhaust War Room → remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Action (thwart): Remove 5 threat from the main scheme, ignoring the crisis icon ([crisis]). Remove 1 threat from each scheme for each [crisis], [acceleration], [amplify], and [hazard] in play.
Hero Action: If the following icons are on 1 or more cards in play: [crisis] — Deal 3 damage to an enemy. [acceleration] — Remove 2 threat from a scheme. [amplify] — Ready an ally you control. [hazard] — Draw 1 card.
Response: After Agent Coulson enters play, search your deck and discard pile for a Preparation card and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
Attach to a side scheme. Max 1 per side scheme. Interrupt: When attached side scheme is defeated, discard a non-ELITE minion.
If each of your allies has the Avenger trait, increase your ally limit by 1. Action: Exhaust Avengers Tower → reduce the cost of the next Avenger ally played this phase by 1.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When you would take any amount of damage from an attack, prevent 1 of that damage for each [crisis], [acceleration], [amplify], and [hazard] in play.
Response: After Bob, Agent of Hydra enters play, deal 2 damage to an enemy or remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Hero Response (attack): After your hero makes a basic thwart, deal damage to an enemy equal to your hero's THW.
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.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Action (attack): Deal 5 damage to an enemy. Stun that enemy.
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.
Action: Exhaust Deadpool Corps Ship and deal yourself 1 facedown encounter card → put a 'Pool ally into play from your hand.
Max 2 per deck. Uses (2 training counters). Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust this card and remove 1 training counter from this → choose a Protection (green) event in your discard pile and shuffle it into your deck.
Retaliate 1. Toughness. When Defeated: Deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Max 1 per deck. Action: Ready an ally. That ally gets +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
Play only if you control a Web-Warrior card. Interrupt: When Ghost-Spider leaves play, search your deck for an identity-specific event and add it to your hand. (Shuffle.)
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy.
[star] Response: After Headpool attacks and damages a minion, that minion attacks another enemy of your choice.
Hero Action (attack/thwart): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. Remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 3 threat from the main scheme. If this is the first card you have played this round, return this card to your hand.
Uses (3 judo counters). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When you defend against an enemy attack, remove 1 judo counter from here → that enemy gets -2 ATK for that attack.
[star] Kidpool's attacks gain piercing.
When Defeated: Defeat a non-ELITE minion.
Hero Action (attack/thwart): If you paid for this event using at least 1: [physical] — Deal 2 damage to an enemy. [mental] — Remove 2 threat from a scheme. [energy] — Heal 2 damage from your identity.
Toughness.
Attach to an Avenger ally. Max 1 per ally. Response: After attached ally attacks or thwarts, deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When a boost card is turned face up while the villain attacks, cancel all boost icons ([boost]) on that card. Then deal 1 damage to the villain for each boost icon cancelled this way.
Interrupt: When an ally is defeated by an enemy attack, return it to its owner's hand instead of discarding it. Forced Interrupt: When the round ends, discard this card.
Hero Action (attack): Discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until you discard a treachery. Reveal that treachery → deal 5 damage to the villain.
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, deal 3 damage to the attacking enemy.
Play only if you control a Web-Warrior card. When Defeated: Add SP//dr to your hand if she was defeated by taking excess consequential damage.
Play only if your identity has the X-Men trait. Interrupt: When you use a basic power, exhaust Synch → you get +1 to that power for this use.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may discard 1 non-ELITE minion from play.
Hero Interrupt When you use your basic thwart power (THW) or basic attack power (ATK), exhaust an ally you control → add that ally's matching power to your hero's power for this use.
Toughness. (This character enters play with a tough status card.) [star] War Machine's basic attack gains ranged. (Ranged attacks ignore retaliate.)
Ignore this card's resource cost if your identity has the Web-Warrior trait. Response: After a Web-Warrior ally leaves play, choose a player → that player draws 1 card.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Hero Action: Take 1 damage. Confuse the villain.
Response: After an enemy attacks you, place 1 energy counter here. [star] Interrupt: When Bishop attacks, remove each energy counter from him → for each counter discarded this way, he gets +2 ATK for this attack (to a maximum of +6 ATK).
Interrupt: When a card is revealed from the encounter deck, exhaust Black Widow and spend a [mental] resource → cancel the effects of that card and discard it. Then, reveal another card from the encounter deck.
Play only if your identity has the SPY or THIEF trait. Action (thwart): Remove 3 threat from a scheme.
Hero Action: Exhaust C.I.T.T. and spend 2 resources of any type → ready a guardian character.
Hero Action: Exhaust Champions Mobile Bunker → choose an identity with the champion trait. The player who controls that identity may draw 2 cards, then discard 2 cards from their hand.
Interrupt: When Clea is defeated, shuffle her into her owner's deck.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy. If this is the first card you have played this round, return this card to your hand.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Each ally takes -1 consequential damage ([cost]) when attacking attached minion.
Interrupt: When Cosmo attacks or thwarts, name a card type, then discard the top card of a player deck or the encounter deck. If that card is of the named type, Cosmo does not take consequential damage for this use.
Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When any amount of threat would be placed on the main scheme, discard Counterintelligence → prevent 3 of that threat.
Hero Action (attack): Exhaust a weapon upgrade you control → deal 5 damage to an enemy.
Attach to a minion. Attached minion gets +2 hit points and gains patrol. Interrupt: When attached minion is defeated, remove 4 threat from the main scheme.
Giant-Man gets +2 ATK while he has 3 or more remaining hit points.
Hawkeye enters play with 4 arrow counters on him. Response: After a minion enters play, remove 1 arrow counter from Hawkeye → deal 2 damage to that minion.
Max 1 per player. Response: After the player phase begins, exhaust Healing Factor → heal 2 damage from your identity.
Iron Fist enters play with 2 mystic counters on him. Interrupt: When Iron Fist attacks an enemy, remove 1 mystic counter from him → stun that enemy and deal 1 damage to it.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When you would take any amount of damage, prevent 2 of that damage. If you paid for this card using a [energy] resource, remove 2 threat from the main scheme.
Hero Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic attack, discard the top card of the encounter deck → reduce your hero's ATK for that attack by the number of printed boost icons on that card. If that attack still deals damage, ready your hero.
[star] Interrupt: When Marvel Girl attacks a minion, remove X threat from the main scheme, where X is that minion's printed SCH.
Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust your alter-ego → play a card from your hand, reducing its resource cost by 3.
Hero Action (attack): Heal 2 damage from your hero → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
You cannot play this card if you have played another card this phase. Action: Discard your hand. Draw a new hand. (Draw up to your hand size.)
Max 1 per deck. Interrupt: When any amount of threat would be placed on a scheme, you or your ally takes it as damage 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.
Ronin gets +1 THW and +1 ATK while an upgrade is attached to them.
Max 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When you make a ranged attack, discard the top card of your deck → this attack deals 1 additional damage for each resource icon discarded this way.
Response: After you play a S.H.I.E.L.D. card, exhaust Sky-Destroyer → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Team-Up (Phoenix and Storm). Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Ready Phoenix and Storm. Heal 2 damage from each of them.
Play only if you control a Spy character. Interrupt: When you reveal an encounter card, discard Spycraft → cancel the effects of that card and discard it. Then, reveal another card from the encounter deck.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Stinger does not count against your ally limit.
Team-Up (Ant-Man and Wasp). Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Change to your other hero form. Ready your hero.
Max 1 per deck. Play only if you control at least 3 characters with the POSSE trait. Hero Action: Heal 1 damage from each POSSE character and ready them.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Team-Up (Iron Man and War Machine). Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Search your deck for a tech upgrade and put it into play. Shuffle your deck. Ready Iron Man and War Machine.
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.
Interrupt: When a hero would take any amount of damage, reduce that amount by 1.
[star] As an additional cost for Wonder Man to attack, you must discard 1 card from your hand.
Hero Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup, exhaust Wraith and deal 1 damage to him → cancel that card's "Boost" effect.
Play only if your identity has the MUTANT trait. Alter-Ego Action: Choose up to 2 X-MEN allies in your discard pile and shuffle them into your deck. If X-Mansion is in play, draw 1 card.
Team-Up (Gwen Stacy and Miles Morales). Max 1 per deck. Alter-Ego Action: Heal 3 damage each from Gwen Stacy and Miles Morales.