Charge de Card − Action: Place 1 charge counter here. (Limit once per round). Throw de Card − Interrupt: When you play an ATTACK event, remove up to 3 charge counters from here → that event deal +1 damage for each counter removed.
Thief Extraordinaire − Action (thwart): Exhaust Remy LeBeau and look at the top 2 cards of the encounter deck. Discard 1 of those cards → remove threat from a scheme equal to the number of boost icons ([boost]) on that card.
Resource: Exhaust The X-Jet → generate a [wild] resource for a player whose identity has the X-MEN trait.
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.
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 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.
Team-Up (Gambit and Rogue). Max 1 per deck. Hero Action (attack/thwart): Deal 4 damage to an enemy. Remove 4 threat from a scheme.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 DEF.
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. Action: Exhaust Avengers Mansion → choose a player. That player draws 1 card.
Max 1 per player. Hero Action: Exhaust Deft Focus → reduce the resource cost of the next superpower card you play this turn by 1.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Martial Prowess → generate a [physical] resource for an Attack event.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If this attack defeats that enemy, deal 2 damage to an enemy.
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 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.
Reduce the cost to play Colossus by 1 if your identity has the MUTANT or X-MEN trait. Toughness.
Response: After Triage enters play, heal 2 damage from an X-Men character.
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.
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 Interrupt (attack/defense): When an enemy initiates an attack, deal 4 damage to that enemy.
Max 2 per deck. Hero Interrupt: When you spend this card to play a Attack event, that event deals 1 additional damage.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 DEF.
Play only if your identity has the X-MEN trait. Toughness.
Reduce the cost to play Angel by 1 if your identity has the MUTANT or X-MEN trait.
Response: After you play Beak from your hand, remove 1 threat from a scheme for each X-Men ally you control.
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.
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.
Response: After Dazzler enters play, confuse an enemy.
Player under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After you defend against an attack, deal 1 damage to the attacking character.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Aggression (red) card.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points.
Response: After Polaris enters play, give an X-MEN character a tough status card.
Play only if your identity has the SPY or THIEF trait. Action (thwart): Remove 3 threat from a scheme.
Hero Response (attack): After you defend against an enemy attack and take no damage, deal damage to that enemy equal to your DEF for that attack.
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.
Uses (3 warrior counters). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When your hero attacks, remove 1 counter from here → that attack deals 1 additional damage.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy. Deal 3 damage to another enemy.
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.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After you change form, discard this card → ready your hero.
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.
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.)
[star] Wolverine's attacks gain piercing. Response: After your turn begins, heal 1 damage from Wolverine.
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.
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.
Attach to the main scheme. Max 1 per scheme. Increase the target threat value of attached scheme by 4.
Attach to an X-MEN ally. Max 1 TRAINING upgrade per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW point and +2 hit points.
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.
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.
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.
Hero Action: The villain attacks you. Other characters cannot defend against this attack. Draw 3 cards.
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.
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.
[star] Interrupt: When Marvel Girl attacks a minion, remove X threat from the main scheme, where X is that minion's printed SCH.
Hero Response: After your hero defends against an attack and takes no damage, exhaust Hard to Ignore → remove 1 threat from the main scheme.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to the villain. Hero Interrupt (attack): When a minion initiates an attack, deal 2 damage to that minion.
Response: After Mockingbird enters play, stun an enemy.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After a side scheme is defeated, exhaust Skilled Investigator → draw 1 card.
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.
Response: After your hero defends, discard indomitable → ready your hero.
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.
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.)
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an identity-specific upgrade and put it into play. (Shuffle.)
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Crew Quarters → heal 1 damage from an alter-ego.
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.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If this attack defeats that enemy, heal 2 damage from your hero.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When your hero defends against an attack, it gets +3 DEF for that attack.
Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup during an attack, deal 1 damage to Northstar → cancel all boost icons ([boost]) on that card.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Protection (green) card.
Attach to an X-MEN ally. Max 1 TRAINING upgrade per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW, +1 ATK, and +1 hit point.
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.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an ally and put it into play. (Shuffle.)
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.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 ATK.
Retaliate 1.
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.
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 (thwart): Remove 2 threat from a scheme. If you paid for this card using a [mental] resource, remove 2 threat from a different scheme.
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.
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).
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After you play a Defense card, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.
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.
Response: After you play Pixie from your hand, add an X-MEN ally from your discard pile to your hand.
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 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.
Response (thwart): After your hero attacks and defeats an enemy, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
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.
[star] Response: After Banshee thwarts, confuse a minion.
Attach to an X-MEN ally. Max 1 Training upgrade per ally. Attached ally gets +3 hit points.
Response: After Beast enters play, search your deck and discard pile for a resource card and add it to your hand. (Shuffle.)
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.
Hero Action (attack): Stun an enemy. If you paid for this card using a [physical] resource, deal 3 damage to that enemy.
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.
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.
Iceman enters play with 3 freeze counters on him. Response: After a minion enters play, remove 1 freeze counter from Iceman → stun that minion.
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.)
Play only if you have the X-FORCE or X-MEN trait. Response: After Marrow enters play, deal 2 damage to an enemy.
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.
Attach to a character. Max 1 per character. Interrupt: When attached character would take any amount of damage, spend X [energy] resources → prevent X of that damage.
Uses (3 operative counters). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When you thwart, remove 1 operative counter from here → that thwart removes 1 additional threat.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Give each identity a tough status card.
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.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When a boost card on an enemy attacking you would be turned faceup, discard it instead.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 ATK and its attacks gain ranged.
Hero Action (thwart): The villain attacks you. Remove 4 threat from the main scheme.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 TEAM card per player. Each of your X-MEN allies gets +1 hit point. If each of your characters has the X-MEN trait, each of your X-MEN allies costs 1 fewer resource to play.
Hero Action (attack/thwart): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. Remove 2 threat from a scheme.
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.
Requirement ([physical]) (While paying for this card, spend the listed resources.) Hero Action: Heal 2 damage from your hero → ready your hero.
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.
Hero Interrupt: When your hero makes an attack that has a keyword (overkill, piercing, or ranged), that attack deals 2 additional damage. (Max 1 per attack.)
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.)
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.
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 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.
Max 2 per deck. Interrupt: When you spend this card to play a THWART event, that event removes 1 additional threat.
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 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.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Nerves of Steel → generate a [energy] resource for a Defense event.
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: Heal 4 damage from an identity (5 damage instead if you paid for this card using a [mental] resource).
Attach to an X-MEN ally. Max 1 Training upgrade per ally. Attached ally gets +1 ATK and +2 hit points.
Restricted. (Max 2 restricted cards per player.) Response: After your hero defends against an enemy attack, spend a [energy] resource → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 2 threat from a scheme. If this removes the last threat on that scheme, draw 1 card.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Each ally you control gets +1 hit point.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your alter-ego gets +2 REC.
[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.
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.)
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW and +1 ATK.
Response: After Phoenix enters play, choose an X-Men ally → ready that ally and heal 1 damage from it.
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.
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.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 5 damage to an enemy.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 3 threat from a scheme (4 threat instead if you paid for this card using a [mental] resource).
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Justice (yellow) card.
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.)
Max 1 per player. Response: After an ally attacks and defeats a minion, exhaust War Room → remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Response (attack): After your hero thwarts and removes all threat from a scheme, deal 3 damage to an enemy.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Each ally you control gets +1 ATK.
Interrupt: When Clea is defeated, shuffle her into her owner's deck.
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]).
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.
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).
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: Choose an ally with a TRAINING upgrade attached → ready that ally and heal 1 damage from it.
Increase your ally limit by 1. (This allows you to control more than 3 allies.)
[star] Interrupt: When Dust attacks a minion, she attacks each minion in play. Dust takes +1 consequential damage ([cost]) after this attack.
Hero Action (attack): Exhaust a weapon upgrade you control → deal 5 damage to an enemy.
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.
Hero Action (attack): Confuse an enemy. If you paid for this card using a [physical] resource, deal 3 damage to that enemy.
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.
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 X-MEN trait. Hero Action (attack): Exhaust your hero and any number of X-MEN allies → deal X damage among enemies in play, where X is the total ATK of the characters you exhausted this way.
Hero Interrupt: When a character other than your hero would take any amount of damage, if that character shares a Trait with your hero, reduce that damage by your DEF.
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.
Restricted. Response: After your hero attacks an enemy, spend a [physical] resource → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Response: After Daredevil thwarts, deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Attach to an Avenger ally. Max 1 per ally. Response: After attached ally attacks or thwarts, deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Attach to an Avenger ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gains Aerial. Action: Exhaust Sky Cycle → ready attached ally.
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.
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.
Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup during a scheme activation, cancel its boost icons.
Response (attack): After your hero defends against an enemy attack, deal damage to that enemy equal to your hero's ATK.
Max 1 per player. Response: After an ally thwarts and defeats a side scheme, exhaust Command Center → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
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.
Uses (3 alert counters). Interrupt: When a friendly character would take any amount of damage while defending, remove 1 alert counter from here → prevent 1 of that damage and remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Hero Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic attack, exhaust a Weapon upgrade on your hero → your hero gets +3 ATK for this attack.
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.
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): Exhaust up to 3 Weapon upgrades you control → for each weapon upgrade exhausted this way, choose an enemy and deal 3 damage to it. This attack gains ranged.
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.
[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.
Action: Pay the printed cost of an ally in any player's discard pile → put that ally into play under your control.
Hero Action (thwart): Choose a number from 1 to 5. Discard that many cards from the top of the encounter deck → remote 1 threat from a scheme for each card discarded this way. Put 1 minion discarded this way into play engaged with you.
Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust your alter-ego → play a card from your hand, reducing its resource cost by 3.
Play only if your identity has the X-Men trait. Uses (3 psi counters). Interrupt: When a player reveals a treachery, exhaust Stepford Cuckoos and remove 1 psi counter here → cancel the effects of that card and discard it. That player reveals another encounter card.
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.
Hero Action: (attack): Deal 3 damage to a confused enemy.
Response: After you play Ironheart from your hand, draw 1 card.
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).
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 Interrupt: When your hero's attack deals any amount of excess damage, increase that amount by 1.
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.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 4 damage to an enemy. If that enemy is defeated by this attack, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Attach to a side scheme. Max 1 per scheme. Interrupt: When attached scheme is defeated, deal 4 damage to an enemy.
Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic attack, it gets +2 ATK for that attack.
Response: After Tigra attacks and defeats a minion, heal 1 damage from her.
Victory 0. When Defeated: The player who defeated this scheme deals 5[per_hero] damage to the villain.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy. This attack gains piercing.
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 Interrupt (defense): When an enemy attacks, declare your hero as the defender without exhausting them.
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.
Hero Action (attack): Heal 2 damage from your hero → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
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.
Response: After you play Spider-Girl from your hand, stun and confuse a minion.
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.
Response: After Monica Chang enters play, search your deck, hand and discard pile for a copy of Surveillance Team support and put it into play. Place 1 snoop counter on each Surveillance Team you control.
Interrupt: When an enemy initiates an attack against you, spend a [energy] resource → deal 2 damage to that enemy.
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.
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.)
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.
Jessica Jones gets +1 THW for each side scheme in play.
[star] Chamber takes -1 consequential damage ([cost]) after he attacks a confused enemy.
[star] Captain Britain takes -1 consequential damage after he thwarts a side scheme or attacks a minion.
Response: After a minion schemes, exhaust Quake → deal 2 damage to that 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.
Max 1 per player. Response: After a non-Elite minion schemes, discard Sting Operation → discard that minion.
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.
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.
Victory 0. When Defeated: The defeating player looks at the top 5 cards of the encounter deck. They may add 1 non-scenario-specific card from among those to the victory display, then place the rest on the top and/or bottom of the encounter deck in any order.
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.
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 (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.
[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]).
Play only if your identity has the X-MEN trait. Hero Action: Search the top 5 cards of your deck for an X-MEN ally and put it into play. If that ally is still in play at the end of the phase, add it to your hand.
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.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When an encounter card effect would discard a card you control, discard Front Organization instead of discarding that card.
[star] Gentle takes +1 consequential damage ([cost]) after he attacks the villain.
Reduce the cost to play Spider-Byte by 1 for each Tech card you control.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 ATK.
Action: Exhaust 1 S.H.I.E.L.D. card you control → look at the top 4 cards of a player deck or the encounter deck. Discard any number of those, and put the others on the top and/or bottom of that deck in any order.
Response: After Mirage enters play, choose an enemy whose SCH is less than Mirage's THW → stun that enemy.
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.
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.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Heal 2 damage from each ally.
Uses (3 mental counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Awareness and remove 1 mental counter from it → generate a [mental] resource.
Hero Action (attack): Discard Pulse Grenade and choose an enemy → discard the top 2 cards of the encounter deck. Deal 1 damage to the chosen enemy for each boost icon discarded this way.
Play only if your identity has the MYSTIC trait. Max 1 per deck. Resource: Exhaust Bloodgem and take 2 damage → generate a [wild] resource.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player heals a total of 5 damage from among characters they control.
Max 2 per deck. Hero Interrupt: When you spend this card to play a Defense event, draw 1 card.
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).
Response: After Valkyrie enters play, deal 2 damage to a minion (3 damage instead if you paid for this card using a [energy] resource).
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.
[star] Response: After Agent 13 attacks or thwarts, choose a S.H.I.E.L.D. support → ready that support.
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.
Action: Exhaust up to 3 S.H.I.E.L.D. cards you control and choose a scheme → remove 2 threat from that scheme for each card exhausted this way.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +2 hit points.
[star] Interrupt: When Goldballs attacks, discard up to 3 cards from the top of your deck → Goldballs gets +X ATK for this attack, where X is the number of cards discarded this way.
Response: After Winter Soldier attacks and defeats an enemy, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
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.
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.
Toughness. (This character enters play with a tough status card.)
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.
Toughness. Hero Response: After Warpath defends against an attack, play an event with a "Hero Action" ability from your hand (paying its cost).
Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After you engage a minion, discard this card → search your deck for an Attack event and add it to your hand. (Shuffle.)
Response: After you play a S.H.I.E.L.D. card, exhaust Sky-Destroyer → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
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.
Hero Response: After you change form, give your hero a tough status card.
Hero Action: Spend a [physical] resource and discard this card → ready your hero.
Response: After you engage a minion, give Patriot a tough status card.
Hero Action: Exhaust Government Liaison → play a S.H.I.E.L.D. card from your hand, reducing its resource cost by 1.
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.
[star] Response: After Cypher attacks and damages a confused enemy, draw 1 card.
Interrupt: When Starhawk takes damage exactly equal to his remaining hit points, return him to your hand.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 THW.
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.
Response: After Throg enters play, give him a tough status card if you are engaged with a minion.
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.)
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.
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.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may discard 1 non-ELITE minion from play.
Action: Heal 2 damage from any character.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Leadership (blue) card.
Restricted. Uses (3 charge counters). Hero Action: Exhaust Plasma Pistol and remove 1 charge counter from it → deal 1 damage to an 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.
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.
Alliance. Hero Action: Choose an X-Force ally and an X-Men ally and return them to their owners' hands → those players play those allies, ignoring their resource costs.
Hero Action: Give an ally you control a tough status card.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Sense of Justice → generate a [mental] resource for a Thwart event.
[star] While Shark-Girl is attacking an enemy, she gets +1 ATK for each upgrade attached to that enemy.
Response: After X-23 attacks and defeats an enemy, ready her.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 4 damage to an enemy. If that enemy is defeated by this attack, give your hero a tough status 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.
Giant-Man gets +2 ATK while he has 3 or more remaining hit points.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Action (thwart): Exhaust Disguise and your identity → remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Response: After Maria Hill enters play, each player draws 1 card.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, heal 1 damage from your hero.
Play only if your identity has the X-Men trait. Response: After Glob enters play, deal 2 damage to an enemy with an upgrade attached.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, heal 1 damage from an ally you control.
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 1 per player. Response: After a player is dealt an encounter card, discard Intelligence → look at each encounter card dealt to each player and the top card of the encounter deck. You may swap any number of those cards.
Requirement ([mental]). (While paying for this card, spend the listed resources.) Hero Action (thwart): Exhaust your hero → remove threat from a scheme equal to the total of your hero's THW, ATK, and DEF values.
[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.
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.
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 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When you would take any amount of damage, discard Defensive Stance → prevent 3 of that damage.
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.
Hero Action (thwart): Exhaust your hero → remove threat from a scheme equal to your hero's ATK.
Max 1 per phase. Hero Action: Draw 1 card for each minion engaged with you.
Response: After Daredevil defends against an attack, move 1 damage from him to the attacking enemy.
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.
Hero Interrupt: When a treachery card is revealed from the encounter deck, cancel its "When Revealed" effects. The villain attacks you instead.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If that enemy is stunned or confused, draw 1 card.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, deal 1 damage to the villain.
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.
Response: After you play Eros from your hand, confuse a minion for each [mental] resource you used to pay for him.
Play only if there is a side scheme in the victory display. Hero Interrupt (defense): When an enemy initiates an attack, give your hero a tough status card.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, remove 1 threat from the main scheme.
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).
Response: After Brawn attacks, remove 1 threat from a scheme.
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.
Reduce the cost to play Hercules by 1 for each minion engaged with you.
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.
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.
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 Quasar enters play, remove 1 threat from each scheme in play.
Interrupt (thwart): When the villain schemes, reduce the amount of threat placed on the scheme by 1.
Max 1 per deck. Your identity gets +1 to each of its basic powers, +1 hand size, and +10 hit points.
Interrupt: When you use one of Dum Dum Dugan's basic powers, exhaust up to 3 S.H.I.E.L.D. cards you control. For each card exhausted this way, Dum Dum Dugan gets +1 to that power for this use.
Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When a minion schemes, discard Informant → this activation removes threat instead of placing it.
[star] Response: After Melinda May uses a basic power, look at the top card of the encounter deck. You may discard that card.
Hero Response (attack): After your hero thwarts, deal 4 damage to an enemy (7 damage instead if that thwart removed the last threat from a scheme).
Uses (2 target counters). Interrupt: When a minion would engage a player, remove 1 target counter from here → that minion cannot activate until the end of the phase. Engage that minion.
Forced Interrupt: When Deadpool would be defeated by consequential damage, heal 3 damage from him instead. Add an acceleration token to the main scheme.
Response: After Deathlok enters play, search your deck and discard pile for a copy of S.H.I.E.L.D. Sidearm and attach it to him. (Shuffle.)
Attach to a S.H.I.E.L.D. character. Limit 1 per character. Uses (3 ammo counters). Interrupt: When attached character makes a basic attack, exhaust S.H.I.E.L.D. Sidearm and remove 1 ammo counter from it → deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Max 1 per player. Response: After you defeat a minion, exhaust Interrogation Room → remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Play only if you control a Spy character. Interrupt: When the surge keyword on an encounter card would be resolved, discard Espionage → draw 2 cards.
Interrupt: When a hero would take any amount of damage, reduce that amount by 1.
Hero Action (attack): Choose an enemy. That enemy attacks you. Deal 5 damage to that enemy.
Max 1 per player. Response: After the player phase begins, exhaust Healing Factor → heal 2 damage from your identity.
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 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.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to the villain (5 damage instead if there is no threat on the main scheme).
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).
Response: After Speed thwarts, ready him. (Limit once per round.)
Resource: Discard Resourceful → generate a [wild] resource.
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 Interrupt (defense): When your hero defends against an attack, use its ATK instead of its DEF for this attack.
Response: After a minion leaves play, tuck it under here from the encounter discard pile → remove threat from a scheme equal to the tucked minion's printed SCH. If there are at least 4 minions here, deal 1 random minion here to any player as a facedown encounter card.
[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.
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.
Hero Action: Discard an ally your control → deal damage to an enemy equal to that ally's printed cost.
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.
Max 1 per player. Hero Response (attack): After a minion engages you, discard Lie in Wait → deal 3 damage to that minion.
Alliance. (The players can pay this card's costs as a group.) Hero Action: Remove 3[per_hero] threat from a side scheme.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Action (attack): The villain schemes. Deal 4 damage to the villain.
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.)
Max 1 per deck. Action: Ready an ally. That ally gets +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy.
Hero Action: Exhaust this card, choose 1 card in your hand, and discard the top card of your deck → using the diagram above, if a printed resource on the chosen card beats (points to) a printed resource on the discarded card, add the discarded card to your hand.
Hero Interrupt: When an enemy initiates an attack, that enemy gets -3 ATK for that attack.
Play only if your identity has the X-Force or X-Men trait. Max 1 per player. Alter-Ego Action: Discard this card → return an X-Force or X-Men ally from your discard pile to your hand.
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.
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. Hero Action: Spend a [physical] resource and exhaust this card → ready 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.)
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.
Response: After White Fox is discarded from the top of your deck, put her into play under your control.
[star] Forced Response: After Blade thwarts or attacks, choose to either spend a [physical] resource from your hand or discard Blade.
Max 1 per player. Response: After you defeat an enemy with a basic attack, exhaust Blood Rage and take 1 damage → draw 1 card.
Hero Interrupt: When an ally you control attacks, it gets +3 ATK for that attack. After that attack resolves, discard that ally.
Hero Action: Choose a player. Each character that player controls gets +1 THW and +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
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.
Max 1 per player. Response: After an ally defends against an attack and is not defeated, exhaust this card → ready that ally.
Hero Action (attack): Deal damage to an enemy equal to your ATK.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Resource: Exhaust Quincarrier → generate a [wild] resource.
Response (thwart): After your hero defends against an enemy attack, remove threat from a scheme equal to your hero's THW.
Linked (Specialized Training). Your hero gets +1 DEF. Hero Response: After your hero performs a basic defense, exhaust this card → draw 1 card.
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.
Uses (3 backup counters). Hero Interrupt: When a S.H.I.E.L.D. ally would take any amount of consequential damage, exhaust Field Agent and remove 1 backup counter from it → prevent 1 of that damage.
Action: Ready an ally.
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.
Interrupt: When Marvel Boy attacks, spend a [physics] resource → this attack gains piercing and ranged
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.)
Play only if your identity has the champion trait. Hero Response: After The Locust enters play, add 1 Aggression (red) event from your discard pile to your hand.
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.
Action: You get +1 hand size until the end of the phase.
Linked (Specialized Training). Your hero gets +1 ATK. Hero Response: After your hero performs a basic attack, exhaust this card → draw 1 card.
Action: Goliath gets +4 ATK until the end of the phase. At the end of the phase, discard Goliath. (Max once per phase.)
[star] Response: After Headpool attacks and damages a minion, that minion attacks another enemy of your choice.
Reduce the cost to play each upgrade on Iron Man 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.
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.
[star] Kidpool's attacks gain piercing.
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.
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.
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.
Hero Action (thwart): For each different resource type ([energy], [mental], [physical], and [wild]) you used to pay for this card, choose a scheme and remove 2 threat from it.
Toughness. (This character enters play with a tough status card.) [star] War Machine's basic attack gains ranged. (Ranged attacks ignore retaliate.)
Hero Response (attack): After your hero makes a basic thwart, deal damage to an enemy equal to your hero's THW.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove a total of 3 threat from among schemes in play.
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.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 2 threat from a scheme.
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.
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 Action: Spend 1 resource of any type → move 1 threat from a scheme to an empty space above that matches the spent resource. If all spaces above are filled, discard this card and confuse the villain.
Response: After Bob, Agent of Hydra enters play, deal 2 damage to an enemy or remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Hero Response: After your hero makes a basic attack, heal 1 damage from Bug.
Retaliate 1. Toughness.
Retaliate 1. Toughness. When Defeated: Deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Uses (3 physical counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Physique and remove 1 physical counter from it → generate a [physical] resource.
Team-Up (Colossus and Wolverine). Max 1 per deck. Hero Action (attack): Deal X damage to an enemy, where X is the total ATK of Colossus and Wolverine. This attack gains overkill and piercing.
When Defeated: Defeat a non-ELITE minion.
Max 2 per deck. Uses (2 training counters). Alter-ego Action: Exhaust this card and remove 1 training counter from it → choose a leadership (blue) event in you discard pile and shuffle it into your deck.
Hero Response: After you change form, your hero gets +1 THW, +1 ATK, +1 DEF until the end of the round.
Interrupt: When a treachery is revealed, deal 2 damage to Negasonic Teenage Warhead → cancel that treachery's "When Revealed" effects.
Alter-Ego Action: Heal damage from your alter-ego equal to your REC.
Hero Action: Discard an ally your control → remove threat from a scheme equal to that ally's printed cost.
Reduce the cost to play Spider-Woman by 1 for each confused enemy in play.
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.
Hero Action: Spend 1 resource of any type → move 1 damage from a character to an empty space above matching the spent resource. If there are 3 damage tokens in a line, deal all damage on this card to an enemy and discard this card.
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.
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.
Max 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When you engage a minion, discard this card → ready your hero.
Hero Action: Deal 1 damage to the villain and each minion engaged with you.
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.
[star] Response: After you use one of Domino's basic powers, swap a card in your hand with the top card of your deck.
Attach to a guardian ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +2 ATK and gains piercing.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +2 ATK and takes +1 consequential damage after it attacks.
Response: After Jack Flag thwarts, place 1 ammo counter on him. Hero Action: Exhaust Jack Flag and remove 1 ammo counter from him → 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.
Attach to a guardian ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 ATK and its attacks gain overkill.
You may play Lockjaw from your discard pile during your turn (paying his resource cost).
Action: Exhaust and discard Moondragon → choose a minion. That minion attacks another enemy of your choice.
Ronin gets +1 THW and +1 ATK while an upgrade is attached to them.
[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.
[star] She-Hulk gets +1 ATK for each damage token here.
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.
While there is no threat on the main scheme, reduce all consequential damage Venom takes by 1.
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.
Reduce the amount of damage Victor Mancha takes from each attack by 1.
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.
[star] Yondu's attacks gain ranged.Ranged attacks ignore retaliate.)
Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Exhaust a Web-Warrior card you control → search your discard pile for a Web-Warrior ally and put it into play, then choose a player. That player may spend 3 resources of any type to repeat this ability.
Hero Action: Discard 1 stun or confuse status card from your hero.
This card generates [wild] for each ally you control (to a maximum of 3)
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.
You may play the event attached to Black Panther as if it were in your hand. Response: After Black Panther enters play, choose a leadership (blue) event in your discard pile and attach it to him facedown.
Hero Action: Discard cards from the top of your deck until you discard an Avenger ally, then add that ally to your hand.
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.
Hero Action: Exhaust Cloud 9 → choose a player. Until the end of the phase, each Aerial character that player controls gets +1 THW.
Attach to a guardian ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW and +1 hit point.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Each ally takes -1 consequential damage ([cost]) when attacking attached minion.
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.
Uses (3 energy counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Reflexes and remove 1 energy counter from it → generate a [energy] resource.
Response: After Fantomex enters play, search your deck and discard pile for E.V.A. and put it into play. (Shuffle.)
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.
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.)
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.
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 minion. Max 1 per minion. Attacks against attached minion gain overkill.
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.
Hero Action: Choose a hero. Until the end of the round, that hero gets +1 THW, +1 ATK, and +1 DEF
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy (5 damage instead if that enemy has the guard or patrol keyword).
Action: Ready a friendly Android character and heal 1 damage from it.
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.
[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.
Forced Response: After Sentry enters play under your control, deal yourself 1 encounter card.
Response: After you play Silk from your hand, if you control another Web-Warrior card, search the encounter deck for a treachery and discard it. (Shuffle.)
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.
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.
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: After you play Spider-Man from your hand, remove 3 [per_hero] threat from a side scheme.
[star] Star-Lord's attacks gain ranged. Forced Response: After Star-Lord enters play under your control, deal yourself 1 facedown encounter card.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Stinger does not count against your ally limit.
Action: Exhaust any number of allies you control → draw 1 card for each ally exhausted this way.
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.
Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After a boost card is turned faceup, discard Target Acquired → cancel that card's boost ability.
Interrupt: When an ally with a weapon attachment upgrade makes an attack, discard Target Practice → that ally gets +2 ATK for that attack.
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.
Play only if you have the Mystic trait. You get +1 hand size while in hero form.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Response: After a hero defends against attached minion's attack and takes no damage, deal 4 damage to attached minion.
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).
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.
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.