Atonement — Response: After a labor card is added to the victory display, put the top card of the gift deck into play. Ready Hercules. You may flip to alter-ego form. (Limit once per phase.)
Hercules begins the game with a labor deck and a gift deck. (See insert.) New Labors of Hercules — Action: If there is no labor card in play, reveal the top card of the labor deck.
Play only if your identity has at least 14 printed hit points. Hero Action: Ready your hero.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Resource: Exhaust Quincarrier → generate a [wild] resource.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 ATK.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 ATK.
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.
Hero Action: Exhaust an avenger character you control → ready another avenger character you control.
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 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).
Max 1 per player. Response: After you defeat an enemy with a basic attack, exhaust Blood Rage and take 1 damage → draw 1 card.
Response: After you play Spider-Girl from your hand, stun and confuse a minion.
Play only if you have the Avenger trait. Response: After Yellow Jacket enters play, search the top 5 cards of your deck for an upgrade and add it to your hand.
[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. Action: Exhaust Avengers Mansion → choose a player. That player draws 1 card.
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.
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.
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.
Hero Action (attack): Choose an enemy. That enemy attacks you. Deal 5 damage to that enemy.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your alter-ego gets +2 REC.
Response: After Valkyrie enters play, deal 2 damage to a minion (3 damage instead if you paid for this card using a [energy] resource).
Hero Interrupt: When you make a basic attack, you get +6 ATK for this attack. This attack gains piercing.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Max 1 per deck. Action: Exhaust Avengers Compound → choose: tuck 1 ally from your hand here if there is no ally tucked here, or play the ally tucked here as if it were in your hand.
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.
[star] Interrupt: When Iron Lad uses a basic power, exhaust another Avenger ally you control → add that ally's matching power to Iron Lad's power for this use.
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.
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.
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.
Team-Up (Hercules and Thor). Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Search your discard pile for an identity-specific upgrade and add it to your hand. Ready Hercules and Thor.
Hero Action: Discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until you discard a minion. Put that minion into play engaged with you → ready your hero.
Response: After you play Ironheart from your hand, draw 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.)
Victory 0. Play only if your identity has the Avenger or S.H.I.E.L.D. trait. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an Avenger or S.H.I.E.L.D. card and add it to their hand. (Shuffle.) Reduce the cost to play each of those cards by 2 until the end of the phase.
Response: After Maria Hill enters play, each player draws 1 card.
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.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Stinger does not count against your ally limit.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an ally and put it into play. (Shuffle.)
Requirement ([physical]) (While paying for this card, spend the listed resources.) Hero Action: Heal 2 damage from your hero → ready your hero.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 DEF.
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.
Response: After your hero defends, discard indomitable → ready your hero.
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.
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.
Hero Action: The villain attacks you. Other characters cannot defend against this attack. Draw 3 cards.
[star] As an additional cost for Wonder Man to attack, you must discard 1 card from your hand.
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.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Aggression (red) card.
Response: After Throg enters play, give him a tough status card if you are engaged with a minion.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points.
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. Response: After you defend against an attack and take no damage, exhaust Unflappable → draw 1 card.
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 Leadership (blue) card.
Response (attack): After your hero defends against an enemy attack, deal damage to that enemy equal to your hero's ATK.
Response: After Squirrel Girl enters play, deal 1 damage to each enemy.
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 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 under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Martial Prowess → generate a [physical] resource for an Attack event.
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.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Interrupt: When attached ally is defeated, draw 2 cards.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Spend a [physical] resource and exhaust this card → ready your hero.
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 Avenger trait. Max 1 per character. Attach to a friendly character. Attached character gets +1 hit point and gains the Avenger trait.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 DEF.
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.
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.
Max 1 per deck. Your identity gets +1 to each of its basic powers, +1 hand size, and +10 hit points.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After a side scheme is defeated, exhaust Skilled Investigator → draw 1 card.
[star] Interrupt: When Two-Gun Kid makes a basic attack, choose 2 enemies instead of 1 and resolve this attack against each of them.
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).
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.
Play only if your identity has at least 14 printed hit points. Your identity gains steady.
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.
Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic attack, it gets +2 ATK for that attack.
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 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 phase. Hero Action: Draw 1 card for each minion engaged with you.
Attach to the main scheme. Max 1 per scheme. Increase the target threat value of attached scheme by 4.
Reduce the amount of damage Victor Mancha takes from each attack by 1.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When your hero defends against an attack, use its ATK instead of its DEF for this attack.
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.
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).
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 you engage a minion, give Patriot a tough status card.
Interrupt: When Machine Man attacks or thwarts, spend up to 3 resources of any type → Machine Man gets +1 THW and +1 ATK for this use for each resource spent this way.
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).
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.
You may play Lockjaw from your discard pile during your turn (paying his resource cost).
Hero Interrupt (attack/defense): When an enemy initiates an attack, deal 4 damage to that enemy.
Attach to an Avenger ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gains Aerial. Action: Exhaust Sky Cycle → ready attached ally.
Max 1 per round. Hero Action: Ready each Avenger character you control. Until the end of the phase, each Avenger character in play gets +1 THW and +1 ATK.
Response: After an Avenger hero changes into alter-ego form, exhaust Jarvis → choose: • That identity gets +2 REC until the end of the phase. • Discard a status card from that identity.
Hero Interrupt: When your hero's attack deals any amount of excess damage, increase that amount by 1.
Max 1 per player. Response: After the player phase begins, exhaust Healing Factor → heal 2 damage from your identity.
Hero Response: After your hero makes a basic attack, heal 1 damage from Bug.
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.)
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.
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.
Max 1 per player. Hero Response (attack): After a minion engages you, discard Lie in Wait → deal 3 damage to that minion.
Hero Action (attack): Deal damage to an enemy equal to your ATK.
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 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Protection (green) card.
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.
Action: Pay the printed cost of an ally in any player's discard pile → put that ally into play under your control.
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. You can control 1 additional weapon upgrade that has the restricted keyword.
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 Action (attack): Deal 5 damage to an enemy. Stun that enemy.
Response: After Mockingbird enters play, stun 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 you play Sunfire from your hand, spend a [energy] resource → choose an attachment with the text "Hero Action" or "Hero Response" and discard it.
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 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.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Attached minion gets -2 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.
[star] Forced Response: After Thor makes a basic thwart, discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until you discard a minion. Put that minion into play engaged with you.
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.
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.
Increase your ally limit by 1. (This allows you to control more than 3 allies.)
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.
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.
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.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Interrupt: When a treachery card is revealed from the encounter deck, cancel its "When Revealed" effects. The villain attacks you instead. If an ally or another hero defends this attack, draw 1 card.
Action: Ready an ally.
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. Resource: Exhaust Nerves of Steel → generate a [energy] resource for a Defense event.
Response (thwart): After your hero attacks and defeats an enemy, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
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.
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.
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.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 2 threat from a scheme. If this removes the last threat on that scheme, draw 1 card.
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.
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).
Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup during an attack, deal 1 damage to Northstar → cancel all boost icons ([boost]) on that card.
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.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 3 threat from a scheme (4 threat instead if you paid for this card using a [mental] resource).
Action: Goliath gets +4 ATK until the end of the phase. At the end of the phase, discard Goliath. (Max once per phase.)
Action: You get +1 hand size until the end of the phase.
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.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Hero Interrupt: When you attack and defeat attached minion, heal 2 damage from 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 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.
Max 1 per player. Response: After you defeat a minion, exhaust Interrogation Room → remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Uses (3 energy counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Reflexes and remove 1 energy counter from it → generate a [energy] resource.
Play only if your identity has the Soldier trait. Hero Action: Exhaust Man on the Wall → reduce the cost of the next card you play this phase by 1 for each minion engaged with you.
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.)
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 Team per player. If each of your characters has the Avenger trait, each ally you control gets +1 THW and +1 ATK.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Justice (yellow) card.
Response: After a minion schemes, exhaust Quake → deal 2 damage to that minion.
Toughness. (This character enters play with a tough status card.) [star] War Machine's basic attack gains ranged. (Ranged attacks ignore retaliate.)
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.
Response: After Daredevil defends against an attack, move 1 damage from him to the attacking enemy.
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.)
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.
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.
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 (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.
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.
[star] While Shark-Girl is attacking an enemy, she gets +1 ATK for each upgrade attached to that enemy.
Response: After Winter Soldier attacks and defeats an enemy, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When an enemy attacks, you gain retaliate 1 until the end of the phase.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 THW.
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.
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.
Toughness. Reduce the cost to play Captain America by 1 for each avenger character you control.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW and +1 ATK.
Hero Action (attack): Heal 2 damage from your hero → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
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.
[star] She-Hulk gets +1 ATK for each damage token here.
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).
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.
Hero Response: After you change form, your hero gets +1 THW, +1 ATK, +1 DEF until the end of the round.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +2 hit points.
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.
[star] Hero Interrupt: When Deathcry makes a basic attack, deal your hero 1 damage → Deathcry takes -1 consequential damage ([cost]) for this attack.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When an enemy attacks, declare your hero as the defender without exhausting them.
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.
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 (thwart): Exhaust your hero → remove threat from a scheme equal to your hero's ATK.
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.
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.
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: Spend a [physical] resource and discard this card → ready your hero.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Hero Action: Heal 1 damage from an ally and ready it.
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.)
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Hero Action: Heal 1 damage from up to X friendly characters (to a maximum of 3 characters), where X is equal to the villain's stage number.
Victory 0. When Defeated: The player who defeated this scheme deals 5[per_hero] damage to the villain.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Sense of Justice → generate a [mental] resource for a Thwart event.
Power Man enters play with 2 chi counters on him. Action: Discard any number of chi counters from Power Man → he gets +2 ATK for each chi counter discarded this way until the end of the phase.
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 under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Each ally you control gets +1 hit point.
Action: Spend a [energy] resource → choose THW or ATK. Until the end of the phase, Vision gets +2 to the chosen power. (Limit once per round.)
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.
Max 1 per player. Hero Action: Exhaust Deft Focus → reduce the resource cost of the next superpower card you play this turn by 1.
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 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.
As an additional cost to play this card, if you do not have the Eternal trait, confuse your identity.
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.
Restricted. Response: After your hero attacks an enemy, spend a [physical] resource → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 4 damage to an enemy. If that enemy is defeated by this attack, give your hero a tough status card.
Uses (3 command counters). Action: Exhaust Command Team and remove 1 command counter from it → ready an ally.
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.
Action: Exhaust any number of allies you control → draw 1 card for each ally exhausted this way.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, deal 1 damage to the villain.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Each ally you control gets +1 ATK.
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.
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.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Attacks against attached minion gain overkill.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Max 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When you engage a minion, discard this card → ready your hero.
Max 1 per deck. Action: Ready an ally. That ally gets +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
Hero Action (thwart): The villain attacks you. Remove 4 threat from the main scheme.
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.
Toughness. (This character enters play with 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.
Action: Spend a [energy] resource → put Slingshot into play from your hand under any player's control. At the end of the phase, if Slingshot is still in play, return her to your hand.
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.
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.
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.
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 you defend against an attack, you get +2 DEF for this attack. If you take no damage from this attack, stun the attacking enemy.
Hero Action: Discard cards from the top of your deck until you discard an Avenger ally, then add that ally to your hand.
Ronin gets +1 THW and +1 ATK while an upgrade is attached to them.
Interrupt: When Clea is defeated, shuffle her into her owner's deck.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When a boost card on an enemy attacking you would be turned faceup, discard it 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.
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.
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.
Hero Action: Choose a player. Each character that player controls gets +1 THW and +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
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.
Action: Heal 4 damage from an identity (5 damage instead if you paid for this card using a [mental] resource).
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 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.
Hero Action: Discard Adrenaline Rush → your hero gets +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
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.
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.
Retaliate 1. Toughness. When Defeated: Deal 1 damage to an 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).
Interrupt: When a treachery is revealed, deal 2 damage to Negasonic Teenage Warhead → cancel that treachery's "When Revealed" effects.
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 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.
Hero Action: Heal 2 damage from an enemy → confuse 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: 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.
Response: After Bob, Agent of Hydra enters play, deal 2 damage to an enemy or remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Action (thwart): Exhaust Disguise and your identity → remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Uses (3 physical counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Physique and remove 1 physical counter from it → generate a [physical] resource.
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.
Toughness. Response: After Captain America enters play, ready a S.H.I.E.L.D. character.
Hero Action (attack): Defeat a non-Elite minion with an upgrade attached. Ignore any "When Defeated" abilities on that minion.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Crew Quarters → heal 1 damage from an alter-ego.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alliance. (The players can pay this card's costs as a group.) Hero Action: Choose an avenger character and a guardian character → ready each of those characters.
Response: After you play Eros from your hand, confuse a minion for each [mental] resource you used to pay for him.
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.
Alliance. Hero Action (thwart): Exhaust an avenger character and a guardian character → remove X threat from each scheme, where X is equal to the combined THW of those characters.
Response: After Quasar enters play, remove 1 threat from each scheme in play.
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.
Hero Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup, exhaust Wraith and deal 1 damage to him → cancel that card's "Boost" effect.
Hero Action: Discard an ally your control → remove threat from a scheme equal to that ally's printed cost.
[star] Swordsman's basic attacks gain piercing. Hero Response: After a boost card is turned faceup during an undefended attack, declare Swordsman as the defender without exhausting him.
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]).
Alter-ego form only. Action: Discard Recruitment Drive and choose a player → reduce the resource cost of the next ally that player plays this phase to 0.
Response: After you play Spider-Man from your hand, remove 3 [per_hero] threat from a side scheme.
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): 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.
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.
Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When any amount of threat would be placed on the main scheme, discard Counterintelligence → prevent 3 of that threat.
Hawkeye enters play with 4 arrow counters on him. Response: After an ally makes a basic thwart, remove 1 arrow counter from Hawkeye → deal 2 damage to a minion.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 THW.
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).
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 Madame Web enters play, look at the top X cards of the encounter deck, where X is the number of Web-Warrior cards you control. You may discard 1 card looked at this way and put the rest back in any order.
Forced Response: After you play Scarlet Witch, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If it is a treachery card, resolve its "When Revealed" ability.
Response: After a Web-Warrior ally (including this one) enters play, deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Response: After Brawn attacks, remove 1 threat from a scheme.
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.
Reduce the cost to play each upgrade on Iron Man by 1.
Attach to an Avenger ally. Max 1 per ally. Response: After attached ally attacks or thwarts, deal 1 damage to an enemy.
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.
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.)
Requirement ([mental]). Hero Action: Deal 1 damage to a Web-Warrior character you control → place a total of 2 confused status cards on up to 2 enemies.
Reduce the cost to play Spider-Woman by 1 for each confused enemy in play.
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 player. Response: After an ally thwarts and defeats a side scheme, exhaust Command Center → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
[star] Response: After Cypher attacks and damages a confused enemy, draw 1 card.
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.
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.
Alliance. Hero Action (attack): Exhaust an avenger character and a guardian character → deal X damage to an enemy, where X is the combined ATK of those characters. This attack gains overkill.
Attach to a guardian ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +2 ATK and gains piercing.
Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When a minion schemes, discard Informant → this activation removes threat instead of placing it.
Interrupt: When Marvel Boy attacks, spend a [physics] resource → this attack gains piercing and ranged
Uses (2 fuel counters). Max 1 per player. Response: After a minion enters play, exhaust this card and remove 1 fuel counter from it → search your deck and discard pile for a Tactic upgrade that can be attached to that minion and add it to your hand.
Hero Action (attack): Stun an enemy. If you paid for this card using a [physical] resource, deal 3 damage to that enemy.
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.
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.)
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.
Interrupt: When Protector would take any amount of damage, spend a [mental] resource → reduce that amount by 1. (Limit once per round.)
Action: Ready a friendly Android character and heal 1 damage from it.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 4 damage to an enemy. If that enemy is defeated by this attack, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Response: After Tigra attacks and defeats a minion, heal 1 damage from her.
[star] Response: After Headpool attacks and damages a minion, that minion attacks another enemy of your choice.
[star] Kidpool's attacks gain piercing.
Response: After X-23 attacks and defeats an enemy, ready her.
Response: After you play Beak from your hand, remove 1 threat from a scheme for each X-Men ally you control.
Max 2 per deck. Hero Interrupt: When you spend this card to play a Defense event, draw 1 card.
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.
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.
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 Interrupt: When a treachery card is revealed from the encounter deck, cancel its "When Revealed" effects. The villain attacks you instead.
Jessica Jones gets +1 THW for each side scheme in play.
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 Spider-Byte by 1 for each Tech card you control.
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.
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.
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 White Fox is discarded from the top of your deck, put her into play under your control.
[star] Black Knight's basic attack gains piercing.
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 (attack): Exhaust a weapon upgrade you control → deal 5 damage to an enemy.
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).
Uses (3 operative counters). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When you thwart, remove 1 operative counter from here → that thwart removes 1 additional threat.
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.
Retaliate 1.
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).
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.
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.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When your hero defends against an attack, it gets +3 DEF for that attack.
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.
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.
Hero Action: Choose a hero. Until the end of the round, that hero gets +1 THW, +1 ATK, and +1 DEF
[star] Star-Lord's attacks gain ranged. Forced Response: After Star-Lord enters play under your control, deal yourself 1 facedown encounter 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.
Hero Interrupt: When any amount of threat would be placed on a scheme, you take it as damage instead.
Interrupt: When Starhawk takes damage exactly equal to his remaining hit points, return him to your hand.
Forced Response: After Sentry enters play, search the encounter deck for a side scheme and reveal it. (Shuffle.) If no side scheme was revealed this way, place 6 threat on the main scheme.
[star] Namora gets +1 hit point for each other ally you control.
Attach to a non-Elite minion. Max 1 per minion. Interrupt: When a friendly character attacks, deal 1 damage to attached minion.
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 your hero defends against an attack, it gets +2 DEF for that attack. If you take no damage from that attack, discard an attachment on the attacking enemy with the text "Hero Action" or "Hero Response".