Combat Protocols - Forced Response: After your turn begins, resolve the "Special" ability on each technique upgrade you control, then discard each technique upgrade resolved this way.
Cybernetic Upgrades - Response: After you play a technique upgrade, draw 2 cards. (Limit once per round.)
Max 1 per player. Action: Exhaust Helicarrier → choose a player. Reduce the resource cost of the next card that player plays this phase by 1.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Increase your ally limit by 1. Response: After a player plays a guardian ally, exhaust Knowhere → that player draws 1 card.
Team-Up (Gamora and Nebula). Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Draw 3 cards.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Interrupt: When Rocket Raccoon attacks a minion, he gets +3 ATK for that attack. That attack gains overkill.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Response: After Groot defends against an attack, heal 2 damage from him.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for a support with a cost of 3 or less and put it into play. (Shuffle.)
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 THW.
Reduce the cost to play Martinex by 1 if your identity has the Guardian trait.
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.
Response: After you play Eros from your hand, confuse a minion for each [mental] resource you used to pay for him.
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. Hero Response: After a side scheme is defeated, exhaust Skilled Investigator → draw 1 card.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Crew Quarters → heal 1 damage from an alter-ego.
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.
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.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Justice (yellow) card.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Max 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When you would take any amount of damage from an attack, exhaust Booster Boots and discard the top card of your deck → prevent 1 of that damage.
Attach to the main scheme. Max 1 per scheme. Increase the target threat value of attached scheme by 4.
Hero Action: Exhaust C.I.T.T. and spend 2 resources of any type → ready a guardian character.
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 Quasar enters play, remove 1 threat from each scheme in play.
Max 1 per player. Action: Exhaust Avengers Mansion → choose a player. That player draws 1 card.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Drax cannot attack minions.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your alter-ego gets +2 REC.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Hero Action: Take 1 damage. Confuse the villain.
Hero Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup, exhaust Wraith and deal 1 damage to him → cancel that card's "Boost" effect.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Attach to a friendly character. Max 1 per character. Attached character gets +1 hit point and gains the guardian trait.
Action: Pay the printed cost of an ally in any player's discard pile → put that ally into play under your control.
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.
Interrupt: When Major Victory is defeated, choose a friendly Guardian character → ready that character.
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 play Ironheart from your hand, draw 1 card.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an identity-specific upgrade and put it into play. (Shuffle.)
While there is no threat on the main scheme, reduce all consequential damage Venom takes by 1.
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. Your hero gets +1 ATK.
Response: After Throg enters play, give him a tough status card if you are engaged with a minion.
Response: After Maria Hill enters play, each player draws 1 card.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, remove 1 threat from the main scheme.
Response: After Dazzler enters play, confuse an enemy.
Victory 0. When Defeated: The player who defeated this scheme deals 5[per_hero] damage to the villain.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Sense of Justice → generate a [mental] resource for a Thwart event.
Response: After a minion schemes, exhaust Quake → deal 2 damage to that minion.
Max 1 per round. Hero Action: Search the encounter deck for a side scheme. Reveal that side scheme → draw 3 cards (shuffle the encounter deck).
Hero Action (attack): Deal 6 damage to a minion. For each point of excess damage dealt by this attack, remove 1 threat from the main scheme.
Retaliate 1. Toughness.
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.
Attach to a guardian ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +2 ATK and gains piercing.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 ATK.
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.
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.
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 Action (thwart): Remove 3 threat from a scheme (4 threat instead if you paid for this card using a [mental] resource).
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 ATK and its attacks gain ranged.
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.
Hero Action: (attack): Deal 3 damage to a confused enemy.
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.
Max 1 per phase. Hero Action: Draw 1 card for each minion engaged with you.
Attach to a side scheme. Max 1 per scheme. Interrupt: When attached side scheme is defeated, search your deck and discard pile for an ally and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Protection (green) card.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When any amount of threat would be placed on the main scheme, discard Counterintelligence → prevent 3 of that threat.
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.
Hero Interrupt: When your hero's attack deals any amount of excess damage, increase that amount by 1.
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.
Action: Heal 2 damage from any character.
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.
Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust your alter-ego → play a card from your hand, reducing its resource cost by 3.
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.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Max 1 per round. Hero Action: Reduce the resource cost of the next ally played this phase by 2.
[star] Response: After Cypher attacks and damages a confused enemy, draw 1 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 Response: After your hero makes a basic attack, heal 1 damage from Bug.
Response: After Mockingbird enters play, stun an enemy.
[star] Star-Lord's attacks gain ranged. Forced Response: After Star-Lord enters play under your control, deal yourself 1 facedown encounter card.
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 only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Resource: Exhaust Quincarrier → generate a [wild] resource.
Response: After Martyr takes consequential damage from performing an attack, if that attack defeated an enemy, give her a tough status card.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Search the encounter deck, discard pile, and set-aside area for your nemesis minion and reveal it → ready your hero and draw 3 cards. You cannot attack the villain this phase. Remove this card from the game.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Each ally you control gets +1 ATK.
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.
[star] Forced Response: After Blade thwarts or attacks, choose to either spend a [physical] resource from your hand or discard Blade.
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.
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 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.
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 (thwart): Discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until you discard a minion. Put that minion into play engaged with you → remove 3 threat from the main scheme.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy. Deal 3 damage to another enemy.
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.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Attacks against attached minion gain overkill.
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.
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.
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.
Response: After White Fox is discarded from the top of your deck, put her into play under your control.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW and +1 ATK.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player heals a total of 5 damage from among characters they control.
Response: After you play Spider-Girl from your hand, stun and confuse a minion.
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.
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.
Hero Action: Choose a hero. Until the end of the round, that hero gets +1 THW, +1 ATK, and +1 DEF
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.
Max 1 per player. Response: After an ally defends against an attack and is not defeated, exhaust this card → ready that ally.
Response: After Daredevil defends against an attack, move 1 damage from him to the attacking enemy.
Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup during an attack, deal 1 damage to Northstar → cancel all boost icons ([boost]) on that card.
Retaliate 1.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Max 1 per player. Response: After an ally thwarts and defeats a side scheme, exhaust Command Center → 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.
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.
Increase your ally limit by 1. (This allows you to control more than 3 allies.)
Interrupt: When Starhawk takes damage exactly equal to his remaining hit points, return him to your hand.
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): Choose an enemy. That enemy attacks you. Deal 5 damage to that enemy.
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.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Leadership (blue) card.
Response: After Daredevil thwarts, deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When a minion schemes, discard Informant → this activation removes threat instead of placing it.
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 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.
Action: You get +1 hand size until the end of the phase.
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.
Attach to a guardian ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 ATK and its attacks gain overkill.
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.
[star] Yondu's attacks gain ranged.Ranged attacks ignore retaliate.)
Max 2 per deck. Interrupt: When you spend this card to play a THWART event, that event removes 1 additional threat.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After you change form, discard this card → ready your hero.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 4 damage to an enemy. If that enemy is defeated by this attack, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
You may play the event attached to Jocasta as if it were in your hand. Response: After Jocasta enters play, choose a Defense event in your discard pile and attach it to her facedown.
Hero Action (attack/thwart): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. Remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Hero Action: Heal 2 damage from an enemy → confuse that enemy.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 THW.
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.
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.
Jessica Jones gets +1 THW for each side scheme in play.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Hero Interrupt: When you attack and defeat attached minion, heal 2 damage from your hero.
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).
Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup during a scheme activation, cancel its boost icons.
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.
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.
Attach to a guardian ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW and +1 hit point.
Hero Interrupt (attack/defense): When an enemy initiates an attack, deal 4 damage to that enemy.
Max 1 per deck. Your identity gets +1 to each of its basic powers, +1 hand size, and +10 hit points.
Response (thwart): After your hero attacks and defeats an enemy, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +2 hit points.
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.)
Interrupt: When Marvel Boy attacks, spend a [physics] resource → this attack gains piercing and ranged
Play under any player's control. Max 1 team card per player. If each of your characters has the guardian trait, this card gains: "Response: After you play an upgrade on an ally, draw 1 card."
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.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, deal 1 damage to the villain.
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.
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.
Uses (3 command counters). Action: Exhaust Command Team and remove 1 command counter from it → ready an ally.
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]).
Max 1 per player. Response: After a non-Elite minion schemes, discard Sting Operation → discard that minion.
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.
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 5 damage to an enemy.
Action: Shuffle this card into the encounter deck (without looking) When Revealed: Deal 2 damage to the villain and remove this card from the game. This effect cannot be canceled.
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.
Response: After Beast enters play, search your deck and discard pile for a resource card and add it to your hand. (Shuffle.)
Uses (3 physical counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Physique and remove 1 physical counter from it → generate a [physical] resource.
Action: Ready an ally.
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.
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 (attack): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If that enemy is stunned or confused, draw 1 card.
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 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, heal 1 damage from your hero.
Max 2 per deck. Hero Interrupt: When you spend this card to play a Attack event, that event deals 1 additional damage.
Hero Response: After a guardian character takes any amount of damage from an attack, give that character 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.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Attached minion gets -2 ATK.
Hero Interrupt: When you make a basic attack, you get +6 ATK for this attack. This attack gains piercing.
Toughness. Hero Response: After Warpath defends against an attack, play an event with a "Hero Action" ability from your hand (paying its cost).
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Martial Prowess → generate a [physical] resource for an Attack event.
Attach to a side scheme. Max 1 per scheme. Interrupt: When attached scheme is defeated, deal 4 damage to an enemy.
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.
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 resolve the ability of a Preparation card you control, heal damage from White Widow equal to that card's printed resource cost.
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.
Victory 0. Each X-Men character gets +1 THW while making a basic thwart against this scheme. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an identity-specific event and add it to their hand. (Shuffle.)
Hero Response: 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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
Hero Action (attack): The villain schemes. Deal 4 damage to the villain.
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 may search their deck and discard pile for an ally and put it into play. (Shuffle.)
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.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Each ally you control gets +1 hit point.
Uses (3 warrior counters). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When your hero attacks, remove 1 counter from here → that attack deals 1 additional damage.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
Player under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After you defend against an attack, deal 1 damage to the attacking character.
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.
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.)
Max 1 per round. Hero Action: Each guardian character gets +2 THW and +2 ATK this phase. At the end of the phase, deal 1 damage to each guardian character.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 4 damage to an enemy. If that enemy is defeated by this attack, give your hero a tough status 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.
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 Response: After you attack and defeat an enemy, heal 1 damage from your hero for each point of excess damage dealt to that enemy by that attack.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 DEF.
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.
Hero Response: After your hero defends against an attack and takes no damage, exhaust Hard to Ignore → remove 1 threat from the main scheme.
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.
[star] Response: After Agent 13 attacks or thwarts, choose a S.H.I.E.L.D. support → ready that support.
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 Response (attack): After your hero makes a basic thwart, deal damage to an enemy equal to your hero's THW.
Hero Action (attack): Confuse an enemy. If you paid for this card using a [physical] resource, deal 3 damage to that enemy.
Response: After you play a S.H.I.E.L.D. card, exhaust Sky-Destroyer → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
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.
Hero Action: Exhaust Government Liaison → play a S.H.I.E.L.D. card from your hand, reducing its resource cost by 1.
Uses (3 operative counters). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When you thwart, remove 1 operative counter from here → that thwart removes 1 additional threat.
Max 2 per deck. Hero Interrupt: When you spend this card to play a Defense event, draw 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.
Setup. Max 1 per deck. Setup: Search your collection for an identity-specific ally for an identity not in this game. Shuffle that ally into your deck. Discard 2 cards from your hand and remove this card from the game.
Hero Action: The villain attacks you. Other characters cannot defend against this attack. Draw 3 cards.
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.
Hero Action: Discard cards from the top of your deck until you discard an Avenger ally, then add that ally to your hand.
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.
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.
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.
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): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If this attack defeats that enemy, heal 2 damage from your hero.
[star] Response: After Banshee thwarts, confuse a minion.
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.
Interrupt: When an ally with a weapon attachment upgrade makes an attack, discard Target Practice → that ally gets +2 ATK for that attack.
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.
Attach to an X-MEN ally. Max 1 TRAINING upgrade per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW point and +2 hit points.
Uses (3 mental counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Awareness and remove 1 mental counter from it → generate a [mental] resource.
Response: After Caliban enters play, discard cards from the top of your deck until an X-FACTOR, X-FORCE, or X-MEN ally is discarded. Add that ally to your hand.
Action: Exhaust any number of allies you control → draw 1 card for each ally exhausted this way.
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.
Giant-Man gets +2 ATK while he has 3 or more remaining 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.
Reduce the cost to play Spider-Woman by 1 for each confused enemy in play.
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.
This card generates [wild] for each ally you control (to a maximum of 3)
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.
Play only if your identity has the aerial trait. Hero Action (attack): Deal 7 damage to an enemy. Deal 1 damage to each other enemy.
Play only if your identity has the Aerial trait. Hero Response (attack): After your hero attacks, deal 4 damage to an enemy.
Alliance. (The players can pay this card's costs as a group.) Hero Action: As a group, the players put a total of 1 Avenger ally and 1 Guardian ally into play from their hand(s).
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.
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.
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.
Action: Exhaust and discard Moondragon → choose a minion. That minion attacks another enemy of your choice.
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.
Interrupt: When Clea is defeated, shuffle her into her owner's deck.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Give each identity a tough status card.
Hero Response: After you change form, give your hero a tough status 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 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).
Requirement ([physical]) (While paying for this card, spend the listed resources.) Hero Action: Heal 2 damage from your hero → ready your hero.
Max 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When you would take any amount of damage, discard Defensive Stance → prevent 3 of that damage.
Max 1 per deck. Action: Ready an ally. That ally gets +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After a boost card is turned faceup, discard Target Acquired → cancel that card's boost ability.
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.
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.
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.
Reduce the cost to play each upgrade on Iron Man by 1.
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).
Max 1 per player. Hero Response (attack): After a minion engages you, discard Lie in Wait → deal 3 damage to that minion.
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.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Spend a [physical] resource and exhaust this card → ready your hero.
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.
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.
Max 1 per player. Response: After the player phase begins, exhaust Healing Factor → heal 2 damage from your identity.
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.
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. Response: After you play a Defense card, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.
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.
Hero Action (thwart): The villain attacks you. Remove 4 threat from the main scheme.
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.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When your hero defends against an attack, it gets +2 DEF for that attack. If you take no damage from that attack, ready your hero.
Hero Action: Give an ally you control a tough status card.
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 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.
Restricted. Max 2 per deck. Hero Action (attack): Discard Bazooka → deal 1 damage to an enemy for each [crisis], [acceleration], [amplify], and [hazard] in play. This attack gains ranged.
Action: Exhaust Deadpool Corps Ship and deal yourself 1 facedown encounter card → put a 'Pool ally into play from your hand.
Retaliate 1. Toughness. When Defeated: Deal 1 damage to an enemy.
[star] Response: After Headpool attacks and damages a minion, that minion attacks another enemy of your choice.
[star] Kidpool's attacks gain piercing.
When Defeated: Defeat a non-ELITE minion.
Interrupt: When a treachery is revealed, deal 2 damage to Negasonic Teenage Warhead → cancel that treachery's "When Revealed" effects.
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.
Toughness.
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.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, heal 1 damage from an ally you control.
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): Exhaust a weapon upgrade you control → deal 5 damage to an enemy.
Response: After Speed thwarts, ready him. (Limit once per round.)
Response (attack): After your hero thwarts and removes all threat from a scheme, deal 3 damage to an enemy.
Retaliate 1.
[star] Response: After you use one of Domino's basic powers, swap a card in your hand with the top card of 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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Max 1 per player. Response: After an ally attacks and defeats a minion, exhaust War Room → remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +2 ATK and takes +1 consequential damage after it attacks.
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.
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.
[star] Captain Britain takes -1 consequential damage after he thwarts a side scheme or attacks a minion.
Requirement ([mental][mental]). Uses (3 research counters). Hero Action: Exhaust R&D Facility and remove 1 research counter from it → choose a friendly character in play. That character gets +1 THW and +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
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.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Action (attack): Deal 5 damage to an enemy. Stun that enemy.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy.
Action: Exhaust Plot Convenience → choose: • Attach 1 aspect card from your hand facedown here (to a maximum of 3). • Add 1 card attached facedown here to your hand. Any player may trigger this ability.
Response: After Squirrel Girl enters play, deal 1 damage to each enemy.
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.
Response: After Tigra attacks and defeats a minion, heal 1 damage from her.
Response: After Valkyrie enters play, deal 2 damage to a minion (3 damage instead if you paid for this card using a [energy] resource).
If Fantomex is not in play, discard E.V.A. Action: Exhaust E.V.A. → choose: • Remove 1 threat from a scheme. • Deal 1 damage to an enemy. • Heal 1 damage from Fantomex.
Response: After Fantomex enters play, search your deck and discard pile for E.V.A. and put it into play. (Shuffle.)
Hero Response: After you change form, your hero gets +1 THW, +1 ATK, +1 DEF until the end of the round.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to the villain. Hero Interrupt (attack): When a minion initiates an attack, deal 2 damage to that minion.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to the villain (5 damage instead if there is no threat on the main scheme).
Reduce the cost to play Colossus by 1 if your identity has the MUTANT or X-MEN trait. Toughness.
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.
Hero Action: Discard an ally your control → deal damage to an enemy equal to that ally's printed cost.
Reduce the cost to play Hercules by 1 for each minion engaged with you.
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. When Defeated: Heal 2 damage from each ally.
Max 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When you engage a minion, discard this card → ready your hero.
Interrupt: When Cannonball would take any amount of consequential damage, reduce that amount by X, where X is the number of AERIAL cards in your hand.
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 reflection counters). Interrupt: When you would take any amount of damage, remove 1 reflection counter from here → prevent 1 of that damage and deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Response: After you play Spider-Man from your hand, remove 3 [per_hero] threat from a side scheme.
Toughness. (This character enters play with a tough status card.) [star] War Machine's basic attack gains ranged. (Ranged attacks ignore retaliate.)
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.
[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.
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.
Forced Interrupt: When Deadpool would be defeated by consequential damage, heal 3 damage from him instead. Add an acceleration token to the main scheme.
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 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.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When a boost card on an enemy attacking you would be turned faceup, discard it instead.
Uses (3 energy counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Reflexes and remove 1 energy counter from it → generate a [energy] resource.
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).
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.
Play only if there is a side scheme in the victory display. Hero Interrupt: When a treachery card is revealed from the encounter deck, cancel its "When Revealed" effects.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You can control 1 additional weapon upgrade that has the restricted keyword.
Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic attack, it gets +2 ATK for that attack.
Alliance. Hero Interrupt: When a friendly character would take any amount of damage from an attack, exhaust an avenger character and a guardian character → prevent all of that damage. Deal that much damage to the attacking enemy.
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.
Reduce the amount of damage Victor Mancha takes from each attack by 1.
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.
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.
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.
Hero Action: Give your hero a tough status card.
Victory 0. Each identity gets +2 hand size.
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.)
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.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If this attack defeats that enemy, deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Response: After Snowguard enters play, place up to 3 shift counters here. While the shift counters here are equal to (X), she gets: (1) +3 ATK and her attacks gain overkill. (2) +3 THW and gains the Aerial trait. (3) +5 hit points and gains retaliate 1.
Hero Interrupt: When an enemy initiates an attack, that enemy gets -3 ATK for that attack.
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 Interrupt (defense): When your hero defends against an attack, use its ATK instead of its DEF for this attack.
Play only if you have the Mystic trait. You get +1 hand size while in hero form.
[star] Wolverine's attacks gain piercing. Response: After your turn begins, heal 1 damage from Wolverine.
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).
Hero Action: Discard Adrenaline Rush → your hero gets +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
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.
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.
Hero Action: Deal 1 damage to the villain and each minion engaged with you.
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).
Response: After Brawn attacks, remove 1 threat from a scheme.
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 Action: Discard Civic Duty → your hero gets +1 THW until the end of the phase.
Response (attack): After your hero defends against an enemy attack, deal damage to that enemy equal to your hero's ATK.
Hero Interrupt: When an identity would take any amount of damage from an attack, prevent up to 5 of that damage. Discard cards from the top of your deck equal to the amount prevented this way.
Interrupt (thwart): When the villain schemes, reduce the amount of threat placed on the scheme by 1.
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.
Action: Shuffle this card into the encounter deck (without looking) When Revealed: Draw 1 card and remove this card from the game. This effect cannot be canceled.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When your hero defends against an attack, it gets +3 DEF for that attack.
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 Interrupt: When a treachery card is revealed from the encounter deck, cancel its "When Revealed" effects. The villain attacks you instead.
Play only if your identity has the asgard trait. Action: Heal 2 damage from your identity. You may discard a status card from your identity.
[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]).
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.
Response: After your hero defends, discard indomitable → ready your hero.
Max 1 per player. Response: After you defeat a minion, exhaust Interrogation Room → remove 1 threat from a scheme.
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.
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.
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.
You may play Lockjaw from your discard pile during your turn (paying his resource cost).
Hero Action (attack): Exhaust 3 allies you control that share a Trait with your hero → deal X damage to an enemy, where X is the total ATK of those allies and your hero.
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): Heal 2 damage from your hero → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Response: After Multiple Man enters play, search your deck and hand for a copy of Multiple Man and put it into play. Shuffle your deck if it was searched this way.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Nerves of Steel → generate a [energy] resource for a Defense event.
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.
Interrupt: When an enemy initiates an attack against you, spend a [energy] resource → deal 2 damage to that enemy.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy (5 damage instead if that enemy has the guard or patrol keyword).
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy. This attack gains piercing.
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.
Hero Action (attack): Deal damage to an enemy equal to your ATK.
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.
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.
[star] She-Hulk gets +1 ATK for each damage token here.
Hero Action (thwart): Exhaust your hero → remove threat from a scheme equal to your hero's ATK.
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 your identity has the Avenger trait. Stinger does not count against your ally limit.
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.
Hero Action (attack): Stun an enemy. If you paid for this card using a [physical] resource, deal 3 damage to that enemy.
Hero Action: Spend a [physical] resource and discard this card → ready your hero.
Action: Shuffle this card into the encounter deck (without looking) When Revealed: Heal 2 damage from your identity and remove this card from the game. This effect cannot be canceled.
Response (thwart): After your hero defends against an enemy attack, remove threat from a scheme equal to your hero's THW.
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.
Interrupt: When a hero would take any amount of damage, reduce that amount by 1.
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.
[star] As an additional cost for Wonder Man to attack, you must discard 1 card from your hand.