[star] Gather Intel — Response: After Nick Fury makes a basic thwart, place 1 threat on your suit form upgrade. Break Cover — Forced Interrupt: When you attack, change to Assault suit form.
Suit Up — Setup: Put your suit form upgrade into play, Assault side faceup. Infiltrate — Action: Change to Stealth suit form.
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 player. Action: Exhaust Helicarrier → choose a player. Reduce the resource cost of the next card that player plays this phase by 1.
Reduce the cost to play Leo Fitz by 2 if your identity has the S.H.I.E.L.D. trait. Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Leo Fitz → search you deck for a Tech card and add it to your hand. (Shuffle.)
Reduce the cost to play Jemma Simmons by 2 if your identity has the S.H.I.E.L.D. trait. Resource: Exhaust Jemma Simmons → generate a [mental] resource for a Tech 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 Agent Coulson enters play, search your deck and discard pile for a Preparation card and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
Response: After Mockingbird enters play, stun an enemy.
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.)
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.
Team-Up (Maria Hill and Nick Fury). Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Place a total of 3 all-purpose counters and/or threat tokens on S.H.I.E.L.D. supports and/or suit form upgrades.
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.
[star] Response: After Agent 13 attacks or thwarts, choose a S.H.I.E.L.D. support → ready that support.
Response: After you play a S.H.I.E.L.D. card, exhaust Sky-Destroyer → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Response: After a minion schemes, exhaust Quake → deal 2 damage to that minion.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 THW.
Hero Action: Exhaust Government Liaison → play a S.H.I.E.L.D. card from your hand, reducing its resource cost by 1.
Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When any amount of threat would be placed on the main scheme, discard Counterintelligence → prevent 3 of that threat.
Attach to the main scheme. Max 1 per scheme. Increase the target threat value of attached scheme by 4.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After a side scheme is defeated, exhaust Skilled Investigator → 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.)
Max 1 per phase. Hero Action: Draw 1 card for each minion engaged with you.
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.
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 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.
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. Action: Exhaust Avengers Mansion → choose a player. That player draws 1 card.
Action: Exhaust up to 3 S.H.I.E.L.D. cards you control and choose a scheme → remove 2 threat from that scheme for each card exhausted this way.
Attach to a S.H.I.E.L.D. character. While attached to an identity, this card gains restricted. Uses (3 ammo counters). Interrupt: When attached character makes a basic attack, remove 1 ammo counter from here → this attack deals 3 additional damage and gains overkill.
Toughness. Response: After Captain America enters play, ready a S.H.I.E.L.D. character.
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.
[star] Response: After Melinda May uses a basic power, look at the top card of the encounter deck. You may discard that card.
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.
Max 2 per deck. Hero Interrupt: When you spend this card to play a Attack event, that event deals 1 additional damage.
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 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 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 player. Interrupt: When a minion schemes, discard Informant → this activation removes threat instead of placing it.
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.
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.
Attach to a S.H.I.E.L.D. character. Limit 1 per character. Uses (3 ammo counters). Interrupt: When attached character makes a basic attack, exhaust S.H.I.E.L.D. Sidearm and remove 1 ammo counter from it → deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup during a scheme activation, cancel its boost icons.
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.
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.
Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After a boost card is turned faceup, discard Target Acquired → cancel that card's boost ability.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Attacks against attached minion gain overkill.
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).
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Justice (yellow) card.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Increase your ally limit by 1. (This allows you to control more than 3 allies.)
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.
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.
Restricted. Uses (3 charge counters). Hero Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic attack, exhaust Hand Cannon and remove 1 charge counter from it → your hero gets +2 ATK for that attack. That attack gains overkill.
Action: 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 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.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Aggression (red) card.
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.
Max 1 per deck. Your identity gets +1 to each of its basic powers, +1 hand size, and +10 hit points.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Hero Interrupt: When you attack and defeat attached minion, heal 2 damage from your hero.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points.
Max 1 per player. Hero Response (attack): After a minion enters play, discard Prism Dust → confuse that minion and deal 2 damage to it.
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.
Toughness. (This character enters play with a tough status card.) [star] War Machine's basic attack gains ranged. (Ranged attacks ignore retaliate.)
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.
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 Winter Soldier attacks and defeats an enemy, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Restricted. Uses (2 charge counters). Hero Action: Exhaust Sonic Rifle and remove 1 charge counter from it → confuse an enemy (deal 3 damage to that enemy instead if it is already confused).
Hero Action (thwart): 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.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Martial Prowess → generate a [physical] resource for an Attack event.
Hero Action: The villain attacks you. Other characters cannot defend against this attack. Draw 3 cards.
Max 1 per player. Response: After a non-Elite minion schemes, discard Sting Operation → discard that minion.
Response: After Victoria Hand enters play, ready a S.H.I.E.L.D. support.
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.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an ally and put it into play. (Shuffle.)
Play under any player's control. Max 1 Team card per player. If each of your characters has the S.H.I.E.L.D. trait, this card gains: "Interrupt: When you reveal an encounter card, exhaust this card → cancel the effects of that card and discard it. Then, reveal another card from the encounter deck."
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, deal 1 damage to the villain.
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.
Response: After Deathlok enters play, search your deck and discard pile for a copy of S.H.I.E.L.D. Sidearm and attach it to him. (Shuffle.)
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.
Max 1 per player. Hero Response (attack): After a minion engages you, discard Lie in Wait → deal 3 damage to that minion.
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.
Victory 0. When Defeated: The player who defeated this scheme deals 5[per_hero] damage to the villain.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy. Deal 3 damage to another enemy.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If this attack defeats that enemy, deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Leadership (blue) card.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 DEF.
Response: After you play Spider-Girl from your hand, stun and confuse a minion.
Response: After you play Ironheart from your hand, draw 1 card.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 ATK.
Uses (3 command counters). Action: Exhaust Command Team and remove 1 command counter from it → ready an ally.
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: 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.
Uses (2 target counters). Interrupt: When a minion would engage a player, remove 1 target counter from here → that minion cannot activate until the end of the phase. Engage that minion.
Interrupt: When you spend this card, exhaust up to 3 allies and/or supports you control that share a Trait with your identity → generate the printed resources on each card exhausted this way.
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: 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.
Uses (3 warrior counters). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When your hero attacks, remove 1 counter from here → that attack deals 1 additional damage.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW and +1 ATK.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 ATK.
Play only if your identity has the S.H.I.E.L.D. trait. Attach to a friendly character. Attached character gets +1 hit point and gains the S.H.I.E.L.D. trait.
Reduce the cost to play Spider-Byte by 1 for each Tech card you control.
Action: Pay the printed cost of an ally in any player's discard pile → put that ally into play under your control.
Action: Heal 2 damage from any character.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After you change form, discard this card → ready your hero.
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 player. Response: After you defeat a minion, exhaust Interrogation Room → remove 1 threat from a scheme.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 Dazzler enters play, confuse an enemy.
You may play the event attached to Black Panther as if it were in your hand. Response: After Black Panther enters play, choose a leadership (blue) event in your discard pile and attach it to him facedown.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 2 threat from a scheme. If this removes the last threat on that scheme, draw 1 card.
Uses (3 operation counters). Action: Exhaust The Douglass and remove 1 operational counter from it → remove 2 threat from each scheme, ignoring any crisis icons ([crisis]) in play.
Restricted. Uses (2 charge counters). Hero Action: Exhaust Stun Gun and remove 1 or 2 charge counters from it → if you removed: • 1 charge counter, stun a minion. • 2 charge counters, stun the villain.
Hero 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).
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +2 hit points.
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).
Play only if your identity has the aerial trait. Hero Action: Ready your hero and remove 2 threat from the main scheme.
Uses (3 missile counters). Action: Exhaust The Bellerophon, remove 1 missile counter from it, and choose a player → deal 3 damage to the villain and each minion engaged with that player, discarding all tough status cards from those enemies first.
Restricted. Response: After your hero attacks an enemy, spend a [physical] resource → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Play only if your identity has the SPY or THIEF trait. Action (thwart): Remove 3 threat from a 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.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 4 damage to an enemy. If that enemy is defeated by this attack, give your hero a tough status 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.)
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. Your alter-ego gets +2 REC.
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).
Victory 0. Forced Interrupt: When threat is removed from this scheme, place that threat on a non-Elite minion. If that minion has threat on it equal to or greater than its remaining hit points, add Show of Empathy to the victory display and attach 1 set-aside copy of Redemption to that minion.
Hero Action (thwart): The villain attacks you. Remove 4 threat from the main scheme.
Action: Exhaust any number of allies you control → draw 1 card for each ally exhausted this way.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 3 threat from a scheme (4 threat instead if you paid for this card using a [mental] resource).
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Crew Quarters → heal 1 damage from an alter-ego.
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. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 THW.
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.
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.
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.
Restricted. Uses (3 charge counters). Hero Action: Exhaust Plasma Pistol and remove 1 charge counter from it → deal 1 damage to an enemy.
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.
Uses (2 deploy counters). Action: Exhaust The Circe, remove 1 deploy counter from it, and choose a player → that player puts an ally into play from their hand.
Play only if your identity has the Aerial trait. Hero Response (attack): After your hero attacks, deal 4 damage to an enemy.
Response: After you play Sunfire from your hand, spend a [energy] resource → choose an attachment with the text "Hero Action" or "Hero Response" and discard it.
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.
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.
Play only if your identity has the Aerial trait. Hero Response (thwart): After your hero thwarts, remove 3 threat from a scheme.
Response: After Cable thwarts and defeats a side scheme, draw 1 card.
Response (attack): After your hero thwarts and removes all threat from a scheme, deal 3 damage to an enemy.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 ATK and its attacks gain ranged.
Ronin gets +1 THW and +1 ATK while an upgrade is attached to them.
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 under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Each ally you control gets +1 hit point.
Response: After Maria Hill enters play, each player draws 1 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.
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 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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 DEF.
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).
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.
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.
Hero Action (attack): Discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until you discard a treachery. Reveal that treachery → deal 5 damage to the villain.
Play only if there is a side scheme in the victory display. Hero Action: Until the end of the phase, allies you control do not take consequential damage.
Requirement ([energy]). Hero Action (thwart): Remove 1[per_hero] threat from each side scheme. Deal 1 damage to the villain for each side scheme defeated this way.
Player under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After you defend against an attack, deal 1 damage to the attacking character.
Hero Interrupt: When your hero's attack deals any amount of excess damage, increase that amount by 1.
Play only if your identity has the Aerial trait. Hero Action (thwart): Choose X schemes. Remove 2 threat from each chosen scheme (3 threat instead if you overpaid for this card).
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.
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.
Hero Action: Discard cards from the encounter deck until you discard a minion. Put that minion into play engaged with you → heal 3 damage from your identity and give your identity a tough status card.
Hero Action (attack): The villain schemes. Deal 4 damage to the villain.
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.)
Attach to a side scheme. Max 1 per scheme. Interrupt: When attached scheme is defeated, deal 4 damage to an enemy.
Action: Ready an ally.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When an enemy would attack you, discard Invisibility Gear → that enemy schemes instead.
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.
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 Interrupt (attack/defense): When an enemy initiates an attack, deal 4 damage to that enemy.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When an AERIAL character you control uses a basic power, exhaust Soaring Acrobatics → that character gets +1 to that power for this use.
Play 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.
Toughness. Hero Response: After Warpath defends against an attack, play an event with a "Hero Action" ability from your hand (paying its cost).
Interrupt (thwart): When the villain schemes, reduce the amount of threat placed on the scheme by 1.
Response: After you engage a minion, give Patriot a tough status card.
Response: After you reveal an encounter card, deal 1 damage to Venom → deal damage to an enemy equal to the number of icons ([star] and [boost]) in that card's boost area.
Hero Action (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]).
Hero Interrupt: When you reveal a non-ELITE minion, exhaust an AERIAL character you control and discard this card → cancel the effects of that card and discard it. Then, reveal another card from the encounter deck.
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 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.
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.
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.)
[star] Interrupt: When Two-Gun Kid makes a basic attack, choose 2 enemies instead of 1 and resolve this attack against each of them.
Max 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When you make a ranged attack, discard the top card of your deck → this attack deals 1 additional damage for each resource icon discarded this way.
Response: After Wiccan thwarts, discard the top card of the encounter deck. For each boost icon discarded this way, deal 1 damage to an enemy.
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).
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.
Response: After you play Spider-Man from your hand, remove 3 [per_hero] threat from a side scheme.
While your identity has the Aerial trait, reduce the amount of damage you take from each enemy attack by 1. Forced Interrupt: When your turn begins, discard this card.
Requirement ([energy]). (While paying for this card, spend the listed resources.) Hero Action (attack): Exhaust your hero → deal damage to an enemy equal to the total of your hero's THW, ATK, and DEF values.
Play 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.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Stinger does not count against your ally limit.
Uses (3 physical counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Physique and remove 1 physical counter from it → generate a [physical] resource.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When an enemy attacks, declare your hero as the defender without exhausting them.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Protection (green) card.
Hero Action (attack): Choose an enemy. That enemy attacks you. Deal 5 damage to that enemy.
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 (attack): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If this attack defeats that enemy, heal 2 damage from your hero.
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.
Attach to an X-FORCE or X-MEN ally. Max 1 per ally. Response: After attached ally defeats a minion or side scheme, discard 1 card from your hand → heal 1 damage from attached ally for each resource on that card.
Attach to a guardian ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW and +1 hit point.
Attach to an Avenger ally. Max 1 per ally. Response: After attached ally attacks or thwarts, deal 1 damage to 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 Interrupt When you use your basic thwart power (THW) or basic attack power (ATK), exhaust an ally you control → add that ally's matching power to your hero's power for this use.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You can control 1 additional weapon upgrade that has the restricted keyword.
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.
Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic attack, it gets +2 ATK for that attack.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, heal 1 damage from an ally you control.
Action: Choose an ally in your hand that shares a trait with your identity → put that ally into play. If that ally is still in play at the end of the phase, discard it.
Hero Action: Choose a hero. Until the end of the round, that hero gets +1 THW, +1 ATK, and +1 DEF
Hero Response: After you change form, your hero gets +1 THW, +1 ATK, +1 DEF until the end of the round.
Hero Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup, exhaust Wraith and deal 1 damage to him → cancel that card's "Boost" effect.
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.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 1 damage to a minion. If you have the Aerial trait, engage that enemy.
Action: Deal 1 damage to another friendly character → until the end of the round, Rogue gains each of that character's Traits and adds that character's printed THW and ATK to her matching powers. (Limit once per round.)
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.
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.
Action: Exhaust Atlas Bear → look at the top card of a player deck. If that card is an event, you may deal 1 damage to Atlas Bear to add that card to its owner's hand.
Max 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When you would take any amount of damage, discard Defensive Stance → prevent 3 of that damage.
Reduce the cost to play Spider-Woman by 1 for each confused enemy in play.
Max 1 per player. Response: After you defeat an enemy with a basic attack, exhaust Blood Rage and take 1 damage → draw 1 card.
Play only if your identity has the aerial trait. Hero Action (thwart): Remove a total of up to 5 threat from among schemes (as you choose).
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.)
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.
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. Resource: Exhaust Sense of Justice → generate a [mental] resource for a Thwart event.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 2 threat from a scheme. If you paid for this card using a [mental] resource, remove 2 threat from a different scheme.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Give each identity a tough status card.
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 Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy and exhaust any number of Avenger characters you control. Deal 1 additional damage to that enemy for each character exhausted this way.
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.
Toughness. Reduce the cost to play Captain America by 1 for each avenger character you control.
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.
Response: After Falcon enters play, look at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. For each treachery looked at this way, remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Response: After your turn begins, place 1 time counter on Quinjet. Action: Put an Avenger ally from your hand into play with printed cost equal to or less than the number of time counters on Quinjet. Then, discard Quinjet.
Response: After Squirrel Girl enters play, deal 1 damage to each enemy.
[star] Forced Response: After Blade thwarts or attacks, choose to either spend a [physical] resource from your hand or discard Blade.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Action (thwart): Exhaust Disguise and your identity → remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Hero Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic thwart, it gets +2 THW for that thwart. After that thwart ends, if your hero removed all threat from a scheme that way, heal 2 damage from your hero.
Hero Response (attack): After your hero makes a basic thwart, deal damage to an enemy equal to your hero's THW.
Forced Interrupt: When Deadpool would be defeated by consequential damage, heal 3 damage from him instead. Add an acceleration token to the main scheme.
You may play Lockjaw from your discard pile during your turn (paying his resource cost).
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.
Max 2 per deck. Interrupt: When you spend this card to play a THWART event, that event removes 1 additional threat.
Hero Interrupt: When any amount of threat would be placed on a scheme, you take it as damage instead.
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.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Heal 2 damage from each 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: Discard cards from the top of your deck until you discard an Avenger ally, then add that ally to your hand.
Forced Response: After Sentry enters play under your control, deal yourself 1 encounter card.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Each X-Factor, X-Force, and X-Men character you control gains the X-Factor, X-Force, and X-Men traits.
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.
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.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may discard 1 non-ELITE minion from play.
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.)
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.
Jessica Jones gets +1 THW for each side scheme 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.
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 you play Spider-Man from your hand, choose THW or ATK. Spider-Man gets +2 to the chosen power until the end of the phase.
Response: After Quasar enters play, remove 1 threat from each scheme in play.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Resource: Exhaust Quincarrier → generate a [wild] resource.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player heals a total of 5 damage from among characters they control.
Response: After you play Beak from your hand, remove 1 threat from a scheme for each X-Men ally you control.
Attach to an X-MEN ally. Max 1 TRAINING upgrade per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW, +1 ATK, and +1 hit point.
Hero Action: Exhaust an AERIAL character you control and choose a player → deal 3 damage to the villain and each minion engaged with that player.
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.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, remove 1 threat from the main scheme.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 3 threat from the main scheme. If this is the first card you have played this round, return this card to your hand.
Hero Action (attack): Heal 2 damage from your hero → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
While there is no threat on the main scheme, reduce all consequential damage Venom takes by 1.
Max 1 per player. Response: After an ally thwarts and defeats a side scheme, exhaust Command Center → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Action: Exhaust Plan B and discard 1 random card from your hand → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Hero Response: After your hero makes a basic attack, heal 1 damage from Bug.
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.
Interrupt: When Clea is defeated, shuffle her into her owner's deck.
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: 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.
Hero Action (attack/thwart): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. Remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust your alter-ego → play a card from your hand, reducing its resource cost by 3.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, heal 1 damage from your hero.
Retaliate 1.
Action: Heal 4 damage from an identity (5 damage instead if you paid for this card using a [mental] resource).
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.
[star] Chamber takes -1 consequential damage ([cost]) after he attacks a confused enemy.
[star] Response: After Cypher attacks and damages a confused enemy, draw 1 card.
Hero Action: (attack): Deal 3 damage to a confused enemy.
Hero Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic attack, exhaust a Weapon upgrade on your hero → your hero gets +3 ATK for this attack.
Response: After Brawn attacks, remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Hero Action (attack): Confuse an enemy. If you paid for this card using a [physical] resource, deal 3 damage to that enemy.
Hero Interrupt: When an ally you control attacks, it gets +3 ATK for that attack. After that attack resolves, discard that ally.
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.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy. This attack gains piercing.
Uses (3 mental counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Awareness and remove 1 mental counter from it → generate a [mental] resource.
Max 2 per deck. Uses (2 training counters). Alter-ego Action: Exhaust this card and remove 1 training counter from it → choose a leadership (blue) event in you discard pile and shuffle it into your deck.
Hero Action: Discard an ally your control → remove threat from a scheme equal to that ally's printed cost.
Response: After X-23 attacks and defeats an enemy, ready her.
Response: After Daredevil thwarts, deal 1 damage to an enemy.
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.
Counts as 2 restricted cards. Max 1 per deck. Your hero gets +1 ATK for each [crisis], [acceleration], [amplify], and [hazard] in play (to a maximum of +4 ATK).
Victory 0. Each identity gets +2 hand size.
Action: Exhaust and discard Moondragon → choose a minion. That minion attacks another enemy of your choice.
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.)
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Attached minion gets -2 ATK.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to the villain (5 damage instead if there is no threat on the main scheme).
Action: Exhaust Plot Convenience → choose: • Attach 1 aspect card from your hand facedown here (to a maximum of 3). • Add 1 card attached facedown here to your hand. Any player may trigger this ability.
Max 1 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates if your identity has sustained less than 5 damage (triple the resources instead if you have sustained no damage).
Max 1 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates if your identity has sustained less than 5 damage (triple the resources instead if you have sustained no damage).
Max 1 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates if your identity has sustained less than 5 damage (triple the resources instead if you have sustained no damage).
Alliance. Hero Interrupt: When any amount of threat would be placed on the main scheme, exhaust an X-Force character and an X-Men character → prevent that threat and give each of those characters a tough status card.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Spend a [physical] resource and exhaust this card → ready your hero.
Uses (2 supply counters). Action: Exhaust The Pericles and remove 1 supply counter from it → give a hero or villain a status card of your choice. Give an ally or minion a status card of your choice.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Each ally you control gets +1 ATK.
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.
[star] Interrupt: When Dust attacks a minion, she attacks each minion in play. Dust takes +1 consequential damage ([cost]) after this attack.
Hero Action (attack): Exhaust a weapon upgrade you control → deal 5 damage to an enemy.
Reduce the cost to play Hercules by 1 for each minion engaged with you.
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.
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.
[star] Interrupt: When Marvel Girl attacks a minion, remove X threat from the main scheme, where X is that minion's printed SCH.
Hero Response: After you change form, give your hero a tough status card.
Max 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When you engage a minion, discard this card → ready your hero.
Response: After Beast enters play, search your deck and discard pile for a resource card and add it to your hand. (Shuffle.)
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.)
Giant-Man gets +2 ATK while he has 3 or more remaining hit points.
Hero Action: Discard an ally your control → deal damage to an enemy equal to that ally's printed cost.
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 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).
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.
Uses (3 operative counters). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When you thwart, remove 1 operative counter from here → that thwart removes 1 additional threat.
[star] As an additional cost for Wonder Man to attack, you must discard 1 card from your hand.
Attach to a side scheme. Max 1 per side scheme. Interrupt: When attached side scheme is defeated, discard a non-ELITE minion.
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.
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 deck. Action: Ready an ally. That ally gets +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
[star] Response: After Headpool attacks and damages a minion, that minion attacks another enemy of your choice.
Max 1 per player. Response: After the player phase begins, exhaust Healing Factor → heal 2 damage from your identity.
[star] Kidpool's attacks gain piercing.
When Defeated: Defeat a non-ELITE minion.
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.
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.
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] Wolverine's attacks gain piercing. Response: After your turn begins, heal 1 damage from Wolverine.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Exhaust a Web-Warrior card you control → search your discard pile for a Web-Warrior ally and put it into play, then choose a player. That player may spend 3 resources of any type to repeat this ability.
Attach to a non-Elite minion. Max 1 per minion. Interrupt: When a friendly character attacks, deal 1 damage to attached minion.
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.
Attach to a guardian ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +2 ATK and gains piercing.
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.)
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 you control a Web-Warrior card. When Defeated: Add SP//dr to your hand if she was defeated by taking excess consequential damage.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 5 damage to an enemy.
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.
[star] Interrupt: When Husk uses a basic power, spend up to 3 resources → if you spent at least 1: [energy] — Husk gets +1 to that power for this use. [mental] — Heal 1 damage from Husk. [physical] — Ready Husk after this use.
Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup during an attack, deal 1 damage to Northstar → cancel all boost icons ([boost]) on that card.
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.
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.
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.
Reduce the cost to play each upgrade on Iron Man by 1.
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.
Victory 0. Assault. (Basic thwarts against this scheme use ATK instead of THW.) When Defeated: The player who defeated this scheme removes 5[per_hero] threat from the main scheme.
Response: After 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.
Play only if there is a side scheme in the victory display. Hero Interrupt: When a treachery card is revealed from the encounter deck, cancel its "When Revealed" effects.
Hero 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.
Action: Spend a [mental] resource → heal up to 2 damage from Warlock.
[star] Response: After Wolfsbane thwarts, name a card type, then discard the top card of your deck. If that card is of the named type, you may add it to your hand.
[star] Yondu's attacks gain ranged.Ranged attacks ignore retaliate.)
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.
[star] Black Knight's basic attack gains piercing.
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.
Play only if your identity has the X-FORCE trait. Hero Action: Exhaust IPAC and deal 1 facedown encounter card to a player → that player draws 2 cards.
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.)
Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Deal 10 damage to the villain. Deal 1 damage to each enemy and hero for each [crisis], [acceleration], [amplify], and [hazard] in play.
Hero Interrupt: When a treachery card is revealed from the encounter deck, cancel its "When Revealed" effects. The villain attacks you instead.
Hero Action: Choose a player. Each character that player controls gets +1 THW and +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
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.
Play only if your identity has the X-MEN trait. Interrupt: When the villain would scheme, discard Tempus → cancel that activation. Deal yourself 1 facedown encounter card.
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 White Fox is discarded from the top of your deck, put her into play under your control.
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.