Phoenix

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 only if your identity has the MUTANT trait. Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Cerebro → search the top 5 cards of your deck for an X-MEN ally (search your whole deck instead if you control a PSIONIC character) and add that ally to your hand. (Shuffle.)

Resource: Exhaust The X-Jet → generate a [wild] resource for a player whose identity has the X-MEN trait.

Restricted. Hero Response (attack): After you play another PSIONIC card, exhaust Psimitar → deal 2 damage to an enemy.

Play only if your identity has the MUTANT trait. Max 1 per player Resource: Exhaust X-Gene → generate a [wild] resource for an identity-specific event.

Hero Action: Exhaust Team-Building Exercise → play a card from your hand that shares a trait with your hero, reducing its resource cost by 1.

If each of your allies has the X-MEN trait, increase your ally limit by 1. Response: After an X-MEN ally enters play, exhaust Utopia → ready an X-MEN character.

[star] Interrupt: When Marvel Girl attacks a minion, remove X threat from the main scheme, where X is that minion's printed SCH.

Response: After Forge enters play, search your deck and discard pile for an X-MEN or X-FORCE support and add it to your hand. (Shuffle.)

Reduce the cost to play Storm by 1 if your identity has the MUTANT or X-MEN trait. [star] Interrupt: When Storm thwarts a scheme, move 2 threat from that scheme to another scheme.

Play only if your identity has the X-Force or X-Men trait. Response: After White Queen enters play, discard a status card from a character.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 THW.

Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust X-Mansion → heal 1 damage from a MUTANT or X-MEN character. Any player whose alter-ego has the MUTANT trait may trigger this ability.

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 PSIONIC trait. Interrupt (thwart): When the villain schemes, this activation removes threat instead of placing it.

Team-Up (Phoenix and Storm). Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Ready Phoenix and Storm. Heal 2 damage from each of them.

Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an identity-specific upgrade and put it into play. (Shuffle.)

Play only if your identity has the X-Men trait. Uses (3 psi counters). Interrupt: When a player reveals a treachery, exhaust Stepford Cuckoos and remove 1 psi counter here → cancel the effects of that card and discard it. That player reveals another encounter card.

Team-Up (Cyclops and Phoenix). Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Ready Cyclops and Phoenix. Choose to either return a Cyclops card from your discard pile to your hand or place 2 power counters on Phoenix Force.

Play only if your identity has the PSIONIC trait. Hero Action: Ready an ally. That ally gets +2 THW and +2 ATK for its next basic thwart or attack action this phase.

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.)

Reduce the cost to play Colossus by 1 if your identity has the MUTANT or X-MEN trait. Toughness.

Play only if your identity has the PSIONIC trait. Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy. Confuse that enemy.

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 only if your identity has the MUTANT trait. Response: After a MUTANT alter-ego changes into hero form, exhaust Moira MacTaggert → that hero's controller draws 1 card.

Alter-Ego Response: After an X-MEN ally enters play, exhaust Danger Room → search your deck and discard pile for a TRAINING upgrade and attach it to that ally. Any player whose alter-ego has the MUTANT trait may trigger this ability.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your alter-ego gets +2 REC.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After a side scheme is defeated, exhaust Skilled Investigator → draw 1 card.

Max 1 per player. Action: Exhaust Avengers Mansion → choose a player. That player draws 1 card.

Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Justice (yellow) card.

Attach to an X-MEN ally. Max 1 TRAINING upgrade per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW point and +2 hit points.

Reduce the cost to play Angel by 1 if your identity has the MUTANT or X-MEN trait.

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.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 TEAM card per player. Each of your X-MEN allies gets +1 hit point. If each of your characters has the X-MEN trait, each of your X-MEN allies costs 1 fewer resource to play.

Play only if your hero has the PSIONIC trait. Hero Action (attack): Deal 4 damage to an enemy. 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.)

Response: After Dazzler enters play, confuse an enemy.

Response: After Beast enters play, search your deck and discard pile for a resource card and add it to your hand. (Shuffle.)

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 ATK.

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.

Play only if your identity has the X-MEN trait. Hero Action (thwart): Exhaust your hero and any number of X-MEN allies → remove X threat from among schemes in play, where X is the total THW of those characters.

Play only if your identity has the MUTANT trait. Alter-Ego Action: Choose up to 2 identity-specific cards in your discard pile and shuffle them into your deck. If X-Mansion is in play, draw 1 card.

[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 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Aggression (red) card.

Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player who does not control a SPECIALIZATION upgrade chooses 1 set-aside SPECIALIZATION upgrade and puts it into play under their control.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points.

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 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 Triage enters play, heal 2 damage from an X-Men character.

Hero Action: Choose an ally with a TRAINING upgrade attached → ready that ally and heal 1 damage from it.

Response: After you play Pixie from your hand, add an X-MEN ally from your discard pile to your hand.

[star] Wolverine's attacks gain piercing. Response: After your turn begins, heal 1 damage from Wolverine.

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 Mirage enters play, choose an enemy whose SCH is less than Mirage's THW → stun that enemy.

Play only if your identity has the PSIONIC trait. Max 1 per player. Hero Action (thwart): Exhaust Telepathy and spend [mental][mental] resources → remove 2 threat from a scheme.

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. Resource: Exhaust Sense of Justice → generate a [mental] resource for a Thwart event.

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.

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.

Alliance. Hero Action (attack/thwart): Exhaust an X-Force character and an X-Men character → remove X threat from among schemes in play and deal X damage among enemies in play, where X is the combined THW of the two exhausted characters.

Play only if your hero has the PSIONIC trait. Max 1 per player. Hero Action (attack): Exhaust Telekinesis and spend [mental][mental] resources → deal 3 damage to an enemy.

Play only if your identity has the X-MEN trait. Attach to a friendly character. Max 1 per character. Attached character gets +1 hit point and gains the X-MEN trait.

Play only if your identity has the PSIONIC trait. Hero Interrupt (defense): When an enemy attacks you, choose a different enemy → damage from that attack is dealt to the chosen enemy instead of you.

Victory 0. When Defeated: Heal 2 damage from each ally.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 THW.

Response: After M enters play, defeat a minion with fewer remaining hit points than M.

Hero Action (thwart): Remove 2 threat from a scheme. If you paid for this card using a [mental] resource, remove 2 threat from a different scheme.

Play only if your identity has the MUTANT trait. Alter-Ego Action: Choose up to 2 X-MEN allies in your discard pile and shuffle them into your deck. If X-Mansion is in play, draw 1 card.

Attach to an X-MEN ally. Max 1 TRAINING upgrade per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW, +1 ATK, and +1 hit point.

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.

Action: Pay the printed cost of an ally in any player's discard pile → put that ally into play under your control.

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.

Action: Deal 1 damage to another friendly character → until the end of the round, Rogue gains each of that character's Traits and adds that character's printed THW and ATK to her matching powers. (Limit once per round.)

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After you defend against an attack and take no damage, exhaust Unflappable → draw 1 card.

Action: Exhaust Beat Cop → move 1 threat from a scheme to here. Action: Exhaust and discard Beat Cop → deal 1 damage to a minion for each threat here.

Forced Response: After 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 X-23 attacks and defeats an enemy, ready her.

[star] Gentle takes +1 consequential damage ([cost]) after he attacks the villain.

Play only if your identity has the X-FORCE trait. Response: After you resolve the "When Revealed" effects of a treachery card, heal 1 damage from Pete Wisdom.

Victory 0. Play only if your identity has the X-Men trait. When Defeated: Each player chooses 1 set-aside New ally and adds it to their hand.

Hero 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.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 TEAM card per player. If each of your characters has the X-FORCE trait, each ally you control gets +1 THW and takes -1 consequential damage ([cost]) after thwarting a side scheme.

[star] Response: After Banshee thwarts, confuse a minion.

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.)

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.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Each ally you control gets +1 hit point.

This card generates [wild] for each ally you control (to a maximum of 3)

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Martial Prowess → generate a [physical] resource for an Attack event.

Hero Response (attack): After your hero makes a basic thwart, deal damage to an enemy equal to your hero's THW.

Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust your alter-ego → play a card from your hand, reducing its resource cost by 3.

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 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.

Response: After you play Magik from your hand, spend a [mental] resource → choose a non-Elite minion engaged with an X-MEN hero. Shuffle that minion into the encounter deck.

Response: After you play Beak from your hand, remove 1 threat from a scheme for each X-Men ally you control.

Response: After Polaris enters play, give an X-MEN character a tough status card.

Action: Exhaust any number of allies you control → draw 1 card for each ally exhausted this way.

Alter-Ego Action: Search your deck and discard pile for an ally and an upgrade that can be attached to that ally. Add them to your hand. (Shuffle.)

Response: After Cable thwarts and defeats a side scheme, draw 1 card.

Hero Action: The villain attacks you. Other characters cannot defend against this attack. Draw 3 cards.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 ATK.

Play only if your identity has the X-Men trait. Interrupt: When you use a basic power, exhaust Synch → you get +1 to that power for this use.

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 only if your identity has the aerial trait. Hero Action: Ready your hero and remove 2 threat from the main scheme.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After you thwart and remove the last threat from a scheme, discard Justice Served → ready your hero.

Response (attack): After your hero thwarts and removes all threat from a scheme, deal 3 damage to an enemy.

Hero Action (attack): Deal 4 damage to an enemy. If that enemy is defeated by this attack, remove 2 threat from a scheme.

Player under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After you defend against an attack, deal 1 damage to the attacking character.

Play only if your identity has the X-MEN trait. Hero Action: Search the top 5 cards of your deck for an X-MEN ally and put it into play. If that ally is still in play at the end of the phase, add it to your hand.

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.

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.

Max 1 per deck. Your identity gets +1 to each of its basic powers, +1 hand size, and +10 hit points.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After you defeat an enemy during the villain phase, exhaust this card → draw 2 cards.

Hero Action (thwart): Remove 3 threat from a scheme (4 threat instead if you paid for this card using a [mental] resource).

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.

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.

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.

Requirement ([physical]) (While paying for this card, spend the listed resources.) Hero Action: Heal 2 damage from your hero → ready your hero.

Attach to an X-MEN ally. Max 1 Training upgrade per ally. Attached ally gets +3 hit points.

Play only if your identity has the X-MEN trait. Toughness.

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 a minion. Max 1 per minion. Attached minion gets -2 ATK.

Uses (3 command counters). Action: Exhaust Command Team and remove 1 command counter from it → ready an ally.

Action: 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]).

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.

Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy. If this is the first card you have played this round, return this card to your hand.

Response: After Tigra attacks and defeats a minion, heal 1 damage from her.

[star] Chamber takes -1 consequential damage ([cost]) after he attacks a confused enemy.

Increase your ally limit by 1. (This allows you to control more than 3 allies.)

Iceman enters play with 3 freeze counters on him. Response: After a minion enters play, remove 1 freeze counter from Iceman → stun that minion.

Max 1 per phase. Hero Action: Draw 1 card for each minion engaged with you.

Max 2 per deck. Interrupt: When you spend this card to play an ally, that ally gets +1 THW and +1 ATK until the end of the phase.

Response: After Caliban enters play, discard cards from the top of your deck until an X-FACTOR, X-FORCE, or X-MEN ally is discarded. Add that ally to your hand.

[star] While Shark-Girl is attacking an enemy, she gets +1 ATK for each upgrade attached to that enemy.

Play only if your hero has the PSIONIC trait. Hero Response (attack): After you defend against an enemy attack, deal 3 damage to that enemy and stun it.

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.

Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Interrupt: When a character makes a basic attack against attached minion, that character uses their THW instead of their ATK.

Play only if your identity has the Aerial trait. Hero Response (thwart): After your hero thwarts, remove 3 threat from a scheme.

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.)

Forced Response: After Angela enters play under your control, search the top 10 cards of the encounter deck for a minion and put it into play engaged with you. Shuffle the encounter deck. If a minion was not put into play this way, discard Angela.

Play only if your identity has the Aerial trait. Hero Response (attack): After your hero attacks, deal 4 damage to an enemy.

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.

Response: After Mockingbird enters play, stun an enemy.

Hero Response: After your hero makes a basic attack and damages an enemy, confuse that enemy. If that enemy is already confused, stun it instead.

Max 2 per deck. Interrupt: When you spend this card to play a THWART event, that event removes 1 additional threat.

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.

Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Hero Interrupt: When you attack and defeat attached minion, heal 2 damage from your hero.

Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup during an attack, deal 1 damage to Northstar → cancel all boost icons ([boost]) on that card.

Hero Action (attack): The villain schemes. Deal 4 damage to the villain.

Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may discard 1 non-ELITE minion from play.

Hero Action (thwart): Remove 2 threat from a scheme. If this removes the last threat on that scheme, draw 1 card.

Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If that enemy is stunned or confused, draw 1 card.

Max 2 per deck. Uses (2 training counters). Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust this card and remove 1 training counter from it → choose a justice (yellow) event in your discard pile and shuffle it into your deck.

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.

Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Leadership (blue) 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.

Response: After your hero defends, discard indomitable → ready your hero.

Hero Action (attack): Deal 5 damage to an enemy.

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 1 per player. Response: After an ally thwarts and defeats a side scheme, exhaust Command Center → deal 2 damage to an enemy.

Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an Attack event and add it to their hand. (Shuffle.) Until the end of the phase, each Attack event deals 1 additional damage.

[star] Forced Response: After Blade thwarts or attacks, choose to either spend a [physical] resource from your hand or discard Blade.

[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.

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 Interrupt (defense): When an enemy attacks, declare your hero as the defender without exhausting them.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 DEF.

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.

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] Captain Britain takes -1 consequential damage after he thwarts a side scheme or attacks a minion.

Victory 0. Each X-Men character gets +1 THW while making a basic thwart against this scheme. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an identity-specific event and add it to their hand. (Shuffle.)

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 DEF.

Play only if your identity has the X-MEN trait. Hero Interrupt (defense): When an enemy attacks, put an X-MEN ally into play from your hand. Exhaust it and declare it the defender for this attack.

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.

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.

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).

[star] Response: After you use one of Domino's basic powers, swap a card in your hand with the top card of your deck.

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.

Response (thwart): After your hero defends against an enemy attack, remove threat from a scheme equal to your hero's THW.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 mental counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Awareness and remove 1 mental counter from it → generate a [mental] resource.

Victory 0. When Defeated: Give each identity a tough status card.

[star] Interrupt: When Dust attacks a minion, she attacks each minion in play. Dust takes +1 consequential damage ([cost]) after this attack.

Power Man enters play with 2 chi counters on him. Action: Discard any number of chi counters from Power Man → he gets +2 ATK for each chi counter discarded this way until the end of the phase.

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.

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.

Victory 0. Response: After an X-Men character defends against an enemy attack and takes no damage, remove 1 threat from this scheme. When Defeated: Stun and confuse each enemy in play.

Response: After Daredevil thwarts, deal 1 damage to an enemy.

Max 1 per player. Any player may spend the resource card tucked here as if it were in their hand. Action: Exhaust Resource Reserve → tuck 1 resource card from your hand under here (to a maximum of 1).

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.

Action: Goliath gets +4 ATK until the end of the phase. At the end of the phase, discard Goliath. (Max once per phase.)

Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup during a scheme activation, cancel its boost icons.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Each ally you control gets +1 ATK.

Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Attacks against attached minion gain overkill.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Nerves of Steel → generate a [energy] resource for a Defense event.

Max 1 per player. Hero Response (attack): After a minion engages you, discard Lie in Wait → deal 3 damage to that minion.

Max 1 per player. Response: After an ally attacks and defeats a minion, exhaust War Room → remove 1 threat from a scheme.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. While your hero's remaining hit points are less than half your hero's starting hit points, your hero gets +1 ATK and -1 THW.

Hero Action (attack): Deal damage to an enemy equal to your ATK.

Hero Action (thwart): Exhaust your hero → remove threat from a scheme equal to your hero's ATK.

Hero Interrupt (defense): When your hero defends against an attack, use its ATK instead of its DEF for this attack.

Toughness. Hero Response: After Warpath defends against an attack, play an event with a "Hero Action" ability from your hand (paying its cost).

Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Protection (green) card.

Response: After Winter Soldier attacks and defeats an enemy, remove 2 threat from a scheme.

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.

Action: Heal 2 damage from any character.

Hero Action: Ready your sidekick → ready your hero and choose one: • Heal 1 damage from both characters. • Both characters get +1 THW and +1 ATK until the end of the phase.

Attach to an identity-specific ally you control. Max 1 per deck. Attached ally gets +2 hit points and is your "sidekick." Response: After you make a basic recovery, heal 2 damage from attached ally.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After you change form, discard this card → ready your hero.

Attach to a guardian ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW and +1 hit point.

Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Hero Action: Heal 1 damage from an ally and ready it.

Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +2 hit points.

Attach to an Avenger ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gains Aerial. Action: Exhaust Sky Cycle → ready attached ally.

Uses (2 fuel counters). Max 1 per player. Response: After a minion enters play, exhaust this card and remove 1 fuel counter from it → search your deck and discard pile for a Tactic upgrade that can be attached to that minion and add it to your hand.

Hero 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.

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.

Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to the villain (5 damage instead if there is no threat on the main scheme).

Response: After you play Spider-Man from your hand, remove 3 [per_hero] threat from a side scheme.

[star] Interrupt: When Misty Knight thwarts, look at the top 2 cards of the encounter deck and discard 1 of those cards. Misty Knight gets +1 THW for this thwart for each icon ([star] and [boost]) in the discarded card's boost area.

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 Speed thwarts, ready him. (Limit once per round.)

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.

Hero Response: After you change form, give your hero a tough status card.

Max 2 per deck. Hero Interrupt: When you spend this card to play a Attack event, that event deals 1 additional damage.

Attach to an X-MEN ally. Max 1 Training upgrade per ally. Attached ally gets +1 ATK and +2 hit points.

Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Search the encounter deck, discard pile, and set-aside area for your nemesis minion and reveal it → ready your hero and draw 3 cards. You cannot attack the villain this phase. Remove this card from the game.

Hero Action: Exhaust an AERIAL character you control and choose a player → deal 3 damage to the villain and each minion engaged with that player.

Hero Response: After your hero makes a basic attack, heal 1 damage from Bug.

Hero Interrupt (defense): When a boost card on an enemy attacking you would be turned faceup, discard it instead.

Play only if your identity has the X-Men trait. Response: After you play Shadowcat from your hand, choose a side scheme in play → that scheme loses each [acceleration], [amplify], [crisis], and [hazard] icon until the end of the round.

Alliance. Hero Action: Choose an X-Force ally and an X-Men ally and return them to their owners' hands → those players play those allies, ignoring their resource costs.

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).

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.

Restricted. Response: After your hero attacks an enemy, spend a [physical] resource → deal 2 damage to an 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.

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.

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.

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.

Hero Interrupt (attack/defense): When an enemy initiates an attack, deal 4 damage to that enemy.

[star] Response: After Rictor attacks, discard the top card of your deck. Deal 1 damage to each minion engaged with you for each resource on the discarded card.

[star] Interrupt: When Shatterstar attacks a minion, engage that minion. If you are already engaged with that minion, Shatterstar gets +1 ATK for this attack.

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. Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Crew Quarters → heal 1 damage from an alter-ego.

Play only if you have the X-FORCE or X-MEN trait. Response: After Marrow enters play, deal 2 damage to an enemy.

Uses (3 warrior counters). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When your hero attacks, remove 1 counter from here → that attack deals 1 additional damage.

Reduce the cost to play Hercules by 1 for each minion engaged with you.

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.

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.

Attach to a side scheme. Max 1 per scheme. Interrupt: When attached scheme is defeated, deal 4 damage to an enemy.

Hero Interrupt (defense): When you defend against an attack, you get +2 DEF for this attack. If you take no damage from this attack, stun the attacking enemy.

Hero 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 (attack): After your hero thwarts, deal 4 damage to an enemy (7 damage instead if that thwart removed the last threat from a scheme).

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.)

Attach to a friendly character. Max 1 per character. Hero Resource: Exhaust this card and deal 1 damage to attached character → generate a [wild] resource.

Hero 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.)

Response: After you play Ironheart from your hand, draw 1 card.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Action (thwart): Exhaust Disguise and your identity → remove 2 threat from a scheme.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When an encounter card effect would discard a card you control, discard Front Organization instead of discarding that card.

Hope Summers gains each TRAIT on your identity. Response: After you play Hope Summers from your hand, search your deck for a SUPERPOWER card and add it to your hand. (Shuffle.)

Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When a minion schemes, discard Informant → this activation removes threat instead of placing it.

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.

[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]).

[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.

Max 1 per player. Response: After a non-Elite minion schemes, discard Sting Operation → discard that minion.

Action: Search the top 4 cards of your deck (top 7 cards instead if you are in alter-ego form) for an attack event and add that card to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

Play only if your identity has the X-Men trait. Response: After Glob enters play, deal 2 damage to an enemy with an upgrade attached.

Max 1 per 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.

[star] Interrupt: When Goldballs attacks, discard up to 3 cards from the top of your deck → Goldballs gets +X ATK for this attack, where X is the number of cards discarded this way.

Uses (3 leadership counters). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When an ally makes a basic thwart or basic attack action, remove 1 leadership counter from here → that ally gets +1 THW and +1 ATK for that action.

Max 1 per player. Response: After you discard a Preparation card you control, discard Practiced Plan → return that card to your hand from your discard pile.

Response (thwart): After your hero attacks and defeats an enemy, remove 2 threat from a 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.

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.

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.)

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.

Retaliate 1.

Interrupt: When a card is revealed from the encounter deck, exhaust Black Widow and spend a [mental] resource → cancel the effects of that card and discard it. Then, reveal another card from the encounter deck.

Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When any amount of threat would be placed on the main scheme, discard Counterintelligence → prevent 3 of that threat.

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.)

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 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.

Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 ATK and its attacks gain ranged.

Hero Action: Give an ally you control a tough status card.

Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If this attack defeats that enemy, heal 2 damage from your hero.

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.

Action: Exhaust X-Bunker and choose a player whose identity has the MUTANT trait → that player searches the top X cards of their deck for any card, where X is the number of side schemes in the victory display, and adds that card to their hand. (Shuffle.)

Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, remove 1 threat from the main scheme.

Response: After Maria Hill enters play, each player draws 1 card.

Play only if your identity has the X-MEN trait. Hero Action (attack): Exhaust your hero and any number of X-MEN allies → deal X damage among enemies in play, where X is the total ATK of the characters you exhausted this way.

Hero Action (thwart): The villain attacks you. Remove 4 threat from the main scheme.

Hero Action (attack): Confuse an enemy. If you paid for this card using a [physical] resource, deal 3 damage to that enemy.

Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy.

Jessica Jones gets +1 THW for each side scheme in play.

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.

Forced Interrupt: When Deadpool would be defeated by consequential damage, heal 3 damage from him instead. Add an acceleration token to the main scheme.

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.

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 deck. Hero Action: Spend a [physical] resource and exhaust this card → ready your hero.

Max 1 per player. Response: After the player phase begins, exhaust Healing Factor → heal 2 damage from your identity.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When an enemy would attack you, discard Invisibility Gear → that enemy schemes instead.

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).

Hero Interrupt: When your hero's attack deals any amount of excess damage, increase that amount by 1.

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.

Interrupt (thwart): When the villain schemes, reduce the amount of threat placed on the scheme by 1.

Response (attack): After your hero defends against an enemy attack, deal damage to that enemy equal to your hero's ATK.

Victory 0. When Defeated: The player who defeated this scheme deals 5[per_hero] damage to the villain.

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.

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.

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.

Giant-Man gets +2 ATK while he has 3 or more remaining hit points.

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: 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] Yondu's attacks gain ranged.Ranged attacks ignore retaliate.)

Response: After a minion schemes, exhaust Quake → deal 2 damage to that minion.

Max 1 per player. Hero Action: Exhaust Deft Focus → reduce the resource cost of the next superpower card you play this turn by 1.

Hero Action (attack): Deal 1 damage to a minion. If you have the Aerial trait, engage that enemy.

Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW and +1 ATK.

Play only if your identity has the X-MEN trait. [star] Response: After Longshot attacks a non-ELITE minion, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card has a star icon ([star]) in the boost area, defeat the attacked minion.

Max 1 per deck. Action: Ready an ally. That ally gets +1 ATK until the end of the phase.

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.

Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy (5 damage instead if that enemy has the guard or patrol keyword).

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 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 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.

Action: Exhaust and discard Moondragon → choose a minion. That minion attacks another enemy of your choice.

Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy. This attack gains piercing.

Response: After you play Spider-Girl from your hand, stun and confuse a minion.

[star] Response: After Spider-Man 2099 uses a basic power, return a Web-Warrior ally in play to its owner's hand.

[star] Forced Response: After White Wolf attacks, place 1 threat on the main scheme.

Action: You get +1 hand size until the end of the phase.

Linked (Specialized Training). Your hero gets +1 ATK. Hero Response: After your hero performs a basic attack, exhaust this card → draw 1 card.

Interrupt: When Cosmo attacks or thwarts, name a card type, then discard the top card of a player deck or the encounter deck. If that card is of the named type, Cosmo does not take consequential damage for this use.

Max 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.

Attach to a minion. Attached minion gets +2 hit points and gains patrol. Interrupt: When attached minion is defeated, remove 4 threat from the main scheme.

Hero 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).

You may play Lockjaw from your discard pile during your turn (paying his resource cost).

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.

Attach to a non-permanent side scheme. Limit 1 per side scheme. Attached scheme gains assault. (Basic thwarts against this scheme use ATK instead of THW.)

Response: After White Fox is discarded from the top of your deck, put her into play under your control.

[star] Response: After Cypher attacks and damages a confused enemy, draw 1 card.

Linked (Specialized Training). Your hero gets +1 DEF. Hero Response: After your hero performs a basic defense, exhaust this card → draw 1 card.

Linked (Specialized Training). Your identity gets +4 hit points. Response: After your identity takes damage from an enemy attack, exhaust this card → draw 1 card.

Hero Interrupt: When a treachery card is revealed from the encounter deck, cancel its "When Revealed" effects. The villain attacks you instead.

Hero Interrupt: When an ally you control attacks, it gets +3 ATK for that attack. After that attack resolves, discard that ally.

Linked (Specialized Training). Your hero gets +1 THW. Hero Response: After your hero performs a basic thwart, exhaust this card → draw 1 card.

Max 1 per player. Response: After an ally defends against an attack and is not defeated, exhaust this card → ready that ally.

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.

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.

Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player heals a total of 5 damage from among characters they control.

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.

Setup. Max 1 per deck. Setup: Search your collection for an identity-specific ally for an identity not in this game. Shuffle that ally into your deck. Discard 2 cards from your hand and remove this card from the game.

Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If this attack defeats that enemy, deal 2 damage to an enemy.

Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Resource: Exhaust Quincarrier → generate a [wild] resource.

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 1 per player. Response: After you defeat a minion, exhaust Interrogation Room → remove 1 threat from a scheme.

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.

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.

Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy. Deal 3 damage to another 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.

Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic attack, it gets +2 ATK for that attack.

Victory 0. Each identity gets +2 hand size.

Toughness. (This character enters play with a tough status card.) [star] War Machine's basic attack gains ranged. (Ranged attacks ignore retaliate.)

Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Response: After Groot defends against an attack, heal 2 damage from him.

Alliance. (The players can pay this card's costs as a group.) Hero Action: Remove 3[per_hero] threat from a side scheme.

Reduce the amount of damage Victor Mancha takes from each attack by 1.

Max 2 per deck. Hero Interrupt: When you spend this card to play a Defense event, draw 1 card.

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 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.

Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, heal 1 damage from your hero.

Play only if your identity has the Champion trait. [star] Divide damage from Bombshell's attack among each enemy as evenly as possible.

Play only if your identity has the X-Force or X-Men trait. [star] Response: After Elixir attacks or thwarts, heal 1 damage from another friendly character.

Response: After Phoenix enters play, choose an X-Men ally → ready that ally and heal 1 damage from it.

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.

Hero Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup, exhaust Wraith and deal 1 damage to him → cancel that card's "Boost" effect.

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.

Hero Action: Discard Civic Duty → your hero gets +1 THW until the end of the phase.

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.

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).

Response: After Quasar enters play, remove 1 threat from each scheme in play.

[star] Response: After Siryn attacks, stun a minion.

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.

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.

[star] Response: After Melinda May uses a basic power, look at the top card of the encounter deck. You may discard that card.

Hero Action (attack): Heal 2 damage from your hero → deal 2 damage to an enemy.

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.

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.)

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.

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.

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.

Alliance. Hero Interrupt: When any amount of threat would be placed on the main scheme, exhaust an X-Force character and an X-Men character → prevent that threat and give each of those characters a tough status card.

Hero Action: 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.

Max 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When you engage a minion, discard this card → ready your hero.

[star] Black Knight's basic attack gains piercing.

Interrupt: When Clea is defeated, shuffle her into her owner's deck.

Max 1 per player. Hero Response (attack): After you take damage from an enemy attack, discard Counterattack → deal an equal amount of damage to that enemy.

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 deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, heal 1 damage from an ally you control.

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.

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.

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 Plot Convenience → choose: • Attach 1 aspect card from your hand facedown here (to a maximum of 3). • Add 1 card attached facedown here to your hand. Any player may trigger this ability.

Play only if your identity has the Mystic trait. Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Discard cards from the top of your deck until you discard an ally → put that ally into play under your control.

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).

Retaliate 1.

Response: After Valkyrie enters play, deal 2 damage to a minion (3 damage instead if you paid for this card using a [energy] resource).

Hero Action: Discard Adrenaline Rush → your hero gets +1 ATK until the end of the phase.

[star] Response: After Agent 13 attacks or thwarts, choose a S.H.I.E.L.D. support → ready that support.

Attach to a side scheme. Max 1 per side scheme. Interrupt: When attached side scheme is defeated, discard a non-ELITE minion.

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 deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, deal 1 damage to the villain.

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.

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.

Hero Action: Spend 1 resource of any type → move 1 threat from a scheme to an empty space above that matches the spent resource. If all spaces above are filled, discard this card and confuse the villain.

Response: After Bob, Agent of Hydra enters play, deal 2 damage to an enemy or remove 1 threat from a scheme.

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.

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 cards from the top of your deck until you discard an Avenger ally, then add that ally to your hand.

Retaliate 1. Toughness.

Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Each ally takes -1 consequential damage ([cost]) when attacking attached minion.

Attach to a non-ELITE minion. Max 1 per minion. Attached minion cannot activate.

Uses (3 energy counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Reflexes and remove 1 energy counter from it → generate a [energy] resource.

Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +2 ATK and takes +1 consequential damage after it attacks.

Response: After you play Eros from your hand, confuse a minion for each [mental] resource you used to pay for him.

Hero Interrupt (defense): When your hero defends against an attack, it gets +3 DEF for that attack.

Team-Up (Colossus and Wolverine). Max 1 per deck. Hero Action (attack): Deal X damage to an enemy, where X is the total ATK of Colossus and Wolverine. This attack gains overkill and piercing.

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 (attack): Deal 2 damage to the villain. Hero Interrupt (attack): When a minion initiates an attack, deal 2 damage to that minion.

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After you play a Defense card, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.

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.

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.

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.)