If there are more than 4 tucked cards here, discard all but 4 of those cards. Silk Sense — Response: After you defeat a minion or side scheme, or resolve a treachery card, tuck that card under here from the encounter discard pile.
If there are more than 4 tucked cards here, discard all but 4 of those cards. Action: Discard a card tucked here → draw 2 cards. (Limit once per round.)
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.
Play only if your identity has the Genius trait. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Ingenuity → generate a [mental] resource.
Ignore this card's resource cost if your identity has the Web-Warrior trait. Response: After a Web-Warrior ally leaves play, choose a player → that player draws 1 card.
Max 1 per 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.
Play only if you control a Web-Warrior card. Interrupt: When Ghost-Spider leaves play, search your deck for an identity-specific event and add it to your hand. (Shuffle.)
Response: After 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.
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.
Max 1 per player. Hero Action: Exhaust Deft Focus → reduce the resource cost of the next superpower card you play this turn by 1.
Play 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.
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.)
Team-Up (Cindy Moon and Peter Parker). Max 1 per deck. Alter-Ego Interrupt: When an enemy would scheme, cancel that activation and confuse that enemy.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After a side scheme is defeated, exhaust Skilled Investigator → draw 1 card.
Response: After you play Spider-Man from your hand, remove 3 [per_hero] threat from a side scheme.
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 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. Your hero gets +1 DEF.
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.
Attach to the main scheme. Max 1 per scheme. Increase the target threat value of attached scheme by 4.
Interrupt: When another Web-Warrior character would take any amount of damage, Scarlet Spider takes that damage instead.
Requirement ([mental]). Hero Action: Deal 1 damage to a Web-Warrior character you control → place a total of 2 confused status cards on up to 2 enemies.
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.
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.
[star] Response: After Lady Spider thwarts and removes threat from a scheme, if you control another Web-Warrior card, remove an equal amount of threat from a different scheme.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Justice (yellow) card.
Play only if you control a Web-Warrior card. [star] Forced Response: After Spider-Ham attacks or thwarts, discard the top card of the encounter deck. For each boost icon ([boost]) discarded this way, deal 1 damage to Spider-Ham.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When your hero defends against an attack, it gets +2 DEF for that attack. If you take no damage from that attack, ready your hero.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points.
Max 1 per deck. Your identity gets +1 to each of its basic powers, +1 hand size, and +10 hit points.
[star] Response: After Spider-Man 2099 uses a basic power, return a Web-Warrior ally in play to its owner's hand.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 2 threat from a scheme. If this removes the last threat on that scheme, draw 1 card.
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.
Victory 0. When Defeated: The player who defeated this scheme deals 5[per_hero] damage to the villain.
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. Your hero gets +1 THW.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 DEF.
Interrupt: When Spider-UK defends against an attack, deal damage to the attacking enemy equal to the number of Web-Warrior cards you control.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your alter-ego gets +2 REC.
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.
Play only if your identity has the champion or genius trait. Response: After you play Moon Girl from your hand, draw 1 card for each [mental] resource used to pay for her.
Response: After you play Spider-Man from your hand, stun and confuse an enemy if you control at least 3 Web-Warrior cards.
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.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Protection (green) card.
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.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an ally and put it into play. (Shuffle.)
Interrupt: When you would reveal an encounter card, deal 1 damage to a Web-Warrior character you control → if that card is a treachery, cancel its "When Revealed" effects and discard Spider-Tingle.
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 Action: Deal 1 damage to a Web-Warrior character you control → place a total of 2 stun status cards on up to 2 enemies.
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. Resource: Exhaust Sense of Justice → generate a [mental] resource for a Thwart event.
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 your hero defends, discard indomitable → ready your hero.
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.
Reduce the cost to play Spider-Woman by 1 for each confused enemy in play.
Play only if you control a Web-Warrior card. Interrupt: When you would reveal an encounter card, name a card type, then look at that card. If that card is of the named type, deal 1 damage to Scarlet Spider and draw 1 card.
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 Action (thwart): Choose a number from 1 to 5. Discard that many cards from the top of the encounter deck → remote 1 threat from a scheme for each card discarded this way. Put 1 minion discarded this way into play engaged with you.
Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust 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.
Increase your ally limit by 1. (This allows you to control more than 3 allies.)
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 3 threat from a scheme (4 threat instead if you paid for this card using a [mental] resource).
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Nerves of Steel → generate a [energy] resource for a Defense event.
Hero Response: After your hero defends against an attack and takes no damage, exhaust Hard to Ignore → remove 1 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.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Search the encounter deck, discard pile, and set-aside area for your nemesis minion and reveal it → ready your hero and draw 3 cards. You cannot attack the villain this phase. Remove this card from the game.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Each ally you control gets +1 hit point.
Action: Heal 2 damage from any character.
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.
Attach to a character with "Spider" in its title. Max 1 per character. Attached character gains the Web-Warrior trait. Response: After a Web-Warrior ally leaves play, attached character gets +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
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.
Uses (3 energy counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Reflexes and remove 1 energy counter from it → generate a [energy] resource.
Max 2 per deck. Interrupt: When you spend this card to play a THWART event, that event removes 1 additional threat.
Action: Pay the printed cost of an ally in any player's discard pile → put that ally into play under your control.
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 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]).
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).
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.
Attach to a side scheme. Max 1 per scheme. Interrupt: When attached scheme is defeated, deal 4 damage to an enemy.
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.
Jessica Jones gets +1 THW for each side scheme in play.
Reduce the cost to play Spider-Byte by 1 for each Tech card you control.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After you defeat an enemy during the villain phase, exhaust this card → draw 2 cards.
Response: After 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.
X is equal to the number of facedown cards attached to Spider-Man Noir. Response: After you resolve a treachery, if you control another Web-Warrior card, attach that treachery facedown here (to a maximum of 3).
Uses (3 command counters). Action: Exhaust Command Team and remove 1 command counter from it → ready an ally.
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.
Hero Interrupt: When an ally uses a basic power, exhaust your hero → add your hero's matching power to that ally's power for this use. That ally does not take consequential damage for this use.
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.
Response: After a Web-Warrior ally (including this one) enters play, deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Hero Response (thwart): After you change form, remove 3 threat from a scheme (4 threat instead if you paid for this card using a [mental] resource).
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. Your hero gets +1 ATK.
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. While your hero's remaining hit points are equal to or greater than your hero's starting hit points, your hero gains retaliate 1.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Response: After Maria Hill enters play, each player draws 1 card.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Aggression (red) card.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Resource: Exhaust Quincarrier → generate a [wild] resource.
While there is no threat on the main scheme, reduce all consequential damage Venom takes by 1.
Uses (3 stronghold counters). Alter-Ego Response: After you change form, exhaust Hidden Base and remove 1 stronghold counter from it → give your identity a tough status card.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When an enemy attacks, declare your hero as the defender without exhausting them.
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.
Interrupt: When Starhawk takes damage exactly equal to his remaining hit points, return him to your hand.
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.
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.)
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player heals a total of 5 damage from among characters they control.
Response (attack): After your hero thwarts and removes all threat from a scheme, deal 3 damage to an enemy.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, heal 1 damage from your hero.
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.
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.
Response: After you engage a minion, give Patriot a tough status card.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +2 hit points.
Play only if your identity has the aerial trait. Hero Action: Ready your hero and remove 2 threat from the main scheme.
Response: After Daredevil thwarts, deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Hero Action: Spend a [physical] resource and discard this card → ready your hero.
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.
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.
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 you defend against an attack, place 1 fatigue counter here. Alter-Ego Action: Remove each fatigue counter from here → heal 1 damage from your identity for each fatigue counter removed this way.
You may play the event attached to 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.
Uses (3 medical counters). (Enters play with 3 counters. When those are gone, discard this card.) Action: Exhaust Med Team and remove 1 medical counter from it → heal 2 damage from a friendly character.
Max 1 per player. Response: After the player phase begins, exhaust Healing Factor → heal 2 damage from your identity.
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).
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.
Response: After you play Ironheart from your hand, draw 1 card.
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): Remove 3 threat from the main scheme. If this is the first card you have played this round, return this card to your hand.
Uses (3 operative counters). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When you thwart, remove 1 operative counter from here → that thwart removes 1 additional threat.
Max 1 per player. Response: After you defeat an enemy with a basic attack, exhaust Blood Rage and take 1 damage → draw 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.
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.
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.
Response: After Dazzler enters play, confuse an enemy.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Leadership (blue) card.
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.
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 (attack/defense): When an enemy initiates an attack, deal 4 damage to that enemy.
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.
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 Mockingbird enters play, stun an enemy.
Hero Action: (attack): Deal 3 damage to a confused enemy.
Response: After you play Spider-Girl from your hand, stun and confuse a minion.
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.
Max 1 per player. Hero Response (attack): After a minion engages you, discard Lie in Wait → deal 3 damage to that minion.
Response (thwart): After your hero attacks and defeats an enemy, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When a minion schemes, discard Informant → this activation removes threat instead of placing it.
Action: Ready an ally.
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 Interrupt: When your hero's attack deals any amount of excess damage, increase that amount by 1.
Hero Action (thwart): Discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until you discard a minion. Put that minion into play engaged with you → remove 3 threat from the main scheme.
[star] Interrupt: When 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.
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.
Response: After Quasar enters play, remove 1 threat from each scheme in play.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Hero Interrupt: When you attack and defeat attached minion, heal 2 damage from your hero.
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.
Max 1 per player. Response: After an ally defends against an attack and is not defeated, exhaust this card → ready that ally.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 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.)
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 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).
Max 1 per player. Hero Response (attack): After a minion enters play, discard Prism Dust → confuse that minion and deal 2 damage to it.
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 deck. Hero Action: Spend a [physical] resource and exhaust this card → ready your hero.
Forced Response: After Angela enters play under your control, search the top 10 cards of the encounter deck for a minion and put it into play engaged with you. Shuffle the encounter deck. If a minion was not put into play this way, discard Angela.
Max 1 per player. Response: After a non-Elite minion schemes, discard Sting Operation → discard that minion.
[star] Response: After Melinda May uses a basic power, look at the top card of the encounter deck. You may discard that card.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for a WEAPON upgrade with a cost of 3 or less and put it into play. (Shuffle.)
Max 2 per deck. Hero Interrupt: When you spend this card to play a Attack event, that event deals 1 additional damage.
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.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When a boost card on an enemy attacking you would be turned faceup, discard it instead.
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.
[star] Star-Lord's attacks gain ranged. Forced Response: After Star-Lord enters play under your control, deal yourself 1 facedown encounter card.
Max 1 per player. Response: After an ally thwarts and defeats a side scheme, exhaust Command Center → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Hero Action (attack): Heal 2 damage from your hero → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Each ally you control gets +1 ATK.
Grant Ward cannot defend. Forced Response: After you reveal a treachery, you may spend a [mental] resource. If you do not, take damage equal to Grant Ward's ATK and remove Grant Ward from the game.
Hero Interrupt: When your hero makes an attack that has a keyword (overkill, piercing, or ranged), that attack deals 2 additional damage. (Max 1 per attack.)
Hero Interrupt (defense): When your hero defends against an attack, it gets +3 DEF for that attack.
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.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW and +1 ATK.
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.
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 X-23 attacks and defeats an enemy, ready her.
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.
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.)
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy (5 damage instead if that enemy has the guard or patrol keyword).
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy. This attack gains piercing.
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 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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Martial Prowess → generate a [physical] resource for an Attack event.
Hero Action: Heal 2 damage from an enemy → confuse that enemy.
This card generates [wild] for each ally you control (to a maximum of 3)
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, heal 1 damage from an ally you control.
Hero Action: Choose a player. Each character that player controls gets +1 THW and +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
Hero Action: Exhaust Government Liaison → play a S.H.I.E.L.D. card from your hand, reducing its resource cost by 1.
Response: After you play a S.H.I.E.L.D. card, exhaust Sky-Destroyer → deal 2 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.
Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When any amount of threat would be placed on the main scheme, discard Counterintelligence → prevent 3 of that threat.
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: 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 (attack): Choose an enemy. That enemy attacks you. Deal 5 damage to that enemy.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Give each identity a tough status card.
Play only if your identity has the Aerial trait. Hero Response (attack): After your hero attacks, deal 4 damage to an enemy.
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.
Response: After you play Eros from your hand, confuse a minion for each [mental] resource you used to pay for him.
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.
Response (attack): After your hero defends against an enemy attack, deal damage to that enemy equal to your hero's ATK.
[star] Response: After Agent 13 attacks or thwarts, choose a S.H.I.E.L.D. support → ready that support.
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.
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.
Restricted. Response: After your hero attacks an enemy, spend a [physical] resource → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Max 2 per deck. Hero Interrupt: When you spend this card to play a Defense event, draw 1 card.
Hero Response (attack): After your hero thwarts, deal 4 damage to an enemy (7 damage instead if that thwart removed the last threat from a scheme).
Requirement ([energy]). (While paying for this card, spend the listed resources.) Hero Action (attack): Exhaust your hero → deal damage to an enemy equal to the total of your hero's THW, ATK, and DEF values.
Max 1 per player. Response: After 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.
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.)
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.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an Attack event and add it to their hand. (Shuffle.) Until the end of the phase, each Attack event deals 1 additional damage.
Hero Action: Exhaust an AERIAL character you control and choose a player → deal 3 damage to the villain and each minion engaged with that player.
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.
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.
Response (thwart): After your hero defends against an enemy attack, remove threat from a scheme equal to your hero's THW.
Max 1 per phase. Hero Action: Draw 1 card for each minion engaged with you.
Uses (3 physical counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Physique and remove 1 physical counter from it → generate a [physical] resource.
Hero Response (attack): After your hero makes a basic thwart, deal damage to an enemy equal to your hero's THW.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Max 1 per player. Response: After you defeat a minion, exhaust Interrogation Room → remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When a boost card is turned face up while the villain attacks, cancel all boost icons ([boost]) on that card. Then deal 1 damage to the villain for each boost icon cancelled this way.
Hero Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup, exhaust Wraith and deal 1 damage to him → cancel that card's "Boost" effect.
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 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. Deal 3 damage to another enemy.
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 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.
Hero Action: Discard an ally your control → deal damage to an enemy equal to that ally's printed cost.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Increase your ally limit by 1. Response: After a player plays a guardian ally, exhaust Knowhere → that player draws 1 card.
Hero Action: Discard an ally your control → remove threat from a scheme equal to that ally's printed cost.
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.
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.
Victory 0. Each identity gets +2 hand size.
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.
[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.
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.)
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.)
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.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 ATK and its attacks gain ranged.
Response: After Throg enters play, give him a tough status card if you are engaged with a minion.
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.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 1 damage to a minion. If you have the Aerial trait, engage that enemy.
Response: After you play Sunfire from your hand, spend a [energy] resource → choose an attachment with the text "Hero Action" or "Hero Response" and discard it.
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.
Response: After a minion schemes, exhaust Quake → deal 2 damage to that minion.
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.)
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 (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).
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.
Alliance. (The players can pay this card's costs as a group.) Hero Action: Remove 3[per_hero] threat from a side 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.
Action: Search the top 4 cards of your deck (top 7 cards instead if you are in alter-ego form) for an attack event and add that card to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
Max 1 per player. 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).
Hero Action: Choose an ally with a TRAINING upgrade attached → ready that ally and heal 1 damage from it.
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.
Response: After Martyr takes consequential damage from performing an attack, if that attack defeated an enemy, give her a tough status card.
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.
Reduce the amount of damage Victor Mancha takes from each attack by 1.
Hero Response: After you attack and defeat an enemy, heal 1 damage from your hero for each point of excess damage dealt to that enemy by that attack.
Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup during an attack, deal 1 damage to Northstar → cancel all boost icons ([boost]) on that 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.)
Max 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When you engage a minion, discard this card → ready your hero.
Hero Action (thwart): The villain attacks you. Remove 4 threat from the main scheme.
Hero Interrupt: When any amount of threat would be placed on a scheme, you take it as damage instead.
Response: After Winter Soldier attacks and defeats an enemy, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Action: You get +1 hand size 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.
Hero Action: Discard cards from the top of your deck until you discard an Avenger ally, then add that ally to your hand.
Attach to a guardian ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW and +1 hit point.
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.
Reduce the cost to play each upgrade on Iron Man by 1.
Hero Action: Choose a hero. Until the end of the round, that hero gets +1 THW, +1 ATK, and +1 DEF
Attach to an Avenger ally. Max 1 per ally. Response: After attached ally attacks or thwarts, deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After you change form, discard this card → ready your hero.
Ronin gets +1 THW and +1 ATK while an upgrade is attached to them.
Action: Heal 4 damage from an identity (5 damage instead if you paid for this card using a [mental] resource).
Interrupt: When an ally with a weapon attachment upgrade makes an attack, discard Target Practice → that ally gets +2 ATK for that attack.
[star] Yondu's attacks gain ranged.Ranged attacks ignore retaliate.)
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If that enemy is stunned or confused, draw 1 card.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Response: After a hero defends against attached minion's attack and takes no damage, deal 4 damage to attached minion.
Response: After Beast enters play, search your deck and discard pile for a resource card and add it to your hand. (Shuffle.)
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.
You may play Lockjaw from your discard pile during your turn (paying his resource cost).
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Attacks against attached minion gain overkill.
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.
Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust your alter-ego → play a card from your hand, reducing its resource cost by 3.
Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic attack, it gets +2 ATK for that attack.
Hero Interrupt: When you make a basic attack against an enemy with an upgrade attached, you get +2 ATK for this attack. If this attack defeats that enemy, ready your hero.
Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After a boost card is turned faceup, discard Target Acquired → cancel that card's boost ability.
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).
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.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, deal 1 damage to the villain.
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.
Hero Interrupt: When an ally you control attacks, it gets +3 ATK for that attack. After that attack resolves, discard that ally.
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).
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. Hero Action: Take 1 damage. Confuse the villain.
[star] Response: After Banshee thwarts, confuse a minion.
Play only if there is a side scheme in the victory display. Hero Response: After you attack an enemy, stun it.
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.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After you play a Defense card, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.
[star] Response: After Headpool attacks and damages a minion, that minion attacks another enemy of your choice.
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).
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.
Hero Action (thwart): For each different resource type ([energy], [mental], [physical], and [wild]) you used to pay for this card, choose a scheme and remove 2 threat from it.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 THW.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When an encounter card effect would discard a card you control, discard Front Organization instead of discarding that card.
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.