Each minion with a copy of Hunted attached loses guard. On the Hunt — Response: After the player phase begins, draw 1 card for each minion engaged with you (to a maximum of 3).
Undercover Work — Action: Search your deck and discard pile for a copy of Hunted and add it to your hand. (Limit once per round.)
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Resource: Exhaust Quincarrier → generate a [wild] resource.
Max 1 per phase. Hero Action: Draw 1 card for each minion engaged with you.
Max 1 per player. Action: Exhaust Avengers Mansion → choose a player. That player draws 1 card.
Response: After you play Spider-Girl from your hand, stun and confuse a minion.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Aggression (red) card.
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 under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 ATK.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Hero Interrupt: When you attack and defeat attached minion, heal 2 damage from your hero.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 ATK.
Max 1 per player. Hero Action: Exhaust Deft Focus → reduce the resource cost of the next superpower card you play this turn by 1.
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. You get +3 hit points.
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.
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.
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.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Attached minion gets -2 ATK.
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.
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.)
Response: After Throg enters play, give him a tough status card if you are engaged with a minion.
Play only if you have the Avenger trait. Response: After Yellow Jacket enters play, search the top 5 cards of your deck for an upgrade and add it to your hand.
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.
[star] Interrupt: When Two-Gun Kid makes a basic attack, choose 2 enemies instead of 1 and resolve this attack against 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.)
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. Your hero gets +1 DEF.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 DEF.
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.
Player under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After you defend against an attack, deal 1 damage to the attacking character.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Attacks against attached minion gain overkill.
Response: After Mockingbird enters play, stun an enemy.
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.
Max 1 per player. Response: After you defeat an enemy with a basic attack, exhaust Blood Rage and take 1 damage → draw 1 card.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Crew Quarters → heal 1 damage from an alter-ego.
Action: Pay the printed cost of an ally in any player's discard pile → put that ally into play under your control.
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): 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.
Response: After you engage a minion, give Patriot a tough status 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.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your alter-ego gets +2 REC.
Attach to the main scheme. Max 1 per scheme. Increase the target threat value of attached scheme by 4.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After a side scheme is defeated, exhaust Skilled Investigator → draw 1 card.
Hero Interrupt: When you make a basic attack, you get +6 ATK for this attack. This attack gains piercing.
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.
Hawkeye enters play with 4 arrow counters on him. Response: After a minion enters play, remove 1 arrow counter from Hawkeye → deal 2 damage to that minion.
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.
Response (thwart): After your hero attacks and defeats an enemy, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Hero Action (thwart): Discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until you discard a minion. Put that minion into play engaged with you → remove 3 threat from the main scheme.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 4 damage to an enemy. If you paid for this card using only [physical] resources, stun that enemy and draw 1 card.
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.
Psylocke enters play with 2 psionic counters on her. [star] Interrupt: When Psylocke attacks an enemy, remove 1 psionic counter from her → confuse that enemy and deal 1 damage to it.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Protection (green) card.
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.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Justice (yellow) card.
Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When a minion schemes, discard Informant → this activation removes threat instead of placing it.
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.
Max 1 per player. Response: After you defeat a minion, exhaust Interrogation Room → remove 1 threat from a scheme.
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: Exhaust Team-Building Exercise → play a card from your hand that shares a trait with your hero, reducing its resource cost by 1.
Response: After you play Thor from your hand, deal 2 damage to the villain (3 damage instead if you paid for this card using a [physical] resource).
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.
Reduce the cost to play Hercules by 1 for each minion engaged with you.
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.
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.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, deal 1 damage to the villain.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an ally 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.
Response: After you play Eros from your hand, confuse a minion for each [mental] resource you used to pay for him.
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. Hero Response: After an ally you control is defeated, discard Rapid Response → put that ally into play from your discard pile and deal 1 damage to it.
Response: After Agent Coulson enters play, search your deck and discard pile for a Preparation card and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
Increase your ally limit by 1. (This allows you to control more than 3 allies.)
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).
Response: After you play Sunfire from your hand, spend a [energy] resource → choose an attachment with the text "Hero Action" or "Hero Response" and discard it.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Leadership (blue) card.
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.)
Hero Interrupt (attack/defense): When an enemy initiates an attack, deal 4 damage to that enemy.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After your hero attacks and defeats a minion, deal 1 damage to your hero and discard Battle Fury → ready your hero.
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.)
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.
Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Dr. Sinclair and spend a [mental] resource → heal damage from your alter-ego equal to your REC. You may discard 1 status card from your identity. Any player may trigger this ability.
Response: After Winter Soldier attacks and defeats an enemy, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Jessica Jones gets +1 THW for each side scheme in play.
Response: After Beta Ray Bill attacks and defeats a minion, remove 2 threat from the main scheme.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Martial Prowess → generate a [physical] resource for an Attack event.
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.)
Requirement ([physical]) (While paying for this card, spend the listed resources.) Hero Action: Heal 2 damage from your hero → ready your hero.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Hero Action: Heal 1 damage from up to X friendly characters (to a maximum of 3 characters), where X is equal to the villain's stage number.
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).
Response: After X-23 attacks and defeats an enemy, ready her.
Hero Action (attack): Defeat a non-Elite minion with an upgrade attached. Ignore any "When Defeated" abilities on that minion.
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.
Max 1 per player. Hero Response (attack): After a minion enters play, discard Prism Dust → confuse that minion and deal 2 damage to it.
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.
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.
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. Each ally you control gets +1 hit point.
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.
Response: After Mirage enters play, choose an enemy whose SCH is less than Mirage's THW → stun that 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.
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.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW and +1 ATK.
If each of your allies has the Avenger trait, increase your ally limit by 1. Action: Exhaust Avengers Tower → reduce the cost of the next Avenger ally played this phase by 1.
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: Exhaust an avenger character you control → ready another avenger character you control.
Hero Interrupt: When your hero's attack deals any amount of excess damage, increase that amount by 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.
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.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Each ally you control gets +1 ATK.
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.
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.
Requirement ([mental][mental]). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When you play an Aggression Attack event, if you paid for that event using a [mental] resource, increase the amount of damage that event deals by its printed cost.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 4 damage to an enemy. If that enemy is defeated by this attack, give your hero a tough status card.
[star] Forced Response: After Blade thwarts or attacks, choose to either spend a [physical] resource from your hand or discard Blade.
[star] Response: After Cypher attacks and damages a confused enemy, draw 1 card.
[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.
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).
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.
[star] Interrupt: When Iron Lad uses a basic power, exhaust another Avenger ally you control → add that ally's matching power to Iron Lad's power for this use.
Response: After you play Ironheart from your hand, draw 1 card.
Max 1 per deck. Your identity gets +1 to each of its basic powers, +1 hand size, and +10 hit points.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 4 damage to an enemy. If that enemy is defeated by this attack, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Iceman enters play with 3 freeze counters on him. Response: After a minion enters play, remove 1 freeze counter from Iceman → stun 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.
[star] While Shark-Girl is attacking an enemy, she gets +1 ATK for each upgrade attached to that enemy.
Response: After Daredevil defends against an attack, move 1 damage from him to the attacking enemy.
Max 1 per player. Response: After an ally thwarts and defeats a side scheme, exhaust Command Center → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. 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.
Response: After your hero defends, discard indomitable → ready your hero.
Response: After you defend against an attack, place 1 fatigue counter here. Alter-Ego Action: Remove each fatigue counter from here → heal 1 damage from your identity for each fatigue counter removed this way.
[star] Response: After Banshee thwarts, confuse a minion.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to the villain. Deal X additional damage to the villain (to a maximum of 3), where X is equal to the villain's stage number.
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.
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.
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.
Response: After you play Spider-Man from your hand, remove 3 [per_hero] threat from a side scheme.
Interrupt: When Clea is defeated, shuffle her into her owner's deck.
Response: After Dazzler enters play, confuse an enemy.
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.
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 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.
[star] Response: After Siryn attacks, stun a minion.
[star] As an additional cost for Wonder Man to attack, you must discard 1 card from your hand.
Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic attack, it gets +2 ATK for that attack.
You may play the event attached to Jocasta as if it were in your hand. Response: After Jocasta enters play, choose a Defense event in your discard pile and attach it to her facedown.
Hero 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 Team per player. If each of your characters has the Avenger trait, each ally you control gets +1 THW and +1 ATK.
Uses (3 command counters). Action: Exhaust Command Team and remove 1 command counter from it → ready an ally.
Hero Action (attack): Confuse an enemy. If you paid for this card using a [physical] resource, deal 3 damage to that enemy.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Hero Action: Heal 1 damage from an ally and ready it.
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.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 ATK and its attacks gain ranged.
Hero Action: Choose a player. Each character that player controls gets +1 THW and +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
Interrupt: When Machine Man attacks or thwarts, spend up to 3 resources of any type → Machine Man gets +1 THW and +1 ATK for this use for each resource spent this way.
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 1 per player. Response: After an ally defends against an attack and is not defeated, exhaust this card → ready that ally.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, heal 1 damage from an ally you control.
Interrupt (thwart): When the villain schemes, reduce the amount of threat placed on the scheme by 1.
Max 1 per player. Response: After a non-Elite minion schemes, discard Sting Operation → discard that minion.
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.
[star] Interrupt: When Marvel Girl attacks a minion, remove X threat from the main scheme, where X is that minion's printed SCH.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Max 1 per deck. Action: Exhaust Avengers Compound → choose: tuck 1 ally from your hand here if there is no ally tucked here, or play the ally tucked here as if it were in your hand.
Toughness. (This character enters play with a tough status card.) [star] War Machine's basic attack gains ranged. (Ranged attacks ignore retaliate.)
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.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When an encounter card effect would discard a card you control, discard Front Organization instead of discarding that card.
Response: After a minion schemes, exhaust Quake → deal 2 damage to that minion.
Attach to a side scheme. Max 1 per scheme. Interrupt: When attached scheme is defeated, deal 4 damage to an enemy.
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 Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If this attack defeats that enemy, heal 2 damage from your hero.
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.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Response: After a hero defends against attached minion's attack and takes no damage, deal 4 damage to attached minion.
Hero Interrupt When you use your basic thwart power (THW) or basic attack power (ATK), exhaust an ally you control → add that ally's matching power to your hero's power for this use.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Each ally takes -1 consequential damage ([cost]) when attacking attached minion.
Response: After Valkyrie enters play, deal 2 damage to a minion (3 damage instead if you paid for this card using a [energy] resource).
Response: After Polaris enters play, give an X-MEN character a tough status card.
X is the number of boost icons ([boost]) on the card under Gambit. Response: After Gambit enters play, look at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck and tuck one under him so that only the boost field is visible.
Hero Action: Discard 1 stun or confuse status card from your hero.
Alter-Ego Action: Search your deck and discard pile for an ally and an upgrade that can be attached to that ally. Add them to your hand. (Shuffle.)
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 2 threat from a scheme. If this removes the last threat on that scheme, draw 1 card.
Response: After Daredevil thwarts, deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When an enemy attacks, declare your hero as the defender without exhausting them.
Response: After Maria Hill enters play, each player draws 1 card.
Action: Ready an ally.
Giant-Man gets +2 ATK while he has 3 or more remaining hit points.
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 Spider-Woman by 1 for each confused enemy in play.
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 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.
[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.
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.
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 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.
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.)
Response: After Squirrel Girl enters play, deal 1 damage to each 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.
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.)
Play only if your identity has the asgard trait. Action: Exhaust The Bifrost → search your deck for an asgard ally and play it (paying its cost). Shuffle your deck.
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.)
Reduce the amount of damage Victor Mancha takes from each attack by 1.
Hero Action: Discard cards from the top of your deck until you discard an Avenger ally, then add that ally to your hand.
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.
Uses (3 judo counters). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When you defend against an enemy attack, remove 1 judo counter from here → that enemy gets -2 ATK for that attack.
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. Resource: Exhaust Nerves of Steel → generate a [energy] resource for a Defense event.
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.
Uses (3 operative counters). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When you thwart, remove 1 operative counter from here → that thwart removes 1 additional threat.
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.
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.
You may play Lockjaw from your discard pile during your turn (paying his resource cost).
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Action (thwart): Exhaust Disguise and your identity → remove 2 threat from a scheme.
[star] Captain Britain takes -1 consequential damage after he thwarts a side scheme or attacks a minion.
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 M enters play, defeat a minion with fewer remaining hit points than M.
Hero Action (attack): Choose an enemy. That enemy attacks you. Deal 5 damage to that enemy.
Hero Response: After your hero makes a basic attack, heal 1 damage from Bug.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 3 threat from a scheme (4 threat instead if you paid for this card using a [mental] resource).
Victory 0. When Defeated: The player who defeated this scheme deals 5[per_hero] damage to the villain.
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.
Hero Interrupt: When a character other than your hero would take any amount of damage, if that character shares a Trait with your hero, reduce that damage by your DEF.
Max 1 per player. Response: After an ally attacks and defeats a minion, exhaust War Room → remove 1 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.
Attach to a non-Elite minion. Max 1 per minion. Interrupt: When a friendly character attacks, deal 1 damage to attached minion.
Action: Spend a [energy] resource → choose THW or ATK. Until the end of the phase, Vision gets +2 to the chosen power. (Limit once per round.)
[star] Wolverine's attacks gain piercing. Response: After your turn begins, heal 1 damage from Wolverine.
You may play the event attached to Black Panther as if it were in your hand. Response: After Black Panther enters play, choose a leadership (blue) event in your discard pile and attach it to him facedown.
Hero Action: Discard a Tech upgrade you control → ready your hero and choose THW, ATK, or DEF. Until the end of the round, your hero gets +X to the chosen power, where X is equal to that upgrade's printed cost.
Action: Heal 2 damage from any character.
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.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If this attack defeats that enemy, deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Uses (3 missile counters). Action: Exhaust The Bellerophon, remove 1 missile counter from it, and choose a player → deal 3 damage to the villain and each minion engaged with that player, discarding all tough status cards from those enemies first.
As an additional cost to play this card, if you do not have the Eternal trait, confuse your identity.
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.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Hero Action: Give up to X friendly characters a tough status card (to a maximum of 3 characters), where X is equal to the villain's stage number.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Stinger does not count against your ally limit.
[star] Forced Response: After Thor makes a basic thwart, discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until you discard a minion. Put that minion into play engaged with you.
Uses (3 warrior counters). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When your hero attacks, remove 1 counter from here → that attack deals 1 additional damage.
Interrupt: When Starhawk takes damage exactly equal to his remaining hit points, return him to your hand.
Response: After Cable thwarts and defeats a side scheme, draw 1 card.
Action: Exhaust up to 3 S.H.I.E.L.D. cards you control and choose a scheme → remove 2 threat from that scheme for each card exhausted this way.
Response: After Monica Chang enters play, search your deck, hand and discard pile for a copy of Surveillance Team support and put it into play. Place 1 snoop counter on each Surveillance Team you control.
Uses (3 snoop counters). (Enters play with 3 counters. When those are gone, discard this card) Action: Exhaust Surveillance Team and remove 1 snoop counter from it → remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Action: Goliath gets +4 ATK until the end of the phase. At the end of the phase, discard Goliath. (Max once per phase.)
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If that enemy is stunned or confused, draw 1 card.
Action: You get +1 hand size until the end of the phase.
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.
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.)
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.
Response: After Phoenix enters play, choose an X-Men ally → ready that ally and heal 1 damage from it.
Hero Action (attack): Deal damage to an enemy equal to your ATK.
Response: After Brawn attacks, remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Hero Action: Heal 2 damage from an enemy → confuse that enemy.
Response: After an Avenger hero changes into alter-ego form, exhaust Jarvis → choose: • That identity gets +2 REC until the end of the phase. • Discard a status card from that identity.
Response: After you resolve the ability of a Preparation card you control, heal damage from White Widow equal to that card's printed resource cost.
Max 1 per round. Hero Action: Ready each Avenger character you control. Until the end of the phase, each Avenger character in play gets +1 THW and +1 ATK.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When your hero defends against an attack, it gets +3 DEF for that attack.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, heal 1 damage from your hero.
Toughness. Reduce the cost to play Captain America by 1 for each avenger character you control.
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 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 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.
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.
Forced Interrupt: When Deadpool would be defeated by consequential damage, heal 3 damage from him instead. Add an acceleration token to the main scheme.
Response: After Snowguard enters play, place up to 3 shift counters here. While the shift counters here are equal to (X), she gets: (1) +3 ATK and her attacks gain overkill. (2) +3 THW and gains the Aerial trait. (3) +5 hit points and gains retaliate 1.
Response: After 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 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.
Alliance. Hero Action (thwart): Exhaust an avenger character and a guardian character → remove X threat from each scheme, where X is equal to the combined THW of those characters.
[star] Star-Lord's attacks gain ranged. Forced Response: After Star-Lord enters play under your control, deal yourself 1 facedown encounter card.
Hero Action: Spend a [physical] resource and discard this card → ready your hero.
While there is no threat on the main scheme, reduce all consequential damage Venom takes by 1.
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.
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.
Reduce the cost to play Spider-Byte by 1 for each Tech card you control.
Hero Action: Discard Adrenaline Rush → your hero gets +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
Hero Action: Choose a hero. Until the end of the round, that hero gets +1 THW, +1 ATK, and +1 DEF
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.
Attach to an Avenger ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gains Aerial. Action: Exhaust Sky Cycle → ready attached ally.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may discard 1 non-ELITE minion from play.
Retaliate 1.
Hero Action (attack): The villain schemes. Deal 4 damage to the villain.
Max 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When you engage a minion, discard this card → ready your hero.
Max 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When you would take any amount of damage, discard Defensive Stance → prevent 3 of that damage.
Victory 0. Each X-Men character gets +1 THW while making a basic thwart against this scheme. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an identity-specific event and add it to their hand. (Shuffle.)
Hero 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.
[star] Response: After Aneka uses a basic power, resolve the "Special" ability on another Dora Milaje ally. Special: Remove 1 threat from a scheme.
[star] Response: After Ayo uses a basic power, resolve the "Special" ability on another Dora Milaje ally. Special: Deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Ignore this card's resource cost if your identity has the Wakanda trait. Action: Exhaust Dora Milaje → resolve the "Special" ability on 1 Dora Milaje ally and heal 1 damage from that ally.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 THW.
[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.
[star] Response: After Okoye uses a basic power, resolve the "Special" ability on another Dora Milaje ally. Special: Choose a Wakanda hero or ally. They get +1 THW and +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
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 Response: After you exhaust your hero to make a basic thwart or attack, discard an ally you control → add that ally's matching power to your hero's power for this use. Ready your hero.
Response: After you reveal an encounter card, deal 1 damage to Venom → deal damage to an enemy equal to the number of icons ([star] and [boost]) in that card's boost area.
[star] Response: After you use one of Domino's basic powers, swap a card in your hand with the top card of your deck.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +2 hit points.
Ronin gets +1 THW and +1 ATK while an upgrade is attached to them.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Sense of Justice → generate a [mental] resource for a Thwart event.
Restricted. Response: After your hero attacks an enemy, spend a [physical] resource → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Max 1 per character. Attach to a friendly character. Attached character gets +1 hit point and gains the Avenger trait.
Reduce the cost to play each upgrade on Iron Man by 1.
Attach to an Avenger ally. Max 1 per ally. Response: After attached ally attacks or thwarts, deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 6 threat from the main scheme. If you paid for this card using a [mental] resource, this thwart ignores the crisis icon ([crisis]).
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, remove 1 threat from the main scheme.
This card generates [wild] for each ally you control (to a maximum of 3)
Hero Action: Discard an ally your control → deal damage to an enemy equal to that ally's printed cost.
Forced Response: After Sentry enters play under your control, deal yourself 1 encounter card.
Response (attack): After your hero thwarts and removes all threat from a scheme, deal 3 damage to an enemy.
[star] Response: After Agent 13 attacks or thwarts, choose a S.H.I.E.L.D. support → ready that support.
Interrupt: When Marvel Boy attacks, spend a [physics] resource → this attack gains piercing and ranged
Hero Action (attack): Stun an enemy. If you paid for this card using a [physical] resource, deal 3 damage to that enemy.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Interrupt: When attached ally is defeated, draw 2 cards.
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.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You can control 1 additional weapon upgrade that has the restricted keyword.
Hero Action: The villain attacks you. Other characters cannot defend against this attack. Draw 3 cards.
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.
Response: After Bob, Agent of Hydra enters play, deal 2 damage to an enemy or remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Action (attack): Deal 5 damage to an enemy. Stun that enemy.
Attach to a non-ELITE minion. Max 1 per minion. Attached minion cannot activate.
Retaliate 1. Toughness. When Defeated: Deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 1 damage to a minion. If you have the Aerial trait, engage that enemy.
Max 1 per deck. Action: Ready an ally. That ally gets +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
[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.
[star] Response: After Headpool attacks and damages a minion, that minion attacks another enemy of your choice.
Max 1 per player. Response: After the player phase begins, exhaust Healing Factor → heal 2 damage from your identity.
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.
[star] Kidpool's attacks gain piercing.
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.
When Defeated: Defeat a non-ELITE minion.
Counts as 2 restricted cards. Max 1 per deck. Your hero gets +1 ATK for each [crisis], [acceleration], [amplify], and [hazard] in play (to a maximum of +4 ATK).
Max 1 per deck. Interrupt: When any amount of threat would be placed on a scheme, you or your ally takes it as damage instead.
Response: After your turn begins, place 1 time counter on Quinjet. Action: Put an Avenger ally from your hand into play with printed cost equal to or less than the number of time counters on Quinjet. Then, discard Quinjet.
[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.
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).
Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Spend a [physical] resource and exhaust this card → ready your hero.
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).
Response: After Captain Marvel enters play, discard the top 4 cards of your deck. If you discard a printed [energy] resource, deal 3 damage to an enemy. If you discard more than one printed [energy] resource, also stun that enemy.
Hero Action: Discard Civic Duty → your hero gets +1 THW until the end of the phase.
Attach to a non-permanent side scheme. Max 1 per side scheme. Response: After a hero defends against an attack, remove 1 threat from attached scheme (2 threat instead if that hero took no damage from that attack).
Uses (3 physical counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Physique and remove 1 physical counter from it → generate a [physical] resource.
Max 1 per player. Hero Response (attack): After a minion engages you, discard Lie in Wait → deal 3 damage to that minion.
Toughness. (This character enters play with a tough status card.)
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy. Deal 3 damage to another enemy.
Hero Action: Give an ally you control a tough status card.
[star] Chamber takes -1 consequential damage ([cost]) after he attacks a confused enemy.
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.
Uses (3 energy counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Reflexes and remove 1 energy counter from it → generate a [energy] resource.
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.
Attach to an X-MEN ally. Max 1 TRAINING upgrade per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW point and +2 hit points.
Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup during an attack, deal 1 damage to Northstar → cancel all boost icons ([boost]) on that card.
Play only if your identity has the Champion trait. Hero Interrupt: When a player card would be placed into a discard pile from play, exhaust Pinpoint → shuffle that card into its owner's deck instead.
Response: After you play Silk from your hand, if you control another Web-Warrior card, search the encounter deck for a treachery and discard it. (Shuffle.)
Interrupt: When Spider-UK defends against an attack, deal damage to the attacking enemy equal to the number of Web-Warrior cards you control.
Uses (2 deploy counters). Action: Exhaust The Circe, remove 1 deploy counter from it, and choose a player → that player puts an ally into play from their hand.
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.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When an enemy would attack you, discard Invisibility Gear → that enemy schemes instead.
Interrupt: When another Web-Warrior character would take any amount of damage, Scarlet Spider takes that damage instead.
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.