Death Perception — Hero Action: Play the set-aside Death-Glow upgrade as if it were in your hand.
Setup: Set the Death Glow upgrade aside, out of play. "Not this Day." — Action: Detach Death-Glow and set it aside, out of play.
Play only if your identity has the asgard trait. Action: Heal 2 damage from your identity. You may discard a status card from your identity.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Resource: Exhaust Quincarrier → generate a [wild] resource.
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 Throg enters play, give him a tough status card if you are engaged with a minion.
Response: After you defeat a minion, place 1 glory counter here. Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Hall of Heroes and remove 3 glory counters from it → draw 3 cards.
Max 1 per player. Action: Exhaust Helicarrier → choose a player. Reduce the resource cost of the next card that player plays this phase by 1.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Aggression (red) card.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your hero gets +1 ATK.
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.
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).
Max 1 per player. Action: Exhaust Avengers Mansion → choose a player. That player draws 1 card.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 ATK.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Martial Prowess → generate a [physical] resource for an Attack event.
Forced Response: After Nick Fury enters play, choose one: remove 2 threat from a scheme, draw 3 cards, or deal 4 damage to an enemy. At the end of the round, if Nick Fury is still in play, discard him.
Response (thwart): After your hero attacks and defeats an enemy, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
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 Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic attack, exhaust a Weapon upgrade on your hero → your hero gets +3 ATK for this attack.
Response: After you play Ironheart from your hand, draw 1 card.
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 (thwart): Exhaust your hero → remove threat from a scheme equal to your hero's ATK.
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.
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 DEF.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You can control 1 additional weapon upgrade that has the restricted keyword.
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.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Attacks against attached minion gain overkill.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Your alter-ego gets +2 REC.
[star] Forced Response: After Blade thwarts or attacks, choose to either spend a [physical] resource from your hand or discard Blade.
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.
Response: After Mockingbird enters play, stun an enemy.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for a support with a cost of 3 or less and put it into play. (Shuffle.)
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.
[star] While Shark-Girl is attacking an enemy, she gets +1 ATK for each upgrade attached to that enemy.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When an AERIAL character you control uses a basic power, exhaust Soaring Acrobatics → that character gets +1 to that power for this use.
Hero Action (attack): Exhaust a weapon upgrade you control → deal 5 damage to an enemy.
Response: After Brother Voodoo enters play, search the top 5 cards of your deck for an event card and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
Play only if your identity has the aerial trait. Hero Action: Ready your hero and remove 2 threat from the main scheme.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After your hero attacks and defeats a minion, deal 1 damage to your hero and discard Battle Fury → ready your hero.
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.
Interrupt: When Clea is defeated, shuffle her into her owner's deck.
Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic attack, it gets +2 ATK for that attack.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 7 damage to an enemy with an upgrade attached.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After a side scheme is defeated, exhaust Skilled Investigator → draw 1 card.
Max 1 per deck. Your identity gets +1 to each of its basic powers, +1 hand size, and +10 hit points.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Protection (green) card.
Restricted. Response: After your hero attacks an enemy, spend a [physical] resource → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. You get +3 hit points and your hero gets +1 DEF.
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).
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Nerves of Steel → generate a [energy] resource for a Defense event.
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.)
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.
Hero Response: After your hero makes a basic attack, heal 1 damage from Bug.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 2 threat from a scheme. If this removes the last threat on that scheme, draw 1 card.
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 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.
Response: After Multiple Man enters play, search your deck and hand for a copy of Multiple Man and put it into play. Shuffle your deck if it was searched this way.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, deal 1 damage to the villain.
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.
Requirement ([physical]). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When an enemy would scheme, discard Ready for a Fight → change to hero form. That enemy attacks you instead.
Response: After 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.
Hero Response: After your hero defends against an attack and takes no damage, exhaust Hard to Ignore → remove 1 threat from the main scheme.
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.)
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.
Response: After Heimdall enters play, look at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. Discard 1 of them and put the others back in any order.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 6 damage to a minion. For each point of excess damage dealt by this attack, remove 1 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, ready your hero.
Max 2 per deck. Hero Interrupt: When you spend this card to play a Attack event, that event deals 1 additional damage.
Hero 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.
Play only if your identity has the Aerial trait. Hero Response (attack): After your hero attacks, deal 4 damage to an enemy.
Response: After you play Sunfire from your hand, spend a [energy] resource → choose an attachment with the text "Hero Action" or "Hero Response" and discard it.
Max 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When you engage a minion, discard this card → ready your hero.
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.
Response: After your hero defends, discard indomitable → ready your hero.
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.
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.
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.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 1 damage to a minion. If you have the Aerial trait, engage that enemy.
Hero Response: After your hero makes a basic attack and damages an enemy, confuse that enemy. If that enemy is already confused, stun it instead.
Max 1 per phase. Hero Action: Draw 1 card for each minion engaged with you.
Hero Action: Exhaust an avenger character you control → ready another avenger character you control.
Hero Response (thwart): After the villain attacks you, remove 1 threat from a scheme for each damage you took from the attack (to a maximum of 5).
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy. If this is the first card you have played this round, return this card to your hand.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If this attack defeats that enemy, heal 2 damage from your hero.
Max 1 per round. Hero Action: Search the encounter deck for a side scheme. Reveal that side scheme → draw 3 cards (shuffle the encounter deck).
Hero Action: 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.
Interrupt: When you spend this card, exhaust up to 3 allies and/or supports you control that share a Trait with your identity → generate the printed resources on each card exhausted this way.
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).
Response: After you play Spider-Girl from your hand, stun and confuse a minion.
Player under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After you defend against an attack, deal 1 damage to the attacking character.
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.
Response: After Brawn attacks, remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Max 1 per player. Response: After the player phase begins, exhaust Healing Factor → heal 2 damage from your identity.
Response: After Squirrel Girl enters play, deal 1 damage to each enemy.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Action: Spend a [physical] resource and exhaust this card → ready your hero.
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.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Stinger does not count against your ally limit.
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 (attack): Choose an enemy. That enemy attacks you. Deal 5 damage to that enemy.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an identity-specific upgrade and put it into play. (Shuffle.)
Play 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 Tigra attacks and defeats a minion, heal 1 damage from her.
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.
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.
Uses (3 mental counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Awareness and remove 1 mental counter from it → generate a [mental] resource.
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.
Play only if your identity has the aerial trait. Hero Action (attack): Deal 7 damage to an enemy. Deal 1 damage to each other enemy.
Action: Pay the printed cost of an ally in any player's discard pile → put that ally into play under your control.
Hero Action: Discard cards from the encounter deck until you discard a minion. Put that minion into play engaged with you → heal 3 damage from your identity and give your identity a tough status card.
Hero Action (attack): Deal damage to an enemy equal to your ATK.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Sense of Justice → generate a [mental] resource for a Thwart event.
Response: After 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. Interrupt: When an encounter card effect would discard a card you control, discard Front Organization instead of discarding that card.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Hero Response: After Gamora attacks or thwarts, discard cards from the top of your deck until you discard an event, then add that card to your hand.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Attach to a friendly character. Max 1 per character. Attached character gets +1 hit point and gains the guardian trait.
Reduce the cost to play Martinex by 1 if your identity has the Guardian trait.
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 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.
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.
Retaliate 1. Toughness.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When your hero defends against an attack, it gets +3 DEF for that attack.
Response: After Martyr takes consequential damage from performing an attack, if that attack defeated an enemy, give her a tough status card.
Action: Exhaust and discard Moondragon → choose a minion. That minion attacks another enemy of your choice.
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 an enemy initiates an attack, that enemy gets -3 ATK for that attack.
Max 1 per player. Response: After an ally attacks and defeats a minion, exhaust War Room → remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Hero Interrupt: When you make a basic attack, you get +6 ATK for this attack. This attack gains piercing.
Hero Interrupt: When your hero's attack deals any amount of excess damage, increase that amount by 1.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for an ally and put it into play. (Shuffle.)
Hero Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic attack, discard the top card of the encounter deck → reduce your hero's ATK for that attack by the number of printed boost icons on that card. If that attack still deals damage, ready your hero.
Hero 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.)
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).
[star] Response: After Headpool attacks and damages a minion, that minion attacks another enemy of your choice.
Attach to a guardian ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +2 ATK and gains piercing.
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).
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.
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.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If this attack defeats that enemy, deal 2 damage to an enemy.
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.
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. Hero Response (attack): After a minion engages you, discard Lie in Wait → deal 3 damage to that minion.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 ATK and its attacks gain ranged.
Response: After Winter Soldier attacks and defeats an enemy, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
[star] Kidpool's attacks gain piercing.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Each ally you control gets +1 hit point.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Uses (3 snoop counters). (Enters play with 3 counters. When those are gone, discard this card) Action: Exhaust Surveillance Team and remove 1 snoop counter from it → remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Hero Action (attack): Defeat a non-Elite minion with an upgrade attached. Ignore any "When Defeated" abilities on that minion.
You may play Lockjaw from your discard pile during your turn (paying his resource cost).
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.
Victory 0. Assault. (Basic thwarts against this scheme use ATK instead of THW.) When Defeated: The player who defeated this scheme removes 5[per_hero] threat from the main scheme.
Response (attack): After your hero defends against an enemy attack, deal damage to that enemy equal to your hero's ATK.
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.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Justice (yellow) card.
Ant-Man gets +1 hit point for each pym counter on him. Interrupt: When Ant-Man enters play, place 1 pym counter on him (to a maximum of 4) for each resource you overpaid for Ant-Man's cost.
Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After you engage a minion, discard this card → search your deck for an Attack event and add it to your hand. (Shuffle.)
Max 1 per player. Response: After you defeat a minion, exhaust Interrogation Room → remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Hero Action (attack): Discard Pulse Grenade and choose an enemy → discard the top 2 cards of the encounter deck. Deal 1 damage to the chosen enemy for each boost icon discarded this way.
As an additional cost to play this card, if you do not have the Eternal trait, confuse your identity.
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.
Jessica Jones gets +1 THW for each side scheme in play.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After you change form, discard this card → ready your hero.
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.
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: 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.
[star] Wolverine's attacks gain piercing. Response: After your turn begins, heal 1 damage from Wolverine.
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 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. Your hero gets +1 THW.
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.
Response: After Kaluu enters play, search the top 5 cards of your deck for an event → add that event to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When your hero defends against an attack, it gets +2 DEF for that attack. If you take no damage from that attack, deal 3 damage to the attacking enemy.
Action: Exhaust any number of allies you control → draw 1 card for each ally exhausted this way.
Response: After Daredevil 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]).
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 2 threat from a scheme. If you paid for this card using a [mental] resource, remove 2 threat from a different scheme.
Hero Action (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.
Response (attack): After your hero thwarts and removes all threat from a scheme, deal 3 damage to an enemy.
Victory 0. Each identity gets +2 hand size.
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.
You may play the event attached to Jocasta as if it were in your hand. Response: After Jocasta enters play, choose a Defense event in your discard pile and attach it to her facedown.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy. Deal 3 damage to another enemy.
Max 2 per deck. Double the number of resources this card generates while paying for a Leadership (blue) card.
Hero Interrupt (attack/defense): When an enemy initiates an attack, deal 4 damage to that enemy.
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.
Attach to the main scheme. Max 1 per scheme. Increase the target threat value of attached scheme by 4.
[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.
Response: After Bob, Agent of Hydra enters play, deal 2 damage to an enemy or remove 1 threat from a scheme.
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.
Play only if your identity has the Aerial trait. Hero Response (thwart): After your hero thwarts, remove 3 threat from a scheme.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, remove 1 threat from the main scheme.
Hero Response (thwart): After you change form, remove 3 threat from a scheme (4 threat instead if you paid for this card using a [mental] resource).
Victory 0. When Defeated: The player who defeated this scheme deals 5[per_hero] damage to the villain.
Interrupt: When a treachery is revealed, deal 2 damage to Negasonic Teenage Warhead → cancel that treachery's "When Revealed" effects.
Max 2 per deck. Interrupt: When you spend this card to play a THWART event, that event removes 1 additional threat.
Reduce the cost to play Hercules by 1 for each minion engaged with you.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Crew Quarters → heal 1 damage from an alter-ego.
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.
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.
Max 1 per player. Hero Response (attack): After you take damage from an enemy attack, discard Counterattack → deal an equal amount of damage to that enemy.
[star] Interrupt: When Dust attacks a minion, she attacks each minion in play. Dust takes +1 consequential damage ([cost]) after this attack.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy (5 damage instead if that enemy has the guard or patrol keyword).
[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.
Forced Interrupt: When Deadpool would be defeated by consequential damage, heal 3 damage from him instead. Add an acceleration token to the main scheme.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Action: Exhaust Plan B and discard 1 random card from your hand → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Attach to a non-ELITE minion. Max 1 per minion. Attached minion cannot activate.
Hero Action: Exhaust this card, choose 1 card in your hand, and discard the top card of your deck → using the diagram above, if a printed resource on the chosen card beats (points to) a printed resource on the discarded card, add the discarded card to your hand.
Reduce the cost to play Git Gud by 2 if you did not win your previous game of Marvel Champions. Forced Interrupt: When a player would be defeated, they set their hit point dial to 1 and change to alter-ego form instead. Remove this card from the game.
Interrupt: When Starhawk takes damage exactly equal to his remaining hit points, return him to your hand.
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.
Reduce the amount of damage Victor Mancha takes from each attack by 1.
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.
Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When any amount of threat would be placed on the main scheme, discard Counterintelligence → prevent 3 of that threat.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When your hero defends against an attack, use its ATK instead of its DEF for this attack.
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.
Action: Heal 2 damage from any character.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 8 damage to an enemy. If your hero's remaining hit points are less than half your hero's starting hit points, this attack gains overkill.
Response: After Daredevil defends against an attack, move 1 damage from him to the attacking enemy.
Response: After Maria Hill enters play, each player draws 1 card.
Response: After a minion schemes, exhaust Quake → deal 2 damage to that minion.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Action (attack): Deal 5 damage to an enemy. Stun that enemy.
Max 1 per player. Response: After you discard a Preparation card you control, discard Practiced Plan → return that card to your hand from your discard pile.
Response: 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] Response: After Agent 13 attacks or thwarts, choose a S.H.I.E.L.D. support → ready that support.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Uses (3 warrior counters). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When your hero attacks, remove 1 counter from here → that attack deals 1 additional damage.
Response: After you play White Tiger from your hand, draw X cards (to a maximum of three), where X is equal to the villain's stage number. If the villain has no stage number, draw 1 card.
Response: After you play Beak from your hand, remove 1 threat from a scheme for each X-Men ally you control.
Toughness. Reduce the cost to play Captain America by 1 for each avenger character you control.
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.
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.
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.
This card generates [wild] for each ally you control (to a maximum of 3)
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.
Hero Response: After you exhaust your hero to make a basic thwart or attack, discard an ally you control → add that ally's matching power to your hero's power for this use. Ready your hero.
Hero Action: Discard an ally you control → heal damage from your hero equal to that ally's printed hit points and give your hero a tough status card.
Hero Action: The villain attacks you. Other characters cannot defend against this attack. Draw 3 cards.
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.)
Toughness. Hero Response: After Warpath defends against an attack, play an event with a "Hero Action" ability from your hand (paying its 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.
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.
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.
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.
Attach to an Avenger ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gains Aerial. Action: Exhaust Sky Cycle → ready attached ally.
Hero Action: Choose up to X enemies, where X is equal to the number of aerial characters you control → deal 3 damage to each chosen enemy.
Uses (3 physical counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Physique and remove 1 physical counter from it → generate a [physical] resource.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to the villain. Hero Interrupt (attack): When a minion initiates an attack, deal 2 damage to that minion.
Hero Action (thwart): The villain attacks you. Remove 4 threat from the main scheme.
Interrupt: When Marvel Boy attacks, spend a [physics] resource → this attack gains piercing and ranged
Uses (3 energy counters). Hero Resource: Exhaust Enhanced Reflexes and remove 1 energy counter from it → generate a [energy] resource.
Response: After you play Sunspot from your hand, choose a player → deal 1 damage to the villain and each minion engaged with the chosen player for each [energy] resource used to pay for Sunspot.
Hero Action: Exhaust Cloud 9 → choose a player. Until the end of the phase, each Aerial character that player controls gets +1 THW.
Requirement ([mental][mental]). Uses (3 research counters). Hero Action: Exhaust R&D Facility and remove 1 research counter from it → choose a friendly character in play. That character gets +1 THW and +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When your hero defends against an attack, it gets +2 DEF for that attack. If you take no damage from that attack, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Alter-Ego Action: Search your deck and discard pile for an ally and an upgrade that can be attached to that ally. Add them to your hand. (Shuffle.)
[star] As an additional cost for Wonder Man to attack, you must discard 1 card from your hand.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Hero Action: Heal 1 damage from an ally and ready it.
Response: After Falcon enters play, look at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. For each treachery looked at this way, remove 1 threat from a scheme.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Max 1 per round. Hero Action: Reduce the resource cost of the next ally played this phase by 2.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Drax cannot attack minions.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Response: After Groot defends against an attack, heal 2 damage from him.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Interrupt: When Rocket Raccoon attacks a minion, he gets +3 ATK for that attack. That attack gains overkill.
Response: After you play Eros from your hand, confuse a minion for each [mental] resource you used to pay for him.
[star] She-Hulk gets +1 ATK for each damage token here.
Restricted. Hero Interrupt: When your hero makes a basic attack against a unique enemy ([unique]), exhaust Godslayer → your hero gets +2 ATK for that attack.
Increase your ally limit by 1. (This allows you to control more than 3 allies.)
[star] Chamber takes -1 consequential damage ([cost]) after he attacks a confused enemy.
[star] Response: After Cypher attacks and damages a confused enemy, draw 1 card.
Response: After Dazzler enters play, confuse an enemy.
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 only if your identity has the MUTANT trait. Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Cerebro → search the top 5 cards of your deck for an X-MEN ally (search your whole deck instead if you control a PSIONIC character) and add that ally to your hand. (Shuffle.)
Play only if your identity has the X-FORCE trait. Hero Action: Exhaust IPAC and deal 1 facedown encounter card to a player → that player draws 2 cards.
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 player. Hero Response (attack): After a minion enters play, discard Prism Dust → confuse that minion and deal 2 damage to it.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Each ally you control gets +1 ATK.
Uses (3 command counters). Action: Exhaust Command Team and remove 1 command counter from it → ready an ally.
Alter-Ego Response: After an X-MEN ally enters play, exhaust Danger Room → search your deck and discard pile for a TRAINING upgrade and attach it to that ally. Any player whose alter-ego has the MUTANT trait may trigger this ability.
Max 1 per deck. Play only if your identity has the Champion trait. Hero Action: Remove "Go for Champions!" from the game → Each champion character in play cannot take damage until the end of the round.
Play only if your identity has the X-MEN trait. Hero Action: Search the top 5 cards of your deck for an X-MEN ally and put it into play. If that ally is still in play at the end of the phase, add it to your hand.
Play only if your identity has the MYSTIC trait. Hero Action: Choose one: • Heal 3 damage from an identity. • Remove 3 threat from a scheme. • Deal 3 damage to an enemy.
Play only if your identity has the MYSTIC trait. Max 1 per deck. Resource: Exhaust Bloodgem and take 2 damage → generate a [wild] resource.
Hero Action: Exhaust Champions Mobile Bunker → choose an identity with the champion trait. The player who controls that identity may draw 2 cards, then discard 2 cards from their hand.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 team card per player. If each of your characters has the guardian trait, this card gains: "Response: After you play an upgrade on an ally, draw 1 card."
Play only if your identity has the MUTANT trait. Response: After a MUTANT alter-ego changes into hero form, exhaust Moira MacTaggert → that hero's controller draws 1 card.
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.
Resource: Exhaust The X-Jet → generate a [wild] resource for a player whose identity has the X-MEN trait.
If each of your allies has the X-MEN trait, increase your ally limit by 1. Response: After an X-MEN ally enters play, exhaust Utopia → ready an X-MEN character.
Play only if your identity has the MUTANT trait. Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Weapon X and take 1 damage → discard cards from your deck until you discard an identity-specific card, then add that card to your hand.
Hero Action: Exhaust Aero → choose a player. Until the end of the phase, each Aerial character that player controls gets +1 ATK.
Alliance. Hero Action (attack): Exhaust an avenger character and a guardian character → deal X damage to an enemy, where X is the combined ATK of those characters. This attack gains overkill.
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.
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.
Your hero gets +1 ATK. Your basic attacks gain piercing. (Discard any tough status cards from the target before dealing damage.) Forced Response: After you make a basic attack, discard Brute Force.
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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 Team card per player. If each of your characters has the S.H.I.E.L.D. trait, this card gains: "Interrupt: When you reveal an encounter card, exhaust this card → cancel the effects of that card and discard it. Then, reveal another card from the encounter deck."
Action: Ready an ally.
Response: After Speed thwarts, ready him. (Limit once per round.)
Hero Action (attack): Deal 4 damage to an enemy. If that enemy is defeated by this attack, remove 2 threat from a scheme.
Resource: Discard Resourceful → 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.
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 you engage a minion, give Patriot a tough status card.
[star] Black Knight's basic attack gains piercing.
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.
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.
Reduce the cost to play Angel by 1 if your identity has the MUTANT or X-MEN trait.
Interrupt: When Cannonball would take any amount of consequential damage, reduce that amount by X, where X is the number of AERIAL cards in your hand.
Uses (3 charge counters). Action: Exhaust Cell Phone, remove 1 charge counter from here, and choose a player → that player makes a basic attack or thwart with a character they control. That character gets +1 THW and +1 ATK for this use.
Max 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.
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 only if you control a Spy character. Interrupt: When you reveal an encounter card, discard Spycraft → cancel the effects of that card and discard it. Then, reveal another card from the encounter deck.
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.
Max 1 per deck. Action: Ready an ally. That ally gets +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
Attach to an Avenger ally. Max 1 per ally. Response: After attached ally attacks or thwarts, deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Alter-ego form only. Action: Discard Recruitment Drive and choose a player → reduce the resource cost of the next ally that player plays this phase to 0.
[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.
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.
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 (attack): Confuse an enemy. If you paid for this card using a [physical] resource, deal 3 damage to that enemy.
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW and +1 ATK.
Play only if your identity has the aerial trait. Hero Action (thwart): Remove a total of up to 5 threat from among schemes (as you choose).
Response: After you play Spider-Man from your hand, remove 3 [per_hero] threat from a side scheme.
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.)
Attach to an ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +2 hit points.
Restricted. Uses (2 charge counters). Hero Action: Exhaust Sonic Rifle and remove 1 charge counter from it → confuse an enemy (deal 3 damage to that enemy instead if it is already confused).
Play 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.
Response: After you defend against an attack, place 1 fatigue counter here. Alter-Ego Action: Remove each fatigue counter from here → heal 1 damage from your identity for each fatigue counter removed this way.
Interrupt: When 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.
Interrupt (thwart): When the villain schemes, reduce the amount of threat placed on the scheme by 1.
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.
Interrupt: When an enemy initiates an attack against you, spend a [energy] resource → deal 2 damage to that enemy.
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 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.
Victory 0. When Defeated: The defeating player looks at the top 5 cards of the encounter deck. They may add 1 non-scenario-specific card from among those to the victory display, then place the rest on the top and/or bottom of the encounter deck in any order.
Response: After 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.
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 round. Hero Action: Each guardian character gets +2 THW and +2 ATK this phase. At the end of the phase, deal 1 damage to each guardian character.
Play only if your identity has the guardian trait. Max 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When you would take any amount of damage from an attack, exhaust Booster Boots and discard the top card of your deck → prevent 1 of that damage.
Victory 0. When Defeated: Give each identity a tough status card.
Interrupt: When Major Victory is defeated, choose a friendly Guardian character → ready that character.
[star] Star-Lord's attacks gain ranged. Forced Response: After Star-Lord enters play under your control, deal yourself 1 facedown encounter card.
Toughness. (This character enters play with a tough status card.) [star] War Machine's basic attack gains ranged. (Ranged attacks ignore retaliate.)
Hero Action: Exhaust Government Liaison → play a S.H.I.E.L.D. card from your hand, reducing its resource cost by 1.
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 Adam Warlock attacks or thwarts, discard 1 card at random from your hand. If that card's printed resource has: [physical] – Remove 3 threat from a scheme. [energy] – Heal 3 damage from an identity. [mental] – Deal 3 damage to an enemy. [wild] – Choose one of the above.
Response: After Beast enters play, search your deck and discard pile for a resource card and add it to your hand. (Shuffle.)
Giant-Man gets +2 ATK while he has 3 or more remaining hit points.
Retaliate 1.
Action: You get +1 hand size until the end of the phase.
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.
Action: Goliath gets +4 ATK until the end of the phase. At the end of the phase, discard Goliath. (Max once per phase.)
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.
Action: Spend a [energy] resource → put Slingshot into play from your hand under any player's control. At the end of the phase, if Slingshot is still in play, return her to your hand.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Action (thwart): Remove 5 threat from the main scheme, ignoring the crisis icon ([crisis]). Remove 1 threat from each scheme for each [crisis], [acceleration], [amplify], and [hazard] in play.
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.
Hero Action: Discard an ally your control → deal damage to an enemy equal to that ally's printed cost.
Max 2 per deck. Uses (2 training counters). Alter-ego Action: Exhaust this card and remove 1 training counter from it → choose a leadership (blue) event in you discard pile and shuffle it into your deck.
Hero Action: Discard an ally your control → remove threat from a scheme equal to that ally's printed cost.
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.
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.
Play only if you control a Spy character. Interrupt: When the surge keyword on an encounter card would be resolved, discard Espionage → draw 2 cards.
Hero Action: Deal 1 damage to the villain and each minion engaged with you.
Response: After an enemy attacks you, place 1 energy counter here. [star] Interrupt: When Bishop attacks, remove each energy counter from him → for each counter discarded this way, he gets +2 ATK for this attack (to a maximum of +6 ATK).
Alliance. (The players can pay this card's costs as a group.) Hero Action: Choose an avenger character and a guardian character → ready each of those characters.
Response: After Cyclops enters play, choose an enemy. Until the end of the phase, increase the amount of damage that enemy takes from each attack by 1.
Response: After Forge enters play, search your deck and discard pile for an X-MEN or X-FORCE support and add it to your hand. (Shuffle.)
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 M enters play, defeat a minion with fewer remaining hit points than M.
[star] Interrupt: When Marvel Girl attacks a minion, remove X threat from the main scheme, where X is that minion's printed SCH.
Response: After Polaris enters play, give an X-MEN character a tough status card.
Play only if your identity has the X-FORCE trait. Attach to a friendly character. Max 1 per character. Attached character gets +1 hit point and gains the X-FORCE trait.
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.
Hero Interrupt When you use your basic thwart power (THW) or basic attack power (ATK), exhaust an ally you control → add that ally's matching power to your hero's power for this use.
Hero 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.)
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.
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.
Alliance. Hero Action (attack/thwart): Exhaust an X-Force character and an X-Men character → remove X threat from among schemes in play and deal X damage among enemies in play, where X is the combined THW of the two exhausted characters.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy.
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.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, heal 1 damage from an ally you control.
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.
Toughness. (This character enters play with a tough status 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.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 3 damage to an enemy. This attack gains piercing.
Max 1 per deck. Hero Response: After you spend this card, heal 1 damage from your hero.
Alter-Ego Action: Heal damage from your alter-ego equal to your REC.
Response: After you play a S.H.I.E.L.D. card, exhaust Sky-Destroyer → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Hero Action (thwart): Remove 2 threat from a scheme.
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.
Power Man enters play with 2 chi counters on him. Action: Discard any number of chi counters from Power Man → he gets +2 ATK for each chi counter discarded this way until the end of the phase.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When you would take any amount of damage from an attack, prevent 1 of that damage for each [crisis], [acceleration], [amplify], and [hazard] in play.
Linked (Specialized Training). Your hero gets +1 ATK. Hero Response: After your hero performs a basic attack, exhaust this card → draw 1 card.
Play only if your identity has the Aerial trait. Max 1 TEAM card per player. If each of your allies has the Aerial trait, increase your ally limit by 1 and this card gains: "Response: After you play an Aerial card, exhaust this card → ready an ally you control."
Response: After Quasar enters play, remove 1 threat from each scheme in play.
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] Captain Britain takes -1 consequential damage after he thwarts a side scheme or attacks a minion.
Attach to an X-MEN ally. Max 1 TRAINING upgrade per ally. Attached ally gets +1 THW, +1 ATK, and +1 hit point.
Hero Interrupt (defense): When a boost card on an enemy attacking you would be turned faceup, discard it instead.
Max 2 per deck. Interrupt: When you spend this card to play an ally, that ally gets +1 THW and +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
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.
Hero Interrupt: When you reveal a non-ELITE minion, exhaust an AERIAL character you control and discard this card → cancel the effects of that card and discard it. Then, reveal another card from the encounter deck.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Response: After you play a Defense card, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.
Attach to a guardian ally. Max 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 ATK and its attacks gain overkill.
Hero Action: Choose a player. Each character that player controls gets +1 THW and +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
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.
Hero Action: Choose a hero. Until the end of the round, that hero gets +1 THW, +1 ATK, and +1 DEF
Hero Action: Give an ally you control a tough status card.
Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After a boost card is turned faceup, discard Target Acquired → cancel that card's boost ability.
[star] Yondu's attacks gain ranged.Ranged attacks ignore retaliate.)
Hero Action: Discard Adrenaline Rush → your hero gets +1 ATK until the end of the phase.
Hero Action: Exhaust C.I.T.T. and spend 2 resources of any type → ready a guardian character.
Hero Action: Discard cards from the top of your deck until you discard an Avenger ally, then add that ally to your hand.
Max 1 per player. Hero Action: Exhaust Deft Focus → reduce the resource cost of the next superpower card you play this turn by 1.
Uses (3 reflection counters). Interrupt: When you would take any amount of damage, remove 1 reflection counter from here → prevent 1 of that damage and deal 1 damage to an enemy.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to the villain (5 damage instead if your hero's remaining hit points are equal to or greater than your hero's starting hit points).
Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup during a scheme activation, cancel its boost icons.
Hero Interrupt: When a treachery card is revealed from the encounter deck, cancel its "When Revealed" effects. The villain attacks you instead.
Hero Interrupt: When any amount of threat would be placed on a scheme, you take it as damage instead.
Max 1 per player. Response: After an ally defends against an attack and is not defeated, exhaust this card → ready that ally.
While your identity has the Aerial trait, reduce the amount of damage you take from each enemy attack by 1. Forced Interrupt: When your turn begins, discard this card.
Hero Action (attack/thwart): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. Remove 2 threat from a scheme.
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.
Reduce the cost to play each upgrade on Iron Man by 1.
Response: After Jack Flag thwarts, place 1 ammo counter on him. Hero Action: Exhaust Jack Flag and remove 1 ammo counter from him → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Hero Interrupt (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.
Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Response: After you thwart and remove the last threat from a scheme, discard Justice Served → ready your hero.
Hero Interrupt: When an ally you control attacks, it gets +3 ATK for that attack. After that attack resolves, discard that ally.
Hero Action (attack): Exhaust 3 allies you control that share a Trait with your hero → deal X damage to an enemy, where X is the total ATK of those allies and your hero.
Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust your alter-ego → play a card from your hand, reducing its resource cost by 3.
Hero Action (attack): Heal 2 damage from your hero → deal 2 damage to an enemy.
Hero Response: After you change form, your hero gets +1 THW, +1 ATK, +1 DEF until the end of the round.
Hero Response: After you change form, give your hero a tough status card.
Attach to a minion. Max 1 per minion. Attached minion gets -2 ATK.
Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to the villain (5 damage instead if there is no threat on the main scheme).
Response: After you play Pixie from your hand, add an X-MEN ally from your discard pile to your hand.
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.
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.
Ronin gets +1 THW and +1 ATK while an upgrade is attached to them.
Play only if your identity has the Avenger trait. Hero Action (thwart): Remove 2 threat from the main scheme. Remove X additional threat from the main scheme (to a maximum of 3), where X is equal to the villain's stage number.
Forced Response: After Sentry enters play under your control, deal yourself 1 encounter card.
Hero Response: After a guardian character takes any amount of damage from an attack, give that character a tough status card.
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.
Reduce the cost to play Spider-Woman by 1 for each confused enemy in play.
Alliance. Hero Interrupt: When a friendly character would take any amount of damage from an attack, exhaust an avenger character and a guardian character → prevent all of that damage. Deal that much damage to the attacking enemy.
Hero Response (attack): After you change form, deal 3 damage to an enemy (4 damage instead if you paid for this card using [physical] resource).
Hero Action (attack): Stun an enemy. If you paid for this card using a [physical] resource, deal 3 damage to that enemy.
Hero Action: Spend a [physical] resource and discard this card → ready your hero.
Action: Shuffle this card into the encounter deck (without looking) When Revealed: Heal 2 damage from your identity and remove this card from the game. This effect cannot be canceled.
Response (thwart): After your hero defends against an enemy attack, remove threat from a scheme equal to your hero's THW.
Response: After Valkyrie enters play, deal 2 damage to a minion (3 damage instead if you paid for this card using a [energy] resource).
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.
Action: Spend a [mental] resource → heal up to 2 damage from Warlock.
Interrupt: When a hero would take any amount of damage, reduce that amount by 1.
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.
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.
Hero Interrupt: When a boost card is turned faceup, exhaust Wraith and deal 1 damage to him → cancel that card's "Boost" effect.