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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.)

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

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

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.

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. Your hero gets +1 ATK.

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

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. 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.

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.

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

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

Play only if your identity has the Genius trait. Max 1 per player. Resource: Exhaust Ingenuity → generate a resource.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Max 1 per round. Hero Action: Search the encounter deck for a side scheme. Reveal that side scheme → draw 3 cards (shuffle the encounter deck).

Play 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.

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.

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.)

Play only if your identity has at least 14 printed hit points. Hero Action: Ready your hero.

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

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

Play under any player's control. Max 1 per player. Hero Interrupt: When an AERIAL character you control uses a basic power, exhaust Soaring Acrobatics → that character gets +1 to that power for this use.

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

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.

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

Play only if you have the Mystic trait. You get +1 hand size while in hero form.

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

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 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.

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. Response: After you defeat an enemy during the villain phase, exhaust this card → draw 2 cards.

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

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.

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

X is the number of boost icons () 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.

Response: After you play Sunfire from your hand, spend a resource → choose an attachment with the text "Hero Action" or "Hero Response" and discard it.

Reduce the cost to play Mission Leader by 1 if your identity has the SOLDIER trait. Hero Response: After a side scheme is defeated, exhaust Mission Leader → each player draws 1 card.

Psylocke enters play with 2 psionic counters on her. Interrupt: When Psylocke attacks an enemy, remove 1 psionic counter from her → confuse that enemy and deal 1 damage to it.

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

Play only if your identity has the Mystic trait. Action: Draw 2 cards. Choose and discard 1 card from your hand.

Response: After you play White Tiger from your hand, draw X cards (to a maximum of three), where X is equal to the villain's stage number. If the villain has no stage number, draw 1 card.

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

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

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. Each X-Factor, X-Force, and X-Men character you control gains the X-Factor, X-Force, and X-Men traits.

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

Requirement (). Max 1 per player. Interrupt: When you play an Aggression Attack event, if you paid for that event using a resource, increase the amount of damage that event deals by its printed cost.

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

Reduce the cost to play Leo Fitz by 2 if your identity has the S.H.I.E.L.D. trait. Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Leo Fitz → search you deck for a Tech card and add it to your hand. (Shuffle.)

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

Victory 0. When Defeated: Each player may search their deck and discard pile for a WEAPON upgrade with a cost of 3 or less and put it into play. (Shuffle.)

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

Response: After Dazzler enters play, confuse an enemy.

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

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

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

Response: After Kid Omega enters play, choose: • Spend a resource → deal 1 damage to each enemy. • Spend a resource → remove 1 threat from each scheme.

Response: After Throg enters play, give him a tough status card if you are engaged with a minion.

Attach to a side scheme. Max 1 per scheme. Interrupt: When attached side scheme is defeated, search your deck and discard pile for an ally and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

Play 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 Team per player. If each of your characters has the Avenger trait, each ally you control gets +1 THW and +1 ATK.

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

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

Reduce the cost to play Jemma Simmons by 2 if your identity has the S.H.I.E.L.D. trait. Resource: Exhaust Jemma Simmons → generate a resource for a Tech card.

Forced Response: After Nick Fury, Sr. enters play, choose one: Remove 3 threat from a scheme, draw 2 cards, or give a S.H.I.E.L.D. character a tough status card. At the end of the round, if Nick Fury, Sr. is still in play, discard him.

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

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 resource).

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

Hero Action: Discard cards from the encounter deck until you discard a minion. Put that minion into play engaged with you → heal 3 damage from your identity and give your identity a tough status card.

Response: After 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.

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

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.

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.

Max 1 per player. Response: After you defeat an enemy with a basic attack, exhaust Blood Rage and take 1 damage → draw 1 card.

Grant Ward cannot defend. Forced Response: After you reveal a treachery, you may spend a resource. If you do not, take damage equal to Grant Ward's ATK and remove Grant Ward from the game.

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. Interrupt: When a character you control attacks a confused enemy, increase the amount of damage that attack deals to that enemy by 1.

Response: After 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.

Requirement (). Hero Action (thwart): Remove 1 threat from each side scheme. Deal 1 damage to the villain for each side scheme defeated this way.

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

Hero Action: Discard a Tech upgrade you control → ready your hero and choose THW, ATK, or DEF. Until the end of the round, your hero gets +X to the chosen power, where X is equal to that upgrade's printed cost.

Hero Interrupt (defense): When your hero defends against an attack, it gets +2 DEF for that attack. If you take no damage from that attack, deal 3 damage to the attacking enemy.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Play only if your identity has the 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: Choose an ally with a TRAINING upgrade attached → ready that ally and heal 1 damage from it.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

Play only if your identity has the MYSTIC trait. Max 1 per deck. Resource: Exhaust Bloodgem and take 2 damage → generate a resource.

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.

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.)

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

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

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

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

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.)

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 Aerial trait. Hero Response (attack): After your hero attacks, deal 4 damage to an enemy.

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

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

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

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.

Hero Action: Exhaust Cloud 9 → choose a player. Until the end of the phase, each Aerial character that player controls gets +1 THW.

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

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

Hero Action: Discard cards from the encounter deck until you discard a minion. Put that minion into play engaged with you → play an ally from your hand, reducing its cost by 3.

Hero Action (attack): 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.

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.

Victory 0. Assault. (Basic thwarts against this scheme use ATK instead of THW.) When Defeated: The player who defeated this scheme removes 5 threat from the main scheme.

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 resource used to pay for Sunspot.

Restricted. Uses (3 charge counters). Hero Action: Exhaust Plasma Pistol and remove 1 charge counter from it → deal 1 damage to an enemy.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

Max 1 per player. Hero Response (attack): After a minion enters play, discard Prism Dust → confuse that minion and deal 2 damage to it.

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

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.

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.

Action: Spend a 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.

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).

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Response: After Daredevil defends against an attack, move 1 damage from him to the attacking enemy.

Hero Interrupt: When you make a basic attack against an enemy with an upgrade attached, you get +2 ATK for this attack. If this attack defeats that enemy, ready your hero.

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

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

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

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

Uses (3 operation counters). Action: Exhaust The Douglass and remove 1 operational counter from it → remove 2 threat from each scheme, ignoring any crisis icons () in play.

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).

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

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

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).

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

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

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

Max 1 per player. Response: After a player is dealt an encounter card, discard Intelligence → look at each encounter card dealt to each player and the top card of the encounter deck. You may swap any number of those cards.

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.)

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

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

Play only if your identity has the X-Force or X-Men trait. Max 1 per player. Alter-Ego Action: Discard this card → return an X-Force or X-Men ally from your discard pile to your hand.

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

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

Alliance. (The players can pay this card's costs as a group.) Hero Action: Ready up to 3 AERIAL characters.

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

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

Interrupt: When a character would take any amount of damage from an attack, exhaust an AERIAL character you control → prevent up to 3 of that damage.

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

Play only if there is a side scheme in the victory display. Hero Interrupt (defense): When an enemy initiates an attack, give your hero a tough status card.

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

Response: After Siryn attacks, stun a minion.

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

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.

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

Alliance. Hero Action: Exhaust an X-Force character and an X-Men character → defeat a non-Elite minion.

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.