i also think Under Surveillance is a highly valuable card for him. it and Counterintelligence give you so much breathing room when you flip down. a b c d e f "Review: The Marvel Champions LCG is a fun little card game, and sets the stage for future Marvel gaming stars". Destructoid. August 16, 2021 . Retrieved February 4, 2022.

It kind of stinks that there aren’t enough cards in the core set to run two or more heroes with the same aspects. That’s unfortunate because you might want to have, say, two Aggressive or two Justice heroes on your team and you just can’t.Justice is more focused on removing threat from schemes. Justice based characters are good at managing threat and keeping things under control however they are not typically hard hitters. Aaron Potter (November 8, 2019). "Why you should play… Marvel Champions: The Card Game". gamesradar . Retrieved February 3, 2022. A boy, a helmet, and an intergalactic legacy! Sam Alexander isn’t just any teenager; he’s been recruited to the Nova Corps, the universe’s police force. And it’s his job to look after his family and his planet as the high-flying hero Nova! Figuring out when to stop building and when to take the fight to the Villain comes with practice and experience, but it is worth that time investment. Where it might seem that you are not making progress by hitting the enemy, it’s wise to learn the “arc” of the Hero and play into that. Being efficient with your cards and trying to not have any cards left in your hand at the end of the turn is a good idea. The game continues this way until the Villain has been defeated, by reducing his hit points to zero, for both stages and the player’s win. Players lose if the Villains scheme threshold reaches its maximum or they all have their hit points reduced to zero. Strategy

I’ll keep this updated. Right now I’ve played plenty of expert scenarios and it’s doing really good. Mutagen Formula, Kang, Klaaw to name a few. My favourite is Pulsar Shield, which lets you change to pulsar form when you defend, but then allows you to ready Spectrum. I’m usually reluctant to go into defence mode because it leaves you weakened on your turn, and there aren’t many cards I’ve come across that allow you to ready your hero. Another powerful one is Gamma Blast which changes you to gamma form and does 7 damage to an enemy, gaining overkill if you were already in gamma form. Whammy. Friends With Benefits So what cards are we looking for? Well, not only do you want Sonic Rifle asap, you will also be on the lookout for his Upgraded Chassis (note that it's cost is actually 3 and not 1). This upgrade is your life support, and since you’ll switch between forms every single turn you want this badass upgrade put into play the very first round. Hence, this upgrade is what you mulligan for. If you don’t find it the first round you’ll want to use Iron Man's ability to find it (given that you have the resources for it). Sonic Rifle is less important as you’ll switch to A-E the second round. Ultron is fun to face, but I don’t like that the heroes’ cards are used to represent his drones. It doesn’t make sense thematically and the fact that you have to discard the card after you defeat the drone means that you could be discarding a valuable card. NeXt Evolution - Includes Cable and Domino as new playable heroes. Villains included are the Marauders, Juggernaut, Mister Sinister and Stryfe. [35]Mastrangeli, Tony (April 17, 2020). "2019 Board Game Award Winners". Board Game Quest . Retrieved February 4, 2022. Marvel Champions: 10 Hardest To Beat Enemies, Ranked". ScreenRant. October 9, 2021 . Retrieved February 4, 2022. a b "Marvel Champions: Everything We Learned About The Rise of Red Skull Campaign Expansion". GAMING . Retrieved February 4, 2022.

Marvel Champions: The Card Game now has rookie and heroic difficulty modes". Dicebreaker. March 24, 2020 . Retrieved February 3, 2022. Each of the heroes feels and plays differently and comes with their own play style. Add into that the different aspects, villains and side schemes and you have a different feeling game each time. Aggression. As the name suggests, this is all about hitting the enemies hard and fast. Generally, aggression based Heroes are not great at thwarting and removing threat from a scheme. Subsequently, it is often a race against the threat build-up and taking the Villain down Marvel Champions is a cooperative card game in which you play as Marvel superheroes who are attempting to thwart villains’ evil schemes. This is the third cooperative Living Card Game (LCG) that Fantasy Flight has released following The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game and Arkham Horror: The Card Game, which means that new content will be released for it every month. Sinister Motives - Includes Spider-Man (Miles Morales) and Ghost-Spider as new playable heroes. Villains included are Sandman, Venom, Mysterio, The Sinister Six, and Venom Goblin. [33]Harness the power of a hero in Marvel Champions: The Card Game Core Set, a cooperative Living Card Game of super heroics for 1-4 players! The alter-ego/hero mechanic is very cool. I like that it affects the actions that you can perform and your hand size. Plus, you can pull off some pretty cool combos where you use cards that take advantage of the alter-ego’s ability and then switch to hero form and do some damage. It also gives you some control over how the enemies act each round, which works thematically. You’ll win if you defeat the villain. You’ll lose if the villain completes their scheme or if all of the heroes are defeated. The game feels very thematic with the obligations on point with the character. For example, Spiderman’s obligation is his eviction notice which ties in with the films and his character. What I love about Marvel Champions is the way the Heroes and Villains play differently. The key to success is figuring out how the Heroes play. Their strengths, weaknesses, and how to best utilise them to take down the Villain. Certain Heroes require a certain amount of setup to become strong. These Heroes are best left in alter ego mode as you build up their suit, armour, and weapons. Once they are up and running they can be formidable characters.

I feel like the rest is self explanatory as W-M’s cards are pretty straightforward. Get his upgrades out and do insane damage with his events. Spider-Man anti-hero, Venom, merges with Marvel Champions: The Card Game". Dicebreaker. April 6, 2021 . Retrieved February 4, 2022. The game is played over a number of rounds, alternating between the player’s turns and then the Villains turn. On a player’s turn they can perform a number of actions: Marvel Champions: The Card Game Review: With Great Power..." TheGamer. November 17, 2019 . Retrieved February 3, 2022. I am not a seasoned LCG player. I have played the core Arkham Horror core box and that is about it. So I will not be comparing the gameplay to Arkham Horror or The Lord of the Rings LCGs (much) and I am coming this from a “novice” point of view when it comes to LCGs.

Thinking like Marvel Champions

Play continues this way with the hero phase then the villain phase until either the villain has been reduced to zero health and the heroes win, or the main scheme has enough threat to end the game or all heroes health has been reduced to zero. Thinking like Marvel Champions It’s also very easy to adjust the difficulty. If you want Rhino to be tougher, use the Rhino II and Rhino III cards instead of I and II, and/or you can just shuffle in a more difficult modular encounter set. The Rise of Red Skull - Includes Hawkeye and Spider-Woman as new playable heroes. Villains included are Crossbones, Absorbing Man, Taskmaster, Arnim Zola, and Red Skull. [6] I really like the dual-use cards. You want to play just about every card you draw, but you have to give some of them up to pay for the ones that you need the most each turn. That makes each decision feel like it really matters… because it does.