Marvel Champions: The Card Game

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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.

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. 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. Another tweak to the format here is that there is an Avengers Tower card in play in the villains’ area, which takes damage over time from your enemies’ and some of their encounter cards. Instead of the game ending when the threat reaches a certain level, the heroes lose when the tower takes a certain amount of damage and is destroyed. 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.

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. I’ve played Marvel Champions at every player count now and I think it’s best at two and three players. You get a good mix of hero skills to balance out your team at those counts and the games never feel too long (though some three-player games can run pretty long). Four-player games are still fun, but they can take 2+ hours and there seems to be quite a bit more downtime. Solo is good, too, but this one just feels like it should be played co-op.

Marvel Champions is a living card game (LCG) from Fantasy Flight Games (FFG). FFG are known for their LCGs, so how does Marvel Champions shape up against Arkham Horror and The Lord of the Rings? 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.She also has low base stats, so these different energy forms are crucial in your fight against Thanos and his mates. You can’t always choose exactly when to switch, but there are quite a few cards that give you the option and provide extra benefits when you do. Marvel Champions: The Card Game now has rookie and heroic difficulty modes". Dicebreaker. March 24, 2020 . Retrieved February 3, 2022. There are five different types of player cards in the game: ally cards, upgrade cards, support cards, event cards, and resource cards. When you want to play a card, you pay for it by discarding other cards in your hand for their resource values. For example, if you’re playing as Iron Man and you want to play the War Machine ally card, which costs four resources, you have to discard other cards until you’ve totaled four resources. Any card that has the word “Action” on it can be used during any player’s turn, so you could pay for a card from your hand to help out a teammate during their turn. After everyone has taken a turn, you discard any cards that you don’t want, draw up to your current hand size based on your form, and then ready any heroes and allies that were exhausted during the turn. Each card is illustrated by art straight from Marvel comics, bringing the game to life in a way unique from other FFG offerings. The graphic design is overall clear and easy to read, as baffling as "Sch" and "Thw" might be when the game first begins.