The Complete

Legendary Deck Building Game

Companion Rules
 Contents
Overview Human Shields..............................................13
If You Have Played Previous Marvel Investigate.....................................................13
Legendary Sets ......................................... 2 Lightshow ......................................................14
Game Summary......................................... 2 Man (and Woman) Out of Time ....................14
How to Win.........................................................................2 Patrol.............................................................14
How the Evil Mastermind/Commander Wins ..2 Phasing .........................................................14
Your First Game...................................................2 Piercing Energy.............................................14
Your First Game - Cards to Use .....................2 Rise of the Living Dead ................................14
Game Setup Savior ............................................................14
Player Decks ...................................................3 S.H.I.E.L.D. Clearance .................................14
Game Stacks...................................................3 Size-Changing ..............................................14
Mastermind and Scheme ...............................3 Soaring Flight................................................15
Commander and Plot ......................................3 Spectrum.......................................................15
Villain Deck .....................................................4 Teleport .........................................................15
Adversary Deck...............................................4 Traps .............................................................15
To Add Villain/Adversary Groups:............. 4 Uru-Enchanted Weapons .............................15
To Add Henchman Groups/Backup Versatile .......................................................15
Adversaries ................................................4 Wall Crawl ....................................................15
To Add Bystanders:.................................................5 X-Gene..........................................................15
Hero/Ally Deck ................................................5 X-Treme Attack ............................................15
Starting the Game ...............................................5 Bystanders .........................................................15
On Your Turn: .................................................5 Unique Bystanders........................................15
Step 1) Play the Top Card of the Heroic Bystanders.........................................16
Villain/Adversary Deck ...............................5 Additional Rules ................................................16
Step 2) Play Cards from Your Hand, Using Betrayal ........................................................16
Them to Recruit and Fight..........................8 Bindings ........................................................16
Step 3) Discard Your Hand and Draw 6 Divided Cards ...............................................16
New Cards ................................................9 Each Hero/Ally You Played This Turn ........ 16
Masterminds/Commanders Gaining Cards ............................................16
Double-Sided Epic Masterminds .............. 9 Healing Wounds............................................16
Villains Ascending into Masterminds ...... 10 Horrors ..........................................................16
Global Mastermind/commander Abilities. 10 KO .............................................................16
Mastermind Tactics ..................................10 Madame HYDRA ..........................................17
Winning the Game: ...........................................10 Masterminds/Commanders Dont Count as
"A Player Is the Mastermind" .............................10 Villains/"Adversaries .............................17
Keywords Multiclass Cards............................................17
Abomination ..................................................11 Overruns from Card Effects .........................17
Artifacts .........................................................11 S.H.I.E.L.D. Heroes, HYDRA Allies and
Thrown Artifacts ......................................11 New Recruits............................................17
Throwing an Artifact .................................11 Printed .........................................................17
Berserk ..........................................................11 Rescue/Kidnap a Bystander .........................17
Bribe .............................................................11 Reveal ........................................................17
Burrow .........................................................11 Running out of Cards in the Bystander,
Charge ..........................................................12 Wound, Bindings, S.H.I.E.L.D. Officer,
Circle of Kung-Fu ..........................................12 HYDRA, or New Recruit Stacks ..............18
Cosmic Threat .............................................12 Running out of Cards in the Hero/Ally Deck or
Cross-Dimensional Rampage.......................12 Villain/Adversary Deck ............................18
Demolish ......................................................12 Special Abilities on Cards .............................18
Dodge ...........................................................12 Traps .............................................................18
Dominate.......................................................12 Token Cards .................................................18
Elusive .........................................................12 Villain/Adversary gets -2 Power .................18
Fateful Resurrection......................................12 Villains You Gain as Heroes .........................18
Feast .............................................................13 Wounds .........................................................18
Focus ...........................................................13 Grievous Wounds.....................................18
Fortify ............................................................13 Your Heroes/"Your Allies" & Heroes You
Hidden Witness .............................................13 Have /"Allies You Have ........................... 18
Galactus' Cosmic Threat....................................18 Secret Invasion of the Skrull Shapeshifters ..21
Galactus Consumes the Earth ...........................19 Sinister Ambitions .........................................21
Mysterio..............................................................19 Spider-Man....................................................21
The Infinity Gauntlet ...........................................19 Spider-Queen................................................21
Shards ..............................................................19 Thanos ..........................................................21
Infinity Gems ......................................................19 The Clone Saga ...........................................21
Multiple Masterminds.........................................19 Venom Blast..................................................21
Sidekicks............................................................19 Weave a Web of Lies ....................................21
Special Sidekicks: Pet Avengers ..................19 X-Cutioners Song ........................................21
Villains You Gain As Heroes .............................19 Join the Legendary Community Online.........21
Specific Card Clarifications Hero/Ally Types
.................................................................19 Strength .......................................................21
Arnim Zola.....................................................19 Instinct ..........................................................21
Bathe the Earth in Cosmic Rays ..................19 Covert ..........................................................22
Build an Underground Mega-Vault Prison ....19 Tech .............................................................22
Bullseye - Fulfill the Contract ...................20 Ranged .........................................................22
Bystanders that become Villains...................20 Basic .............................................................22
Cage Villains in Power-Suppressing Cells .. 20 Multiclass Cards ...........................................22
Card Effect ....................................................20 Heroic Teams
Card Values .................................................20 Avengers .....................................................22
Casual Bank Robbery...................................20 Fantastic Four ...............................................22
Charles Xavier, Professor of Crime ..............20 Guardians of the Galaxy ...............................22
Chameleon ...................................................20 Illuminati ........................................................22
Change the Outcome of WWII ......................20 Marvel Knights .............................................22
Crown Thor King of Asgard .........................20 Mercs for Money ...........................................22
Defeat............................................................20 New Warriors ................................................22
Detonate the Helicarrier ...............................20 S.H.I.E.L.D. ..................................................22
Dr. Octopus ..................................................20 Spider Friends .............................................22
Escape ..........................................................20 X-Force ........................................................22
Everybody Hates Deadpool..........................20 X-Men ...........................................................22
Fear Itself .....................................................20 Ally Teams
Firestar & Mysterio Shifting Illusions .........20 Brotherhood ..................................................22
Forge the Infinity Gauntlet.............................20 Cabal.............................................................22
Healing And Masterminds ............................20 Crime Syndicate ..........................................22
Hero Class ....................................................20 Foes of Asgard..............................................22
Hidden Heart of Darkness .................................20 HYDRA .........................................................23
Invade the Daily Bugle HQ ..........................20 Sinister Six ...................................................23
Invincible Force Field ...................................20 Cooperative and Competitive Play.................23
King Hyperion................................................20 Adjusting Difficulty
Kingpin - Pull The Strings ...................................20 Hero Challenge Mode ...................................23
Kree-Skrull War ............................................21 Villain Challenge Mode .................................23
Mass Produce War Machine Armor ..............21 Lowering Difficulty:.............................................24
Mr. Sinister ..................................................21 How to Teach the Game ...................................24
Mystique - Show your True Colors................21 Advanced Solo Mode
Mystique - Unpredictable Shapeshifter ........21 Advanced Solo Mode Scoring ......................24
Namor, the Sub-Mariner................................21 Final Showdown (Optional) ..........................24
Nick Fury-Total Fury ....................................21 Villains is Fully Compatible with other Marvel
Odin .............................................................21 Equivalent Terms ..........................................25
Own ...............................................................21 Terms That Are Not Equivalent ....................25
Phoenix-Force Cyclops .................................21 Bindings & Wounds ...........................................25
Pickpocket.....................................................21 S.H.I.E.L.D. & HYDRA .......................................25
Professor X ...................................................21 Other Teams ......................................................25
Pull Reality into the Negative Zone ...............21 Game Content....................................................26
Reality Gem, Soul Gem, and Space Gem ...21 Quick Reference Guide .....................................28
Reveal ...........................................................21
Overview Points. If the players defeat the Mastermind/Commander, then
Welcome to Legendary, the Marvel Deck-Building Game! Evil the player with the most Victory Points is the most legendary
Masterminds like Magneto and Dr. Doom lead a horde of Hero/Villain of all and also wins an individual victory.
powerful Super Villains, planning dark Schemes to destroy the
Marvel Universe! Only you can stop them, leading awesome How the Evil Mastermind/Commander Wins
Marvel Super Heroes like Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Wolverine! Unlike other games, in Legendary, the game itself fights back
against the players! The evil Mastermind/Commander, like
In Legendary Villains: A Marvel Deck-Building Game, you'll lead Magneto, Dr. Doom, Nick Fury or Professor X, isn't played by a
Marvel Super Villains like Loki, Magneto and Dr. Octopus to player. Instead, the game itself plays the part of the
smash Super Heroes and dominate the Marvel Universe! The Mastermind/Commander.
only thing in your way is the game itself fighting back against
you, with powerful Commanders like Nick Fury and Professor X The Mastermind/Commander works to accomplish an evil
leading terrifying adversaries like Hulk, Thor and Wolverine! Scheme/Plot throughout the game. Every Scheme card has a
part that says "Evil Wins", every Plot card a part that says "Good
If You Have Played Previous Marvel Wins", which tells you how the Mastermind/Commander
completes their Scheme/Plot. If the Scheme/Plot is completed,
Legendary Sets then the Mastermind/Commander wins the game for evil/good
The Villains set uses the same fundamental rules as other and all the players lose!
Marvel Legendary sets, but with a sinister twist: The players are
now evil Villains working to smash the forces of Good!
This set is fully compatible with previous Marvel
Your First Game
Legendary sets. The sets are designed so that you can For your first game, follow the setup rules on the following page,
mix and match Heroic sets and Villainous sets freely using the specific card stacks listed there instead of choosing
and there are cool combos between them. This card stacks at random. After your first game, every game of
Villainous set is also optimized to be played by itself as Legendary uses different Heroes/Allies, Villains/Adversaries,
a standalone game. See section under "Fully Masterminds/Commanders, and Schemes/Plots, so there are
Compatible with Other Marvel Legendary Sets" for the always new challenges to master and new combinations to
new terminology in this set and how to combine it with explore.
other Marvel Legendary sets.
Instead of S.H.I.E.L.D. Officers, you can now recruit Your First Legendary Game - Cards to Use
Madame HYDRA and New Recruits, which work
differently than S.H.I.E.L.D. Officers. Mastermind: Red Skull
Scheme: Unleash the Power of the Cosmic Cube.
This set includes four new Keyword Abilities:
Heroes: Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wolverine, Cyclops, Hawkeye
Demolish, Dodge, Elusive, and X-Treme Attack.
Villain Groups for the Villain Deck:
Instead of wounds, the Villain set features Bindings,
For 2 players: HYDRA, Spider-Foes, Sentinels.
which work differently. See page 12 for details
For 3 players: HYDRA, Spider-Foes, Sentinels, Skrulls
For 4 players: HYDRA, Spider-Foes, Sentinels, Skrulls,
Game Summary Hand Ninjas
In this game for 1-5 players, each player starts with their own For 5 players: HYDRA, Spider-Foes, Sentinels, Skrulls,
deck of basic Hero or Ally cards. At the start of your turn, you Hand Ninjas, Masters of Evil
play the top card of the Villain/Adversary Deck, showing how
Villains/Heroic Adversaries invade/enter the city, capture/guard
Bystanders, and create special events. Then you play Hero/Ally
cards from your hand to generate Attack, Recruit Points, and
Your First Villains Game - Cards to Use
special abilities. You attack with your Heroes/Allies to defeat Commander: Dr. Strange
Villains/Adversaries. You spend Recruit Points to recruit better Plot: Graduation at Xavier's X-Academy
Heroes/Allies storing them in your discard pile. Allies:
For 1 players: Dr. Octopus, Kingpen, Mysterio
Whenever your deck runs out of cards, you shuffle your discard For 2-4 players: Also add Green Goblin, Venom.
pile to make a new deck, including all the new Heroes/Allies you For 5 players: Also add Mystique
recruited. This way your deck gets stronger and stronger over Adversary Groups for the Adversary Deck:
time. Build up enough Attack and you can defeat the evil For 1 players: Marvel Knights, Cops (for 1 player, only use 3
Mastermind/powerful Commander of the forces of Good! But be Cop Cards.
careful: if the players don't defeat the Mastermind/Commander For 2 players: Also add Defenders (for 2+ players, use all 10
quickly enough, then the Mastermind/Commander will complete Cop cards.)
their dark Scheme/Plot and win the game for evil/good! For 3 players: Also add Uncanny Avengers
For 4 players: Also add Asgardian Warriors
How to Win For 5 players: Also add X-Men First Class.
Players must work together to successfully attack the evil
Mastermind/defeat the game's Commander four times. If they
do, then the Mastermind/Commander is beaten once and for all,
and all the players win the game for the forces of good/forces of
Evil!
In addition, defeating Villains/Adversaries and
rescuing/kidnapping Bystanders earns each player Victory

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Game Setup Player Decks Mastermind and Scheme
Give each player their own personal 12-card deck, made of Pick 1 Mastermind at random. Put the Mastermind card
these cards: faceup on the Mastermind space on the board. Take the 4
Legendary: Mastermind Tactics cards that match the Mastermind you
8 S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents selected. Put them underneath the Mastermind card, facedown
4 S.H.I.E.L.D. Troopers in random order.

Villains:
8 HYDRA Operatives
4 HYDRA Soldiers Pick 1 Scheme card at random. Put it faceup on the Scheme
space on the board. Each Scheme card has a "Setup" section.
Follow the setup instructions for that Scheme now. A Scheme
card's "Setup" section always tells you how many "Scheme
Twist" cards to put into the Villain Deck. Put that many Scheme
Twist cards onto the Villain Deck space to start the Villain Deck.
Many Schemes also have unique special rules.

Name

Game Stacks
Put these stacks of cards faceup on their spaces on the board.
Use all the cards of each type:
Legendary:
30 S.H.I.E.L.D. Officers Card
30 Wounds Type
30 Bystanders
Special Ability

Commander and Plot

Pick 1 Commander at random. Put the Commander card
faceup on the Commander space on the board. Take the 4
Commander Tactics cards that match the Commander you
selected. Put them underneath the Mastermind card, facedown
in random order.

Villains:
12 Madame HYDRA
15 New Recruits
30 Bindings

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 Pick 1 Plot card at random. Put it faceup on the Scheme Now add Villain/Adversary Groups to the Villain/Adversary
space on the board. Each Plot card has a "Setup" section. Deck. A Villain/Adversary Group is a group of eight
Follow the setup instructions for that Plot now. A Plot card's Villain/Adversary cards that work together, like "HYDRA",
"Setup" section always tells you how many "Plot Twist" cards to "Skrulls", "X-Men First Class" or "Marvel Knights". Each
put into the Adversary Deck. Put that many Plot Twist cards onto Villain/Adversary card lists its Villain/Adversary Group under its
the Adversary Deck space to start the Adversary Deck. Many card name. The more players you have in the game, the more
Plots also have unique special rules. Villain Groups/Adversary you use, as shown in this table:
Number Henchmen
Villain/Adversary
Name of Groups/Backup Bystanders
Groups
Players Adversaries
1 1 1* (3 cards) 1
2 2 1 2
3 3 1 8
4 3 2 8
5 4 2 12
Card * (1-player solo play uses only 3 cards from Henchmen Group/Backup
Type Adversaries instead of all 10 cards. For important details about solo
play, see pages 18-19.)
To Add Villain/Adversary Groups:
Special Ability Each Mastermind/Commander card says that the
Mastermind/Commander "Always Leads" a particular
Villain Deck Villain/Adversary Group or Henchman Group/Backup
Add 5 Master Strike cards to the Villain Deck. Adversaries. Be sure to include that group as one of the groups
you add to the Villain/Adversary Deck.
Pick the other Villain/Adversary Groups at random.
For each Villain/Adversary Group you pick, add all 8 Villain
cards from that Villain/Adversary Group to the deck.

Villain /
Adversary
Group
Adversary Deck
Add 5 Command Strike cards to the Adversary Deck.
To Add Henchman Groups/Backup
Adversaries:
Pick the listed number of Henchmen Groups/Backup
Adversaries at random. Henchmen/Backup Adversaries are
weaker Villains/Adversaries where each group has 10 identical
cards. Add those cards to the Villain/Adversary Deck.

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To Add Bystanders:
Check the table to the left to see how many Bystander cards On Your Turn:
to add to the Villain/Adversary Deck. Add cards at random from On your turn, you do 3 things:
the facedown Bystander Deck, so you might add any 1. Play the top card of the Villain/Adversary Deck.
combination of regular Bystanders and Special Bystanders. 2. Play cards from your hand, using them to recruit and fight.
3. Discard your hand and draw 6 new cards.

Step 1) Play the Top Card of the

Villain/Adversary Deck
At the beginning of your turn, reveal the top card of the
Villain/Adversary Deck and play that card. What you do with that
card depends on what kind of card it is. There are four kinds of
cards in the Villain/Adversary Deck: Villains/Adversaries,
Bystanders, Scheme/Plot Twists, and Master/Command
Strikes.

If the Villain/Adversary Deck Card Is a

Hero/Ally Deck Villain/Adversary:
That Villain/Adversary invades/enters the city! Here are the
There are fourteen cards for each Hero/Ally in the deck. Make
different parts of a Villain/Adversary card:
the Hero/Ally Deck this way:
Pick 5 Heroes/Allies at random. For each of those
Name
Heroes/Allies, add all 14 cards for that Hero to the Hero Deck.
That's 70 cards total.
Card Type &
If you are playing with 5 players, add a 6th Hero.
Villain/ Adversary
Group

Victory Points
Special
Starting the Game Ability
Attack: You must
Shuffle the Villain/Adversary Deck. Put it face-down on the
spend this much
Villain/Adversaries space.
attack to defeat this
Shuffle the Hero/Ally Deck. Put it face-down on the Hero/Ally
Villain/Adversary
space. Flip 5 cards from the Hero/Ally Deck face up into the 5
Hero Spaces in the HQ/Lair.
Each player shuffles their own personal deck and draws a
To have the Villain/Adversary invade/enter the city, here's what
hand of 6 cards from it.
you do:
Choose a player to go first. Players take turns in clockwise
order.

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Villain/Adversary Enters the City
Move the new Villain/Adversary into the city space closest to the Villain/Adversary Deck. That city space is labeled either "Sewers" or
"Bridges". (Villains/Adversaries in the city are always face up.)

Push Other Villains/Adversaries Forward if Necessary

Each of the 5 city spaces can only hold one Villain/Adversary. Whenever a Villain/Adversary enters a city space, if there's already another
Villain/Adversary there, that existing Villain/Adversary gets pushed one space to make room. So a single Villain/Adversary entering the
city sometimes causes a chain reaction of several Villains/Adversaries getting pushed forward.
Remember: Only push a Villain/Adversary forward if it needs to move to make room for another Villain/Adversary entering that space.

A Villain/Adversary Might Escape/Overrun

If a Villain/Adversary gets pushed off the final, fifth city space, then that Villain "escapes"/Adversary :Overruns" the city and goes into the
Escaped/Overrun pile on the game board, face up. Here's what happens when a Villain escapes or the Adversary overruns:
The escaping Villain/overrunning Adversary KO's a Hero/Ally that costs 6 or less from the HQ/Lair. (KO stands for "knocked out.") The
player whose turn it is chooses which of those Heroes/Allies gets KO'd. Put that Hero/Ally into the KO pile to the side of the game board,
face up. Immediately flip a new Hero/Ally from the Hero/Ally Deck, face up, to fill the empty space in the HQ/Lair.
If the escaping Villain/overrunning Adversary has any Bystanders, then each player must discard a card from their hand as a penalty for
failing to rescue/kidnap the Bystanders. After all, what kinds of Super Heroes/Super Villain let innocent Bystanders get carried
away/rescues by Villains/Adversaries? Each player only discards one card, no matter how many Bystanders were carried away by that
Villain/Adversary. Put the captured Bystanders in the Escaped/Overrun pile.
If the escaping Villain/overrunning Adversary has an "Escape"/"Overrun" effect on its card, do what it says.

Overrun Effect

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New Villain Might Have an Ambush Effect If the Villain/Adversary Deck Card Is a
If the new Villain has an "Ambush" effect on its card, do what it Scheme/Plot Twist:
says. Remember: if a Villain escaped when this new Villain A Scheme/Plot Twist card represents the Scheme/Plot moving
appeared, handle all the Escape effects for the escaping Villain forward towards victory for the Mastermind/Commander. Every
before handling any Ambush effect for the new Villain. Scheme/Plot works in a different way, with its Scheme/Plot
Twists doing a specific thing related to that Scheme/Plot. When
a Scheme/Plot Twist card is played, look at the "Twist" effect on
the main Scheme/Plot card and do what it says. Put the
Scheme/Plot Twist in the KO pile unless the Scheme/Plot tells
you to put it somewhere else. Some Schemes/Plots say they do
something special when a certain number of Twists come up.

Ambush Effect

If the Villain/Adversary Deck Card Is a

Bystander:
This innocent Bystander is captured by a Villain/guarded by the
Adversary! Put the Bystander under the Villain/Adversary in the
city that's closest to the Villain/Adversary Deck. If there are no
Villains/Adversaries in the city, then the Bystander is captured
by the Mastermind/guarded by the Commander. Make sure the
Bystander pokes out a bit so players can see it.
Whenever a Villain/Adversary with one or more Bystanders
moves to a new city space, those Bystanders all go with that
If the Villain/Adversary Deck Card Is a
Villain/Adversary. Master/Command Strike:
It's up to the players to rescue/capture that Bystander! When A Master/Command Strike card represents the
a Villain/Adversary or Mastermind/Commander with a Mastermind/Commander coming down to smash the players
Bystander is defeated by a player, that player rescues/captures themselves. Each Mastermind/Commander card has its own
that Bystander and puts it into that player's personal Victory Pile. specific Master/Command Strike effect. When a
Each Bystander is worth 1 Victory Point, so the more Master/Command Strike card is played, look at the
Bystanders you rescue, the more Victory Points you earn. "Master/Command Strike" effect on the
Mastermind/Commander card and do what it says. Put the
Master/Command Strike in the KO pile.

Note: Villains/Adversaries in the city don't get pushed forward

when the Villain/Adversary Deck card is a Bystander,
Scheme/Plot Twist, or Master/Command Strike.

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Step 2) Play Cards from Your Hand, Using A card's hero/ally class is shown with the class icon in
the card's upper left, and also in the color of the card's border.
Them to Recruit and Fight
Some Superpowers use a team icon like Avengers
The only types of cards that can be in your hand are
Heroes/Allies and Wounds/Bindings. Here are the different or X-Men instead of a hero/ally class icon. These work the
parts of a Hero/Ally card: same way as Superpowers that use hero/ally class icons. A
Hero/Ally Card card's team icon is in the card's upper-left-hand corner.
Team Icon Name Important: You can only use a card's Superpower once,
even if you played two or more cards of the required hero/ally
Hero/Ally Type Hero Name class earlier in the turn.
Icon However, a few Superpower abilities will explicitly tell
you to count a number of cards played earlier in a turn, by
Recruit Points:
saying something like " : You get +1 for each other
Use these to
recruit More Special abilities Hero/Ally played this turn."
Heroes/Allies You must use the Superpower ability if you can (unless the
ability says "You may...")
Attack: Use Cost: How many The more Heroes/Allies of the same class you recruit, the more
this to defeat Recruit Points it often you will be able to use your Superpower Abilities! A deck
Villians/Adversaries cost to add this focusing on one or two classes can be very powerful.
Hero/Ally to your
deck.
"Critical Hit" Superpower Abilities
After you play the top card of the Villain/Adversary Deck, you Some Superpower abilities show two icons instead of one, like:
play the cards from your hand. Some of your cards produce : You get +3
"Recruit Points" that let you recruit more Heroes/Allies. Other You can only use this Superpower ability if you have played
cards produce "Attack" that let you defeat Villains/Adversaries. cards with both of those icons earlier in your turn.
Some cards give you special abilities, like drawing more cards. For example, you can only use the Superpower ability on
Here's what you do: Hidden Weapons if you have played both another card and an
Play each card in your hand in any order, one at a time. card earlier in the turn.
Each time you play a card, do what that card says. Playing Hidden Weapons by itself isn't enough to satisfy its
You also get any Recruit Points listed in the Recruit own requirement. You must have already played another
icon on the card. card earlier in the turn. That could be another copy of Hidden
You also get any Attack listed in the Attack icon on the Weapon or could be a different card.
card.
Some cards have a number like "2+" inside their Recruit icon. Example of Superpower Abilities:
The "2" means that you always get at least 2 Recruit Points from
that card. The "+" symbol means that you might get even more Thor's "Odinson" card, shown here, always gives you 2 Stars
Recruit Points based on what the card says in its special ability. when you play it, even if you don't have any other ("Strength
Keep the cards you play in front of you until the end of your Hero") cards.
turn. But if you have already played another IP card earlier in the
turn, then you can use Odinson's Superpower ability to get an
additional 2 Stars, so that Odinson gives you 4 Stars in total.
The card you played earlier in the turn could be a*Captain
America card, another b*:Thor card, or even another copy of
Odinson.
If you play two Odinson cards as your first two cards of the
turn, you won't get to use the Superpower ability for the first
Odinson card you play this turn, but you will get to use the
Superpower for the second Odinson card you play this turn. So
you would get 6 Stars total.

Total
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Superpower Ability
Some cards have a Superpower ability with a hero class icon
and a colon, like

You get +1
You can use that special Superpower ability only if you have
already played another card of that hero/ally class earlier in your
turn.
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Recruiting Heroes/Allies and Fighting Step 3) Discard Your Hand and Draw 6 New
Villains/Adversaries Cards
In between playing cards from your hand, or after you've played At the end of your turn, put all the cards you played this turn
all your cards, you can recruit any number of Heroes/Allies and into your discard pile.
fight any number of Villains/Adversaries. You can recruit and Also discard any cards in your hand that you didn't play this
fight in the same turn. If you wish, you can play some cards, turn. (You don't have to play all the cards from your hand if you
recruit a Hero/Ally, play some more cards, fight a don't want to.)
Villain/Adversary, play your last cards, then Recruit another Then draw six new cards from your deck. If you don't have
Hero/Ally. The order is up to you. enough cards left in your deck to draw six, then shuffle your
entire discard pile into a new face down deck, as described
How to Recruit a Hero/Ally: below.
You spend Recruit Points to recruit Heroes/Allies from the
HQ/Lair, one at a time. The "HQ/Lair" area of the game board
has five spaces. Those five spaces always contain exactly five Shuffling Your Discard Pile into a New Deck
Heroes/Allies, all face up. You can also recruit "S.H.I.E.L.D. Whenever you don't have any cards left in your deck, and you
Officer/Madame HYDRA" and "New Recruits" from the stacks still need to draw more cards, shuffle your discard pile to form a
on the game board. To recruit a Hero/Ally: new face down deck. Then draw the rest of the cards you need.
Spend Recruit Points equal to that Hero's cost and put that For example, if you deck has two cards left and you need to
Hero into your discard pile. A Hero's/Ally's cost and put into your draw six, then you draw those two cards from your deck, then
discard pile. The hero's/Ally's cost is in its lower right corner. shuffle your discard pile to form a new deck, then draw your next
When your deck runs out and you shuffle your discard pile to 4 cards from the newly shuffled deck.
make a new deck, you will soon draw that new Hero/Ally and be If your deck exactly runs out, and you don't yet have to draw
able to use their abilities. more cards, don't shuffle your discard pile to form a new deck
Then refill the empty space in the HQ/Lair with a new card from yet. You only shuffle your discard pile to form a new deck when
the Hero/Ally Deck, face up. Whenever there is an empty space you need to draw a card from your deck and cannot.
in the HQ/Lair for any reason, you refill that space immediately In the unusual case that your deck runs out, you have to draw
with the top card of the Hero/Ally Deck, face up. You can even more cards, but you have no more cards left in your discard pile
recruit a Hero/Ally, see what new Hero/Ally appears in its place to shuffle into a new deck, then you just can't draw any more
from the Hero/Ally Deck, and then recruit that new Hero/Ally too, cards his turn.
if you have enough Recruit Points. Sometimes a card effect tells you to reveal the top card of
your deck or do something else with the top card of your deck,
How to Fight a Villain/Adversary: and you don't have any cards left in your deck, if that happens,
You use Attack to fight any number of Villains/Adversaries in the shuffle your discard pile into a new deck, then do the "reveal the
city, one at a time. It doesn't matter which city space holds the top card" effect or other effect.
Villain/Adversary. To fight a Villain/Adversary, do these steps in
order:
Spend Attack equal to that Villain's/Adversary's Attack to
Masterminds/Commanders
A Mastermind/Commander is a powerful, ingenious leader that
defeat it.
commands the Villains/Adversaries and works to accomplish a
Put the defeated Villain/Adversary and any Bystanders it
Scheme/Plot. A player can choose to fight the
captured/guarding into your personal Victory Pile.
Mastermind/Commander just like fighting a Villain/Adversary.
If the Villain/Adversary card has a "Fight" effect on it, do what
Like any other fight, you have to spend Attack equal to the
it says.
Mastermind's/Commander's Attack to fight that
Then, if any of those Bystanders had special effects that
Mastermind/Commander.
occur when you rescue/kidnap them, do those effects.
You can only fight a Villain/Adversary if you have at least as Mastermind/Commander Card
much Attack as the Villain's/Adversary's Attack value. As you
play Heroes/Allies from your hand, you generate a pool of Attack Name
that you can spend to defeat Villains/Adversaries that turn. You
don't have to match up specific Heroes/Allies against specific Card Type
Villains/Adversaries. You can also fight the
Mastermind/Commander - see the Masterminds/Commanders
section for details.

Your Victory Pile Victory Points

Each player has their own personal Victory Pile. Your face up Victory
Pile holds all the Villains/Adversaries you defeat and all the Bystanders
you rescue/kidnap. Special Ability Attack
Villains/Adversaries and Bystanders are never shuffled into your
deck.
Keep your Victory Pile horizontal so you don't mix it up with your face Double-Sided Epic Masterminds
up discard pile. As an extra-hard challenge, Legendary X-Men introduces 6 new
At the end of the game, Villains/Adversaries and Bystanders in your Double-Sided Epic Masterminds. Each has a normal side, or
Victory Pile are worth the Victory Points shown on their cards. can be flipped over to use its extra-nasty Epic Mastermind side,
using the same Mastermind Tactics.
Regular Onslaught and Dark Phoenix are already
devastating. Their Epic Mastermind versions are insanely
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 hard, with god-like powers! Final Showdown rules at the end of this book.

Villains Ascending into Masterminds "A Player is the Mastermind"

Some powerful Villains ascend to become new Masterminds, so Secret Wars introduces an intense, new, optional mode where
there are multiple Masterminds in the game! Players must one player takes on the role of the evil Mastermind. That player
defeat them all to win. When a Master Strike occurs, each plots against the other players, using powerful "Ambition cards"
Mastermind does its Master Strike ability. The player whose turn to help Evil win! This mode makes the game dramatically harder
it is picks the order. for the heroic players to win. To use this mode:
Choose who will be the Mastermind Player before the game.
Global Mastermind/Commander Abilities That player gets a starting deck like every other player.
Some Masterminds/Commanders have feature to make them Put the "Pure Evil" Ambition card face up near the
even more powerful: Global Mastermind/Commander Abilities. Mastermind player to start an "Ambition Row."
These abilities spread the Masterminds/Commanders influence Shuffle other "Ambition" cards into a special Ambition Deck
continuously, forcing players to battle through them. near the Mastermind Player.
Use a number of Heroes, Villains, Henchmen, and
Bystanders based on the number of Heroic
Mastermind/Commander Tactics players, not the Mastermind Player.
Masterminds/Commanders use different abilities during fights, However, the Scheme does count the
represented by "Mastermind/Commander Tactic" cards. All four Mastermind Player as a player, including its Setup,
"Mastermind/Commander Tactic" cards have the same Attack Special Rules, & Evil Wins rules.
number, but they each have different "Fight" effects on them.
When you fight a Mastermind/Commander: Playing Ambition Cards
Choose a random card from the four face-down At the start of the Mastermind Players
Mastermind/Commander Tactics cards underneath the turn, that player doesnt play a card from the Villain
Mastermind/Commander. Deck. Instead, that player adds the top card of the
Put that Mastermind/Commander Tactic card into your Ambition Deck to the Ambition Row, face up.
Victory Pile. It's worth several Victory Points. Also put any There can be a maximum of 4 Ambition cards face
Bystanders that Mastermind/Commander was up at once in the Ambition Row. If there are already 4
kidnapping/guarding into your Victory Pile. cards there when a new Ambition card is revealed,
Follow the "Fight" effect listed on that then the Mastermind Player must discard one of those
Mastermind/Commander Tactic card. Ambition cards or the newly drawn Ambition card to
make room. That player can see the new Ambition
Mastermind/Commander Tactic Card card before they decide what to discard. Discarded
Ambition cards always go to a special Ambition Discard
Pile next to the Ambition Deck.
Name During the Mastermind Players turn, that player
can spend the Attack points shown on an Ambition card
Card Type in the Ambition Row to play that Ambition card. That
player uses its ability immediately, then puts
it into the Ambition Discard Pile. These abilities can hurt
the other players in a variety of ways.

Victory Points Other Mastermind Player Details

The Mastermind Player takes the first turn.
The Mastermind Player can still recruit Heroes from
Special Ability Attack the HQ as normal, corrupting them to the side of Evil.
The Mastermind Player and the Heroic players
A Mastermind/Commander is not truly defeated until all four of should look to steal Heroes the other side might find
their Mastermind/Commander Tactics cards have been useful!
defeated by the players. If you create an amazing combo that The Mastermind Player can also fight Villains as
gives you tons of Attack, you can even fight the normal. For example, if they want to grab beneficial
Mastermind/Commander multiple times in one turn. Fight effects from Villains, or stop Heroic players from
When you fight the 4th Mastermind/Commander Tactic, getting them.
players win even if the 4th Mastermind/Commander Tactic Master Strikes, Ambush effects, and Escape effects
causes the Hero/Ally or Villain/Adversary Deck to run out, or dont affect the Mastermind Player. That player doesnt
meets the "Evil/Good Wins" condition on the Scheme/Plot. discard when a bystander is carried away by an
escaping Villain.
Winning the Game: However, other card effects (like Schemes, Heroes, & Villain
Players win the game when they have defeated the Mastermind Fight effects) still work on Mastermind Player and Heroic
four times. players alike.
For a truly epic Good vs. Evil experience, if you have the
Note: There is an optional rule that allows players to compete in Legendary Villains set, make a Lair Deck of 3 Villainous
one final showdown after the Mastermind has been defeated Allies from the Villains set shuffled together, 42 cards total.
four times. For rules on this optional form of play, please see Then the Mastermind Player Recruits Villainous Allies from

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their own 5-space Lair, while all the Heroic players recruit To "throw" a Thrown Artifact, put it on the bottom of your deck
Good Heroes from the HQ as normal! and use its ability. (Just like Thor's Hammer, a Thrown Artifact
Or flip it around, with several Villainous players can return to your hand very quickly!)
using Allies from the Legendary Villains set against a You can control multiple Artifacts with the same card name.
single Good Commander Player recruiting Heroes! You can throw as many Artifacts as you want in a turn. You
can only throw during your turn.
Keyword Abilities
Artifacts and Card Effects
Abomination If a card effect asks you to "Reveal a Ally," you may
This keyword ability is used by Villains that are twisted genetic
reveal a Ally Artifact you control. Card effects that say "your
experiments of HYDRA scientists. It means "This Villain gets +
Allies" or "Allies you have" include Ally Artifacts you control as
equal to the printed of the Hero in the HQ space under this
well.
Villain's city space."
However, you only "played" as Artifact on the turn you put it
Likewise, "Ultimate Abomination" means "This Mastermind out, so it only activates the turn you put it out, so it only activates
gets + equal to the total printed of all the Heroes in the
HQ." Superpower Abilities (Like: You get +1 ") on the turn you
play the artifact, not every turn of the game.
An Abomination Villain's can go up and down as the Villain
moves through the city. (Likewise, card effects that count "each Ally you play this
turn" only count an Artifact if you played it this turn.)
You can use Artifacts during the Final Showdown.
Artifacts If the card effect like Rogue, Chameleon, or Star-Lord would
This set also contains powerful new "Artifact" cards that players let you "copy" a Thrown Artifact card, use that Artifact's "When
can use for permanent advantages. Some Hero cards are also you throw this" ability once, and there is no other effect. (Don't
Artifacts. (They still count as Hero cards too.) When you gain a put anything on the bottom of your deck.)
Hero Artifact, put it in your discard pile like any other Hero card.
When you draw the Artifact later in the game, you may play it in
front of you and use its effects, usually once on each of your
Berserk
turns. This means you "control" that Artifact. At the end of your This keyword represents some X-Men going into a berserker
turn, when you discard all the cards you played that turn, the rage of unpredictable violence.
Artifacts you control stay in. Berserk means Discard the top card of your deck. You
You can use an Artifact on the first turn you play it. get + equal to the discarded cards printed . (So, if
You can control multiple Artifacts with the same card name the discarded card gives 2+ , you just count 2.)
and use each of them. Some cards say, Berserk, Berserk, Berserk so you discard
You can't use your Artifacts "once per turn" abilities during three cards in a row.
other player's turn. Some cards say things like Berserk, X-Gene : You get
Id a card effect during any player's turn ask you to "Reveal a
Hero," you may reveal a Hero Artifact you control. +1 . You do the card abilities in order, so Berserk might
Card effects that say "your Heroes" or "Heroes you have" discard a card from your deck, letting you use your
include Hero Artifacts you control as well. X-Gene ability.
However, you only "played" an Artifact on the turn you put it Berserk gives no benefit from discarding printed or
out, so it only activates Superpower Abilities (like " : You values.
get+1 ") on the turn you play the Artifact, not every turn of
the game. Likewise, card effects that count "each Hero you
played this turn" only count an Artifact if you played it this turn. Bribe
You don't have to use an Artifact's abilities on a turn if you You can fight villains with the keyword "Bribe" by spending any
don't want to. combination of Attack and/or Recruit points. For example, you
If you are using the Final Showdown, you can use Artifacts may play two S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents and two S.H.I.E.L.D. Troopers
during your Showdown Turn. to fight the +4 Maggia Goons.
If a card effect like Rogue or Chameleon would let you "copy"
an Artifact card, then you can use that Artifact's "Once per turn" Burrow
ability once, and there is no other effect. Subterranea Villains use the new Burrow keyword. This allows
them to retreat by digging to safety when they are attacked.
Thrown Artifacts "Burrow" means:
Some Ally Cards in this set are "Thrown Artifacts". These are "Fight: If the Streets were empty, put this Villain back into the
Artifact cards that a player can "throw" at the perfect moment. Streets."
When you gain an Ally card that's an arifact, put it into your When you fight a Villain with Burrow, do all of that Villain's Fight
discard pile like any other Ally. When you draw that Artifact later effects. You rescue any Bystanders the villain may have
in the game, you may play it in front of you when the time comes. captured as normal. Then, if the "Streets" city space was empty,
This means you "control" that Arifact. At the end of your turn, put that Villain back into the Streets space. This means that to
when you discard all the cards you played that turn, the Artifacts stop a Villain with Burrow permanently, you have to:
you control stay in front of you for future turns and are not Fight it while it's in the Streets, or
discarded. Fight it while another Villain occupies the Streets, or
Fight it once to drive it back to the Streets then fight it again in
"Throwing" an Artifact the Streets to finish it.
If you fight a Villain with Burrow twice in a turn, you'll do that
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Villain's "Fight" effects twice. Cards that do something "when Dodge cards have conditional effects so that sometimes you
you defeat" a Villain still work if the Villain burrows to the Streets. want to play them, and sometimes you want to Dodge them
When a Villain burrows to the Streets, it does not do any away. Dodge also helps you sculpt your hand towards Recruit
Ambush effects. Points or Attack as you desire.
When you Dodge a card from your hand, ignore all other text
Charge on that card. (The only exception is Green Goblin's "Goblin
Ambush: Charge one space means (After this villain enters Glider," which specifically tells you to do something when you
the Sewers,) it charges forward an extra space, pushing other Dodge with it.)
Villains forward. When you Dodge a card from your hand, you didn't "play" that
This might cause more escapes. card, so the Dodged card's Hero/Ally Class/color doesn't help
Some Villains charge multiple spaces! you use the Superpower abilities of other cards you play that
turn.
Some Heroes/Allies count the number of cards you discarded
Circle of Kung-Fu (and Quack-Fu) this turn. This includes cards you discarded with Dodge.
5th Circle of Kung-Fu means During your turn, this Villain has
+5 unless you reveal a Hero that costs 5 or more.
Likewise, the 7th Circle gets a +7 unless you reveal a Hero
Dominate
that costs 7 or more, etc. This keyword represents Villains using telepathy, sorcery, or
illusions to twist Heroes minds to evil.
If a Villain or Mastermind already has a Circle of Kung Fu, and
a Scheme gives then another one, only count the highest Some Villains and Masterminds say they Dominate Hero
circle dont add them up. cards from various places. This means Put those Heroes
under this enemy. This enemy gets +1 for each Hero
its Dominating.
Cosmic Threat
When you fight that enemy, put one of those Dominated
Galactus and his Heralds use the new Cosmic Threat keyword.
This gives them incredibly high Attack values with a special Heroes into each players discard pile. You choose which
player gets which Hero, including yourself. There might not be
vulnerability. If an enemy has Cosmic Threat: that means: enough for every player to get one. KO any excess
"Once per turn, for each card you reveal, this Enemy gets -3 Dominated Heroes.
this turn." If a Villain escapes, any Heroes Dominated by that Villain go
For example, Morg has Cosmic Threat: and 12*. to the Escape Pile too.
If you reveal two cards, Morg gets -6 this turn, so he
has 6 left. Elusive
If you reveal four or more cards, Morg gets -12 , this "Elusive 6" means "You can only fight this Villain/Adversary if
turn, so he has 0 , and you can fight him without spending any you have made at least 6 this turn." You don't have to spend
. that to fight this Villain/Adversary, you just have to have made
that much this turn. You can still spend that on recruiting
(An asterisk next to an Enemy's number is to remind you that Heroes/Allies. Elusive represents how some
their can change. The asterisk doesn't mean anything else.) Villains/Adversaries are hard to pin down, can't be defeated with
sheer brute force, and need to be cornered in a more subtle
Cross-Dimensional Rampage way.
As different Hulks storm across parallel realities, only another
Hulk can stop them! "Cross-Dimensional Hulk Rampage" Excessive Violence
means "Each player reveals one of their Hulk Heroes or a Hulk Say you've played three Heroes with Excessive Violence
card in their Victory Pile or gains a Wound." abilities this turn. If you spend 8 points to fight a Villain or
This counts any card or Hero name, plus the alternate Hulks
"Maestro" and "Nul, Breaker of Worlds." (from Legendary: Fear Mastermind that has 7 , then you'll get to use all three
Itself). Excessive Violence abilities!
Likewise, "Cross-Dimensional Wolverine Rampage" counts If you don't fight anything this turn, or you don't spend an extra
and card with "Wolverine," "Weapon X," or "Old Man Logan." Attack point on someone, then you won't be able to use
And Cross-Dimensional Colossus Rampage means Each Excessive Violence.
player reveals one of their Colossus Heroes or a Colossus Since you can only fight "with Excessive Violence" once per
card in their Victory Pile or gains a Wound. This counts any turn, you can only use a card's Excessive Violence ability
card that includes Colossus in its card name or Hero name. once in a turn.
(It's ok to play two cards with the same name and use both of
their Excessive Violence abilities.)
Demolish If you fight with Excessive Violence, then draw or play more
"Demolish each player" means "Reveal the top card of the
cards with Excessive Violence abilities later in the turn, it will
Hero/Ally Deck, notes its cost, and puts it on the bottom of the
be too late to use those abilities.
Hero/Ally Deck. Each player reveals their hand and discards a
card with that cost."
Fateful Resurrection
On a Villain card, Fight: Fateful Resurrection means Fight:
Dodge Reveal the top card of the Villain Deck. If its a Scheme Twist or
"Dodge" means "During your turn, you may discard this card
Master Strike, this Villain reenters the city.
from your hand to draw another card". This ability represents the
If a Villain resurrects this way, you still rescue its Bystanders
trickiness and resourcefulness of the Heroes/ Allies. Many
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 and do its other Fight effects. behind layers of informants, victims, and stooges. To find
The Villain pushes into the Sewers and does any Ambush these Villains, you must track down and interview Hidden
abilities as normal. Witnesses who know their locations.
If a Mastermind Tactic resurrects this way, shuffle it back into Some Villains say things like "Ambush: This Villain
the other face down Tactics. captures 2 Hidden Witnesses." This means the Villain
If a Villain that has ascended to become a Mastermind captures the top 2 cards of the Bystander Stack,
resurrects this way, it stays a Mastermind and does not face-down, as Hidden Witnesses. You can't fight a Villain
reenter the city. while it has a Hidden Witness.
During your turn, you can pay 2 to rescue a Hidden
Feast Witness any number of times and put it in your Victory Pile.
The new Mastermind Carnage and his "Maximum Carnage" Hidden Witnesses still count as Bystanders. When you
followers use the gruesome new Feast keyword. "Feast" states rescue one, you get any special "When you rescue this
that when you fight a Villain or Mastermind with this ability you Bystander..." effect written on it. It stays in your victory Pile
treat it as a fight effect. IE: as a normal, face-up Bystander.
"Feast"="Fight: KO the top card of your deck." A Villain can have face-up Bystanders and face-down
Some Maximum Carnage Villains create special effects when Hidden Witnesses at the same time. You'll need to pay to
they feast on certain cards rescue the face-down Hidden Witnesses. Then, you can
Carnage's Master Strike starts with "Feast on each player." fight the Villain, which will automatically rescue the face-up
That means each player does the "Feast" effect. Then Bystanders.
Carnage's Master Strike causes Wounds when he feasts on If a Villain escapes with any number of Bystanders,
certain cards. including Hidden Witnesses, it will cause all players to
Note that Carnage's Master Strike is the only effect that discard a single card, just like a Villain escaping with any
feasts on every player. The "Maximum Carnage" Villains and normal Bystanders. Hidden Witnesses carried away by
Carnage's Mastermind Tactics each feast on only one player. escaping Villains stay in the Escape Pile as normal, face-up
While Carnage's Master Strike causes Wounds, the Feast Bystanders.
abilities on his Mastermind Tactics and most of his Villains don't You can pay to rescue Hidden Witnesses even if you're not
cause Wounds. going to fight that Villain during that turn. You can also
rescue just some of the Hidden Witnesses and leave others
Focus for later.
The new "Focus" keyword lets you transform your Recruit Points If a special ability lets you "Defeat a Villain for free," you
into powerful, flexible effects. It looks like this: automatically rescue all the Hidden Witnesses on it without
paying .
"Focus 2 (EFFECT)."
Masterminds and Schemes can have Hidden Witnesses on
When you play a card with a Focus ability, you can pay the cost
them too. They work the same way.
on the left side of the arrow to get the effect on the right side of
the arrow. You can use that Focus ability as many times as you
want for the rest of the turn. For example, say you play a card Human Shields
that says: This keyword represents enemies hiding behind innocent
" Focus 2 Draw a card." people to prevent Heroes attacks.
For the rest of your turn, you can use 2 Recruit Points to draw a Ambush: This Villain captures 2 Human Shields means the
card, as many times as you want, as long as you have the Villain captures the top 2 cards of the Bystander Stack
Recruit points available. You can even play more Heroes, face-down. You cant fight a Villain while it has any
recruit, fight, then use the Focus ability more. Human Shields. During your turn, any number of times, you
Note: You can use Focus abilities and still use the "Healing" can pay equal to that Villains value to rescue one of
ability on Wounds. its Human Shields at random and put it in your Victory Pile.
(The on their is a reminder.)
Fortify A Villain can have face up Bystanders and face-down Human
The keyword represents Villains setting up nasty traps for the Shields at the same time. Youll need to pay to rescue the
players. face-down Human Shields. Then you can fight the Villain,
Some Villains say things like "Escape: Fortify the which will rescue the Face-up Bystanders automatically.
Mastermind. While it's fortified, the Mastermind can't be Human Shields still count as Bystanders. Villains escaping
fought." with Human Shields still make players discard as normal.
Put the Villain on or near the specified place. While it's thee, it
has the listed effect. Any player can fight that Villain as normal Investigate
to end that Fortify effect and put that Villain into their Victory This keyword represents hard-bitten Noir detectives
Pile. investigating mysteries and searching for evidence and allies.
If a card word fortifies a place, don't do anything if there's Some cards say things like "Investigate for a card." That
already a Villain fortifying that place. means "Look at the top two cards of your deck. Reveal
a card from among them and draw it. Put the rest of
Hidden Witnesses those cards back on the top and/or bottom of your
In a world of Noir, conspiracies are hard to unravel, betrayal is deck in any order."
commonplace, and it's hard to determine who the real Villains Other abilities let you investigate for cards with certain
are. costs, teams, icons, and other traits.
This keyword represents Villains and Masterminds hiding Whether your investigation finds the right kind of card or
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 not, you can still decide which cards go back on the top or You can also ignore any special conditions for fighting that
bottom of your deck. This lets you set up your next enemy, automatically rescuing any Human Shields.
Investigation or make powerful combos with other abilities You cant use Piercing Energy against cards that have no
that care about the top card of your deck. printed VP value, like Shadow-X Villains, or Master Strikes
Some abilities tell you to investigate entirely different decks, that become Villains.
like the Villain, Hero and Bystander Decks. They will tell you
what to do with the card you find. Like before, put the rest of Phasing
the cards you looked at back on the top and/or bottom of This keyword represents Heroes becoming insubstantial and
that deck in any order. moving through solid objects.
During your turn, if a card with Phasing is in your hand, you
Lightshow may swap it with the top card of your deck.
This keyword represents X-Men using fireworks and blinding This lets you get a different card instead, save a crucial
bursts in spectacular combinations. Phasing card for the next turn, or set up a combo that cares
Some Heroes say things like Lightshow: you get +3 . about the top card of your deck.
Once per turn, if you played at least two Lightshow cards Swapping cards this way isn't "playing a card" or "drawing a
this turn, you can use a single Lightshow ability from any card," so it doesn't count for other abilities that trigger on
of those cards. those things.
If you play three, four, or more Lightshow cards you still use
only a single Lightshow ability. Revenge
This means: "This Villain gets +1 for each 'Deadpool's
Man (and Woman) Out of Time Friends' Villain in your Victory Pile."
Heroes from 1941 use this keyword ability to represent fighting
in both the past and the present. It means "After you use this Rise of the Living Dead
card's abilities, set it aside. At the beginning of your next turn, "Rise of the Living Dead" means "Each player checks the top
play this card a second time and then discard it." card of their Victory Pile. If that card is a Villain with a "Rise of
The card is discarded the second time you play it, so you play the Living Dead" ability, that Villain reenters the city.
the card only twice total. You can't use Man Out of Time again (Mastermind Tactics never return this way.)
to play that card for a third time. If you put a Villain with Bystanders into your Victory Pile, you
Play your returning Man Out of Time cards after the "Play a choose the order.
Villain Card" part of your turn and before you start playing out
of your hand.
Savior
You "played" a Man Out of Time card on both the first turn you
This keyword ability on Heroes and Villains rewards you for
played it and the second turn when you replayed it, so it can saving the innocent. It means "Use this ability if you have at
help activate your Superpower Abilities on both turns. least 3 Bystanders in your Victory Pile."
For example: "Savior: Draw a card."
Patrol If you defeat a Villain with Bystanders, put those Bystanders
Some cards have abilities like Patrol the Sewers: If its empty, into your Victory Pile before checking and Savior ability on
rescue a Bystander. When you play that card, you can use that that Villain.
ability only if that city space has no cards in it. If a Hero card rescues a Bystander, that Bystander counts
If that city space becomes empty later in the turn, its too late towards and Savior ability on that Hero.
to use the Patrol ability.
If playing a Patrol card gives you , and you use that to
clear out that city space, its still too late to use the Patrol
S.H.I.E.L.D. Clearance
ability, since the space wasnt empty when you played the This keyword represents pro-registrationS.H.I.E.L.D. forces that
Patrol card. can only be defeated with the help of S.H.I.E.L.D. information.
This can also say Fight: Patrol the Bank: If its empty, you get If a Villain says "S.H.I.E.L.D. Clearance," then you must
+2 . If its not, you get a +2 . discard a Hero as an additional cost to fight that
Villain.
Other cards let you patrol even stranger places, like the
Escape Pile or a Victory Pile. Similarly, you can use those Likewise, if a Mastermind has "Double S.H.I.E.L.D.
Patrol abilities if that place has no cards in it. Clearance," the you must discard two Heroes each time
you fight them.
If a mastermind or Scheme causes a city space not to exist,
you cant patrol that space. If you are playing with Heroes, you may discard them
instead of Heroes.
Piercing Energy
This keyword represents X-Men using psychic knives & sonic
Size-Changing
screams to pierce enemy defenses. This keyword repesents Heroes and Villains using superpowers
to massively change their size.
Some Heroes give you a new kind of points called Piercing
Some Hero cards say, "Size-Changing: ." This means
Energy, using the icon, You can fight a Villain or "You can recruit thuis card for 2 less if you played a
Mastermind by spending points equal to that card this turn."
enemys printed Victory Points value ( ). You ignore that Likewise, some Villain cards say, "Size-Changing: ." This
means "You can fight this villain for 2 less if you
enemys and any modifiers. played a card this turn."
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 Some Divided Cards say "Size-Changing: " on one side cards you've revealed so far and keep revealing. (If there are no
and "Size-Changing " on the other side. You can recruit cards left in the Adversary Deck there is no Attack bonus).
either side of the card with its own Size-Changing discount, With 2-5 players, each flip tends to be worth about 1.5 attack.
but you can't get both discounts at once. In solo mode: about 1 attack.

Soaring Flight Versatile

This ability represents X-Men flying into action as rapid When you play a card with the keyword "Versatile" you must first
reinforcements. choose either Recruit and Fight. Once you have chosen, the
Soaring Flight means When you recruit this Hero, set it card provides recruit or fight equal to the Versatile value. For
aside. At the end of this turn, add it to your new hand as example, Versatile 3 gives you either +3 if you selected
an extra card. Recruit or +3 if you selected Fight.

Spectrum Wall Crawl

Some cards have abilities like Spectrum: Draw a card. You can The new "Wall-Crawl" keyword lets Heroes set up powerful
use a cards Spectrum abilities only if you have at least 3 combos by placing cards at f the top of their decks.
classes of Hero. (e.g. , and ). "Wall-Crawl" means:
Grey S.H.I.E.L.D. Heroes, HYDRA Allies, New Recruits and "When you recruit this Hero, you may put it on top of your
Sidekicks dont have classes, so they dont help. deck.'"
You can count all the classes you have among cards you With Wall-Crawl, you get to use your new Hero much faster than
played this turn and cards in your hand. you would if that Hero went in your discard pile. Keep an eye out
Multiclass cards work especially well with Spectrum. for powerful combos you can create if you recruit a Wall-Crawl
Hero early in your turn before you play cards that reveal the top
card of your deck.
Teleport Remember: When you use Wall-Crawl to put a card on top of
Instead of playing, you may set aside a card with the keyword
your deck, don't use any other abilities on that card until it gets
"Teleport". If you do, add it to your new hand at the end of your
drawn from your deck.
turn as an extra card.
If you "gain" a Hero through some special ability like Skrull
Shapeshifters, you can't use Wall-Crawl because you
Traps didn't "recruit" that Hero.
Every Villain Group in the X-Men Set contains at least one Trap.
When a trap is played from the Villain Deck, it gives you a X-Gene
challenge to complete this turn to avoid the Trap. If you This keyword represents X-Men combining unique mutant
complete the challenge, put the Trap in your Victory Pile and
powers with their signature teamwork.
get its VP. A Trap is not a Villain and doesnt enter the city.
If you fail to complete the challenge, then at the end of the turn Some Heroes say things like X-Gene : You get +2 .
you must KO the trap and suffer the listed consequences! (Do This means if you have a card in your discard pile, you
this after you draw a new hand). get a +2 . You can use a cards X-Gene ability only if
you have the specified kind of card in your discard pile.
Uru-Enchanted Weapons You can only use a cards X-Gene ability once, no matter how
When you try to fight an enemy that has some number of many matching cards you have in your discard pile.
Uru-Enchanted Weapons, reveal that many cards from the top Remember: when you play a card during your turn, it stays in
of the Adversary Deck. That Enemy immediately gains + front of you until the end of turn. Then all the cards you played
equal to the Total Victory Points of all the cards you revealed. If that turn go to the discard pile. So if you have an empty
you have enough Attack points to match the enemy's improved discard pile, you cant play a card from your hand, then
, use them and defeat the enemy as normal. If you don't immediately play a card with X-Gene and use that
have enough Attack points, you don't defeat this enemy, you X-Gene ability.
lose all your Attack points, and you can't fight anymore this turn.
One cool combo is to recruit a Hero into your discard pile,
Whether you defeat that enemy or not, put all the cards you
revealed from the Adversary Deck on the bottom of that deck in then play your X-Gene card, and youll get to use its
random order. X-Gene ability.
Many of these enemies have a "Fight or Fail" effect. Do this
effect if you defeat them or if the Uru-Enchanted Weapons X-Treme Attack
cause you to fail to defeat them. "X-Treme Attack" means "This Villain/Adversary gets +1
You can't try to fight an enemy unless you have enough for each other Villain/Adversary in the city with X-Treme Attack."
Attack points to match its printed . This ability shows how X-Men are especially powerful when they
Once you start to fight an enemy, you can't play any more work as a team. Some "ex X-Men" in the Uncanny Avengers use
cards or throw any Artifacts until after that fight is complete. So the ability as well, cooperating with their old X-Men colleagues.
remember to generate all the Attack points you can before you
attack an enemy with Uru-Enchanted Weapons!
The symbol next to these Enemies' indicates that they Bystanders:
might get more Attack. Unique Bystanders
Flipping cards for Uru-Enchanted Weapons cannot end the Players who rescue these Unique Bystanders earn special
game. If you run out of cards in the Adversary Deck, shuffle the rewards. The Bystander Stack is now kept face down, shuffled,
so you never know when you might get a special bonus for
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rescuing a Bystander. or . You can play the side to get ready to use a
Heroic Bystanders Superpower Ability that triggers on cards later in your turn.
The New Mutants are Professor Xs students, dreaming of Different sides of Divided Cards often let you choose
becoming full-fledged X-Men. For them, the Legendary X-Men between Recruit, Attack, drawing cards, and other effects.
set introduces New Mutant Bystanders that become Heroes Choose carefully which side to play!
when you rescue them. While a Divided Card is in your hand or the HQ, it counts as
all its Hero Classes, Teams and Hero Names. But once your
Additional Rules play it, the card only counts as the side you choose.
When sorting and setting up, always use the Hero Name on
Betrayal the left side of a Divided Card.
Unlike Heroes, Marvel Super Villains are known to backstab A Divided Card is one card, not two. So if you have to
each other, especially when times get tough. If you have one or "discard two cards," "draw two cards," or count the number of
more Bindings in your hand, you can use the "Betrayal" ability cards in your hand, a Divided Card only counts as one card.
written on the Bindings card:
"Betrayal: If you don't recruit any Allies or defeat any
Adversaries or Commanders on your turn, you may KO a "Each Hero/Ally You Played This Turn"
Bindings from your hand. If you do, the player to your right gains This phrase only counts cards you have already played this turn,
all the other Bindings from your hand." and not other cards still in your hand.
So if you have three in your hand, and you decided to use For example, say you play
Betrayal this turn, you would KO one of those and put the other Iron Man's "Arc Reactor" card.
two in the discard pile of the player on your right. You'll get extra Attack for any
This is often worth doing if you have at least two in your hand, other (Tech Hero) cards you
or if your turn wouldn't have been very good anyway. played before Arc Reactor, but
It's okay to play cards in your hand, Dodge, and/or use not for any other cards still
abilities like "draw a card" to see how your hand develops, then in your hand.
decide whether to use the "Betrayal" ability from your hand. As
long as you don't recruit Allies or fight any Adversaries or
Commanders during your turn, you can still use "Betrayal."

Bindings
Some special abilities make you gain Bindings cards, "Gaining" Cards
representing your Villainous Allies getting bound or restrained Some card abilities say that a
by those accursed Super Heroes. When a player gains a player "gains" a particular card. That means put that card into
Bindings, take a Bindings from the Bindings Stack and put it into that player's discard pile. The player will draw that card in the
that player's discard pile. Bindings don't have any Recruit Points future, after their deck runs out and they shuffle their discard pile
or Attack, so when you draw a Bindings into your hand, your into a new deck.
hand is weaker than normal.
Some cards let you KO your Bindings so you don't have to Healing Wounds
worry about them anymore.
If you have one or more Wounds in your hand, you can use the
Other cards can even turn Bindings to your benefit: when
ability written on the Wound card:
heroes try to bind Magneto, he just uses his magnetism powers
"Healing: If you don't recruit any Heroes, defeat any Villains
to use those Bindings as a weapon against them!
or fight any Masterminds on your turn, you may KO all the
Bindings cards aren't Allies. If a card tells you to "KO one of
Wounds from your hand."
your Allies" you can't KO a Bindings, since Bindings aren't
This is often worth doing if you have at least two Wounds in
Allies. However, if a card says "KO one of your cards," then you
your hand, or if your turn wouldn't have been very good anyway.
can KO a Bindings.
It's okay to play the cards in your hand and use some abilities
You only gain Bindings when a card effect tells you to. You
like "draw a card," then use the "Healing" ability to KO Wounds
can't recruit Bindings by paying Recruit Points.
from your hand, as long as you don't recruit any Heroes or fight
Bindings have a Zero cost. However, you cannot recruit
any Villains during your turn.
Bindings into your deck - you can only gain them a card effect
tells you to. Horrors
Legendary X-Men adds a completely new card type to
Divided Cards Legendary. Horrors make the game harder in a variety of ways.
Matching the theme of division and duality, Civil War introduces
All the Epic Masterminds explicitly say they add Horrors to the
"Divided Cards," which have two miniature cards printed on the
game. Players who want to play in hard mode can also choose
same card.
to add any number of Horrors (random or hand-picked) at the
You recruit a Divided Card from the HQ as normal by paying
start of a game against and Mastermind. How many can you
its cost. Each side of a Divided Card shows the same cost. (If it
beat at once?
costs "3" on each side, you pay only 3 Recruit, not 6.)
When you play a Divided Card, you choose which side to
play. You generate all the Recruit, Attack, and special abilities of "KO"
the side as normal. You ignore the other side, as if it doesn't Many card abilities tell you to "KO" certain cards, meaning
exist. "knock out". This means put them into a big "KO pile" off to the
Each side of a Divided Card has a different Hero Class, Like side of the game board, face up. Cards in the KO pile are

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permanently out of the game. The players and the game all like the Plots "Graduation at Xavier's X-Academy" and "Infiltrate
share one big KO pile. the Lair with Spies," don't cause players to discard cards for
Important: If a card says to KO "one of your Heroes/Allies", those Bystanders, since they were not carried out of the city by
that can be a Hero/Ally you've already played this turn or a Adversaries.
Hero/Ally still in your hand. If you KO a Hero/Ally you already
played this turn, you still get to use the Recruit Points, Attack, S.H.I.E.L.D. Heroes, HYDRA Allies and New
and special abilities that Hero produced.
Getting some of your starting S.H.I.E.L.D. Heroes/HYDRA Recruits
Allies KO'd is actually very good for you, since it means you will Maria Hill, S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents, S.H.I.E.L.D. Troopers, Madame
draw your more powerful Heroes/Allies more often, instead of HYDRA, HYDRA Operatives, HYDRA Soldiers, and New
drawing as many of the weaker S.H.I.E.L.D. Heroes/HYDRA Recruits are all "Heroes/Allies" cards. So if you have to "KO one
Allies. of your Heroes/Allies," you can KO one of your S.H.I.E.L.D.
Heroes, HYDRA Allies, or New Recruits if you want. S.H.I.E.L.D.
Heroes, HYDRA Allies and New Recruits are their own
Madame HYDRA color/Hero/Ally Class: Grey "Basic Heroes/Allies.". Grey counts
Madame HYDRA gives 2 and has a drawback "To play this as its own color for cards that count the number of colors you
card, you must discard a card from your hand." So to play this have. (Some of Captain America's cards count the number of
card and get its 2 , you must discard another card from your colors you have, for example.)
hand, like a spare HYDRA soldier. Madame HYDRA also has
the "Dodge" keyword mentioned above. Using "Dodge" isn't Printed
"playing" this card, so you don't have to worry about Madame A Card's "printed " means the number literally printed inside
HYDRA's drawback when you Dodge with it. So to use Dodge, the card's icon. Ignore any "+" symbols, "*" symbols, or
you just discard Madame HYDRA and draw a new card. special abilities on that card.

Masterminds/Commanders Don't Count as "Rescue/Kidnap a Bystander"

"Villains"/"Adversaries" Some card abilities tell you to "rescue/kidnap a Bystander." This
Masterminds/Commanders are so powerful that they are far means take the top Bystander from the Bystander stack and put
beyond regular Villains/Adversaries. As a result, it into your Victory Pile. This represents saving/kidnapping
Masterminds/Commanders don't count as mere Bystanders that are fleeing all the chaos and destruction. Each
"Villains"/"Adversaries,", and special abilities that affect Bystander in your Victory Pile gives you additional Victory Points
Villains/Adversaries won't affect Masterminds/Commanders. at the end of the game. Some special Bystanders also give you
For example, the Scheme "Bank Robbery Hostage Crisis" special effects when you recue/kidnap them. Bystanders can
says "Each Villain gets +1 for each Bystander it has. also be captured/guarded by Villains/Adversaries, as described
Masterminds don't get this bonus. above.
Important: Cards that say "rescue/kidnap a Bystander" don't let
Multiclass Cards you save/kidnap Bystanders captured/guarded by specific
Villains/Adversaries in the city - you have to defeat those
A card counts as both a card and a card. These
Villains/Adversaries to save those Bystanders.
cards are great at enabling your Superpower Abilities!

New Recruits "Reveal an X-Men Hero/Ally or Gain a

In Marvel storylines, Super Villains often use assorted goons to Wound/Bindings."
help them fight. Some Villainous Allies specialize in amassing "Reveal a card" just means show the other players that you have
whole armies of recruits. In Legendary, New Recruits give you a it. You don't play or discard the card you revealed. When you
short burst of power, then go away. When a card effect tells you have the opportunity to "reveal a card", you can reveal a card
to "gain a Recruit," put a New Recruit from the Recruit Stack into from your hand or you can reveal a card in front of you that you
your discard pile. When you play a New Recruit, you return it to have already played this turn.
the Recruit Stack, you still get that Recruit's 1 this turn, and For example, say you play a Wolverine card and a Deadpool
you get to draw a card from your deck. card to make 5 Attack, and you still have four S.H.I.E.L.D.
Agents in your hand. Then you fight the Villain Sabretooth. For
OVERRUNS from Card Effects Sabretooth's "Fight" effect, you can reveal the Wolverine
(X-Men) card you already played this turn so that you don't have
If a card effect causes an Adversary to overrun from the city at
to take a Wound.
an unusual time, like the Plot "Crown Thor King of Asgard,"
You could also just choose to gain the Wound if you really
remember to do the all normal Overrun effects, as if that
wanted, for example if you had lots of cards in your deck that
Adversary had overrun normally. That automatically
benefited from Wounds.
overrunning Adversary doesn't push anyone else out of the city.
See "Crown Thor King of Asgard" in "Specific Card
Clarifications" section for more details. "Reveal the Top Card of Your Deck"
When an Adversary is put into the Overrun Pile from some If a card effect says to reveal a card from the top of a deck, and
place besides the city, like the Plot "Resurrect Heroes with the it doesn't say where to put that card afterwards, then that card
Norn Stones," you don't do any overrun effects, since those stays where it was.
Adversaries did not overrun from the city.
Card effects that put Bystanders directly into the Overrun Pile
without those Bystanders being carried away by Adversaries,

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Running out of Cards in the Bystander, angry... and Villains wouldn't like him when he's angry!
Wound cards aren't Heroes. If a card tells you to "KO one of
Wound, Bindings, S.H.I.E.L.D. Officer, your Heroes," you can't KO a Wound, since Wounds aren't
HYDRA, or New Recruit Stacks Heroes. However, if a card says "KO one of your cards," then
If one of these stacks runs out, the game continues. If a player you can KO a Wound, since Wound cards are still cards.
would gain one of these cards, and there aren't any more of that
card left in the appropriate stack, then you don't gain that card Grievous Wounds
and the game continues. Don't take extra copies out of the KO Civil War comes with 15 new "Grievous Wounds" that are more
pile. difficult to heal. Shuffle them all into the Wound Stack face
down, so you have 45 total Wounds. Instead of normal Wound
Running out of Cards in the Hero/Ally Deck text, a Grievous Wound says something like "Healing: You may
or Villain/Adversary Deck spend 5 , If you do, KO this Wound."
If either of these decks runs out of cards before the Scheme/Plot Using these Healing abilities doesn't prevent you from
is completed, finish the turn, and then the players have recruiting and fighting that turn.
successfully survived the Scheme/Plot, but they didn't catch the You can only use these Healing abilities during your turn.
Mastermind/Commander. As a result, the game is a draw Grievous Wounds still count as "Wounds" for all card effects.
between good and evil. The player with the most Victory Points If you have a normal Wound, you can use its normal "KO all
wins an individual victory. Be sure to get the your Wounds" Healing ability to KO your Grievous Wounds too.
Mastermind/Commander next time! But if you don't have a normal Wound in hand, then you can't.

Special Abilities on Cards "Your Heroes"/"Your Allies & "Heroes You

Special abilities on cards can override the rules of the game. Have"/"Allies You Have"
Some cards tell "each player" to do something. In those cases, These phrases include both the cards in your hand and the
the player whose turn it is does it first. Then go in clockwise cards you have played this turn. The Heroes/Allies in your deck
order. If a card tells you to do something, and you can't do all of and discard pile don't count.
it, then do as much as you can. For example: if a card tells you to For example, say you play Captain America's "Perfect
KO two Bystanders from your Victory Pile, and you only have Teamwork" card. If you've played this card and two
one Bystander, then KO that Bystander. If a special ability calls cards this turn, and you still have two cards and a card
for a choice, and it's not obvious who should make the choice, in your hand, then Perfect Teamwork would make 4 Power,
then the player whose turn it is makes the choice. since you have four colors of Heroes.
Another example, Elektra says "Fight: KO one of your Allies.
Token Cards Then KO a Bindings from your hand or discard pile." When you
Sometimes game play will cause additional Villains or fight Elektra, you can KO one of the Allies you already played
Masterminds to be added during play. For example, a Master this turn, or an Ally from your hand. If you KO an Ally you already
Strike may cause a special Villain to enter the city. Token cards played this turn, you still get that Ally's Attack, Recruit Points,
represent these special characters that would otherwise be and special abilities this turn.
represented by the card that drew them out. Tokens are all
identified by a in the upper right of the card. These new cards
are optional so have fun with them!

"Villain/Adversary gets -2 "

Some cards reduce Villains'/Adversaries' Attack. If a Villain's
/Adversary's Attack goes to 0, you can defeat that
Villain/Adversary without spending any Attack. A
Villain's/Adversary's Attack can never go below 0.

Villains You Gain as Heroes

Several X-Men 92 cards start as Villains, but when you fight
them, they become Hero cards and join you. If a card effect
wants to know their costs as Heroes, use their Villain Attack
value.

Wounds Galactus' Cosmic Threat

Some special abilities make you gain Wound cards, Galactus has the
representing your Heroes getting hurt very badly. When a player
"Cosmic Threat: ability.
gains a Wound, take a Wound from the Wound Stack and put it
This means:
into that player's discard pile. Wounds don't have any Recruit
Points or Attack, so when you draw Wounds in your hand, your "Once per turn, choose , , , , or . For each
hand is weaker than normal. card of that color you reveal, this Enemy gets -3 . for one fight
Some cards let you KO your wounds so you don't have to this turn.
worry about them anymore. Some cards even turn Wounds to If you try to fight Galactus a second time in the same turn, he will
your benefit: when the Hulk gets wounded, it just makes him
return to his full and you cannot use his Cosmic Threat
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ability a second time that turn. Infinity Gems
This set contains a unique new Villain Group called "Infinity
Galactus Consumes the Earth Gems." This represents Thanos himself wielding the power of
Galactus' Master Strike destroys a city space. Any Villain in that the Infinity Gems and defending them from Heroes. Infinity Gem
city space escapes. From then on, the city is smaller. Whenever Villain cards act just like any other Villains in the city. However,
Villains are pushed out of the new end space of the city, they when you fight an Infinity Gem, you put it into your discard pile
escape as normal. Villains can't move into destroyed city as an Artifact card.
spaces. Infinity Gems you've defeated have 0 cost, have no
If a city space like the Rooftops is destroyed, act as if that city color/Hero class, and don't count as Hero cards or Villain cards.
space no longer exists, and the word Rooftops is not written on When you have an Infinity Gem in your hand, you can play it
the board anymore. So card effects won't do anything that say "If just like and other Artifact.
there is a Villain on the Rooftops..."or "Move a Villain to the If a card effect moves an Infinity Gem back to the Villain Deck
Rooftops..."or "If the Rooftops are empty....". or city. then the Infinity Gem becomes a Villain card again.
For example, if Galactus destroys the "Streets" space, then
the Burrow ability won't do anything anymore. If Galactus Multiple Masterminds
destroys the "Bank" space, then the Bank sentence from the When some powerful Villains in the Secret Wars set escape,
Midtown Bank Robbery Scheme won't do anything anymore. they ascend to become new Masterminds, so there are multiple
Masterminds in the game! Schemes can do this too. Players
Mysterio must defeat all the Masterminds to win. When a Master Strike
The new Mastermind Mysterio is a master of illusions. His occurs, each Mastermind does its Master Strike ability. The
Master Strike and some of his Tactics create additional "illusion" player whose turn it is picks the order.
Tactics underneath him. You have to defeat all of Mysterio's
Tactics to beat him. Even if you beat his four original Tactics, as Sidekicks
long as he still has additional Tactics in his pile, he's not beaten Secret Wars adds a new Sidekick Stack to the game. Players
yet. can pay to recruit up to one Sidekick per turn. When card
A Master Strike that becomes an additional Mysterio Tactic effects tell you to "gain Sidekicks," that doesn't count against the
doesn't produce a special effect when you fight it - you just put it one-per-turn limit.
in your Victory Pile, score its Victory Points.
Each Master Strike used as a Mysterio Tactic card is worth 6
Victory Points. Special Sidekicks: Pet Avengers
Civil War comes with 15 new "Special Sidekicks:" superpowered
pets known as the Pet AVengers! When you set up, shuffle them
The Infinity Gauntlet face down into the sidekick stack. Once per turn, a player can
The relics called "Infinity Gems" harness energy so vast that pay 2 to recruit a Sidekickfrom the top of the Sidekick Stack.
even small fragments of that energy, known as "Shards," can When you play any Sidekick, return it to the bottom of the
unlock incredible power. Thanos, the Mad Titan of Death, seeks Sidekick Stack.
to unite all the Infinity Gems into the "Infinitely Gauntlet" to You still "played" that Sidekick and can use Superpower
extinguish all life in the galaxy. Meanwhile, the alien Kree seek abilities based on its Hero Class.
the Shards to accelerate their own genetic evolution. And the When a card effect says "gain a Sidekick," put the top card of
Guardians of the Galaxy steal Shards where they can just to the Sidekick Stack into your discard pile. That doesn't count
survive. against the pay-to-recruit-once-per-turn limit.
If you have the other Sidekicks from Secret Wars Volume 1,
Shards shuffle them all into a single face-down Sidekick Stack.
The set contains 18 multivalued "Shard" tokens. These tokens
can be gained by players, Villains and Masterminds from the Villains You Gain as Heroes
supply. If a Shard would be gained, but there are none left in the The Ultimates and Thor Corps start as Villians, but when you
supply, then no Shard is gained, and the game continues. fight them, they become Hero cards and join you. If a card effect
Players: When you gain a Shard, put it in front of you. You wants to know their cost as Heroes, use their old Villain Attack
can spend a Shard to get +1 (returning the Shard to the values
supply). If you don't use the Shard immediately, you can keep it
for future turns and use it later. You can spend as many Shards
as you wish in a single turn. Shards do not have Victory Points. Specific Card Clarifications
Villains: When a Villain gain Shards, put them on that Villain :A symbol on a Villain's Attack icon means that there's
from the supply. That Villain gets +1 for each Shard it has. something unusual about fighting that Villain, like having Hidden
After you defeat a Villain, you take one of its Shards. Return the Witnesses.
rest to the supply. When a villain escapes, the Mastermind gains Arnim Zola: Zola often checks for Heroes that have "less
one of the Shards on that Villain. Return the rest to the supply. than 2 printed ." If you need to check a card for a value, and
Masterminds: When a Mastermind gain Shards, put them on the card doesn't have that value, then it counts as ). So cards
that Mastermind from the supply. That Mastermind gets that don't have a printed icon count as having "less than 2
+1 for each Shard it has. After you fight a Mastermind, you printed ."
take one of its Shards. Return the rest to the supply. Then do the Bathe Earth in Cosmic Rays: If you KO a Hero during a
Fight effect on the Mastermind Tactic, which might give the Twist, and there are no Heroes in the HQ of the appropriate
Mastermind additional Shards for future fights. cost, you gain nothing.
Build an Underground Mega-Vault Prison: When a card
effect like this one causes an Adversary to enter the city in an
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unusual way, you do that Adversary's Ambush effect as normal. "Destroyed."
Adversaries entering the Sewers this way don't push any other Dr. Octopus - Eight Arms: This card says "If this is the
Adversaries out of the city. eighth card you played this turn, you get +2 ." Discarding
Bullseye - Fulfill the contract: When you "Choose an cards through their "Dodge" abilities doesn't count towards this,
Adversary Group," you can choose an Adversary Group like since you are not "playing" those Dodge cards, just discarding
"avengers" or "Uncanny Avengers", or you can choose a them. Playing New Recruits and returning them to the Recruit
Backup Adversary Group like "Multiple Man" or "Cops." But you Stack does count, since you are playing those cards. Bindings
can't choose the word "Backup" and count both Multiple Man and Wounds Don't count towards this, since you don't "play"
and Cops. Likewise, you can't choose "X-Men" and count both them, you just use their Betrayal or Healing abilities from your
X-Men First Class and Uncanny X-Men. hand. The best way to use Eight Arms is to play cards that let
Bystanders that become Villains: If you defeat them, you you draw extra cards, like some of Dr. Octopus' other cards.
still get any rescue effects on Special Bystanders. They count Escape: If a card causes a Villain to escape at an unusual
as Bystanders in your Victory Pile, not Villains. time (like Mole Man's Master Strike), remember to do all the
Cage Villains in Power-Suppressing Cells: The Cops same effects as if that Villain had escaped normally.
stacked next to the Plot don't count as one of the Backup Everybody Hates Deadpool: Besides just being true, this is
Adversary Groups in the Adversary Deck. the name of a scheme. Henchmen are kind of villian, so if your
"Card Effect": For Diving Catch and Unending Energy, a using the henchmen groups Hand Ninjas, then the Hand Ninjas
"card effect" is anything written on a card. When Bystanders are will have: Revenge for Hand Ninjas".
carried off by Villains, that discard is a game rule, not a card Fear Itself: Put the 6th-8th Ally cards in a second row under
effect, so you can't use Diving Catch or Unending Energy then. the lair. They're not under any specific city space. If a reduction
Card Values: If an effect needs to know a number from a of Fear level results in an Ally in the top Lair row to be KO'd, all
card, and that card doesn't have that kind of number, use 0. For cards in the top Lair row shift to the left and the left card of the
example, if Gambit's "High Stakes Jackpot" reveals a Wound, bottom Lair row moves to the right side of the top Lair row. Once
he gets + . the Fear Level is below 5, do not shift any cards when an Ally
gets KO'd.
Casual Bank Robbery: You can only use the bonus +1
Firestar & Mysterio - Shifting Illusions: "If that card has an
once per turn.
icon..." refers to having the big icon in the lower-left. So
Chameleon: You copy the , and special abilities of that "Enchantress - Irresistible Bride" is not considered to "have an
Hero card, but you don't actually play that Hero card. So you icon."
won't trigger Superpower Abilities of cards you play later in the Forge the Infinity Gauntlet: When card effects like this
turn. Scheme cause Villains to enter the city at an unusual time, do
Change the Outcome of WWII: Start in the normal city, not the normal Ambush effects.
a country. As you enter new countries, you can use the Scheme Healing and Masterminds: As a new rule, you can't use the
card to mark the new edge of the city. In smaller countries, omit "Healing" ability on Wound cards on the same turn that you fight
the Bridge first, then the Streets, etc. If Evil conquers a country's a Mastermind.
capital, you still stay in that country until the next Scheme Twist Hero Class: Hero Classes include , , etc. Basic
comes up. Sometimes you might enter a new country, then play S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents and Troopers have no Class, Team icons
additional Villain cards and enter another country right away. aren't Hero Classes. (This works differently from Captain
Charles Xavier, Professor of Crime: This Mastermind can America cards in the Legendary Core Set, which counts colors
put Hidden Witnesses on Heroes in the HQ. These work the including grey.)
same way as other Hidden Witnesses. Hidden Heart of Darkness: This Scheme shuffles
You can't recruit Heroes that have Hidden Witnesses on Mastermind Tactics into the Villain Deck as Villains. These
them until someone pays to rescue those Hidden Tactics don't get bonuses from abilities that increase the
Witnesses Mastermind's own . When you fight these Tactics, they
Those Hidden Witnesses still count as Bystanders to become normal Mastermind Tactics in your discard pile, not
increase Charles Xavier's . Villains. If a special effect would try to shuffle a Tactic back into
If a Hero in the HQ is KO'd by an escaping Villain or leaves the Mastermind's Tactics during the Scheme, ignore it.
the HQ because of some special ability, then KO any Invade the Daily Bugle HQ: Villains entering the HQ don't
Hidden Witnesses on that Hero. cause Ambush effects or Escape effects. Villains in the HQ
Crown Thor King of Asgard: Put the Thor Adversary next aren't in any city space. For example, if Carrion is fought while in
to this Plot whether or not the rest of the Avengers are in the the HQ, he can't be "put back in the city space where he was." If
Adversary Deck. When Thor overruns during this Plot (whether there is a Villain in the HQ space under Doppelganger, or if
naturally or because of a Plot Twist), he creates several effects:
Doppelganger is in the HQ, then Doppelganger's is 0.
Thor KOs an Ally from the Lair that costs 6 or less, just like an
overrun. Invincible Force Field: You can use for some Force
Each player discards a card because Thor was guarding Fields and for others in the same fight.
Bystanders. King Hyperion: While this Mastermind is in the city, he
Do the Overrun ability on Thor's card. pushes other Villains forward as normal, if he escapes, you still
Stack a Plot Twist from the KO pile next to the Plot, as the Plot KO from the HQ and discard for any Bystanders carried away as
says. normal. However, since Masterminds dont count as Villains,
"Defeat": When a card tells you to "defeat an enemy," you card effects that mention Villains wont work on him.
still do that enemy's Fight effect. You ignore restrictions like Kingpin - Pull the Strings: This card says "Whenever a
Zero and Forearm. card effect causes you to gain a New Recruit this turn, put that
Detonate the Helicarrier: During a Scheme Twist, keep New Recruit into your hand. Gain a New Recruit." a 'card effect'
KO'ing Heroes from the same HQ space until that space is is anything written on a card. So the recruit you gain from Pull

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the Strings itself goes to your hand. Once you have played Pull chooses which order to stack those Allies.
the Strings, any New Recruits you gain from other card effects Pull Reality into the Negative Zone: Recruit points act as
for the rest of the turn also go to your hand. However, when you Attack points and Attack Points act as Recruit Points.
spend 2 to recruit a New Recruit, recruiting is not a card Reality Gem, Soul Gem, and Space Gem: Always do
effect, so those recruited New Recruits go to your discard pile, Ambush effects after the card enters the city and pushes other
not your hand. When you play a New Recruit, the card "Kingpin - Villains forward. So Soul Gem and Reality Gem count
Endless Underlings" can put that New Recruit on the bottom of themselves for their Ambush effects.
your deck. That is not "gaining" New Recruits, so Pull the Strings Reveal: If an effect says to reveal a card from the top of a
won't put those New Recruits from the bottom of your deck into deck, and it doesn't say where to put that card afterwards, then
your hand. that card stays where it was.
Kree-Skull War: A Scheme's setup instructions override a Secret Invasion of the Skrull Shapeshifters: Note:
Mastermind's "Always Lead" ability and the normal rules. For 2 Heroes carried away under escaping Villains like Skrull Queen
players, include the Kree Starforce and Skrull Villain Groups, Veranke and Skrull Shapeshifters do count towards evil
overriding the Mastermind's "Always Leads" ability if necessary. winning.
For 1 player, include both the Kree Starforce and Skrull Villain Sinister Ambitions: If an escaping Ambition says each
Groups, and the Villain Deck will be larger than normal. When other player, do it to each player.
card effects like this Scheme cause Villains to escape the city at Spider-Man: If a card effect needs to know a number from a
an unusual time, do all the normal Escape effects. card, and that card doesn't have that kind of number, use o. For
Mass Produce War Machine Armor: If the Setup rules for a example, Spider-Man says "fight: Reveal the top card of the
Plot conflict with a Commander's "Always Leads" ability, then Adversary Deck. If that card is worth 2VP or less, play it. If you
the Plot takes priority. So when you play this Plot with Odin and play a card from the Adversary Deck this way, put Spider-Man
2 or 3 players, use S.H,I.E.L.D. Assault Squads as the Backup back on top of the Adversary Deck. "if you reveal a Plot Twist or
Adversary group, not Asgardian Warriors. For 1 player Command Strike with Spider-Man's ability, that Twist or Strike is
Advanced Solo Mode, this Plot's setup rules say to use all ten worth 0VP, so you would play it. If you reveal a Bystander this
S.H,I.E.L.D. Assault Squad cards, not just three. way, that card is worth 1VP, since it says 1VP on the card. When
Mr. Sinister: When you fight Mr. Sinister, you rescue all the you fight Spider-Man, put him in your Victory Pile, then do his
Bystanders he had. Then, if his Fight effect gives him more Fight effect, which might put him back on top of the Adversary
Bystanders, those stay on him for the future. When you win the Deck or might not.
Final Showdown, you also rescue all the Bystanders on Mr. Spider-Queen: When card effects like her Master Strike
Sinister. cause Villains to enter the city, those Villains still do their
Mystique - Show Your True Colors: You can only use the Ambush effects.
color-changing ability when you play this card. You can't change Thanos: His is only reduced by Infinity Gems players
this card's color/Ally Class during other players' turns. "control" - not Infinity Gems in players discard piles or decks.
Mystique - Unpredictable Shapeshifter: You can't use any When fighting Thanos in Solo Mode and using a Villain Group
"Dodge" ability of the Ally card you revealed. because Dodge besides Infinity Gems, Thanos gets -2 for each villain in your
requires you to discard the Dodge card from your hand, and the Victory Pile from that Group.
Ally card you revealed isn't in your hand. When you play a copy The Clone Saga: "Henchman Villains" are still Villains. So if
of a card, yout next cards that turn can use Superpower abilities 2 Henchman Villains with the same card name escape, Evil
based on the copied card's Hero Class. You can also count the Wins.
copied card towards effects like "For each card you played this Venom Blast: "If that card has a icon..." refers to having
turn..." the big icon in the lower-left. So Venom Blast doesn't draw
Namor, the Sub-Mariner: For Namor's Ambush and more copies of Venom Blast or Pickpocket.
Overrun abilities, finish moving the new Adversary into the city
and/or pushing any Adversary out of the city before checking Weave a Web of Lies: You can only pay 1 once for each
whether there are any other Defenders in the city for Namor's Villain you defeat.
abilities. X-Cutioner's Song: "Enemy" means Villain or Mastermind.
Nick Fury - Total Fury: When a card tells you to "defeat an Since Masterminds aren't Villains, Masterminds don't get +
Adversary," you still do that Adversary's fight effect. You ignore from capturing Heroes like the Villains do in this Scheme.
restrictions like the one on Iron Fist. You can't defeat the
Commander this way, since Commanders aren't Adversaries. Join the Legendary Community Online
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"Own": You "own" all the cards in your hand, deck, played Hero/Ally Types
pile, discard pile, and Victory Pile.
Phoenix-Force Cyclops: When you play a Hero card that Strength Heroes/Allies include Heroes/Allies with raw
KOs itself, you still played that card, so you can still use other strength, but also Heroes/Allies with strength of will,
Superpower Abilities that trigger from its classes or team. determination, and strong leadership.
Pickpocket: "Printed means the number literally printed
inside the card's icon. Ignore any '+' symbols, '*' symbols, or
special abilities on that card. Instinct Heroes/Allies use savagery and quick reflexes to
Professor X: If there is a tie for the highest-cost Allies in the dominate combats. Some Instinct Heroes/Allies use
Lair, the current player breaks those ties. The current player superhuman senses to get an edge on their opponents.
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Covert Heroes/Allies include Heroes/Allies using trickery
and deception to outwit their foes. They also include New Warriors: The New Warriors were at the center of the
Heroes/Allies making clever battle plans and Heroes/Allies Superhero Registration Act controversy. In a reckless battle
using subtle superpowers to gain subtle advantages. they initiated with a group of super-villains, the super-villain Nitro
exploded, killing hundreds of civilians in Stamford. Speedball
was the only New Warrior to survive.
Tech Heroes/Allies include Heroes/Allies using advanced
weaponry, incredible gadgets, brilliant inventions, or
next-generation science. S.H.I.E.L.D.: The "Strategic Hazard Intervention
Espionage Logistics Directorate" is a clandestine military and
espionage organization led by Director Nick Fury. It works
Ranged Heroes/Allies like to blow things up. Some behind the scenes to stop super powered Villains before they
Ranged Heroes/Allies use inherent superpowers to blast things, get out of hand. The S.H.I.E.L.D. Heroes in the first set of
while others use energy beams, elemental powers, and mental Legendary are Nick Fury and the S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents, Troopers,
assaults. and Officers.
Basic Heroes include all the starting S.H.I.E.L.D. Heroes and
S.H.I.E.L.D. Officers. They are Heroes in their own way, but they Spider Friends: Spider-Man and his allies use speed,
don't quite get the job done as well as high-flying super heroes. cunning, and rapid-fire attacks to take down foes.

Multiclass Cards New to Secret Wars, a card

counts as both a card and a card. These cards are X-Force: is Cable's handpicked "Black Ops" strike force
great at enabling your Superpower Abilities. of super powered mutants that takes on missions too dark for
the X-Men.
Heroic Teams
X-Men: Born as mutants, with strange superpowers that
Avengers: "And there came a day, a day unlike any other, set them apart, the X-Men are sworn to protect a world that
when Earth's mightiest heroes and heroines found themselves hates and fears them. The X-Men Heroes in the first set of
united against a common threat. On that day, the Avengers Legendary are Cyclops, Emma Frost, Gambit, Rogue, Storm,
were bornto fight the foes no single super hero could and Wolverine.
withstand!" - Avengers Prologue. The Avengers Heroes in the
first set of Legendary are Black Widow, Captain America,
Hawkeye, Hulk, Iron Man, and Thor.
Ally Teams
Brotherhood: Magneto formed the Brotherhood of
Mutants on the philosophy that mutants are a superior, evolved
The Fantastic Four and their former foe Silver Surfer species with the destiny to dominate humankind. This doctrine
must unite to stop the cosmic forces of evil from destroying brings them into frequent conflict with the X-Men. The
everything we know. Brotherhood Allies in this Legendary set are Juggernaut,
Magneto, Mystique, and Sabertooth.
Guardians of the Galaxy: Enemies often underestimate
this ragtag crew of misfits. But when stakes are high, the Cabal: In the 2015 Marvel mega-story Secret Wars
Guardians put aside their differences, unite their unique powers, begins with a terrifying discovery; all the parallel dimensions in
and save the galaxy from interstellar threats. the Marvel Universe are hurling towards each other! Wherever
they collide, only one dimension will survive. The others will be
Illuminati: The 2015 Marvel mega-story Secret Wars utterly destroyed! A group of evil geniuses form the Cabal with a
begins with a terrifying discovery; all the parallel dimensions in different plan from the Illuminati; stop other dimensions from
the Marvel Universe are hurling towards each other! Wherever colliding with ours...by destroying them all with antimatter
they collide, only one dimension will survive. The others will be bombs! In Secret Wars 2, the Cabal survived the destruction of
utterly destroyed! The smartest genius Heroes in the world band the old universe in a trans-dimensional "life raft" spaceship filled
together as the Illuminati, in a desperate search to stop it. It with Thanos's sadistic conquerors. Now they seek to depose the
continues in Secret Wars 2 with a shocking twist: the Heroes rulers of Battleworld to claim it for themselves!
have failed, an the Marvel Universe has been destroyed! A vast
power has combined fragments of parallel dimensions into a Crime Syndicate: The city streets of the Marvel Universe
new "Battleworld" of wildly different regions. The band of are ruled by Super Villains who are experts in manipulation,
superhero geniuses survived the destruction of the old universe organized crime, and outright violence. The Crime Syndicate in
in a trans-dimensional "life raft" spaceship. Now they work to this Legendary set are Bullseye and Kingpin.
solve the mystery: Who created Battleworld?
Foes of Asgard: Thor and his father Odin hail from Asgard,
Marvel Knights are a loose group of street-level Heroes a mystical otherworldly realm of supernatural beings
that take down Villains through vigilante justice. worshipped as Norse gods. Though Asgard has many powerful
defenders, it also has many powerful enemies. The Foes of
Asgard in this Legendary set are Enchantress and Loki.
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 HYDRA: HYDRA is a secret criminal organization working Each player's hand size is five cards
Gimpy Hand
to infiltrate and subvert the world's governments and institutions. instead of six.
HYDRA often collaborates with super villains to seize power at Opening Salvo 1, 2, At the beginning of the game, each
any cost. The HYDRA Allies in this set of Legendary are the 3, 4, 5, or 6 player gains that many Wounds.
HYDRA Operatives, Soldiers, and Madame HYDRA. Growing Threat The Mastermind gets +1 each time
they are defeated.
Sinister Six: When Spider-Man's super-villain enemies Army of Evil 1, 2, 3, Each Villain gets + equal to that
could not defeat him as individuals, they banded together as the 4, or 5 number.
Sinister Six to crush Spider-Man once and for all. The Sinister Whenever you complete a Scheme
Six Allies in this Legendary set are Dr. Octopus, Electro, Green Endless Hatred Twist, also play the Mastermind's
Goblin, Kraven, Mysterio, and Venom. Master Strike ability.
Evacuate the Whenever a Hero you own is KO'd, you
Cooperative and Competitive Play Wounded gain a Wound.
Legendary is both cooperative (with players cooperating to beat After you defeat the Mastermind's four
the Mastermind) and competitive (with players competing to get Tactics, you must still fight them a fifth
Final Blow
the most Victory Points). Some play groups like to focus on time to claim the actual Mastermind card
cooperating. Other groups focus on competing. And some and win.
groups do a little of both. Some players even start out Whenever you complete a Scheme
competing, and then switch to cooperating more and more as Plots upon Plots Twist, play another card from the Villain
the Mastermind gets closer to victory. This matches a lot of Deck.
Marvel storylines! Whenever you complete a Master
Pain upon Pain Strike, play another card from the Villain
Deck.
Adjusting Difficulty
Play two cards from the Villain Deck
Some play groups like an easier challenge when introducing Hell on Earth
each turn instead of one.
new or younger players or after the Mastermind wins. Other
groups like to face tougher and tougher challenges. One way to
adjust the difficulty level is choosing which cards to use in your Villain Challenge Modes
next game:
Mastermind Challenge Mode Effect
The Masterminds with higher Power are much harder to beat. Add an extra Plot Twist to the
Fiend Mode
This is the easiest way to adjust difficulty. Adversary Deck.
Scheme Add two extra Plot Twists to the
Arch-Villain Mode
You will find that some Schemes are more difficult than others. Adversary Deck.
Some Schemes are especially difficult in combination with Add three extra Plot Twists to the
certain Masterminds or Villain Groups. Legendary Mode
Adversary Deck.
Villain Groups Distracted
Some Villain Groups are tougher than others. For example, the Commander The Commander gets -1 .
Enemies of Asgard are especially tough, while the HYDRA Determined
Villain Group is much easier. Commander The Commander gets + 1 .
If you are seeking even greater challenges, you can also play Enraged
these especially dangerous Challenge Modes. You can even Commander The Commander gets +2 .
combine the extra Scheme Twist modes with the extra powerful Devastating
Mastermind modes. See if you can beat them all! Commander The Commander gets +3 .
Supreme
Hero Challenge Modes Commander The Commander gets +4 .
Challenge Mode Effect All-Powerful
Add an extra Scheme Twist to the Villain Commander The Commander gets +5 .
Heroic Mode
Deck. Each player's hand size is five cards
Hand of Fate
Add two extra Scheme Twists to the instead of six.
Champion Mode
Villain Deck. Prison Break 1, 2, 3, At the beginning of the game, each
Add three extra Scheme Twists to the 4, 5, or 6 player gains that many Bindings.
Legendary Mode
Villain Deck. Each time the Commander is defeated,
Distracted Growing Threat
The Mastermind gets -1 . it gets +1 for the rest of the game.
Mastermind Army of Glory 1, 2, Each Adversary gets + equal to that
Maniacal 3, 4, or 5 number.
Mastermind The Mastermind gets + 1 .
Whenever you complete a Plot Twist,
Enraged Endless Spite also play the Commander's Command
Mastermind The Mastermind gets +2 .
Strike ability.
Tyrant Mastermind The Mastermind gets +3 . Imprison the Whenever a Ally you own is KO'd, you
Nightmare Mastermind The Mastermind gets +4 . Wounded gain a Bindings.
All-Powerful After you defeat the Commander's four
The Mastermind gets +5 . Final Blow
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 time to claim the actual Commander Effects
card and win. Scheme/Plot Twist - Whenever you complete a
Whenever you complete a Plot Twist, Scheme/Plot Twist effect, choose a Hero/Ally from the HQ/Lair
Plots upon Plots play another card from the Adversary that cost 6 or less and put it on the bottom of the Hero/Ally Deck.
Deck. (This lets you avoid Heroes/Allies you don't want and helps you
Whenever you complete a Command craft your personal strategy.)
Pain upon Pain Strike, play another card from the Master/Command Strikes - Whenever you complete a
Adversary Deck. Master/Command Strike effect, play another card from the
Play two cards from the Adversary Villain/Adversary Deck.
Crackdown These special solo effects are very easy to overlook in the heat
Deck each turn instead of one.
of battle, so be careful to remember!
Solo Bindings
Lowering Difficultly: In Advanced Solo Mode, if you use the "Betrayal" ability on
If you want to give newer or younger players a boost to help Bindings, KO all the Bindings in your hand.
them compete with veteran players, you can replace some of "Each Other Player"
the S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents /HYDRA Operatives with S.H.I.E.L.D. When a Hero/Adversary or Mastermind/Commander Tactic tells
Officers/ Madame HYDRA in the new players' starting decks. "each other player" to do something, do it yourself. (Don't do this
This will also make it easier for all the players to beat the for cards effects on Ally cards.)
Mastermind/Commander. Mastermind/Commander Abilities Linked to Specific
How to Teach the Game Villain/Adversary Groups
For most groups, the best way to teach the game is just to start Some Masterminds/Commanders like Odin, Mole Man, and
playing it. There's no need to explain every single detail before Apocalypse have special abilities linked to a specific
you begin. Instead just tell people the overall theme and goal of Villains/Adversaries that they "Always Lead." In Advanced Solo
the game, pointing to the different elements as you mention Mode, if you don't use the Group that this
them. You can use your own words, or say something like this: Mastermind/Commander "Always Leads," then apply that ability
to the corresponding Villain/Adversary Group or
"This is a Marvel Super Heroes Deck-Building Game. Each of us starts Henchmen/Backup Group that you are using. Use this rule for
with a small deck of basic Heroes. Over time, we're going to recruit other Legendary sets as well. For example, in Advanced Solo
these awesome Super Heroes, fight Super Villains, and eventually take Mode:
down the evil Mastermind. There are different Heroes and a different Odin's abilities apply to whichever Backup Group you are
Mastermind every time you play. This time it's Red Skull. If we beat Red using, as if they were Asgardian Warriors.
Skull four times, then we all win as a team, and the person who scores
Mole Man's abilities apply to whichever Adversary Group you
the most Victory Points is the individual winner. But while we're playing,
the game is fighting back. Red Skull is trying to accomplish this evil are using as if they were Subterranea.
Scheme, "Unleash the Power of the Cosmic Cube." If he does, then evil Apocalypse gives +2 to whichever Adversary Group you
wins, and all of us lose. The best way to learn is just by playing. are using, as if they were Four Horsemen. If one of each of the
Everybody shuffle your deck and draw six cards. I'll go first." different Adversaries in the Adversary Group overruns,
Apocalypse instantly wins
Then just take your first turn, explaining what you do as you do .
it. You don't need to explain what Bystanders or Scheme Twists Advanced Solo Mode Scoring
or Master Strikes do until they come up. This method gets If you win the game, add up your Victory Points and subtract
people into the action quickly, and everyone will figure it out as these penalties:
they go. -4 for each Bystander carried away/to safety by escaping
Villains/overrunning Adversaries.
Advanced Solo Mode -3 for each Scheme/Plot Twist that occurred
You can also play Legendary with a single player, completing to -1 for each Villain/Adversary that escaped/overrun out of the
defeat the Mastermind/Commander and get the highest score city.
you can. Here are the adjustments you need: Write down your score and which Heroes/Allies and
Solo Setup Scheme/Plot and Mastermind/Commander you used. Compete
Hero/Ally Deck - Use the cards for three Heroes/Allies, 42 to get better scores against that Mastermind/Commander and
cards in total. Scheme/Plot with different Heroes/Allies!
Mastermind/Commander - Ignore the
Mastermind's/Commander's "Always Leads" ability. Final Showdown (Optional)
Villain/Adversary Deck: Use these cards: When a player defeats the fourth Mastermind Tactic, that player
1 Villain/Adversary Group finishes their turn and draws six cards as normal. Then it's time
3 Henchman/Backup cards from the same for the Final Showdown between the players and the
Henchman/Backup Group (not all 10 cards) Mastermind! Each player in turn now takes a special
1 random Bystander "Showdown Turn," starting with the player on the left of the
5 Master/Command Strikes player who defeated the fourth Mastermind Tactic. In a
The normal number of Scheme/Plot Twists listed on the Showdown Turn, you don't play the top Villain card, you don't
Scheme/Plot. recruit Heroes, and you don't fight Villains. Instead:
Scheme - Use any Scheme except Super Hero Civil War and Play the cards in your hand as normal, using those cards'
Negative Zone Prison Breakout. special abilities as normal, and producing Recruit Points and
Attack as normal.
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Don't draw a new hand at the end of your Showdown Turn. specifically from the ones that match the Evil/Good alignment of
your Scheme/Plot. Or you can choose from amongst all the
Whichever player has the highest Showdown Total wins Masterminds/Commanders together. You can use either Master
the Final Showdown! That player puts the actual Mastermind Strikes or Command Strikes, since they are equivalent terms.
card into their personal Victory Pile. That card is worth several Board: Use either a Heroic board if a Scheme is selected or
Victory Points. When the Final Showdown is complete, then the Villainous board if a Plot is selected. If you play the Heroic
Mastermind has been utterly defeated, and all the players win a board, enemies will enter the city in the Sewers, and move
team victory! In addition, the player with the most Victory Points towards the Bridge. If you play on a Villainous board, enemies
in their Victory Pile wins an individual victory and is the most will enter the city in the Bridge and move toward the Sewers. If
legendary hero of all! your Scheme/Plot mentions specific city spaces, use a board
matching that scheme.
Tied Final Showdowns Card Stacks on Board: Put stacks on the board for
If multiple players tie for the highest Showdown Total, then it's S.H.I.E.L.D. Officers and Madame HYDRA and New Recruits.
time for a Super Showdown! Each of the tied players discards all Players can recruit from any of these stacks during the game.
the cards they played and draws a new hand of six cards. Each Since these three stacks are all functionally different, players will
of those players then takes another Showdown Turn to find the have more options than normal.
winner of the Final Showdown. If players keep tying, keep Wounds & Bindings: Put out stacks for both Wounds and
running additional Super Showdowns until someone wins the Bindings.
Showdown. If the group agrees before the game, you can Bystander Deck: Shuffle all Bystanders together from all
also play without the Final Showdown. sets you have into one large Bystander Deck.
Players' Starting Decks: Choose either S.H.I.E.L.D. or
Villains is Fully Compatible with Other HYDRA. Give each player a starting deck from those cards.
Heroes/Allies: Choose randomly the appropriate number of
Marvel Legendary Sets Heroes/Allies from among all Heroes and Allies you have.
Villains set is fully compatible with other sets of Marvel Villains/Adversaries: Choose randomly the appropriate
Legendary. You can freely mix and match elements from both number of Villain/Adversary Groups and Henchmen/Backup
Villains sets and Heroic sets. When mixing sets, some players Groups from among all the ones you have.
enjoy talking about a storyline reason for why Heroes and If using only "Fear Itself" without "The Villains Set", use the
Villains are working together, based on the specific following rules:
Scheme/Plot, Heroes and Villains they happen to be using. If a card effect would cause you to gain a Madame HYDRA,
Marvel storylines are full of times when Loki works together with you would gain a S.H.I.E.L.D. Officer instead.
Thor to take down a mutual foe, or Magneto and his If a card effect would cause you to gain a New Recruit, you
Brotherhood work together with Professor X and his X-Men to get +1 instead.
survive a deadly threat to mutantkind, and so on. Here's how to If a card effect mentions Bindings, use Wounds.
mix the sets together: If a card mentions or is part of the HYDRA team , use the
Equivalent Terms S.H.I.E.L.D. team instead .
The following game terms are considered completely
equivalent. Any card effect that mentions one of these terms
effects the equivalent term in the same way. For example, if an Terms That Are Not Equivalent
Adversary card does something to "your Allies", it does the Bindings Wounds
exact same thing to "your Heroes", since "Allies" and "Heroes" S.H.I.E.L.D. HYDRA
are "equivalent terms."

Heroic Sets Villainous Sets Bindings & Wounds

Hero Ally These card types are not equivalent and work differently from
Villain Adversary each other. Some card effects in your game may give Wounds
Henchmen Villain Backup Adversary while others give Bindings. A player might gain some of each.
Mastermind Commander Card effects that "KO a Wound" cannot be used to KO Bindings,
Mastermind Tactic Commander Tactic and vice versa. On your turn, if you use the "Healing" ability on a
Master Strike Command Strike Wound card, it's ok to use the "Betrayal" ability on a card during
Scheme Plot the same turn.
Scheme Twist Plot Twist
Escape Overrun S.H.I.E.L.D. & HYDRA
Villain captures a Bystander Adversary guards a Bystander While the starting decks have the same numbers, these starting
Player rescues a Bystander Player kidnaps a Bystander cards are not considered equivalent. Some card effects, like
"Evil Wins" "Good Wins" Nick Fury, specifically talk about S.H.I.E.L.D., Heroes, or
HYDRA Allies. These effects do not apply to the other team.
Setup When Combining Villainous and Heroic Sets S.H.I.E.L.D. Officers and Madame HYDRA work differently from
Setup the same way as normal, with these changes: each other and are also not considered equivalent.
Scheme/Plot: Choose randomly amongst all Schemes and
Plots. You can use either Scheme Twist or Plot Twists, since Other Teams
they are equivalent terms.
No other team icons are considered equivalent either. Members
Mastermind/Commander: Choose randomly amongst all
of the Brotherhood are not equivalent to X-Men, etc.
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 Fantastic 4: Galactus, Mole Man
Game Contents Paint the Town Red: Carnage, Mysterio
Basic Set: Rulebook, game board and 560 cards Guardians of the Galaxy: Kree Supreme Intelligence,
Dark City: Rules insert and 350 cards Thanos
Fantastic 4: Rules insert and 100 cards Secret Wars Vol. 1: Nimrod Super Sentinel, Madelyne Pryor,
Paint The Town Red: Rules insert and 100 cards Wasteland Hulk, Zombie Green Goblin.
Villains: Rule book, game mat, dividers, and 550 cards Secret Wars Vol. 2: Immortal Emperor Zheng-Zhu, King
Guardians of the Galaxy: Rules insert and 100 cards Hyperion, Shiklah-the Demon Bride, Spider Queen.
Fear Itself: Rules insert and 100 cards Captain America: Arnim Zola, Baron Zemo
Secret Wars Vol. 1: Rules insert and 350 cards Civil War: Authoritarian Iron Man, Baron Helmut Zemo, Misty
Secret Wars Vol. 2: Rules insert and 350 cards Knight, Ragnarok, Maria Hill, Director of SHIELD
Civil War: Rules insert and 370 cards. Deadpool: Evil Deadpool, Macho Gomez
Deadpool: Rules insert 100 and cards. Noir: Charles Xavier, Professor of Crime, The Goblin,
Noir: Rules insert and 101 cards Underworld Boss
X-Men: Rules insert and 394 cards. X-Men: Arcade, Dark Phoenix, Deathbird, Mojo, Onslaught,
Shadow King.
Heroes:14 cards for each (each Hero has 1 rare, 3 uncommon, Commanders: 1 main card and 4 different Command Tactics
5 of one common, and 5 of another common) Villains: Dr. Strange, Nick Fury, Odin, Professor X
Basic Set: Black Widow, Captain America, Cyclops, Fear Itself: Uru-Enchanted Iron Man.
Deadpool, Emma Frost, Gambit, Hawkeye, Hulk, Iron Man, Nick Villain Groups: 8 cards for each
Fury, Rogue, Spider-Man, Storm, Thor, Wolverine Basic: Brotherhood, Enemies of Asgard, HYDRA, Masters of
Dark City: Angel, Bishop, Blade, Cable, Colossus, Daredevil, Evil, Radiation, Skrulls, Spider-Foes
Domino, Elektra, Forge, Ghost Rider, Iceman, Iron Fist, Jean Dark City: Emissaries of Evil, Four Horsemen, Marauders,
Grey, Nightcrawler, Professor X, The Punisher, Wolverine MLF, Streets of New York, Underworld
Fantastic 4: Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Thing, Human Fantastic 4: Subterranea, Heralds of Galactus
Torch, Silver Surfer Paint the Town Red: Maximum Carnage, Sinister Six
Paint the Town Red: Black Cat, Moon Knight, Scarlet Guardians of the Galaxy: Infinity Gems, Kree Starforce
Spider, Spider-Woman, Symbiote Spider-Man Secret Wars Vol. 1: The Deadlands, Domain of Apocalypse,
Guardians of the Galaxy: Drax, Gamora, Groot, Rocket Limbo, Manhatan 1610, The Sentential Territories, Wasteland.
Raccoon, Star-Lord Secret Wars Vol. 2: Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars,
3D: Howard the Duck, Man Thing. Guardians of Knowhere, K'un Lun, Monster Metropolis,
Secret Wars Vol. 1: Apolacyptic Kitty Pride, Black Panther, Utopolis, X-Men 92.
Black Bolt, Captain Marvel, Dr. Strange, Lady Thor, Magik, Captain America: Masters of Evil (WWII), Zola's Creation
Maximus, Namor, Old Man Logan, Proxima Midnight, Superior Civil War: CSA Special Marshals, Great Lakes Avengers,
Iron Man, Thanos, Ultimate Spider-Man. Heroes for Hire, Registration Enforcers, SHIELD Elite,
Secret Wars Vol. 2: Agent Venom, Arkon the Magnificent, Superhuman Registration Act, Thunderbolts
Beast, Black Swan, The Captain and the Devil, Captain Britain, Deadpool: Deadpool's Friends, Evil Deadpool Corpse
Corvus Glaive, Dr. Punisher - Soldier Supreme, Elsa Noir: Goblin's Freak Show, X-Men Noir
Bloodstone, Phoenix Force Cyclops, Ruby Summers, Silk, X-Men: Dark Descendants, Hellfire Club, Mojoverse,
Shang-Chi, Soulsword Colossus, Spider Gwen, Time-Travel Murderworld, Shadow-X, Shiar Imperial Guard, Sisterhood of
Jean Gray. Mutants.
Captain America: Agent X-13, Captain America 1941, Adversary Groups - 8 cards each
Captain America (Falcon), Steve Rogers, Winter Soldier Villains: Avengers, Defenders, Marvel Knights, Spider
Civil War: Captain America, Secret Avenger, Cloak & Friends, Uncanny Avengers, Uncanny X-Men, X-Men First
Dagger, Daredevil, Falcon, Goliath, Hercules, Hulkling, Luke Class
Cage, Patriot, Storm & Black Panther, Speedball, Peter Parker, Fear Itself: The Mighty.
Stature, Tigra, Vision, Wiccan Henchmen Villain Groups: 10 cards for each
Deadpool: Bob, Agent of HYDRA, Deadpool, Slapstick, Solo, Basic Set: Doombot Legion, Hand Ninjas, Savage Land
Stingray Mutants, Sentinels
Noir: Angel Noir, Daredevil Noir, Iron Man Noir, Luke Cage Dark City: Maggia Goons, Phalanx
Noir, Spider-Man Noir 3D: Circus of Crime, Spider-Slayer
X-Men: Aurora & Northstar, Banshee, Beast, Cannonball, Secret Wars Vol. 1: Ghost Racers, MODOKS, Thor Corps.
Colossus & Wolverine, Dazzler, Havok, Jubilee, Kitty Pride, Secret Wars Vol. 2: Khonshu Guardians, Magma Men,
Legion, Longshot, Phoenix, Polaris, Psylocke, X-23. Spider-Infected.
Allies - 14 cards each (1 rare, 3 uncommon, 5 of one common, Civil War: Cape-Killers, Mandroid
and 5 of another common) X-Men: Hellfire Cult, Sapien League, Shiar Death
Villains: Bullseye, Dr. Octopus, Electro, Enchantress, Green Commandos, Shiar Patrol Craft, The Brood.
Goblin, Juggernaut, Kingpin, Kraven, Loki, Magneto, Mysterio, Backup Adversary Groups - 10 cards each
Mystique, Sabretooth, Ultron, Venom Villains: Asgardian Warriors, Cops, Multiple Man,
Fear Itself: Grethoth, Kuurth, Nerkkod, Nul, Skadi, Skirn. S.H.I.E.L.D. Assault Squad
Masterminds: 1 main card and 4 different Mastermind Tactics Schemes
Basic: Dr. Doom, Loki, Magneto, Red Skull Basic Set: The Legacy Virus, Midtown Bank Robbery,
Dark City: Apocalypse, Kingpin, Mephisto, Mr. Sinister, Negative Zone Prison Breakout, Portals to the Dark Dimension,
Stryfe Replace Earth's Leaders with Killbots, Secret Invasion of the
Skrull Shapeshifters, Super Hero Civil War, Unleash the Power
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of the Cosmic Cube Ambition cards
Dark City: Capture Baby Hope, Detonate the Helicarrier, Secret Wars Vol. 1: 30 Ambition Cards.
Massive Earthquake Generator, Organized Crimewave, Save Secret Wars Vol. 2: 10 Ambition Cards.
Humanity, Steal the Weaponized Plutonium, Transform Citizens Sidekick Cards
into Demons, X-Cutioner's Song Secret Wars Vol. 1: 15 Sidekick Cards.
Fantastic 4: Bathe Earth in Cosmic Rays, Flood the Planet Special Sidekick Cards
with Melted Glaciers, Invincible Force Field, Pull Reality into the Civil War: Hairball, Lockheed, Lockjaw, Ms. Lion, Redwing,
Negative Zone Throg, Zabu
Paint the Town Red: Invade the Daily Bugle News HQ, Grevious Wounds:
Splice Humans with Spider DNA, The Clone Saga, Weave a Civil War: Spreading Nanovirus, Blinding Flash, Blunt Force
Web of Lies Trauma, Fatal Blow, Corrosive Webbing, Subdermal Tracker
Guardians of the Galaxy: Forge the Infinity Gauntlet, Miscellaneous
Intergalactic Kree Nega-Bomb, Kree-Skrull Wars, Unite the Basic Set: 40 S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents
Shards Basic Set: 20 S.H.I.E.L.D. Troopers
Secret Wars Vol. 1: Build An Army Of Annihilation, Corrupt Basic Set: 30 S.H.I.E.L.D. Officers
the Next Generation of Heroes, Crush Them With My Bare Villains: 40 HYDRA Operatives
Hands, Dark Alliance, Fragmented Realities, Master of Tyrants, Villains: 20 HYDRA Soldiers
Pan-Dimensional Plague, Smash Two Dimensions Together. Villains: 15 Madame HYDRA
Secret Wars Vol. 2: Deadlands Hordes Charge the Wall, Basic Set: 11 Scheme Twists
Enthrone the Barons of Battleworld, The Fountain of Enternal Villains: 12 Plot Twists
Life, The God-Emperor of Battleworld, The Mark of Khonshu, Basic Set: 5 Master Strikes
Master the Mysteries of Kung-Fu, Secret Wars, Sinister Villains: 9 Command Strikes
Ambitions. Villains: 15 New Recruits
Captain America: Brainwash the Military, Change the Basic Set: 30 Wounds
Outcome of WWII, Go Back In Time To Slay Heroes' Ancestors, Villains: 30 Bindings
The Unbreakable Enigma Code Guardians of the Galaxy: 18 Shard Tokens
Civil War: Epic Super Hero Civil War, Avengers Vs. X-Men, X-Men: 20 Horrors
Dark Reign of HAMMER Officers, Imprison Unregistered X-Men: 9 Tokens
Superhumans, Nitro the Supervillain Threatens Crowds, Predict
Future Crime, Reveal Heroes' Secret Identities, United States
Split by Civil War
Deadpool: Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe, Deadpool
Wants a Chimichanga, Deadpool Writes a Scheme, Everybody
Hates Deadpool
Noir: Find the Split-Personality Killer, Five Families of Crime,
Hidden Heart of Darkness, Silence the Witnesses
X-Men: Alien Brood Encounters, Anti-Mutant Hatred, Horror
of Horrors, Mutant Hunting Super Sentinels, Nuclear
Armageddon, Televised Deathtraps of Mojoworld, The Dark
Phoenix Saga, X-Men Danger Room Goes Berzerk
Plots
Villains: Build an Underground Mega-Vault Prison, Cage
Villains In Power Suppressing Cells, Crown Thor King of
Asgard, Crush HYDRA, Graduation at Xavier's X-Academy,
Infiltrate the Lair With Spies, Mass Produce War Machine
Armor, Resurrect Heroes With the Norn Stones
Fear Itself: Fear Itself, Last Stand at Avengers Tower, The
Traitor.
Bystanders
Basic Set: 30 Basic Bystanders
Villains: 30 Basic Bystanders, 4 Special Bystanders (12
cards), Computer Hacker, Engineer, Public Speaker, Rock Star
Dark City: 3 Special Bystanders (11 cards), News Reporter,
Paramedic, Radiation Scientist
3D: Bulldozer Driver, Double Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Fortune
Teller, Photographer, Stan Lee.
Secret Wars Vol. 1: Banker.
Secret Wars Vol. 2: Alligator Trapper, Shapeshifted
Copycat, Undercover Agent.
Civil War: Comic Shop Keeper, Aspiring Hero
Noir: Detective Wolverine (Promo)
X-Men: Cypher, Heartless Computer Scientist, Karma, Magik
(Promo), Magma, Martial Arts Master, Mirage, Sunspot,
Warlock, Wolfsbane

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 Quick Reference Guide
Setup
Initial Setup
Each player shuffles a personal deck of 8 S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents/HYDRA Operatives and 4 S.H.I.E.L.D. Troopers/HYDRA Soldiers. Each
player then draws 6 cards from their deck.
Put all the S.H.I.E.L.D. Officers, Madame HYDRA, New Recruits, Wounds, Bindings and Bystanders on the board in the appropriate
spaces. Depending on the game, some cards may not be used. Also some cards may not have a designated location on the board and
can be placed new to the board.
Pick 1 Mastermind/Commander at random and put it on the board, with its 4 Mastermind/Command Tactics facedown underneath it in
random order. Check which Villains/Adversaries this Mastermind/Commander "Always Leads."

Villain/Adversary Deck
Pick 1 Scheme/Plot at random. Follow its "Setup" instructions. Put the number of Scheme/Plot Twists it tells you into the
Villain/Adversary Deck.
Add 5 Master/Command Strikes to the Villain/Adversary Deck.
Add this many Villain/Adversary Groups, Henchmen Groups/Backup Adversaries and Bystanders to the Villain/Adversary Deck.
Shuffle it.

Number of Villain/Adversary Henchmen Groups/Backup

Bystanders Heroes/Allies
Players Groups Adversaries
1 1 1* (3 cards) 1 3
2 2 1 2 5
3 3 1 8 5
4 3 2 8 5
5 4 2 12 6

Hero/Ally Deck
Pick 5 Heroes/Allies at random. Add all of those Heroes'/Allies' cards to the Hero/Ally Deck. 70 cards total. Shuffle it.
If you are playing with 5 players, add a 6th Hero/Ally.
Put 5 Heroes/Allies cards from the top of the Hero/Ally Deck into the HQ/Lair, face up.

On Your Turn
1. Play the top card of the Villain/Adversary Deck.
2. Play cards from your hand, using them to recruit and fight.
3. Discard all the cards you played and any cards left in your hand and draw 6 new cards.

Solo Play
* Ignore the Mastermind / Commander "Always Lead" ability. Apply any special abilities linked to a specific group to the Villain/Adversary
Group or Henchmen Group currently in the game.
* Whenever you complete a Scheme or Plot Twist: choose a Hero or Ally from the HQ or Lair that cost 6 or less and put it on the bottom
of the Hero/Ally deck.
* Whenever you complete a Master or Command Strike effect, play another card from the Villain/Adversary deck.
* If you use "Betrayals" ability on Bindings, KO all the Bindings in your hand.
* When a Hero/Adversary or Mastermind/Commander Tactic tells "each other player" to do something, do it yourself.

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