December 23, 2020
Last year we initiated a Clobberin’ Time challenge to flex your deckbuilding skills with a shrinking card-pool. It urged players to use their entire card-pool to run a gauntlet of villains! With more hero packsRead More
Lets talk about sleeves. First, some background. I am a sleever, I sleeve all my games, if I can, and ideally I double sleeve. So, naturally, when I received my base game copy of Marvel
July 28, 2020
When the Marvel Champions Core Set first dropped, we were given five heroes, three villains, and five modular encounter sets, not to mention four aspects. This provided an amazing amount of variety straight out of the core set:
5 Heroes x 4 Aspects = 20 basic hero modes to play
3 Villains x 5 Modular Encounter Sets = 15 villain / encounter match-ups to face
If you took every hero in every aspect through every villain / encounter match-up, you’d have 300 games to play.
July 19, 2020
Cap is right! Let’s talk. Numbers! The kind of numbers that don’t require you to have a Cosmic Calculator (yet)! Hello everyone and welcome to what may be the first installment of my article series,Read More
July 15, 2020
Greetings SHIELD Agents! This is the fifth in a series of new-player articles, aimed to get beginner players get up to speed on the game – Marvel Champions! This session is a list of player tips that helped me transition from losing my Marvel Champions games to winning them. We may deep dive into these topics in future articles. The list comes in no specific order but starts with some tips about gameplay before moving on to broader topics.
You may see a lot of people bemoan that Marvel Champions is too easy. I think in reality Marvel Champions is just the right kind of easy – the kind that makes me feel like a powerful super hero able to take on any foe. I didn’t always feel this way in fact I lost several games when first playing Marvel Champions. I’m now at a much higher win-rate and these are the things I did to get there.
July 9, 2020
Enjoy some fan hero challenges for the heroes released up to Dr. Strange!
July 7, 2020
Let’s take a look at the 16 cards that make up my favorite hero in the game to play: Iron Man.
Tony’s Alter-Ego is nice. It’s better than simply providing you a resource because it lets you choose which resource you want. But more importantly, it lets you dig to find more pieces of his essential armor – especially with an unfortunate mulligan.
May 16, 2020
Fantasy Flight Games has graciously provided us with a spoiler from the upcoming Hulk Hero pack. We received an aggression card… without further blathering here it is! You can bet Lester is excited to seeRead More
May 15, 2020
#klawyourwaythroughmay brings us to Black Panther’s hero kit inspection. In the comic lore, Klaw and T’Challa have a rich history including Klaw killing T’Challa’s father, T’Chaka. Without further ado, let’s dig in.
May 10, 2020
#KlawYourWayThroughMay with an overview of this custom Return To modular set that KennedyHawk is cooking up!