User Manual

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Overview
Welcome to Legendary, the Marvel Deck-
Building Game! Evil Masterminds like
Magneto and Dr. Doom lead a horde of
powerful Super Villains, planning dark
Schemes to destroy the Marvel Universe!
Only you can stop them, leading awesome
Marvel Super Heroes like Spider-Man, Iron
Man, and Wolverine!
In this game for 1-5 players, each player
starts with their own deck of basic Hero
cards. At the start of your turn, you play the
top card of the Villain Deck, showing how
Villains invade the city, capture Bystanders,
and create special events. Then you play
Hero cards from your hand to generate
Attack, Recruit Points, and special abilities.
You attack with your Heroes to defeat
Villains. You use Recruit Points to recruit
better Heroes to add to your deck.
Whenever your deck runs out of cards, you
shuffle your discard pile to make a new deck,
including all the new Heroes you recruited.
This way your deck gets stronger and
stronger over time. Build up enough Power
and you can defeat the evil Mastermind!
But be careful: if the players don’t defeat
the Mastermind quickly enough, then the
Mastermind will complete their dark Scheme
and win the game for evil!
Online How-to-Play Videos
In addition to this rulebook, you can also
learn to play by watching online how-
to-play videos at www.upperdeck.com.
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Legendary site.
How to Win
Players must work together to successfully
attack the evil Mastermind four times. If they
do, then the Mastermind is beaten once and
for all, and all the players win the game for
the forces of good! In addition, defeating
Villains and rescuing Bystanders earns each
player Victory Points. If the players defeat
the Mastermind, then the player with the
most Victory Points is the most legendary
hero of all and the individual winner.
How the Evil Mastermind Wins
Unlike other games, in Legendary, the
game itself fights back against the players!
The evil Mastermind, like Magneto or Dr.
Doom, isn’t played by a player. Instead,
the game itself plays the part of the
Mastermind.
The evil Mastermind works to accomplish
an evil Scheme throughout the game.
Every Scheme card has a part that says
“Evil Wins”, which tells you how the
Mastermind completes their Scheme. If
the evil Scheme is completed, then the
Mastermind wins the game for evil and all
the players lose!
Your First Game
For your first game, follow the setup
rules on the following page, using the
specific card stacks listed there instead
of choosing card stacks at random.
After your first game, every game of
Legendary uses different Heroes, Villains,
Masterminds, and Schemes, so there are
always new challenges to master and new
combinations to explore.