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Card Number: LM54

Card Name: Odinson

Character Name: Thor

Team: Avengers

Card Type: Strength

: You get +2 .

“Whosoever holds this hammer,

if he be worthy, shall possess the

power of Thor.”

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Name

Team Icon

Hero Type Icon

Hero Card

Special Ability

Hero Name

Cost: How many

Recruit Points

it costs to add

this Hero to

your deck.

Recruit Points: Use

these to recruit

more heroes.

Attack: Use this to

defeat Villains.

Card Number: LM53

Card Name: Surge of Power

Character Name: Thor

Team: Avengers

Card Type: Ranged

If you made 8 or more this turn,

you get +3

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Surge of Power

Card Number: LM22

Card Name: Card Shark

Character Name: Gambit

Team: X-Men

Card Type: Ranged

Reveal the top card of your deck. If it’s

Hero, draw it.

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Card Number: LM34

Card Name: Repulsor Rays

Character Name: Iron Man

Team: Avengers

Card Type: Ranged

: You get +1 .

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ExampleofSuperpowerAbilities:

• Thor’s“Odinson”card,shownhere,always 

 givesyou2Starswhenyouplayit,evenifyou

 don’thaveanyother

(“StrengthHero”)cards.

• Butifyouhavealreadyplayedanother

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 Thor

card, or even another copy of Odinson.

• IfyouplaytwoOdinsoncardsasyourrst

 twocardsoftheturn,youwon’tgettousethe

 Superpowerabilityfortherst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.

Step 2) Play Cards from Your

Hand,UsingThemtoRecruit

andFight

The only types of cards that can be in your

hand are Heroes and Wounds. Here are

the different parts of a Hero card:

After you play the top card of the Villain

Deck, you play the cards from your hand.

Some of your cards produce “Recruit

Points” that let you recruit more Heroes.

Other cards produce “Attack” that let

you defeat Villains. Some cards give you

special abilities, like drawing more cards.

Here’s what you do:

• Playeachcardinyourhandinany

order, one at a time.

  •Eachtimeyouplayacard,dowhat

that card says.

 •

You also get any Recruit Points

listed in the Recruit icon on the card.

  •YoualsogetanyAttacklisted

in the Attack icon on the card.

• Somecardshaveanumberlike“2+”

inside their Recruit icon. The “2” means

that you always get at least 2 Recruit

Points from that card. The “+” symbol

means that you might get even more

Recruit Points based on what the card

says in its special ability.

• Keepthecardsyouplayinfrontofyou

until the end of your turn.

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 class earlier in

your turn.

•Acard’sheroclassisshownwiththe

class icon in the card’s upper left, and

also in the color of the card’s border.

RecruitingHeroesand

FightingVillains

n between playing cards from your hand,

or after you’ve played all your cards, you

can recruit any number of Heroes and

ﬁght any number of Villains. You can

recruit and ﬁght in the same turn.

HowtoRecruitaHero:

You use Recruit Points to gain a Hero

from the HQ, one at a time. The “HQ”

area of the game board has ﬁve spaces.

Those ﬁve spaces always contain exactly

ﬁve Heroes, all faceup. You can also

recruit “S.H.I.E.L.D. Ofﬁcer” Heroes from

the S.H.I.E.L.D. Ofﬁcer stack on the game

board. To recruit a Hero:

• UseRecruitPointsequaltothatHero’s

cost and put that Hero into your

discard pile. A Hero’s cost is in its

lower-right- hand corner. When your

deck runs out and you shufﬂe your

discard pile to make a new deck, you

will soon draw that new Hero and be

able to use their abilities.

  •SomeSuperpowersuseateamiconlikeAvengers

or X-Men

instead of a hero class icon. These work the same way as Superpowers that use

hero class icons. A card’s team icon is in the card’s upper-left-hand corner.

  •Youcanonlyuseacard’sSuperpoweronce,evenifyouplayedtwoormorecardsof

the required hero class earlier in the turn.

• ThemoreHeroesofthesameclassyourecruit,themoreoftenyouwillbeabletouse

your Superpower Ability! A deck focusing on one or two classes can be very powerful.