User Manual

Your Victory Pile
• Eachplayerhastheirownpersonal
Victory Pile. Your faceup Victory
Pile holds all the Villains you defeat
 andalltheBystandersyourescue.
• VillainsandBystandersarenever
shuffled into your deck.
• ManyplayerskeeptheirVictoryPile
 horizontalsotheydon’tmixitup
with their faceup discard pile.
• Attheendofthegame,Villainsand
 BystandersinyourVictoryPileare
worth the Victory Points shown on
their cards.
Name
Name
Mastermind Card
MastermindTacticCard
Victory Points
Victory Points
Card Type
Card Type
Attack
Attack
Special Ability
Special Ability
Card Number: LM101
Card Name: Magneto
Character Name: Mastermind
TM & ©2012 Marvel & Subs. ©2012 UDC, Inc.
Always Leads: Brotherhood
Master Strike: Each player
reveals an
Hero or
discards down to four cards.
8
5
M a s t e r Mind
Magneto
Card Number: LM102
Card Name: Bitter Captor
Character Name: Mastermind Tactic - Magneto
TM & ©2012 Marvel & Subs. ©2012 UDC, Inc.
8
Fight: Recruit an Hero from the HQ
for free.
5
M a s t e r Mind tactic - M agnet o
Bitter Captor
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13
• ThenrelltheemptyspaceintheHQ
with a new card from the Hero Deck,
faceup. Whenever there is an empty
space in the HQ for any reason, you
refill that space immediately with the
top card of the Hero Deck, faceup. You
can even recruit a Hero, see what new
Hero appears in its place from the Hero
Deck, and then recruit that new Hero
too, if you have enough Recruit Points.
HowtoFightaVillain:
You use Attack to fight any number of
Villains in the city, one at a time. It doesn’t
matter which city space holds the Villain.
To fight a Villain:
• ExpendAttackequaltothatVillain’s
Attack to defeat it. You then have the
remaining Attack value available to
attack another Villain.
• PutthedefeatedVillainandany 
Bystanders it had captured into your
personal Victory Pile.
• IftheVillaincardhasa“Fight”effecton
it, do what it says prior to comparing
Attack totals.
You can only attack a Villain if you have
at least as much Attack as the Villain’s
Attack. You can also fight the Mastermind
– see the Masterminds section for details.
Step 3) Discard Your Hand and
Draw6NewCards
• At the end of your turn, put all the cards
you played this turn into your discard pile.
• Alsodiscardanycardsinyourhandthat
you didn’t play this turn.
• Thendraw6newcardsfromyourdeck.
• Ifyoudon’thaveanycardsleftinyour
deck and you still need to draw more
cards, shuffle your discard pile to form a
new deck. Then draw the rest of the
cards you need.
• Don’tshufeyourdiscardpileintoanew
deck until your deck has completely run
out and you still need to draw or reveal
more cards.
WinningtheGame:
Players win the game when they have
defeated the Mastermind four times.
Note: There is an optional rule that allows
players to compete in one final showdown
after the Mastermind has been defeated four
times. For rules on this optional form of play,
please see Final Showdown rules at the end
of this book.
Masterminds
A Mastermind is a powerful, evil genius that
pursues an evil Scheme and tells all of the
other Super Villains what to do. A player can
choose to fight the Mastermind instead of
fighting a Villain. Like any other fight, you
have to use Attack equal to the Mastermind’s
Attack to fight that Mastermind.
MastermindTactics
Masterminds use different abilities during
fights, represented by “Mastermind Tactic”
cards. All four “Mastermind Tactic” cards
have the same Attack number, but they
each have different “Fight” effects on
them. When you fight a Mastermind:
• Choosearandomcardfromthefour
face-down Mastermind Tactics cards
underneath the Mastermind.
• PutthatMastermindTacticcardinto
your Victory Pile. It’s worth several
Victory Points.
• Thenfollowthe“Fight”effectlistedon
that Mastermind Tactic card.
A Mastermind is not truly defeated until all
four of their Mastermind Tactics cards have
been defeated by the players. If you create
an amazing combo that gives you tons of
Power, you can even fight the Mastermind
multiple times in one turn.
Note: Defeating any Mastermind Tactic card
lets you rescue all the Bystanders currently
under that Mastermind and put them into
your Victory Pile.