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Thanks! That thought came from all the conversations around your protection deck, letting me feel confident about the timings.

My point was that I don't take advantage of his ability to include "better" X-Men allies in any meaningful way, not *just* because of the 6 ally limit, although that plays a role I'm sure. It's more the same mindset that pushed me to a 6 ally limit has pushed me away from any kind of optimization on this metric of ally inclusion. So, I don't take the 6 "best" allies...because it's just not how I approach the question of which allies to include in a deck. I think the power level of my Cyclops decks are effectively equivalent to if he did not have the ability at all, and just had the normal aspect limitation on allies. I think he's a good hero apart from his ally inclusion ability, that based on discussions gets to be crazy OP when you lean into the ally stuff. My experience is that without any ally focus, he's good, but not crazy...admittedly, it's not like I've played him a ton. He's fun, but pretty middle-of-the-pack for me...being fairly new and in the 20's in terms of preference and not being chosen for a campaign run-through at any point, I think I've probably played like 5-6 games with him at most.

Boom Boom's ability sets up a delayed effect which will deal the damage regardless of whether boom boom is in play or not.

That's fair. What I was trying to communicate was that his events are not on a level where they are worth exhausting the unique bow resource, IMO. It feels to me like if that were not required Hawkeye would be a decently strong hero on his event-value, but still only matching the upper tier heroes, not exceeding them.

@@Theorel_CardText I agree, the bow could do something else entirely and he would be stronger, and this would probably be a better design choice (although less thematic). However, personally I think that he is still not as low as you rank him, as he normally has frequent access to either stun or confuse which helps his low survivability, and he has a low cost curve especially if you get resource generators out.

Ohhh, of course! I knew that!

doh! that's 2 missed encounter cards...man I played this on super-easy mode. :)

"R" shuffles the deck (also rolls dice), number keys draw that many cards (also change states, for the damage and counter tokens) (not numpad)

​​@@Theorel_CardTextawesome it's a struggle to learn! I think I'll watch your earlier vids

Oh, yeah...I think I read that once, then promptly forgot about it...that's nice actually, it means I can count on the show changing. I mean it might not have been ideal in this game as it happens, but I've definitely had it work against me that what I really wanted was to change shows, but then I get Cornered instead :)

Yeah, unfortunate start for the deck, although I did perhaps overcut the thwarts to really hope to draw into them. Thanks for the UI tip, I'll check into that.

Thanks for the feedback! It was pretty fun looking more into the character, as I only really knew him from his Guardian days and the original Infinity Gauntlet story. Good idea to hide the TTS UI, one of those things that didn't even really occur to me as possible, but looks like it's easy to do. I'll actually probably do that in all of my videos going forward, as it's not like I use any of the menus in-game. :)

It's funny, when I started making videos again with Rogue, I built the deck ahead of time and something felt off, then I remembered "Oh yeah, I'm supposed to do that during the recording".

Yes, I'm pretty sure it should've been left out of the reshuffle. I played that sloppily.

@@Theorel_CardText It's cool, I only asked out of curiosity. Cheers!

Yeah, I forgot a few times that I could get him back again by going alter-ego. I didn't really want to do the professor-loop, but I certainly could have used it a bit :)

I mean, she can be strong sure. I dunno about strongest, that's some really stiff competition, and I don't think a late-game Ms Marvel is really in that competition, she might mix it up with the upper-mid/high tiers when she's firing on all cylinders. The main issue with Ms Marvel is that she's not always firing on all cylinders. Her early game can struggle, she needs to get her build cards when she can afford them (or get her friends and family out first), and then finally, if she doesn't draw the events she needs then, well, she can't do the things she can't do. I like Ms Marvel, she's a very fun hero, I've played her a lot, but she just has bad games at a frequency that those higher tier heroes don't. And her good games are not competing with Miles or Scarlet Witch, they're more competing with Iron Man or Gamora.

@@Theorel_CardText have you played the justice Ms Marvel? Using turning the tide? In solo and in two player it’s so good. Have won almost every campaign on expert with her justice build. The only villain it’s struggled against was Ronan and I don’t 100% blame me marvel for that.

My latest Ms Marvel deck was Justice, yeah. It's good, I prefer her in Aggression personally, just because I think the deck is more interesting. But, anyways, she can win games, for sure, most heroes can. I think if I were to put in some demarcations on the tiers, I'd say that the characters above mid-tier can win a game in spite of the characters below mid tier, even when they have a rough game. The character below mid-tier will drop games if something doesn't line up. The characters in mid-tier anywhere can usually pull off a win even if their deck is struggling. What they can't do is consistently carry a second struggling deck, for one reason or another. Just in terms of mechanically what Ms Marvel needs is: Build Time, Alter-Ego Access, and Appropriate Events. I've felt each of those things bring her down in games I've played, whether solo or multiplayer, with a frequency that has pushed her to that lower-mid tier. If she can go to alter-ego with impunity, and take the time to build then she can "keep up" with heroes above her, but if she can't she can't bring *up* a hero below her. As for her being in the *lower* mid-tier, I just feel like those struggles are more prevalent than for heroes above her also in mid tier.

She's better than all the other heroes you put in that tier. I'm not sure she's so much better mid or upper mid on a good day, but not lower. That said I don't think there's anyone more than one row away from where I would put them.

I mean, I certainly debated it...but I don't think she's necessarily better than all the other heroes in that tier. I think there's potentially a division there between Thor, Drax, and She-Hulk vs Ms Marvel, Wasp, and Colossus. Ultimately, it's more of a gut feeling, and a looking at it and saying "yep, that feels right", with an attempt at explaining why I think I feel that way.

That's an interesting idea. So, I'm assuming you're meaning putting nemesis minion/side scheme into play, but getting the ally at the same time?

@@Theorel_CardText yes! i can get the names wrong because i have the spanish version! but basically.. speaking the basic game with spiderman vs rhino for example.. u get to play the spideys nemesis the vulture when u pull the basic bad guy card that says something from the past.. what i mean is.. you could also use the hero cards that are yellow on the back.. from the other heroes like black panther.. put that card in the rhino deck and if u pull it.. then u could pull out killmonger as a minion AND black panther as an ally! something like that!

Thanks, yeah, it was a little tight there :)

Thanks! I hope to keep them going :)

Yeah, I sadly didn't notice until I'd already recorded my first two videos. The balance will be better for the Gambit video on Thursday (although still maybe a little low altogether. I think it'll be better by the next video.)

I was using Hitch's mod. It's been a bit since I played last, but I believe it is still kept up to date.

@@Theorel_CardText I actually found Hitch’s mod a couple hours ago and it is much better than what I was using. Thank you!

I'm using "Hitch's Tabletop", if you go to TTS Workshop and search "Hitch" it'll probably be the first result.

@@Theorel_CardText Thank You.

Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad to include it as long as people are enjoying it, it basically just means starting the recording ~10 minutes earlier.

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

I think, in all honesty, one of the reasons I like Mutagen Formula so much is because it pushes the value of OTK.

Is the swinginess from Stage 2 of the Main Scheme, or Troop Transport+Grunts, or something else? Ideally for the difficulty side I traded threat for minions, but I definitely may have missed the mark there. I'll need to try to get some more plays in of all these modified scenarios and see how they play out non-solo and over a few more games.

Yeah, I should see if I can get the recommended ships onto the 1A's. I'm conceiving of these with a modified rulebook in my mind that has some of these details, but good to put whatever I can on the cards...especially given that I have trouble imagining myself actually making a modified "insert" in any sense. Might want to make some little rules-cards that have the stuff that would be in the rulebook. The starship operations second response is to keep it Drang-like, because he seems to be the best ship user, but it could certainly be too much in some cases, I should play some more flip-heavy heroes and see how it goes.

@@Theorel_CardText I think every time the board got flooded with minions it involved Drang's Stage 3 When Revealed ability and I was just extremely unlucky. Definitely need to play it more. I did recently notice a weird situation in Infiltrate the Museum where it's possible to get the Power Stone during 1B through a lucky Inconspicuous Box draw. Don't think this behavior is intended and could be easily solved by adding a 'Cards can't leave the Collection' effect on 1B.

Yes, whenever a card is added shuffle. I'll have to see whether "if able" fits, it's technically not necessary since it'd just fail and be fine.

@@Theorel_CardText Thanks for the clarification! I've got this and Drang printed out and ready to go this weekend, looking forward to it.

Yes 2 engineers, thanks for the catch!

That's great, I'm glad you're having a good time with it! I'll have to think on the attachments, maybe an extra resource each would be appropriate.

Thanks!, I'm so glad you like them! I've definitely had fun brainstorming these things, and playing them when I can. I wish I had more time to playtest and tweak them, to really nail down the best experience. For this one, I've done a few of these changes before, but not all together before this video, and I'm trying still to nail down exactly how to make the Milano work best. One thing I forgot to mention that I would really like to incorporate is some way of having the Milano be more than just a resource. (Like giving it a random (or selected) Mod which would be akin to the Milano Mods that we actually got, except having the cost of exhausting the Milano itself to get their benefit, and attaching to it. I may not revisit this until I start looking at the campaign stuff though.) Anyways, just to note that there is still a work in progress aspect to them, feel free to offer feedback if anything seems off. But I'm really happy to be able to share them in their current state, and am thrilled that you're able to enjoy them as well :)

@@Theorel_CardText One thing I would like to see in your scenario sets is a stage 1 villain card, even if it's not really play tested. I think most people play standard difficulty, especially when trying a scenario for the first time or even when testing new decks.

That's totally fair. I'll have those for the next scenario, and try to go back and get something together for the ones I've posted already. Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)

Fanatacism is a very swingy card, depending on if it's a boost or an encounter card. The built-in treachery cancel and high-threat side schemes also make for a very different game depending on which type of encounter you see.

Hopefully it goes better than fighting Thanos!

He can present a challenge at times...I think I forgot to apply the glove this game even. It's funny because I've often found him to be not too hard, but I often wonder whether I just forgot some of his triggers.

Sure, I could do that. Added (hopefully that works). I will note that I normally just build the deck in TTS right before I play it, so set expectations accordingly :)

Yeah, he does some work. Avengers Assemble can be really tough to make work with the 6-ally limit, but it worked great to push this game to a rapid close once I was set up.

Fair point, I did not consider any "discard/redraw your hand" type effects (tbf, they didn't exist when I initially came up with the design :P). I was definitely feeling the Unstoppable Force being too powerful in this game as well. It initially came out of the "powerful cards" change I mentioned, to allow you to play Unstoppable force and a 3-cost card (which is to my mind a piece of the Hulk "problem" when he faces a lot of exhaust/stunning effects). With the available resources from Growing Anger though, I think it's less necessary for the card to be "free" when paid for with 100% fists. In short, Unstoppable Force can just be draw 2 discard 1 when paid with all fists, and likely still be a great card. I think Growing Anger could just be 1 counter regardless of number discarded, I think that'd still work okay with Mysterio, even if it still amplifies Hulk a bit. Getting just 1 counter from Doppelganger and Fearmonger should bring things back to sanity. My only qualm is Hulk's ability. It would be more interesting that way for sure, but I'm not sure if it would be improved. If it weakens him too much, Hulk could be made to discard 1-at-a-time, though it'd probably sound weird.