“So long as there are minions”. Time was, Ultron was the big bad and there wasn’t much mitigation. At the same time there was a design choice to not let you tear into villains like they were a block of soft cheese. Tanks and tanking in general was discouraged. Yes he’s improved somewhat and the Thor pack itself contains a trove of essential deck building resources but the only hero trait treated worse than Asgardian is Gamma. Two hero decks from a pantheon of gods all Marvelified. Meantime 4Handed Avengers is no problem; the same holds with Spiders, Champions and soon the X-kin. Valkyrie didn’t help matters any either. There’s a clear need for another Asgard hero, Thor-Jane or Loki as examples. Until then he will remain very niche while the best thing to come out of Asgard is still Hella.
Hey there! It’s me again 😅 with another question. When playing a scenario, let’s say Loki, you have to have the Loki set, the Standard (and if you want Expert) set and the infinity gauntlet set. In the text below his main scheme, it says “Two modular encounter sets (Enchantress and Frost Giants)” - now I know that Ench. and FG are suggestions BUT does this mean that when playing Loki i need to have at least two encounter sets? Or can I have just one OR even zero? I’m asking cuz I added zero encounter sets, and the Loki set doesn’t have any minions, so when the Space Stone came out of the Infinity Set, it couldn’t resolve. So I got confused 😅 Could you help me again please?
Haha, Hey! Right. You HAVE to use Standard/Expert and Infinity Gauntlet, and at least 2 other encounter sets. Putting in more than 2 could make certain scenarios easier than intended, if it means that you're not going to run into cards that specifically interact with the Villain and/or Main Scheme (similar to using more than 40 cards in your player deck means that you don't run into your hero cards as often). And no worries about questions! Keep em coming!
I have a query about the villain phase and the main scheme threat: when i defeat a Villain in its 1st Phase, does the threat on the main scheme get fully removed or does that remain as it is? I think I read somewhere what happens but I’m super confused now cuz I can’t find it anywhere 😅😅😅
No problem! It just takes a little planning. Don’t knock take the villain to the next stage if you’re not in a comfortable Threat situation, because they’re likely to have some “when revealed” antics.
So what happens when you use Thor against the Loki Villain from The Mad Titan’s Shadow AND then you’re asked to put your minion into play? Never understood these “contradictions”…
You do everything that you can do. So, if you draw Shadow of the Past, you put the side scheme into play and you shuffle the other cards into the Encounter Deck, but your nemesis stays out of play. Then Shadow of the Past gains surge, because the nemesis didn’t go into play.
damn Thor is impressively bad. You can probably reduce all his hero specific card cost by 1, and he will still be considered weak compared to most Xmen hero.
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“So long as there are minions”. Time was, Ultron was the big bad and there wasn’t much mitigation. At the same time there was a design choice to not let you tear into villains like they were a block of soft cheese. Tanks and tanking in general was discouraged. Yes he’s improved somewhat and the Thor pack itself contains a trove of essential deck building resources but the only hero trait treated worse than Asgardian is Gamma. Two hero decks from a pantheon of gods all Marvelified. Meantime 4Handed Avengers is no problem; the same holds with Spiders, Champions and soon the X-kin. Valkyrie didn’t help matters any either. There’s a clear need for another Asgard hero, Thor-Jane or Loki as examples. Until then he will remain very niche while the best thing to come out of Asgard is still Hella.
Jane, or Loki, or even Sif. Or, hell, give me the Warriors Three!
Hey there! It’s me again 😅 with another question. When playing a scenario, let’s say Loki, you have to have the Loki set, the Standard (and if you want Expert) set and the infinity gauntlet set. In the text below his main scheme, it says “Two modular encounter sets (Enchantress and Frost Giants)” - now I know that Ench. and FG are suggestions BUT does this mean that when playing Loki i need to have at least two encounter sets? Or can I have just one OR even zero? I’m asking cuz I added zero encounter sets, and the Loki set doesn’t have any minions, so when the Space Stone came out of the Infinity Set, it couldn’t resolve. So I got confused 😅 Could you help me again please?
Haha, Hey!
Right. You HAVE to use Standard/Expert and Infinity Gauntlet, and at least 2 other encounter sets.
Putting in more than 2 could make certain scenarios easier than intended, if it means that you're not going to run into cards that specifically interact with the Villain and/or Main Scheme (similar to using more than 40 cards in your player deck means that you don't run into your hero cards as often).
And no worries about questions! Keep em coming!
@@thegrouchynerd got it, thanks again for your help. Couldn’t find answers to this anywhere else 😁
I have a query about the villain phase and the main scheme threat: when i defeat a Villain in its 1st Phase, does the threat on the main scheme get fully removed or does that remain as it is? I think I read somewhere what happens but I’m super confused now cuz I can’t find it anywhere 😅😅😅
Nope! You reset the villain’s health, but any tokens or status cards on the Villain or Threat on schemes remains!
@@thegrouchynerd got it. That makes it somewhat harder 😅 but rules are rules. Thanks once again for the help! 😊
No problem! It just takes a little planning. Don’t knock take the villain to the next stage if you’re not in a comfortable Threat situation, because they’re likely to have some “when revealed” antics.
So what happens when you use Thor against the Loki Villain from The Mad Titan’s Shadow AND then you’re asked to put your minion into play? Never understood these “contradictions”…
You do everything that you can do. So, if you draw Shadow of the Past, you put the side scheme into play and you shuffle the other cards into the Encounter Deck, but your nemesis stays out of play. Then Shadow of the Past gains surge, because the nemesis didn’t go into play.
@@thegrouchynerd ahh i see, thanks for the help 😁
Of course!
damn Thor is impressively bad.
You can probably reduce all his hero specific card cost by 1, and he will still be considered weak compared to most Xmen hero.
And it’s a real shame. Especially at the time. There was not a lot of content yet, and it took forever to get my hands on it, and then it was blah.