a b c "How Marvel Champions Differs From Other Living Card Games". GAMING . Retrieved February 3, 2022. Marvel Champions is a living card game (LCG) from Fantasy Flight Games (FFG). FFG are known for their LCGs, so how does Marvel Champions shape up against Arkham Horror and The Lord of the Rings?

a b "Marvel Champions: Everything We Learned About The Rise of Red Skull Campaign Expansion". GAMING . Retrieved February 4, 2022.Under Surveillance could be a nice addition, especially for solo, but I haven't had any issues with the threat level. If you have trouble with threat I'd instead drop one Clear the Area and one Multitasking and add two For Justice!. Mastrangeli, Tony (April 17, 2020). "2019 Board Game Award Winners". Board Game Quest . Retrieved February 4, 2022. I’ve played Marvel Champions at every player count now and I think it’s best at two and three players. You get a good mix of hero skills to balance out your team at those counts and the games never feel too long (though some three-player games can run pretty long). Four-player games are still fun, but they can take 2+ hours and there seems to be quite a bit more downtime. Solo is good, too, but this one just feels like it should be played co-op.

It’s also very easy to adjust the difficulty. If you want Rhino to be tougher, use the Rhino II and Rhino III cards instead of I and II, and/or you can just shuffle in a more difficult modular encounter set. The game feels very thematic with the obligations on point with the character. For example, Spiderman’s obligation is his eviction notice which ties in with the films and his character.I really like the dual-use cards. You want to play just about every card you draw, but you have to give some of them up to pay for the ones that you need the most each turn. That makes each decision feel like it really matters… because it does. There are a lot of keywords and some edge case rules which might confuse players at first or when certain combinations of cards come up, but I think this is the nature of LCGs in general. In the instances where I have been unsure I have just go with what makes sense. After a few plays though the game feels smooth and streamlined. I’ve really enjoyed The Mad Titan’s Shadow– but there’s more content I haven’t got to yet! As mentioned earlier Hela and Loki are the next two villains waiting if you can best Thanos and his super-powered mitten. Of course, you can just skip around and play each scenario as a standalone game if you want. The Rise of Red Skull - Includes Hawkeye and Spider-Woman as new playable heroes. Villains included are Crossbones, Absorbing Man, Taskmaster, Arnim Zola, and Red Skull. [6]

During a player’s turn, they will play cards. Cards are played by paying a cost in the form of discarding other cards from your hand. They then activate cards and perform a number of actions all in an attempt to defeat the “big bad” and to thwart his schemes. Players can also switch from alter ego to hero form once per turn, as well as activate their characters special ability and basic recovery. Once a player has performed all of their actions it passes to the next player. They repeat the process until all players have performed their actions. Marvel Champions: The Card Game Review: With Great Power..." TheGamer. November 17, 2019 . Retrieved February 3, 2022. Ultron is fun to face, but I don’t like that the heroes’ cards are used to represent his drones. It doesn’t make sense thematically and the fact that you have to discard the card after you defeat the drone means that you could be discarding a valuable card. This was a very tough battle, where me and my partner ended up with 3 acceleration tokens on the main scheme! But in the end, we managed to do some big damage to the villains just as Avenger Tower was ready to collapse. Purple PerilI am not a seasoned LCG player. I have played the core Arkham Horror core box and that is about it. So I will not be comparing the gameplay to Arkham Horror or The Lord of the Rings LCGs (much) and I am coming this from a “novice” point of view when it comes to LCGs.