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Smash Up: Marvel
AVENGERS
Low
Play with a reduced number of characters in your deck, but with a cast of six power-5 characters with useful abilities, and each associated with a unique action with two abilities.
Description
The Avengers are one of the 8 factions from the Smash Up: Marvel set.
They feature a team of six unique characters of power 5, each associated with a unique action that has a regular effect and an additional or alternative effect when the corresponding character is in play.
Their complexity rating is: Low.
Other factions from the same set: Hydra, Kree, Masters of Evil, S.H.I.E.L.D., Sinister Six, Spider-Verse, Ultimates.
Cards Overview
The Avengers have only 6 characters and 14 actions compared to the usual 10 and 10. Every character is power 5, which makes the total character base power (not counting any abilities) still equal to the usual 30. However, the average power per character is much higher: 5 compared to the usual 3.
Among their actions, there are:
* 2 character modifiers: Cap’s Shield, Mjonir,
* 1 base modifier: J.A.R.V.I.S.,
* 11 standard actions (4 that affect one or more characters, in bold): Avengers Assemble (2x), Hawkeye’s Arrows, Hulk Smash, Modular Tech, Repulsor Boots, Strategize (2x), Tactical Advantage, Thunder and Lightning, Widow’s Bite,
* 4 actions that directly increase a character's power: Cap’s Shield, Mjolnir, Tactical Advantage, Widow’s Bite.
1x
2x Avengers Assemble - Shuffle up to two characters from your discard pile into your deck.
1x Cap’s Shield - Character modifier. Ongoing: Your characters here are not affected by other players’ actions. If this card is on Captain America, they also have +1 power each.
1x Hawkeye’s Arrows - Reveal cards from your deck until you reveal two actions. Draw the actions and shuffle the rest into your deck. If Hawkeye is in play, you may play the drawn cards as extra actions.
1x Hulk Smash - Choose a base. Destroy any number of base modifiers on it. If Hulk is there, you may destroy the base and all its modifiers, and replace it with the top card of the base deck; all characters remain on the new base.
1x J.A.R.V.I.S. - Base modifier. Talent: Draw a card. Discard a card.
1x Mjolnir - Character modifier. Ongoing: If this card is on Thor, it has +2 power. Otherwise, it has -2 power.
1x Modular Tech - Move one of your modifiers from one character to another character, or from one base to another base. Play an extra action.
1x Repulsor Boots - Move one of your characters to another base. Special: You may play this before a base scores to move Iron Man.
2x Strategize - Look at the top four cards of your deck. Place two of them on the top of the deck and the rest on the bottom, in any order.
1x Tactical Advantage - Choose a character to gain +3 power until the end of the turn.
1x Thunder and Lightning - Destroy a character of power 3 or less.
1x Widow’s Bite - Special: Play before a base scores. Other players’ characters currently there each get -1 power until the end of the turn. If Black Widow is there, she gains +2 power until the end of the turn.
Actions
2x Avengers Assemble - Shuffle up to two characters from your discard pile into your deck.
1x Cap’s Shield - Character modifier. Ongoing: Your characters here are not affected by other players’ actions. If this card is on Captain America, they also have +1 power each.
1x Hawkeye’s Arrows - Reveal cards from your deck until you reveal two actions. Draw the actions and shuffle the rest into your deck. If Hawkeye is in play, you may play the drawn cards as extra actions.
1x Hulk Smash - Choose a base. Destroy any number of base modifiers on it. If Hulk is there, you may destroy the base and all its modifiers, and replace it with the top card of the base deck; all characters remain on the new base.
1x J.A.R.V.I.S. - Base modifier. Talent: Draw a card. Discard a card.
1x Mjolnir - Character modifier. Ongoing: If this card is on Thor, it has +2 power. Otherwise, it has -2 power.
1x Modular Tech - Move one of your modifiers from one character to another character, or from one base to another base. Play an extra action.
1x Repulsor Boots - Move one of your characters to another base. Special: You may play this before a base scores to move Iron Man.
2x Strategize - Look at the top four cards of your deck. Place two of them on the top of the deck and the rest on the bottom, in any order.
1x Tactical Advantage - Choose a character to gain +3 power until the end of the turn.
1x Thunder and Lightning - Destroy a character of power 3 or less.
1x Widow’s Bite - Special: Play before a base scores. Other players’ characters currently there each get -1 power until the end of the turn. If Black Widow is there, she gains +2 power until the end of the turn.
Characters
1x Black Widow - power 5 - You may destroy a character here of power 5 or less.
1x Captain America - power 5 - Talent: Give each of your other characters currently here +1 power until the end of the turn.
1x Hawkeye - power 5 - Draw three cards. Discard two cards.
1x Hulk - power 5 - Talent: This character gains +2 power until the end of the turn.
1x Iron Man - power 5 - Talent: Move this character and up to one other of your characters here to another base.
1x Thor - power 5 - Search your deck and/or discard pile for Mjolnir, reveal it, and draw it. Shuffle your deck if you searched it. Talent: Move Mjolnir from one character to another.
Mechanics
Play with a reduced number of characters in your deck, but with a cast of six power-5 characters with useful abilities, and each associated with a unique action that has two abilities, a regular one and a stronger one when the right character is in play.