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Smash Up: Marvel
ULTIMATES
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Move your characters around, trigger abilities that activate on movement and converge your characters to the same base to gain great power.
Description
The Ultimates are one of the 8 factions from the Smash Up: Marvel set.
They focus on moving around bases and triggering additional effects as a result of movement, mainly power boosts.
Their complexity rating is: Low-Medium.
Other factions from the same set: Avengers, Hydra, Kree, Masters of Evil, S.H.I.E.L.D., Sinister Six, Spider-Verse.
Cards Overview
The Ultimates have the usual 10 characters and 10 actions. The total character base power (not counting any abilities) is the usual 30 or an average of 3 per character.
Among their actions, there are:
* 0 character modifiers,
* 1 base modifier: Aid from Allies,
* 9 standard actions (6 that affect one or more characters, in bold): Coordinated Attack, Cosmic Knowledge, First to Arrive (2x), Heroic Landing, Lift and Carry, Power and Speed (2x), Scramble
* 3 actions that directly increase a character's power: Coordinated Attack, Power and Speed (2x).
1x Aid from Allies - Base modifier. Draw a card. Ongoing: After you move one or more characters to here, draw a card.
1x Coordinated Attack - Choose a base. Move up to three of your characters from other bases to there. They each gain +1 power until the end of the turn.
1x Cosmic Knowledge - Place any number of cards from your hand on the bottom of your deck, then draw one more card than you placed there.
2x First to Arrive - Play an extra character on a base where you have no characters.
1x Heroic Landing - Move any number of your characters to other bases.
1x Lift and Carry - Move a character to another base.
2x Power and Speed - One of your characters gains +2 power until the end of the turn. You may move it to another base.
1x Scramble - Move one of your characters to another base. Special: You may play this before a base scores.
Actions
1x Aid from Allies - Base modifier. Draw a card. Ongoing: After you move one or more characters to here, draw a card.
1x Coordinated Attack - Choose a base. Move up to three of your characters from other bases to there. They each gain +1 power until the end of the turn.
1x Cosmic Knowledge - Place any number of cards from your hand on the bottom of your deck, then draw one more card than you placed there.
2x First to Arrive - Play an extra character on a base where you have no characters.
1x Heroic Landing - Move any number of your characters to other bases.
1x Lift and Carry - Move a character to another base.
2x Power and Speed - One of your characters gains +2 power until the end of the turn. You may move it to another base.
1x Scramble - Move one of your characters to another base. Special: You may play this before a base scores.
Characters
1x Captain Marvel - power 5 - Talent: Move this character to another base. All of your other characters currently there gain +1 power until the end of the turn.
2x Spectrum - power 4 - Talent: Move this character to another base.
3x America Chavez - power 3 - Ongoing: After another character moves to or from this base, this character gains +1 power until the end of the turn.
4x Blue Marvel - power 2 - Ongoing: After this character moves to another base, it gains +1 power until the end of the turn.
Mechanics
Move your characters around, trigger abilities that activate on movement and converge your characters to the same base to gain great power.