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So this means you may end up discarding the Obligation at the start...and that's okay now?

@@cleverestx yep! They decided it wasn’t worth the extra trouble 👍

Oh that is really interesting to hear about your war gaming experience not translating over to this kind of game. I haven’t done any war gaming but I’ve watched a few play throughs and they definitely look very rules intensive, but in a much different way apparently. As someone who’s played card games like this my entire adult life I sometimes forget how incredibly complicated these kinds of games really are. And even Champions, which was really presented as a more “casual” take on the genre is still very complex with a ton of moving parts and rules exceptions. I’m very glad to hear this will be useful for you and I hope it does help your friends give it another go as well! I meant to say this in the video, but you can always absolutely feel free to ask any questions you run into in the comments of any video and I’ll be happy to try to answer them as quickly as I can! Thanks for always watching along and leaving such nice comments. I really really appreciate it!

@@GetUpandGame I think the biggest difference is in the Hex&counter games, the rules can be complicated, but really don’t change. Being a “living card game”. Each new pack brings a whole new set of things to master. For some this is great for others more of a challenge. On a separate note, a suggestion. I am not steeped in the Marvel lore like many players. Other than the films. Maybe a show on iconic hero/villain matchups. I play for immersion in the characters. I know you can play any against any, but…. It would be like in Warfighter sending Finns to fight the Japanese. Might be interesting, but it just doesn’t seem right. You could do a tier list of villains or hero’s and match up the opposite from a lore POV. Just an idea.

​@@StrangekabukiOld comment but had to be the guy to say this: There were Finns fighting against Japanese in the Russo -Japanese war or whatever the correct name is, one of the officers became the Finnish Marshall during WW2!

Oh thank you that’s very kind! And that’s very valuable feedback thank you. I’m definitely trying to strike a balance between veterans and new players so I’m very grateful to know these can still be helpful for everyone! 🙏😀

Thanks for the kind words and for watching! 😄

Well thank you so much for watching! 😀

Oh I’m so glad it’s helpful for you! 😄 And yes I have made one more so far covering the rest of the cards from the first cycle, and then I’m going to keep going from there!

Thank you so much! And yeah I know what you mean, I also watch stuff all the time and still I run into scenarios I’m not sure how to handle and need to look up. For a “casual” Lcg it’s not all that casual lol Were you able to find some time to play?

Agree! Maybe at least one for each expansion- i know one for the Mad Titan’s Shadow would help me a lot 😂

@karammelkon Well thank you so much for watching! I’m very glad to hear it’s helpful so I’m happy to do it! 😀

@@carlosfreitas6790 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Oh thank you! I really appreciate the kind words! ☺️

Oh thank YOU! ☺️

Haha thank you so much! And I have to tell you, I read your comment to my wife and she wholeheartedly appreciated it lol. I will admit I bit off a little more than I could chew this month. Mostly I try to work on channel stuff when everyone is sleeping but it’s definitely bled into daily life this month, especially with getting 2 (!) 100 subscriber specials this month as well (and rapidly approaching a third). So I greatly appreciate you checking in on me 🙏. I’m going to slow down a bit next month for sure. I have a new series starting after the 12 Plays but after this I think it’s going to have to wait til February lol. As you say, I just have so many ideas for content and I’m so excited about them I’m really bad about spacing them out 😅. And the growth of the channel has completely blown me away. So unexpected. So thanks again for the kind words. I greatly appreciate them, and knowing you all are here with me means the world to me ☺️

Thanks Salsa! Yeah really most of the hiccups come from the concepts introduced in the core, though of course there are all kinds of corner cases with later content. Happy holidays to you as well! Thanks for all your kindness and support! ☺️

Hey thanks for the kind words! And it’s always a good feeling to know you’ve got the rules down lol (or at the very least all the ones I highlighted 😆)

Oh that’s great to hear! And thank YOU for the kind words! Speaking of moving into further content, I am continuing this as a series called Finer Points where I’ll be going through the whole card pool and identifying problem areas in each release the same as I did here! The first one is out so far where I continue through the rest of the first cycle 😊

@Get Up and Game! That sounds great, I'll definitely be checking them out! And you've definitely earned a sub too!

@@smitzy1954 oh thank you so much! 🙏😄

Glad to hear it’s helpful for you! 😄 Thanks so much for the kind words!

Oh thank you! I’m so glad it was helpful for you! ☺️ And anytime you have a question of any kind feel free to ask it on any video and I’ll be happy to help!

Thanks! Glad to hear it! 😀

Oh hey glad I could be of help! And yes, I still google things all the time lol

Oh thank you so much!

Hahaha well it was actually you’re suggestion that made me think to do this so thank YOU! And I’m glad to hear it was helpful!

Haha glad to hear it! And yes! I wasn’t originally planning to as I think I covered the majority of the core gameplay mistakes that often get asked about, but I’ve had a few people mention that they’d like to see more, and the more I thought about it I’m sure there’s at least one thing in each pack and box that might trip people up so why not? It’ll be a minute as I already had a bunch of stuff planned but I will be starting a series in the coming months called Finer Points where I’ll just take a cycle or so at a time and see if I can’t point out some stuff to keep an eye on 😊

Thanks John! I really appreciate all the comments today! 😊

Thanks! Haha yeah IMovie’s music options are pretty limited lol. I’ve pretty much stopped using music in my newer videos

Thank you for the kind words and the feedback! I go back and forth about using music lol. Sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t. I can never decide which way is better 😅

Great questions! 1. If you exhaust in alter ego form you’ll still be exhausted when you flip to hero form. Now, most alter ego abilities don’t require you to exhaust, so you are allowed to use an AE power, switch to hero form, and then use your hero power. But once you exhaust, unless you use some ability to ready you won’t be able to exhaust again. 2. Rhino’s scheme is complete when it reaches 7 per player. So if it gets to 7 in a solo game then the player has lost. 3. Defeating the villain only advances them to the next stage, it doesn’t affect the main scheme or the minions 4. You don’t have to attack the minions if you don’t want to. They’re completely separate characters from the villain. Though if they have Guard, you won’t be able to attack the villain until they’re defeated 5. Same as 4. You can choose to ignore side schemes, though if they have the Crisis icon they need to be removed before you can remove threat from the main scheme 6. When it’s the villain’s time to activate, they will attack or scheme depending on your form. They initiate their activation (let’s say you’re in hero form so they’re attacking) and then a boost card is dealt. Then you choose whether or not to defend. Once you’ve made that choice, you flip over the boost card and look at the bottom right ONLY. In this part of the villain turn you’re only interested in the boost icons, or if there’s a boost ability. You ignore any When Revealed effect. Then you perform the boost ability if there is one. If there isn’t, you simply add the boost icons to the villain’s attack and then they deal that much damage. After that each minion will attack you. And then after that you deal 1 face down encounter card and then reveal each face down encounter card in front of you, one at a time 7. With Iron Man, you need to stay in alter ego form for a couple turns so you can get as many tech cards on the table as possible. It can be difficult to do in solo play. Sometimes you need to flip up to hero form for a turn, and then you might have a small hand size for that turn, and then you’ll want to go back to alter ego for the next turn so you have a 6 card hand size again. But what you can’t do is play cards to the table and then finish paying for them later. You can only play a card it you pay it’s full cost in that moment. I hope that all made sense and I’m happy to answer any more questions!

Thank you for the kind words! So glad it was helpful! 😊

Oh that’s great to hear! I’m glad I thought to leave that note about losing the health since I forgot to say it out loud. And yep Magneto works the same way as Tigra! Thanks so much for watching! 😀

Hey well at least it’s gonna be a little easier from here on out! There are definitely times where it’s nice that someone can sneak in and shoot a minion with an event or something off turn. Plus there’s some cool plays like using Make the Call or Team Building Exercise off turn to pop Maria Hill into play during the first players turn 😎 Also, I hate to ask but would you mind terribly editing out the expletive at the beginning of the comment? I really want to keep everything with my channel family friendly 😀

No problem! ☺️ Yep! Med Team can be used to heal any identity or ally in play 👍

Oh that’s a really good question I had never considered! I do believe the cards would push you over the 50 card limit as they don’t count toward your deck size. So it’s as if they aren’t even there. But like you say, probably not the best idea normally but I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some fun combo somewhere that could somehow make use of this!

Yes Hawkeyes ability responds to the drone coming into play and snipes it immediately!

Hey thank you so much! You deleted your earlier comment so fast lol I couldn’t reply quickly enough to say thank you also for the correction. Even though this time it happened to work out the way it did, please always feel free to say something if you think I’m wrong cause I very well might be! 😂 We all learn and grow together with these games ☺️

Hello! Yeah for sure, if I were to cover Kang I would do my best to go over the multiplayer elements. That being said, I would have to do some research myself because as you know Kang is really tricky lol. I haven’t played him in awhile, but it’s entirely possible I’ll be playing him soon 🤫 Unless the rules are different for Kang, even if you were eliminated I believe the player count is set at the beginning of the game so your friend would still progress as if there were 2 players. I think 😅

@@GetUpandGame that’s alright yeah 😁 Looking forward to more vids then, keep up the good work and thanks for the help

@@carlosfreitas6790 I really liked your suggestion of doing more, and I’m thinking of going through the cycles here and there. So I’ll get to Kang eventually!

Welcome to the channel! 😀 I think it’s an absolutely stellar 1 player game. You’ll quickly find if you watch more of my stuff that I’m almost exclusively a true solo player. And I think it work’s phenomenally well. It’s definitely a little different, as the decks need to be more general purpose in order to handle everything the game is throwing at you. As opposed to multiplayer where you can specialize the decks without needing to account for every element of the scenario. But I personally love that style of deck building where you have to make it work for everything. I think it makes for a fun and interesting challenge. The game scales very well so that everything works for a true solo experience, as opposed to some games where you have to have special rules for 1 player. Many games that do advertise 1 player require you to play the game differently or have special components. Nothing like that here. It’s the exact same game as the 2 3 and 4 player game. Some cards are more or less highly valued in solo, and some villains are easier or harder. But it all works no problem. Solo games are super easy to set up and are generally pretty quick. All in all I truly believe this game offers the best true solo experience out there for depth of play vs time and setup.

Yep! Because you draw the card the second the villain is about to attack you, and then you don’t play Backflip until you would take damage later in the process

It will not, since it’s not an attack, and Chase Them Down wants you to be attacking in order to trigger it. But if you could set it up where the energy dagger weakens them and then BP can punch them to defeat them that would work!

1. Yes 👍. Tough blocks all damage, even if it isn’t from an attack 2. Correct! Effects like Tac Team get around your hero being stunned

Nope! Ae long as you’re in alter ego when Vulture comes out then his moment to attack will pass

Oh hey, cool! I’ve been curious to know what people are picking up from this so thank you for sharing! Yeah that’s an easy to miss one that doesn’t really matter 99% of the time anyways lol. But for the hero’s that really suffer from their obligation I suppose we should make sure it stays in there 😆

Hello! 😀 Yes! You are correct that Underground Distribution discards cards until you find a minion. My purpose in that section was to teach the difference between a minion that was “revealed” rather than “put into play”. But I went back and watched it and I definitely made it look like I just got to pick the minion I wanted lol. Sorry about that! I wanted that particular minion to make a different point, but I can see how it looked like I was doing the effect of Underground Distribution incorrectly. Apologies for that, and thank you so much for pointing it out!

@@GetUpandGame hi I tought You done that of purpose of explanation something else, nothin happend 😉, I learn myself still so trying avoid mistake and ask if somebody does. Last few days was playing against Klaw so I get use to way which I was pointing as possible mistake. Greetings anyway

@@wh17e3ull haha absolutely, we’re all always learning more with this game! I really appreciate you double checking and please always feel free to point out any mistakes because I definitely make them! 😂

Yep! In that example if I remember correctly I was trying to show that there’s no such thing as “floating” resources, but after that there’s no reason you couldn’t change forms. You do everything one action at a time and you can totally choose the order 👍

You are so kind, thank you for the quick response! I really appreciate this video and your attentiveness!!!

@@_8bitHERO_ sure thing! Feel free to ask any more questions that come up! 😀

Yep! The only time upgrades/attachments come off (or stun/confuse) is if the next villain is a different one. Like Kang or in something like Mansion Attack

They would be at 4. As you say, you effectively take damage equal to the boost you lost. So if you lose Endurance then you would immediately lose 3 health 👍

Anytime you lose something that gave you hit points then you do lose those hit points. So that can cause you to lose! 😖 The moment you defeat the villain you immediately move them to their next stage, do any when revealed abilities, and then continue with the activation. This wouldn’t happen with Ghost Kick however. Since that says “after she uses a basic power” then you wouldn’t play Ghost Kick until after Gwen was done defending. Meaning after the villains attack had been resolved. If it said “when” she uses a basic power then you would play it immediately. But because it’s a Response you have to wait until the thing you’re responding to is over. And a defense isn’t over until the villain has fully resolved it’s attack 🙂

@Get Up and Game! Thanks for the quick response! I figured that with the armor, but I hardly ever play protection so those defense actions trip me up. Just getting back into the game after a long break so all of the timing rules will take a bit to get used to.

@@heroicskeleton1566 you’re welcome! The key is always in “when” or “after”. If it’s a “when” then it happens immediately before the thing that triggers it, and if it’s an “after” it happens after the triggering condition is completely resolved 👍

@Get Up and Game! Yeah, I had desperate defense in the deck, too, and I wasn't too sure if it worked well with her or not. But now that i better understand the timing, it looks like it does. You exhaust to defend> play DD first as an interrupt> resolve the activation> ready if you take no damage> if not, you can ready with Dizzying reflexes since that happens AFTER DD resolves

One of the earliest rules questions asked to the designers was about this very thing! From Hall of Heroes: Can you request an action to remove an encounter card attachment for another player, like say, with Black Panther’s Vibranium, out of turn like all other actions? That sounds like a small oversight to me. You absolutely can ask a friend to resolve the Hero Action on an encounter card during your turn. -Caleb So we’ve known for a long time that it was their intention to allow this. Now that being said, weirdly it’s still not in the Player Turn section of the latest Rules Reference 1.5, so other than the designer himself saying this was allowed I don’t know how else we’re supposed to know it’s ok 🤷‍♂️

Oh it’s actually listed under the Action section in the 1.5 rulebook. Would be nice if it was in the Player Turns section but at least it’s in there!

The Weapons Runner will come into play and it won’t surge. That rule is referring specifically to cards having the “when revealed” text. So you would flip to 2b which has a When Revealed ability that tells you to discard cards until you discard a minion and put that minion into play. Since the minion was put into play it wasn’t Revealed so it’s Surge doesn’t trigger 🙂

Yep! Allies don’t have a defense stat, so they just take the damage to their health

Yep! You deal it to yourself facedown, and then you’ll reveal it during the normal Reveal Encounter Cards step of the villain phase

You would think so and I totally see what you’re saying. Responses trigger immediately upon the resolution of their triggering effect. So in this case the triggering effect is “when Tigra attacks and defeats a minion”. The instant the minion is defeated the response triggers and she heals one damage. They’ve ruled that consequential damage is the very last thing that happens when an ally attacks so that doesn’t happen until after the response triggers. The thing I was hoping to drive home with the “completely resolved” verbiage is, I’ve see a lot of people trigger things too soon, like with Counter punch they’ll play it immediately when they exhaust to defend, instead of waiting until after they’ve defended, which doesn’t take place until after the damage step of the attack. So it’s kinda tricky and really depends on each individual response. You gotta see when the triggering condition takes place and go from there

@@GetUpandGame Yeah, this one's a bit too confusing, in my opinion. If it pops up in game, I'll just have to do what my heart tells me. :P

@@pixxelwizzard haha that’s totally fair. The good news is it’s usually more cut and dry. This one was odd enough they had to issue an official ruling for it

It’s not explicitly stated in the rulebook that you have to resolve the cards in a certain order, but it does refer to your encounter cards as a “queue”. So I’ve taken that to mean that you’re meant to resolve them in the order that they were dealt to you so that’s usually what I do. The exception is with surge. When a card has surge you’re meant to resolve the surge card next, even if you have more encounter cards in your stack. In the end it doesn’t matter like 99% of the time lol but it’s a habit I’ve gotten in to 🙂

Not a dumb question at all! You can never get rid of the main scheme. If you take all the threat off of it it just sits there, and it will still collect threat as normal during step 1 of the villain phase, and the villain scheming will still put threat on it

@@GetUpandGame OHHH thank you lol :P finally im not stuck anymore

@@win_cie you’re welcome! Feel free to ask any more questions and I’ll answer them as quickly as I can!

Thank you so much for the kind words! Kennedy was right to say what he said because it’s not in the rules that you can do that. However they later clarified on Hall of Heroes that it was just an oversight in the rules and you are allowed to remove encounter cards when it isn’t your turn. 🙂

@@GetUpandGame aah fantastic I didn't know that! Thanks a mil for the clarification! Cheers!

Added them!

​@@GetUpandGamewanted to Sub, but I already was 😊 Thanks!!

@@zzzzzygaming hahaha well thank you! 😆

They cannot. Guard says the player cannot use cards they control to attack the villain, which includes allies. This is where ‘you’ can be confusing. Because sometimes it’s referring to the hero (identity), and sometimes it’s referring to the player. Learning which is which is probably the hardest part of this game lol

@@GetUpandGame thanks"

@@stickandmud any time! 🙂

Hahahaha fair enough! Well now the LtP should make even more sense 😅

I don’t think that was rude at all. I pinched myself really badly at work so I’ve got a blood blister. I put a band aid over it in another recent video and I didn’t love how that looked either so I haven’t been sure how best to handle it. Maybe the that is still the better option. I do sincerely apologize as I know it doesn’t present the best look. Thank you for the feedback I freely appreciate it 🙏