Rules Update 1.5 in Marvel Champions 

Quick Rules Clarification at 17:36 Attack Against Allies specifically refers to enemies that attack Ally cards. I don't think I clarified that very well but just important to note.

With the stun and confuse rule, the way I look at it is that the way the status cards are worded with "instead discard this card," the stun or confuse card would technically become the "target" of the attack or thwart to remove those status effects from yourself, if that makes sense.

Excellent video, thank you so much! 🎉

I find the "Stunned" and "Confused" rules pretty clear, thematic, and reasonable. Spiderman doesn't need robbers present to clear his head, he just needs a bit of time.

I've noticed that they inconsistently use the cost arrow when sometimes they want to use it as a "this then that" separator. Example is the errata on berserker barrage or steel fist.

I am excited to watch your playthroughs using these updated rules.

For something that has taken two years to get out it seems rather arbitrary. I have no problems with syntactic changes. That just comes with the territory. However, altering player decks because it is no longer convenient for the designers, Cosmo & Go For Cs in this case, is hubris. These “problems” were apparent to the entire MC community before the last rules update and they went unaddressed back then. Why is that? The embarrassing issue with Wolverine’s claws for example when it became public knowledge that their own play testers were house ruling the setup. Yet Hawkeye, an archer, doesn’t setup with a quiver is both ludicrous and is not true to the character. Hulk is another example where a hero, arguably the strongest in the MU, was severely nerfed before publication for reasons that to this day remain unstated. How many cards have we seen since then that claim to “fix Hulk”? It is as if these changes mostly relate to heroes newly released and yet to be published. If FFG would like to republish cards that drastically change the card text I would be more than willing to consider entering them into my collection. Until then rulings made at my house table are final. Rules changes made by fiat by FFG and without open and regular community feedback are, as I said above, arbitrary. This is especially true for a game that doesn’t employ PvP or tournaments, neither of which I want for MC.

Funny it had a lot of changes I did already like with set up. If an obligation came out at set up I would just shuffle it back in. No sense over shuffling every game due to a slight possibility that only affects a few villains. Same with Permanent cards. It is funny how much people argued about the Permanent key word

Have FFG stated if they are going to print this new version in future print runs?

This is my first time looking at a rules update for this game. I’m actually shocked to hear the 1.4 rules update made it so defense cards counted as defending. I’ve always played like that because it seemed to make the most sense. Kind of like how playing an attack card is attacking. So if I’m stunned and I play an attack card, that attack is muted. That’s how I play. Is that correct? Or have I been too hard on myself? Either way, thanks for the video. I’ll try to apply these rules to future games. I love that this is a cooperative/solo game, so rules updates are entirely optional, but I suppose it’s time I update what I’m doing.

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FFG: we’ve published a new RRG with clarifications and new rules. Me: nice! But you’ve created new confusion on other issues. FFG: we’re FFG, this is what we do. Me: my bad.