This card is for one specific archetype: a Leadership deck, fronted by a Guardian, with many Guardian allies (or any allies, for Peter Quill), and also full of upgrades to put on those allies. In that deck, this will draw you a bajillion cards. Otherwise, it does pretty much nothing.
Frustratingly, most (all?) of the Guardian heroes are only guardians on their hero side, meaning this will turn off while you're in alterego form. You can usually play around that, but if you wanted to try sitting in alterego for an extended period, you're not going to be drawing extra cards. Boo.
so just play a copy of Honorary Guardians on yourself so you are always a guardian even in AE. This card also works for a Leadership deck running little to no allies and tons of upgrades in multiplayer - it doesn't say they have to be played on YOUR allies!
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Death by Chocolate
· 4
Playing Honorary Guardian on yourself is certainly an option, but doing that removes it from your deck, so you have one fewer copy to play for free on an ally (which will presumably be huge and/or have other upgrades) for +1 HP.
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Fry
· 254
What other benefits could be had by making Peter Quill a guardian with Honorary Guardians. I'm not seeing any other cards except this one that might benefit from that move.
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themantheycallcris
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@themantheycallcris it would allow him to play any of the neutral guardian allies that say "Play only if your identity has the GUARDIAN trait.", being able to be readied in Alter Ego when Major Victory eats it, getting the discount from Martinex. Each is fairly marginal, but useful to have in your back pocket.
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PaxCecilia
· 18