Captain America · MarvelCDB

Captain America's Shield: +1 DEF and retaliate 1.

I know ZaneBrick posted the text from Captain America's Shield below.
But I prefer having the actual link for easy access ;)

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4/4/26

Game Design Raccoon · 5606

I don't understand why this is a Leadership aspect card. It would have been so much more useful if it was Basic, allowing Bucky or Sam to use it regardless of which aspect was chosen to pair with them.

6/18/26

Ganfury · 110

I think it would be way too busted, an auto include in any Falcon or Soldier decks. Kind of like how Warrior of The Great Web isn’t a setup card. — Paladin of Tunics · 993 6/19/26

Linked card ☆Captain America's Sheild Leadership Upgrade Item.

Cost: 1. Resource: Linked (Captain America upgrade). Restricted.

Your hero gets +1 DEF and gains retaliate 1.

"This shield is a symbol of freedom." —Captain America Falcon #34.

6/23/25

ZaneBrick · 180

Here's the link to the shield→[Captain America's Shield](https://marvelcdb.com/card/53034) — ericbirch5001 · 2 10/9/25

Does this card make Falcon oder Winter soldier eligible for Captain America team-up cards? — Sahansral · 1 5/4/26

@sahansral I don't think that would work because the Team-up rules says that one of the characters has to match your identity. This would just give Sam or Buck the title of captain America. — w1ldabeast · 331 5/9/26

This card needs to be errata to the new 'Starting." never seeing it in a game kind of sucks and fishing it out the deck is not that easy. Falcon can play Yellow Jacket to help, but Buck cannot and mulligan only goes so far

8/10/26

Hippoboy · 2

Can someone explain to me - I attach this card as an upgrade to Sam Wilson/Falcon - so their TITLE is now "Captain America"

It says "Exhaust Captain America" - does that mean I exhaust just this card? Or I have to Exhaust Falcon (my identity) since he's now "Captain America"

There are other cards, such as "Clarity of Purpose" that says "exhaust this card" referring to itself. So I don't understand why this doesn't just say that if the intention it to exhaust just this card and not my identity.

9/26/26

spiderx7 · 1

This is an upgrade with the trait "Title", it does not literally make the title of your identity Captain America. So this is the card you exhaust. Even in Fear No Evil, some cards say "exhaust [cardname]" and some say "exhaust this card" and I have no clue why they make the distinction, but they definitely mean the same thing — Stretch22 · 2671 9/26/26

This is a very small thing, but I wish the action was an attack so it would trigger Bucky's ability for killing minions. Instead, you get an unfortunate anti-synergy where using this to kill minions misses Bucky's ability completely.

That's not to say you shouldn't use it as Bucky though. After all, it can bring down a minion with 5-8 HP so a basic attack from Bucky can finish it off. But it's not quite as consistent as it could be.

Besides that, this is a pretty good card. The initial play to get Captain America's Shield is going to be 3 ER in total. That's between playing this, paying a physical resources, and paying another resources to play the Shield.

For that 3 ER, what you get is:

+1 DEF
1 Retaliate
The ability to pay 2-ER to deal 4 damage once per turn for the rest of the game.

The last thing does requite a physical resource, but you're playing Leadership which means you better be playing Clarity of Purpose. This should be no problem to fulfill consistently.

3-ER would justify the first two abilities alone, being only 1-ER more than Ronin while letting you have allies. It would also justify the third ability alone because 4 damage every turn trivializes minions for the rest of the game. The fact that you get all these abilities is just a nice bonus.

The weird thing about it is that it's not a very leadership card, and therefore doesn't play well with most Leadership things. If you think about it, this is a Protection card tacked on to an Aggression card, only in Leadership for thematic reasons.

11/11/26

Dreamchaser_Guild · 79