I think this is a fun little card. Have an extra resource to spend? Or your Black Widow's Gauntlet has nothing to do for a turn? Spend a point here and put this on your board. The next time you get a surge out of the encounter deck you get a nice little bonus out of it.

A NOOB'S RANDOM THOUGHTS

• Such a versatile card. Being able to charge this card up at and as needed is great.
• Being able to turn any -card into 2 damage means that any -card has good value regardless of the card’s normal value. This enables Captain Marvel to fairly efficiently run any -cards that are highly situational or relies on combo pieces to work.
• A good option to discard to #Caught if this has 1 or fewer counters on it.
• This card’s efficiency increases with every counter placed.
• Fully charged up this card becomes 6 ER (Effective Resources) for 10 damage, which is great.
• Once you have 3 counters on, this card becomes good value with 4 ER resulting in 6 damage.
• Don’t be afraid to use this card before max efficiency is reached if the situation warrants it. This card’s flexibility is one of its strengths.

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A NOOB'S RANDOM THOUGHTS

• If you don’t have Aerial, this costs 3 ER (Effective Resources) for only 1 DEF, which is terrible.
• What makes it even worse is that it brings Captain Marvel only to 2 DEF, which means defending has to compete with Captain Marvel’s equally useful thwarting and attacking.
• If you do have Aerial, 3 ER for +2 DEF is good value.
• Being able to get to 3 DEF means that there is definitely a High DEF-Archetype available to Captain Marvel.
• Since you need Aerial for this card to be worth playing, you need to add the subjective cost of getting the Aerial keyword, which depends on the value Aerial adds to your whole card pool.
• Unfortunately the card is only worth playing in a Captain Marvel Protection build.
• See my Cosmic Flight review to read my full thoughts on Captain Marvel’s Aerial options.

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Foiled is a great card, which can be explained fairly briefly:

Numerics

• Recap: Often times 1 resource = 1 threat mitigated.
• Costs: This card has a 0 printed cost, the card itself is an inherit 1 cost. Total cost = 1.
• Threat mitigated: 1 to 3 threat possible. Obviously you're not playing this card when the boost is 0 and there's no cards with 4 boost icons... yet.
• In summary: This card is a 1 cost and can mitigate 1 to 3 threat.

Conclusion

If 1 resource = 1 threat mitigated; this card has the potential of being 1 resource = 3 threat mitigated. Which is great! However, I suspect it will usually be 2 threat mitigated since a minority cards have 3 boost icons.

Is the card worth playing to mitigate 1 threat? That's situational on how much you need that resource in the given moment. It plays like Emergency at that point.

There is a critical weakness to the card, which I often suffer from with Preemptive Strike, which is being in the right form when you draw this card. In solo play, this card requires you're in either Alter-Ego form or being hit with a scheme trigger like Advance. In multiplayer,

I think this card is worth considering in a lot of Justice decks. It's a 0-cost, which makes it very approachable for low hand-size heroes like Thor (ew) or She-Hulk (less ew). I think it's solid for Iron Man since you can use it while in Tony Stark form without hampering your resources (and it's an energy resource for Repulsor Blast). Unfortunately, multiple Foileds don't stack, so Ms. Marvel doesn't really benefit all that much from the card. I also think Justice already has A LOT of ways to mitigate Threat and those ways will often compete in slot with this card (for instance, I don't run this in my Black-Widow since she already has threat locked down with preparations).

For a long time, I, like many others, have been very dismissive of She-Hulk on account of her clunky Hero deck. Of the 15 cards in her deck, 3 are very expensive to play in Hero form, 6 are very situational, and 2 are dead almost all of the time. The other 4 cards are quite powerful but are all single copies. It can be tempting to look at this unsightly mess of a Hero deck with all of its awkward pieces and design missteps (cough Legal Practice cough) and label She-Hulk as the "worst" Hero in the game. I know that I did for a long time.

But then I started building and playing around this card. The real reason to play She-Hulk -- her ID. It was then that I realized that her Hero deck doesn't even really need to be super consistent because She-Hulk's ID offers (arguably) the best value of all the Heroes currently in the game -- and you don't even need to pay anything for it.

Free. Value. This is why you play She-Hulk. Let's break it down and then I'll go over, in my opinion, the best way to utilize this Hero.

The Stats - Pros

ATK - The first thing that might stand out to you is that She-Hulk has a 3 printed on her card. That's right, She-Hulk swings for 3 naturally, making her the strongest ATK Hero in the game without any upgrades or buffs. 3 attack is enough to kill many minions with a single swing where other Heroes would need upgrades or another source of damage to finish them off. And as we will see shortly with her Hero ability, She-Hulk is going to do 5 damage every time she flips to Hero to attack, which means she can remove even chunkier minions and most Nemesis in the game with a single action.

HP / REC - 15 hit points without any upgrades is a massive health pool, allowing She-Hulk to take even the hardest swings from some of the hardest hitting villains in the game without dying. She-Hulk is one of two Heroes in the game who can consistently take a fully upgraded Rhino charge to the face without dying. Recovering for roughly 1/3 of your Heroes max HP is normal in this game, but when your HP max is 15 making your REC 5, the value scales up tremendously. Recovering 3, even if that's a 1/3 of your health, is rarely a trade you want to be making for exhausting your Hero, but recovering 5 is actually pretty significant. (Second Wind costs three resources for the same effect, Med Team only just barely out values it.) This means that She-Hulk can take a beating unlike anyone else except Thor, but even Thor doesn't have the same healing potential that She-Hulk does.

The Stats - Cons

THW - Having a 1 THW on your Hero card is bad news bears -- or at least it would be if Jennifer Walters wasn't such a badass. I listed this under "Cons", but we'll get to why I don't actually think this low stat is that big of a deal here in a little bit.

Hero Max Hand Size - Here it is, folks. The #1 reason why so many think She-Hulk is low-tier. Not only that, but I see so many people argue that if She-Hulk's hand size was the normal 5, she would be "fixed". I'm not going to argue that this drawback doesn't significantly hinder She-Hulk. It certainly does. But I think what you'll find the more that you play She-Hulk is that it isn't as big of a deal as many make it out to be.

The Abilities

This is where She-Hulk's ID starts to get out of control. Her stats are pretty strong, but she wouldn't be good if that's all that she offered. Fortunately, She-Hulk offers some of the most free, passive value of any Hero in the game and it's not even close.

"Do You Even Lift?" - 2 free damage every time you flip to Hero is actually insane. It may not seem like much, but when you think about the deeper implications of what this ability affords She-Hulk (and how it compliments the rest of her kit), you'll see that it's actually very strong. Firstly, as mentioned above, She-Hulk can one-shot most minions in the game no matter what, including Nemesis minions. Second, she can split the damage up to take out multiple minions or set up AoEs. 2 damage here, 3 damage here, and suddenly your Ground Stomps are set up to wipe the board.

Lastly, and arguably most important, She-Hulk never, ever has to worry about Tough. This is huge. When you flip to Hero, you know that you're going to be doing damage. Not only that, but you also know that your Superhuman Strength will never whiff on the Villain. You're always going to be getting that stun in. You are always going to be able to land that Gamma Slam.

Combine these points above with the fact that you'll probably be getting 8-10 free damage on average every game just for doing something you were already going to do and it's easy to see why She-Hulk is one of the best Heroes for damage potential in the game.

"I Object!" - This ability is what makes She-Hulk tick. It's the glue that holds her entire Hero, ID and deck, together. Thwarting for 1 every single turn just by being in Alter-Ego is so strong. Why? Because it buys you time to set up some very important cards to make your Hero side that much better.

See, most people see "Do You Even Lift?" and think that She-Hulk is a Hero that wants to be flipping constantly to get max value out of that ability. But that's not the case -- she can't afford to be flipping that often because she needs to be able to set up for bigger turns later. She-Hulk isn't an aggro Hero, she's a slow burner. She ramps up to massive Hero turns and then winds back down to set up again. You need time to get your Focused Rages on the table so that you can have a 6 card hand size in Hero while feeding your Gamma Slam. She needs time to get her Superhuman Strength out so she can make sure she stuns the Villain so they skip an activation against you so you preserve your HP total to feed it to Focused Rage for cards. "I Object!" buys you the time you need.

And while this technically isn't part of her ID, it's impossible not to mention Superhuman Law Division and how it plays into this strategy. You can only use this card in Alter-Ego, but when it is out, you can prevent 3 threat every single turn without even being in Hero mode. That's a Counterintelligence every turn. The amount of tempo this affords you to spend your turn building or paying for Allies is just astonishingly good. That's why Superhuman Law Division is so important to get out as early as possible.

How To Play She-Hulk Well (IMO)

Okay, so I hope by now you've noticed that She-Hulk's ID is quite good. You've got a massive natural ATK stat, the highest natural HP in the game (until Hulk releases), the highest REC in the game, and you get between 8-10 free damage and 6+ free thwart on average every game just by existing.

However...She-Hulk does require some careful piloting. Because that hand size does hurt, and as mentioned before, a lot of her Hero cards are very conditional, sometimes overpriced and sometimes just dead weight in your hand.

You need to...

Play It Slow - Do not be in a rush to get into Hero mode and start swinging. You must take your time to set up your Hero turns or you are going to run out of gas, the villain will immediately start out tempoing you and you will fall behind fast enough that you cannot recover. It is hugely important that you try to stay in Alter-Ego as much as you can until you can get at least 1 but preferably 2 Focused Rage on the table, and perhaps a Helicarrier. You need those cards and resources on your Hero turns or you will absolutely fall behind. Superhuman Law Division is key to staying in Alter-Ego as long as you can, especially since a lot of your more situational Hero cards are also Mental resources.

Make Your Hero Turns Count - If you are going to flip to She-Hulk, make it count. Have big turns planned if possible. Use your One-Two Punchs and Superhuman Strengths. Use your Ground Stomps. Kill minions, damage the villain. Have that Gamma Slam primed and ready to do as much damage as possible. And if you have Split Personality in your hand, PLAY IT EVERY TIME. One of the best things you can do with She-Hulk is start your turn in Jennifer, play a card or two, flip, deal a bunch of damage and then play Split Personality to flip back down to Jennifer and take a whole other turn. It is massively powerful. Never, ever discard Split Personality if you can help it.

Don't Be Afraid To Take Damage and REC - Focused Rage is one of your best cards for many reasons. It makes your Hero turns so much more comfortable and it feeds your Gamma Slams. Don't be afraid to take a big hit. You've got huge REC potential. Remember, if you are staying in Alter-Ego multiple turns, then there's going to be turns for you to REC. Not only are you healing a massive amount, but you're also essentially giving yourself more cards to draw with Focused Rage. Also, try to play Gamma Slam even if it's not max damage. Many times you aren't going to have a better card to play on your Hero side than dealing 8-10 damage (unless you have Split), so just use it while you can. You only really need to worry about maximizing Gamma Slam when you are trying to close out the game.

Summary

Okay, I could literally write thousands more words on She-Hulk. She's absolutely my favorite Hero to play and build now and I think she has sooo much potential with future expansions coming. But this "review" has already gone far too long. She-Hulk is way better than people give her credit for. She's just a tricky Hero to build and pilot, but she's hugely rewarding. Don't take other people's word for it -- try her out. I think you'll be surprised at how strong she can be if you play to her strengths.