Parcours du Combattant

What happens when this card boosts a Scheme activation? Does it only work on attacks, or should it read "After this activation..."? I can't find a ruling on this anywhere. Grim rule would make me think it should work on Scheme too, but assuming it was a typo feels wrong.

berzerk108 · 2
Magneto's Helmet

When one thinks of Magneto as a character, his helmet stands out for being the defining piece of his outfit. The helmet is there to keep all those pesky Psionic characters out of his brain. To that regard, it is mostly thematic that the helmet gives him steady. Sure, he can still be confused or stunned but it requires extra effort on the part of the villain. The bonus kicker with the helmet is that it generates a resource for a Magnetic card. It drops the cost of his most expensive cards down to 2, which gives a 5 card hand a bit more flexibility, especially since you are usually using his pull to get a Magnetic card back.

Depending on your aspect build, it may be more important to get the Cape out before his Helmet but I think having a resource generator out early on in the game is a better long term play. Put on the Helmet and play the Cape and Armor for cheap to make Magento the Master of Magnetism that he is.

Dora Milaje

I've barely gotten the allies into play, but this card feels like an auto-include Elephant's Trunk target for my Shuri decks anyway right now. If she is flipping to AE often, which is the only way I've played her so far (every other turn to the extent possible) it pays for itself immediately and flipping up with 8+ cards feels ridiculous right off the bat.

Doc7 · 9
Expert Defense

This is maybe the first Protection card that boosted defending. 3 defense for 1ER is excellent value. I got it, that it doesn't had additional bonus like Side Step, Jump Flip and many other cards,but it provides a force without sacrifice flexibility in the hand.

Also this kind of effency is valuable for heroes with defending worse thant 3 which leads to second point: Expert Defense is worth throwing to the deck even outside of archetype.

Rating (A-C) A- Still worth using after many years and has no really downside. If I made the Protection from the scratch, this will be one of the first card that I think about creating (next to the Armored Vest of course).

nosiak · 155
Nick Fury

I recently got to try Nick Fury and wow, he's great. So here's my review:

Stats: 2-2-2 is obviously great, 4 recovery too, a little bit above average

Cards: His Hero cards are all very good. Here's A short review to each of them: Suit Form: His main card. Obviously also his best . If you make a Nick Fury deck, think about in which form you will want to be most of the time and base the deck on this decision Maria Hill: Great ally, the ability helps a lot of you are in assault form and need threat for extra damage, a ready or resources with his cards. Concentrated fire: Both options are very helpful but the damage is below average Covert Surveillance: Very helpful but the threat removal is below average Spray Fire: Very very good card, his assault form ability makes it even better Fury's flying car: His best cars in my opinion. He wants readies and a lot of his cards help him put the necessary threat onto the suit form. If you thwart and then use this card, you get 2 free threat out of it, if you attack you could remove even more threat from his suit form if you want maximum damage output in one turn. Safe House #221: I haven't used this often, because most of the time when I ran low on hp, I didn't flip, I just put myself with cards like Covert Surveillance into stealth form, because your more flexible than in alter-ego, so I can't say much about this card. 2 hp heal is pretty good though. EM Shield: Great card. It saved me multiple times if I played a little bit too risky. Interesting is, that you don't play it before the villain discards boost cards so you know exactly if you would survive. Eyepatch Camera: A better version of Counterintelligence. In my opinion, his second best card (without counting the suit form). Fury's Watch: This card's power varies a lot based on the deck you play. Slow, Shield support and/or preparation cards based decks where you want to sit in stealth as long as possible, benefit the most from this card, because you will nearly always have a lot of threat on your suit form. Intelligence Analysis: One of the few cards which cancel Treacheries without revealing a new card. It saved me multiple times. Secret Agent: In preparation decks obviously a great card. I played it a few times and the payoff was great every time.

So as a conclusion: He is really fun. Every game is like a small puzzle. Do I stay in stealth to be safe, but I can't deal damage? Do I flip but possibly die? Do I flip to alter-ego? If you haven't tried him, you should definitely. He is definitely one of my favourite heroes, just because of his versatility

Great review, the versatility and feeling about having good options is the key to have fun in Marvel Champions — nosiak · 155
I also got the idea to use Maria hill as a Voltron ally to get like 5 threat per thwart on your suit form — NiemandSumpex · 30
I have started playing Fury recently and he's been a lot of fun. Form management is one puzzle and the other is threat management. Because his obligation is never removed from the game, there is always a chance of getting discovered while it is in the encounter deck. Stealth suit cannot place more than 6 threat through atk-> sch activations also. Mastering these dynamics is key to success with Fury, but when you get it right, it feels really satisfying, being able to keep the main scheme in check, while dishing out big attacks and having the preparation cards as failsafe controls. — Drakow · 131