I feel like this is an incredibly powerful card to play when you are first player in a multi-player game - assuming I'm reading this right you would basically beef up all the other players and their allies as well for the entire player phase for a possibly nutso round where you and your allies go twice and every other player does extra damage/thwart. Expensive and less useful in solo.

This card completes the 'basic action + succeed at something --> ready' cycle with Battle Fury and Desperate Defense. The thing about evaluating a card like this is that the ready has to be worth the least powerful of the two basic powers you used. For example, with a 3 THW 2 ATK hero, if you thwart, ready, then attack, you spent 2 resources to deal 2 damage...not a good deal. If you have at least 3 THW, situations where I like this include when there is a side scheme in play, so you can thwart twice; you flip to alter-ego and REC 3 or more; or, you've also gotten your ATK up to 3. Of course, we can push those hero stats even higher with Spider-Woman's hero ability, for example, or Quicksilver with Maximum Velocity, which is a big upside. It's also really nice that we can let this sit out as an upgrade until the perfect turn where it is worth it. I think the REC option makes this a passable floor for average heroes, and the ceiling is high with specific heroes. I will keep an eye on this for my Justice decks.

This card seems surprisingly pushed to me. If it gives you 4 extra damage from two attacks, that's already amazing, and not asking you to do much more than you already would with a 3-health ally. Not to mention the huge upside of piercing and using this on a regenerating ally like Bug or Cosmo. With Honorary Guardian added to our card pool as well, there are lots of possibilities to get insane value out of this upgrade. I am excited to build around it.

I'm puzzled by this card. If anyone has a solid reason to play this, please enlighten me! Thing is, unless you can do better than 3 DMG with it, even Haymaker is better (it doesn't require to basic thwart first).

What I can see here is a card that very few heroes can make viable (Rocket Raccoon with his Thruster Boots, Heroic Intuition and I've Got a Plan, Captain America with Heroic Intuition and Fearless Determination, Spectrum with Heroic Intuition...). Forget it for heroes with lower THW capabilities.

Unless you plan on playing all 3 Civic Duty on the same turn, which would be a lot of work to set up, I don't see how this card holds up. I'd rather play Turn the Tide or even Stealth Strike instead.

Pair with Enhanced Awareness to have an on-tap cancel. Underrated card when playing with heroes with little to no deck manipulation or cancellation. There are better protection allies, but none that do what a widow does.