While there is a slight excuse that players have comparing this card to United We Stand since more the half the heroes were Avengers when this box came out, it is now an exceptionally flawed comparison. Not only does it miss the fact that it's only on Skirmish 3 mode that United We Stand gives you 3 health across 3 characters the entire game (on expert, most of the game is spent on Stage II, not III), it ignores that retaliation would deal extra damage to each of your allies attacking on their own, non-avengers can utilize this card just fine, and that there are lots of leadership decks that boost the hero's attack, so this allows you to pull double duty of keeping your allies out longer and utilizing those turns where hero is packing higher levels of attack.
Once again, the thinkers out thought themselves on this one.
In the current environment of Sentinels capturing your chump blockers, Infinites getting stronger when you recklessly throw away allies, and way more Villains utilizing overkill so there are no guarantees that your allies will even prevent much damage. There is also allies like Colossus, Wonder Man, Blade, Giant-Man, Cannonball, Drax, etc, etc, etc, that have stipulations about there attacks that might not be met each turn but cards like this by-pass that.
This card was always better then branded, and if someone is keeping it in the back of their binder, they might consider breaking it out to allow themselves more ways to get around ally limitations and villain/minion defenses then they were thinking.
Brother Voodoo wins the "Worst Flavor Text" award. Is Brother voodoo introducing himself really the best comic quote they could find? It gives no information about the character that isn't ALREADY PRINTED ON THE CARD
This is a great way to utilize temporary allies. Ex) Wasp Leadership running Goliath, Nick Fury, Nick Fury Sr, and Professor X. As an example: You play Professor X and confuse the villain, thwart with Professor X for 3, declare basic thwart with Wasp for 2, use you got this to discard Professor putting your current thwart up to 5, ready immediately and thwart again for 5.
My question regarding Miles Morales is... Why? There are so many cool ways he could have been taken, and instead we get a hero card that might honestly be the worst in the game simply because each of his "special" abilities are just game text that should have been on his hero cards to begin with. There is not a single card that utilizes either of them at the same time, so there's no reason for them to be taken off of his other cards and put onto the hero card instead of literally anything else he could be doing. It's an illusion, and not a good one at that. Swing In, for example, could just as easily read "Hero Action (thwart): Remove 4 threat from a scheme. If you paid for this card using a resource, give Spider-Man a tough status card and Confuse an enemy."
Despite how good the Web Warrior tribe got, it's a shame we had to kick it off with this confusing mishmash of "specials"
