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I think I've said a few times that I wish I'd played her better when I only had the core set. I think Crisis interdiction turned me off of her then, but now I see it as a modal card: play (which I never do), heal or pump Energy Channel. I guess it depends on which villain I'm playing if I play Cosmic Flight or not.

Thanks! Yeah I've been linking them for a while, but I always forget to mention them in the video. I need to get better at that and may just record a short shout-out segment to insert since I edit all of my videos anyway. I've been watching your channel for a while now (because The Masked Hero linked you!) and will be adding you to my links as well.

@ that’s very generous! We all have to stick together 😁

If I'd been playing her better when I only had the core set she'd probably be my favorite hero in the game! Leadership is a blast. I like Beast with her and even Suit Up... find an ally you want AND Clarity of Purpose. Thanks!

I was thinking of trying her in Justice SHIELD. The next expansion is really going to open up new possibilities.

@@prufrock1977 That's what I played in my most recent "Battle for the Core" game. I love Global Logistics and Homeland Intervention! Yeah I can't wait to see what we get out of Agents of SHIELD!

@prufrock1977 i played her that way a lot as well. it works so good. agent 13 getting tou 2 uses of alpha flight squadron in alter ego is so good!

Thanks Josh! Aerial Allies does sound interesting, I'll give it a try! Something I said in a first draft of this review - which I had to scrap and re-record because it was WAY more ramble-y than this one and about 10 minutes longer because of it - is something I touched on here but didn't say outright, and that's that I consider Cosmic Flight and Crisis Interdiction modal. I could play them, heal with them, or turn them into damage with Energy Channel. That only leaves Helmet as a "dead" card, but not really because you can Alpha Flight it. I just wish I'd remembered to say "modal" in this recording LOL. So I agree that having cards you don't want to play hurts a hero kit (and yeah, most heroes have at least 1), but thinking of those cards as modal has helped me get over that with her.

@ that’s a good way to look at it, and may very well be what the designers were thinking when they made those cards so under the curve

My comment has been deleted for whatever reason, so I just retry. Thank you for trying my Captain Marvel Aerial Allies/Event deck Josh. Really humble you give it visibility, since it is not about "power", and just about "giving personnality, utility to Cap Marvel kit".

@ oh hey! Always fun to bump into people in different places! No, thank you! I appreciated the suggestion and challenge to break my years-old mindset and just try to play with what was there rather than not play her at all 😀👍

Looks interesting! I've never used Expert II, so it could be a fun challenge. I might try Hulk or Drax, or even Star-Lord, but I'll have to run some playtests to see hat I want to do! Actually probably not Drax because he wants to invite extra attacks, which will count down the spells faster. I could maybe Hulk-smash his face in LOL. Challenge accepted!

I built two Hulk "Core plus Four" (core plus 4 packs/boxes) decks and I'll try them out this weekend!

@@solomarvelchampion Amazing news! I won't spoil the strategy I used. I will tell you after you try the challenge :p Can't wait to see your video!

@@prufrock1977 it's a lot of fun to play! I know some people look down on status-lock decks, but I love it.

So because of the wording "when a character attacks" I thought that only applied to basic attacks made by characters. So my turn against Black Dwarf would have been better if I'd done that correctly!

@waltercardcollector you're right I didn't. I noticed that the morning the video went live and hoped nobody else did EDIT: To clarify (because I replied before I had my coffee) that means I didn't notice during play, the three or four times I should have seen it in editing, or the post-render view before uploading. At that point I was like "Well I missed it five times, maybe if I don't mention it no-one else will notice either" LOL.

@@solomarvelchampion I understand that 😅

@@GetUpandGame you're not wrong! I know there are a lot of people who only play precons too and want nothing to do with deck building. But coming from LotR and MtG (where you're always building to the Meta), building to beat a scenario (or decklist) is half the fun for me lol. But I completely understand and respect those who don't want to do that!

@ yep I liked it in LotR as well!

@@jaycolins2430 thanks! I didn't say it in the video, but mod sets are always "dealers choice", although I always use the recommended sets. That's been asked before, so I should find some space to include it in the rules!

Cool. Thanks. It would be interesting(although probably a lot of extra work) to find a way to incorporate the lesser-used mod sets into the campaign.

@jaycolins2430 sure! Since everything is up to the player, you can pick the sets you want with each villain. I just prefer using the recommended sets because it's one less thing to think about lol

​@solomarvelchampion, that makes sense

@@jaycolins2430 I've done that too! It's got the Setup keyword, but sometimes you don't even see that. Someone once suggested sleeving Setup cards in different sleeves and I keep forgetting to do that!

@@webwarriorfanatic thanks! I probably love C1 more than I should, but I love the "Thunderbolt/Apache Leader" feel in a package that doesn't take up the entire table and 8 hours to play lol.

The last addition I made before "publishing" Legacy a few weeks ago was adding Retaliate 1 to the Focused side of *The Villain because I didn't think the mode was inherently difficult. I think it mostly depends on which minion you choose, because they and the mod set they come from are part of the encounter deck. Brothers Grimm was pretty difficult because it chews threw the encounter deck pretty quickly. On top of that, the mod sets you choose can alter difficulty quite a bit. Brothers Grimm with Masters of Evil, Dark Riders and any other mod set which chews through the deck can be really difficult because several cards have a "discard from the encounter deck until..." effect. So I think the real answer is, it's as difficult as you choose to make it. Adding sets that ramp up the pressure make it more difficult to remove counters from the Recruitment Camp, so in this game I was overwhelmed by "the recruits" when the main schemed out because I wasn't able to make attacks to keep them down. To be honest tough, I was more concerned about a way to turn a minion into a villain than I was about making it difficult. It was mostly just a fun exercise to see how that could be accomplished lol.

Thanks! Did you see yesterday's video? My thumb for that one was "Vampiric Nightmare" to match the mod sets LOL

@ I did, nice work!

Indeed! Lol Thanks for watching!

@@alberttaco3668 thanks! I hate that I got a loss, but Wolverine crushes it in tomorrow's video LOL

@@prufrock1977 it was fun to work on!

Thanks! Just print the PDF at 100% scale in color (or gray-scale if you want to save ink) on regular paper, gloss paper, cardstock, or whatever you have available! I printed my prototypes on cardstock for the rigidity in grays-scale so I could take notes directly on them with red ink.

Thanks for the comment! I understand your thinking and agree with most of what you're saying (and acknowledge that MOST of the community dislikes this one as much as you do), but I'd argue that the entire game is "spend [limited and sometimes specific] resources to solve the problem". Problem: Armored Guard is in the way. I'll attack with an ally (which is spending a "health resource" via Consequential Damage) or exhaust to make the attack myself (which is a different cost) to knock off the tough, then spend something plus a physical to play Relentless Assault which defeats the guard and overkills to deal 2 to the villain - problem solved. Certain villains - definitely Collector 1 but not limited to him - make you do it THEIR way rather than YOUR way. Ultron is a great example: He eats your deck and maybe that single copy of a key card becomes a drone, spits out a minion every turn which you have to spend resources to deal with (even ally Hawkeye's arrow counters are a limited resource), plus his attachments make you exhaust AND spend specific resources to discard them. But beating Expert Ultron is SUPER satisfying because you did it despite the roadblocks he threw in the way. I feel the same about Collector 1, it's satisfying (for me anyway LOL) to beat him when there are so many obstacles in the way and my deck is less efficient than it would be if I were playing some other villain. I think the laziest design is Surge, and the only Surge in Collector 1 comes on Caught off Guard, but only if you didn't have something to discard. "Do a bad thing but Surge if you can't" is Surge I don't mind but "Do a bad thing AND Surge" is terrible and lazy IMO.

​@@solomarvelchampion Thanks for the reply! Great comments. On a technical level, I think you're dead right. What's difference? Spending resources to attack vs spending resources to discard that attachment --looks exactly the same if we eliminate the whole themed Superhero skin over this game system. I would contend that the Superhero theme is important, but MC could be a spy themed game or a space themed game, and I'd probably still play it. But what if we eliminate the theme altogether, and it's just a card game with random symbols? I might try it once, but I don't think I'd be into it ==> if play becomes less thematic and more literally just spending cards, then that breaks most of the fun for me. Part of the hero deck success that this game has enjoyed is how we often feel that the decks capture some sense of the hero's power and personality. FF have mostly done a good job with this. I even like She Hulk. When people talk about fun MC stuff, we mostly talk about our Hero decks and how they played. The fun stuff is mostly about the deck in my hands. If I don't get to play that cool deck which I made, because I'm just unthematically spending resources to disarm the villain's attachment, then the fun deck is mostly useless ==> anybody could spend a deck full of terrible cards to do the same thing. It also breaks the fun of combos. I actually put Emergency in Gamora's deck. Terrible card, but it combos with her powers. Spending resources to discard attachments doesn't combo with anything. Finally, I have a hard time recruiting friends to play MC on game night. The complaint I hear from friends when they discard 3 resources, and exhaust is, "I never get to do anything." I think we want to say that they contributed to the team's success, and my group would get that idea, but they look at all those cool hero cards, and they're going to say that it's not fun if they don't get to play them. I've played enough to see both sides, and I come down agreeing with them. We even house rule for stuns: you can clear a stun by taking 1 damage and 1 encounter card. It came from when one guy got stunned three times in a row. Now, we would have done fine with him being exhausted again, but he was pissed. He was not having fun because he felt like he wasn't playing --he was just sitting around. He went into the kitchen to get a beer, "let me know when I'm not stunned anymore." And we were like, "oh, but you've got cards to play." And he replied, "just spend them on villain attachments." That's how checked out of the game he was able to get in a short time.

@@josephgerman2674 fair points! I think it just comes down to playstyle. I enjoy the process of playing the game, even when my awesome deck can't perform the way it was designed to, and that goes all the way back to the beginning of Magic the Gathering when your best deck still couldn't beat "THAT guy" lol. You could always choose to just NOT play "THAT guy", as many choose not to play Collector 1. I definitely get frustrated some times (you can hear it in many of my videos LOL), but it's the playing of the game and engaging with its mechanics which is fun for me. "How do the mechanics of this hero deal with the mechanics of that villain?" I finally got the win against C1 with Black Widow. It was tough and took MANY tries, but it was satisfying :)

@@solomarvelchampion Great points again! Wow, you tried beating C1 with Black Widow. I mean that's an accomplishment. I kinda can't do that. I wonder if some of the difference here is multiplayer. I only play multiplayer, and I build out my whole box for game night, so we grab a hero, grab a villain, and play. As such, these are all economy decks. No hero has 8 allies. My Leadership decks have 6, Protection have 4-5, Aggression and Justice have 2-4. I could never show up on game night and ask people to build decks on-the-fly... Most of my group eschew Magic the Gathering and similar CCGs. Oddly, they got really big into Sentinels of the Multiverse. I think that's why I'm getting away with bringing MC to the table every now and then. All that to say that it would be pretty messy to disassemble all the decks to try to make a scenario-specific deck. We like to tweak the decks when we get a new pack, and we've done three or four affordable builds inspired by Marvel CDB, but we often struggle against normal difficulty villains. It's funny, we never thought Ultron 1 was very tough, but Klaw 1 really smacked us around, and Red Skull 1 was a battle royale...

@@josephgerman2674 multi is definitely different, especially when you're building multiple decks with one collection, so I can see why C1 would be so unliked in that environment! I sometimes build "limited" decks (right now I'm on a huge core-only kick) and it does make it more difficult when you can't take the best cards for a deck. Black Widow took me like 12 or 13 tries. I know how I WANT to play her, and I know how C1 works, but finding the correct play line for her was a lot of fun. The "remove from collection" action is a Hero action, so deciding when to flip up and which preps to trigger took some time to "figure out".

I agree, loads of pressure from all angles in Collector, and that makes the game less boring. And yeah, Collector on Expert is a BEAST. He Thwarts and Attacks for way too much! People always say "Thanos is difficult but fair" but I don't think he's fair at all! I'd call him fair if he was Steady rather than Stalwart! Stalwart shuts down some heroes completely and that's not fair lol. And those Infinity Stones are a constant pressure too! I think you hit the nail on the head when talking about consistency. You're forced out of a consistent playstyle with Collector, and that's a very concise way of saying "I approach deckbuilding and play differently". I wish I'd thought to say that LOL

Great post!

@@jonathanpickles2946 I'm very humbled by your support, because I know very well your viewpoint on Collector I. It is not common to witness that level of "open mindness", when it comes to that kind of "granular take" that I, and SoloMarvelChampion made.

@@solomarvelchampion I think Thanos only really shutdown extreme character, like Drax, who can't gun down fast enough, Hawkeye who is too squishy without stun and confuse, and maybe Spider woman, because pheromone is her key card IMO. Other than that, even Venom, Rogue or Miles Morales can do stuff against stalwart. Their events lose a bit of efficiency for sure, but they are not really shut down as long as they conform to the deck building is forcing on you: use lots of ramping tool, and chump block like you have no empathy for you allies lol. But yeah, I do think there is a massive bias for Thanos, and against Collector I, which is essentially the same bias : "I want to play mid range value pile, not event heavy deck, no matter the villain!" :p

Thanks! I actually expected a ton of people to tell me how stupid my opinion is, so I appreciate that you acknowledge that it's an opinion :). I expect there may be only one or - at most - two other people on the planet who share my opinion about Collector 1 LOL

Thanks for watching! I'm 99.9999% sure I'm the only player who actually likes this one. Still waiting for that one other person on the planet LOL

@@solomarvelchampion it’s all good, I’m glad someone likes it! That’s the great thing about the game, there’s someone for everyone!!

@@WinningHandPodcast I'm playing every hero against C1 right now. Black Widow was rough but I got through it LOL

It's definitely challenging AND frustrating. I love the challenge of this but REALLY dislike the challenge presented by Ronan. Maybe I need to practice that one more!

@@chadhostetter1632 not for everyone for sure LOL. Thanks for watching!

Thank YOU for watching! Near the end of the video I said "Expert makes the game more enjoyable for me" but I meant to say "Getting the win on Expert mode feels more satisfying". I'll still play new villains on Standard to get to know them before jumping to Expert, but I do love the win on Expert LOL. And I still do get frustrated on Expert. You can hear it in my voice every time I draw Exhaustion or Under Fire LOL.

@@prufrock1977 I wish I'd played her this way when I ONLY had the core lol. It took me too long to see how crazy powerful (and fun) her card dtaw is!

@@solomarvelchampion we learn from experience

Thanks, and thanks for watching!

Thanks! Yeah in this game I didn't know until I got to editing that my hand wasn't on screen. What I usually do is talk about each card before I ready all my cards but I realized that was why I was frequently forgetting to ready LOL. I'd talk about my hand and then go right into the villain phase. That's something I can improve upon, so thanks for the feedback!!

I did when I was starting out for sure!

I didn't even notice that HAHA

@@chadhostetter1632 I didn't until this morning!