I obviously haven't played the game yet, but I know some here have. Who do you think the top 5 characters will be in this set? I saw the spoiler list, but I'm not familiar with the game enough yet to make any guesses.

It's obviously hard to tell without having played and seeing what strategies are more useful and we haven't seen all the cards yet, but 5 of the ones that stand out to me (or at least the ones that will get big looks from me) in no particular order........


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#117 Rare Nova 'The Human Rocket'
Whenever Nova takes damage in an attack step, he deals 2 damage to your opponent.
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Several of the Nova's looks good but with good stats on the die you might be able to get several defence rounds out of him defending weaker dice and doing damage to your opponent fairly regularly.


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#129 Super Rare Black Widow 'Tsarina'
When Black Widow attacks, she deals 2 damage to your opponent. Your opponent can prevent this by spinning one of his or her characters down one level.
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Similar to the version of Nova I highlighted, this is about attacking your opponents life as a secondary effect. She's cheap to add to your dice bag and only 1/3 sides that has an activation cost. I think she might be showing up on a lot of teams.

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#46 Common Hawkeye 'Longbow'
When fielded, Hawkeye deals his attack value in damage to a target opposing character
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Similar to Widow, easy to get into your dice pool, cheap to get out (just like Widow with only 1/3 with an activation cost).......and allows for almost 2 attacks. I think the benefit of his special ability is that it will bypass many strategies designed around making certain characters defend and/or keeping others from participating in combat of any form (like Nick Fury 'Mr Anger').


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#91 Uncommon Spider-man 'Wall-Crawler'
If Spider-man is not blocked, you may pay to change your opponents's life to 10 (before damage is dealt).
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Similar to Nova there are several Spidey's that look good to me, but if you get this guy out early and activate his special you can really put your opponent in a bad spot.........with his Lv3 side your opponent could go from 20 life to 5. When he is on the other side of the map your opponent will have to play defensively (or they will learn to in the future!). I expect to see him fielded in team with a version of Deadpool.


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#108 Rare Ghost Rider 'Brimstone Biker'
When fielded, select a die from your used pile and place it into your prep area (you cannot select a die that paid to field this die).
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From Quarriors I really liked the Strong Witching Hag with is similar......a decently strong die with the ability to help your next turn be potentially stronger. Now GR seems to be comparatively weaker in relation to the other characters than the Witching Hag is/was but his effect activates when you field him instead of having to actually score (which is not how it works in DMs but is more difficult and won't always activate).



Those are just a few of the ones that stand out to me going into it........but there are a lot of cards that look very good so far.

My buddy had a playtest set, and one of the cards I saw was the SR Green Goblin. His ability (if it hasn't changed til the final copy) is:

"When fielded, does 1 damage to your opponent for every sidekick you have in the field". (or similar wording).


If you happen to roll sidekicks early and sit on them, you can cycle Gobby quickly and get a lot of direct damage.

I was thinking of fielding 5 of my 8 characters with the low cost options of dice draws. Just need to find something good to team up where dice draws are important. That is why I was thinking of Deadpool or Nightcrawler who can direct around some damage or blockers from the other team. Maybe wolverine.

Then possibly the Storm to help disrupt the opponent and help stall the game.

Another couple of cards that look interesting to me.....

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# 72 Uncommon Doctor Octopus 'Fully Armed'
When blocked, any damage that Doctor Octopus does in excess of this blocking characters' total defense is dealt to your opponent.
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# 34 Starter/Common Basic Action Card 'Thrown Car'
Two of your attacking characters get +1A. While attacking, damage those two characters deal in excess of the total defense of blocking characters is dealt to your opponent.
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From what I've read, with this ability (doing excess damage to your opponents life) does not count as being 'unblocked' so you might be able to do all of the following;
1) KO a weaker character
2) Do damage to your opponents life
3) return the character(s) to your fielding zone to do it again on your next attack step.

Now that probably means that your opponent will consider not blocking with this effect active to avoid all of that.....and that's a win by itself.


I cringe a bit when I think about this version of Thor....

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#94 Uncommon Thor 'God of Thunder'
At the start of each attack step, Thor gets +4A and +4D for each opposing character in the field (until the end of the turn).
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.....throwing cars around. Even 2 opposing characters are going to mean Lv1 Thor would be attacking for 14 (with the +1 from Thrown car) and any unblocked #s get through to your opponents life.

That's just sick... I love it!

I'm on my phone so I don't have the database handy, but I think there are a couple characters that you can force characters to block them. Give them a car, and you have a guaranteed "trample" without hitting the used pile. Very potent.

What have we learned today boys and girls. As with most first releases, there is some broken hiding in here. But still need the draw and energy to pull them off.

Well there are lots of powerful things to be had like.......

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#122 Rare Silver Surfer 'Sky Rider'
At the start of the attack step, if your opponent has more life than you, double Silver Surfer's attack and defense.
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Another good partner for Deadpool......who is capable of attacking at10(Lv1), 14(Lv2), or 16(Lv3) if his ability is active.


But I think the good news is that an answer to almost everything in the game right now comes in the starter....

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#16 Common/Starter Spider-Man "Tiger"
You may pay [1 Fist] to prevent Spider-Man from being affected by an ability or game effect (other than damage from a character engaged with him).
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