Deadpool Expanded Hero Pack: Marvel Champions
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- Deadpool is fun
- New Aspect to play around with
- Off the wall craziness
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- Deadpool is not going to be for everyone
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Oh yeah, we’re doing this. You know him, you love him, it’s the wacky and wonderful Merc with the Mouth, Deadpool! This fourth-wall-breaking hero has finally arrived in Marvel Champions: The Card Game, and he’s coming in a larger Hero Pack than the others! Deadpool’s all about risk-reward gameplay, with an ability that makes him nearly immortal but also adds acceleration tokens to the main scheme. His pack also comes with a brand-new aspect for the game: the ‘Pool aspect! In this 78-card Hero Pack, you’ll find Deadpool, his fifteen signature cards, and a bunch of ‘Pool aspect cards for you to play around with, including some extras in the back of the pack for you to experiment with!
No Marvel game would be complete without Deadpool, and Marvel Champions would not be complete without the Deadpool Hero Pack. This expansion comes with a 40-card pre-built deck, giving you the chance to start playing from the moment you open the box.
Marvel Champions is a one to four-player superhero game where players take on the role of one of five Marvel heroes to battle it out against one of three villains. Play as Captain Marvel, Spiderman, She-Hulk, Black Panther or Iron Man and face off against Rhino, Klaw or Ultron. Each Hero is represented by a deck of cards made up of basic cards, hero specific cards and aspect cards (one of leadership, justice, aggression and protection). Each Villain is also represented by a deck of cards comprising villain specific cards, basic villain cards and a modular encounter set. This time, we’ll be looking at the Marvel Champions: Deadpool hero pack.
During a player’s turn, they will play cards. (paying for the cost by discarding other cards from their hand). Then, activate cards and perform a number of actions all in an attempt to defeat the “big bad” and to thwart his schemes. Players can also switch from alter ego to hero form once per turn. And activate their character’s special ability as well the basic recovery, attack or defend actions. Once a player has performed all of their actions it passes to the next player. They repeat the process until all players have performed their actions.
Bring The War
Next is the villain phase. During the villain phase, threat is added to the main scheme based on player count. Then the villain will either attack (if you are in hero form) or scheme (if you are in alter ego form). When they attack or scheme a boost card is revealed from the encounter deck and added to the Villain’s base attack/scheme value. Each player (in turn order) is then dealt an encounter card. Any minions in play will also attack or scheme.
Players will need to manage the amount of threat tokens that are placed on a scheme as if a certain quantity is reached the scheme advances to the next stage and eventually the Villain will win by completing his scheme. In addition to the threat/schemes, players will also have to take out minions and deal damage to the Villain to reduce his health to zero and win the game.Marvel Champions is a living card game (LCG) and as such the publisher Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) are supporting the game with new Hero & Villain packs to further expand the game, the combinations and replayability. Check out a full review & final thoughts of the core game here.
Pool Party
Ok so Deadpool is Marvel Champions and if you know anything about this character (especially in the films) then you know it is going to be off the wall craziness. First off, Deadpool brings a whole new aspect, the Pool aspect. This is like any of the other aspects and comes with its own specific aspect cards and can be played with any other character. This pack comes with 78 cards. As well as the fifteen signature hero cards it comes with a pre-built Pool deck with additional Pool aspect cards to customise and play with.
Deadpool is all about risk reward. Oh, I should also mention, he is pretty much immortal and can’t be killed. He is a two thwart, two attack, one defence hero with a forced interrupt ability that triggers when we would be defeated. Instead his hit points are set to zero, he flips to alter ego form but one acceleration token is added to the main scheme. Like I said at the top of this review, this hero is crazy.
Many of Deadpool’s cards play off acceleration tokens, even Deadpools resource cards which generates an additional wild resource for each token on the main scheme. Cable, Deadpool’s signature ally, also benefits from additional acceleration tokens getting +1 thwart and +1 attack for each.
Maximum Effort has to be my favourite card though, not just because it is essentially Deadpool’s catch phrase, but you can take any amount of damage upto your remaining hit points and deal that damage to your enemy. Crazy, silly fun, but highly thematic. There is also the equivalent threat removing card Yoo-Hoo. Both cards can give you some last minute saves or winning damage at the cost of your own health.
There is a card called “This Card is Fire” which as long as the card is in your hand you take one damage. However, you can use the card to deal damage equal to the amount of damage you have sustained.
The Pool aspect cards are just as fun with Dogpool and Headpool allies. Some of the well known cards have been “modified”, shall we say, with sticky notes renaming them. So Uppercut is now Cutupper, Get Ready is Get Rage-y, Great Responsibility is now Not My Responsibility with some slightly modified actions.
In essence, Deadpool is an off the wall, crazy Hero that is just a ton of fun to play with. I wouldn’t say he is game breaking but he comes close and it just suits this character so well. His often fourth wall breaking antics in the MCU seem to come through in his cards. Deadpool is not one I am going to pick regularly to play but when I do I know that I will have a great game. The Pool aspect is also very interesting and I am looking forward to incorporating this aspect with some other heroes.
DEADPOOL? SERIOUSLY?
Now I’m sure you’ve heard all the rumours flying around. “Deadpool is OP”. “Deadpool is broken”. “Nickelback Suck” – well let me tell you, I’m OG not OP, I don’t stay broken, and Nickelback deserve way more credit for their massive global success. I am FUN, losers! Suck it up, buttercup.
DO YOU EVEN LIFT, BRO?
Yeah, sure, I constantly get killed and raise the stakes in the process. I mean I’m a comic book character in a card game where you get to pretend to be cool. Of course I’m totally meta, let’s just get cards from your collection, loser – no, really, if you lose, I win, we get better TOGETHER awwwwwwwwwwwwwww, heart emoji, let’s play tic-tac-toe.
BUY ME BUY ME BUY ME
Whether you’re a fan of me, Mr merc with a mouth, or not, I am, in all modesty – and I don’t say this lightly – a MUST buy for the game. I mean, yes, things can go horribly, horribly wrong, we will probably almost certainly scheme out at some points, so winning is no given, but where fun in that? Use me and abuse me to take down the most insane villain build imaginable: Ultimate Ultron with all of the Infinity Stones? Go for it! Solo Kang with Future Past sentinels? Conquered! Bet you never knew Kang could be fun in Solo mode, but there we go, guess we just need to recast OOOOH too soon?
IN CONCLUSION, YOUR HONOR…
Would I include me in your teams all the time? No chance, I have class, thanks. The only thing that’s Higher Further Faster than me isn’t fit to print, kiddywinks. Would I give me to a novice? Nope, you can’t handle this jelly. Or whatever. But with my massive… bonus set of cards, you can make any Deadpool you can think of, and build up others as my very own ‘pool corps heroes too – Pool is a new, standalone Aspect of my very own. So yeah, you can do stupid fanboy dream shenanigans with Gamora, Adam Warlock or Spider-Woman if you want – why not? I know I would. It’s your game, play it your way, nerd. This isn’t Spider-Ham, silliness, who is fun guy (ooh, ham and mushrooms), but hell – Go Pool yourself!
“A 5-STAR SUCCESS” “TOP-RATED” “PERFECT SCORE” “I LIKE HAM”
100% review, Zatu. Fix it, Lexi. 5s across the board. You know you want to. Love, kisses and indiscriminate killing, DP.
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You might like
- Deadpool is fun
- New Aspect to play around with
- Off the wall craziness
Might not like
- Deadpool is not going to be for everyone