Rogue Champions- Spider-Man Review (Again)

Miles Morales (Alter-Ego)

• Civilian.
• Recover: 4. Health: 9. Hand Size: 6
• Response: After you change to this form, shuffle 1 Spider-Man card from your discard pile into your deck.
• Comments:
  • That his ability is an auto-trigger whenever you switch to Alter-Ego is nice. That means it happens if you are forced down from some card affect.
  • Four recovery helps balance out his nine health.

Hero Deck

Ally

• None

Upgrades

• Defense Mechanism (1)
  • Cost: 1. Resource: 1 Mental.
  • Superpower.
  • Hero Response: After your hero uses a basic power, discard Defense Mechanism–> Resolve Spider-Man’s “Spider Camouflouge” ability.
  • Comments:
    • Using Miles’ hero abilities can be convoluted but this card has a lot of things going for it.
    • It triggers after using any basic power. That means he can attack, thwart or defend. Because he can trigger it off of defending, he can trigger it during the villains phase.
      • If you trigger it off defense, anyone who goes after you is free to drop into Alter-Ego because you’ll have thrown a Confuse onto the villain.
    • It is a response, not a forced response, so you can decide when to trigger it.
    • It is also a superpower, and one you’ll want to play any time you draw it, so Deft Focus is a consideration.
• Power Within (1)
  • Cost: 1. Resource: 1 Energy.
  • Superpower.
  • Hero Response: After your hero uses a basic power, discard Power Within –> Resolve Spider-Man’s “Venom Blast” ability.
    • Much like Defense Mechanism, you have control over when you trigger this.
    • They can both be triggered off of the same basic power use.
    • These are the cards you want to shuffle back into your deck anytime you flip down to Alter-Ego.
• Web Shooter (2)
  • Cost: 1. Resource: 1 Physical.
  • Item. Tech.
  • Uses (3 web counters). (Enters play with 3 counters. When those are gone, discard this card)
  • Hero Resource: Exhaust Web-Shooter and remove 1 web counter from it → generate a Wildcard resource.
  • Comments:
    • These are identical to the Web Shooters from Peter Parker Spider-Man’s kit.
    • Wildcard resources are always handy to have.
    • Unlike a lot of heroes who have upgrades that generate resources, these are temporary.

Supports

• Jefferson Davis (1)
  • Cost: 2. Resource: 1 Physical.
  • Persona. S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Alter-Ego Action: Exhaust Jefferson Davis –> remove 1 threat from the scheme with the least threat.
  • Comment:
    • Threat removal is always nice. Especially on Alter-Ego side.
    • That you don’t get to choose where the threat is removed from can be problematic. Sometimes, you don’t want to remove threat from a particular scheme.
    • It is not a Thwart though, which means it can remove threat even when there are things like Crisis or other limiting affects.
• Ganke Lee (1)
  • Cost: 2. Resource: 1 Wildcard.
  • Persona
  • Action: Exhaust Ganke Lee –> draw 1 card. If you are in hero form, choose and discard 1 card from your hand.
  • Comment:
    • That this is an Action, rather than a Hero/Alter-Ego action is great.
    • You are penalized on Hero side but that’s not a major deal. You get to pick the most useless card to get rid of. If you like your hand already, just don’t use him.

Events

• Arachnobatics (2)
  • Cost: 1. Resource: 1 Mental.
  • Attack
  • Hero Action (attack): Deal 2 damage to an enemy. If that enemy has a stun status card, deal 3 additional damage. If that enemy has a confuse status card, deal 3 additional damage to it.
  • Comment:
    • This card starts off at a reasonable cost. Two damage for one resource. Not the best but acceptable. But it can go from that okay to amazing.
    • Eight damage for one resource is the best damage valuable possible.
    • It is hard to pull off though. You only have a few ways to trigger his hero abilities.
• Double Life (2)
  • Cost: 1. Resource: 1 Energy.
  • Max 1 per round.
  • Action: Change your form. If you paid for this card using a Physical resource, ready your identity.
  • Comments:
    • Flip and ready is an amazing combo. Especially for one cost.
    • The resource requirement can be restrictive, but if start on Hero side, you do have Web Shooters.
    • It is a shame its an Energy resource. Since you can only use one a turn, if you did draw both, you can’t pay for one with the other.
    • Because you flip, if it’s to Alter-Ego, you get to resolve Miles ability to shuffle a card back into his deck. Possibly even this one.
• Swing In (2)
  • Cost: 2. Resource: 1 Energy.
  • Thwart.
  • Hero Action (thwart): Remove 4 threat from a scheme. If you paid for this card using a Mental resource, resolve Spider-Man’s “Spider Camouflage” ability.
  • Comments:
    • Four thwart for two cost is a good value. That you can gain Tough and Confuse the villain at the same time is stellar.
    • The resource requirement is a bit more annoying than with Double Life, simply because it costs two, which if you wanted to use a double resource card for limits you.
• Web-Shot (3)
  • Cost: 2. Resource: 1 Mental.
  • Attack
  • Hero Action (attack): Deal 4 damage to an enemy. If you paid for this card using an Energy resource, resolve Spider-Man’s “Venom Blast” ability.
  • Comment:
    • Same basic value as Arachnobatics for damage. But also can be more valuable as it can do 3 damage per resource with Venom Blast. Plus a stun.
    • The damage from Web-Shot and Venom Blast can be against different targets.

Nemesis Set

• Obligation: Keeping Secrets
  • Boost Icons: 2
  • Give to the Miles Morales player.
    • You may flip to your alter-ego form. Choose:
      • Exhaust Miles Morales → remove Keeping Secrets from the game.
      • Discard Ganke Lee and Jefferson Davis from play. If neither was discarded this way, this card gains surge. Discard this obligation.
  • Comments:
    • This isn’t the worst Obligation but since it does remove two cards from play, it can be quite annoying. But you don’t care much about Jefferson Davis so Ganke is the main loss.
    • If you never play either of those cards, a surge is not a major downside.
• Nemesis: Prowler
  • Criminal.
  • Attack: 2. Scheme: 1. Health: 5.
  • Boost Icons: 2
  • Stalwart.
  • When Revealed: If you are in alter-ego form, give Prowler a tough status card.
  • Comment:
    • Stalwart isn’t a big deal for a minion to have. You usually want to throw Stun and Confuse on the villain anyways.
    • Gaining tough if you’re in Miles form is annoying and with your desire to flip, has a fair chance of triggering.
    • Not a major threat with only 2 attack and 1 scheme.
• Side Scheme: Tracking Prey
  • Threat 4
  • Boost Icons: 3
  • Acceleration Icon
  • When Revealed: If you are in alter-ego form, place 1 acceleration token here.
  • Comments:
    • This has the potential to add two acceleration icons to the game, which could be annoying.
    • However, at only 4 Threat it’s a relatively easy side scheme to get rid of.
• Slice and Dice (2)
  • Treachery
  • Boost Icons: 1
  • When Revealed: Prowler attacks the player with the fewest remaining hit points (even if that player is in alter-ego form). If that attack defeats a charatcer or no attack was made this way, this card gains surge.
  • Comments:
    • Up until now, Miles nemesis set has been pretty lackluster. This card, however, is a real threat.
    • Prowler’s attack is only two, but if a hero has flipped to Alter-Ego, there’s a good chance they are very low on health. And as an alter-ego, they also have no chance to defend, so could just die.
    • Best defense is to just make sure Prowler never stays in play long.
• Razor Claws (1)
  • Boost Icons: 2.
  • Attachment. Weapon. +2 Attack*
    • *Attached minion’s attacks gain piercing.
  • Attach to the minion with the highest printer hit points. If you cannot, this card gains surge.
  • Comments:
    • This could be very annoying with certain villain sets, such as Zola and their buffed minions.
    • Not a card you want to draw when Prowler is out and then draw Slice and Dice.