Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game – Black Widow
Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game – Black Widow Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Undercover
This keyword represents the Black Widows and their contacts going off the grid on special missions to recover valuable intel.
- Some cards say things like "You may send one of your other Heroes Undercover." This means "Put that Hero into your Victory Pile. It's worth 1 Victory Point."
- This can help get your starting S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents and Troopers out of your deck so that you draw your more powerful Heroes more often.
- If you play a card that sends itself Undercover, you still get to use its Recruit, Attack, and other abilities.
- As S.H.I.E.L.D. Heroes, Black Widow and Yelena Belova work especially well with the Undercover Heroes in the Legendary: S.H.I.E.L.D. set.
Unleash from Undercover
At the perfect moment, Black Widows shed their disguised identities, reveal themselves, and strike. To represent this, Heroes use the new Unleash keyword.
- When an effect says to "Unleash a Hero from Undercover": Return that Hero from your Victory Pile to your hand.
- If you have several cards Undercover with a trigger like "When you fight a Villain, you may Unleash this card from Undercover," fighting one Villain is enough to Unleash any number of those cards.
- When you Unleash a Hero back to your hand, you can play that Hero on that same turn as normal. At the end of your turn, it will go to your discard pile as normal. It doesn't return to your Victory Pile unless an effect tells the card to go Undercover again.
- If you Unleash cards based on fighting Villains or the Mastermind, you can do the Unleash effects and/or Fight effects from that enemy in any order.
When Recruited: Send This Undercover
Red Guardian works as a sleeper agent until the right time to reveal himself. To represent this, all of his cards say "When Recruited: Send this Undercover." "When Recruited" abilities also appear in Legendary: Realm of Kings and Messiah Complex.
- "When Recruited" means: "Do this ability when you recruit this Hero."
- In this case, you pay the Hero's normal recruit cost, put it in your Victory Pile worth 1VP, and refill that HQ space with a card from the Hero Deck.
- Other abilities Unleash the card at the right time.
- If you recruit a Hero with multiple effects telling you to put it in different places (like Wall-Crawl, Soaring Flight, "When Recruited: Send this Undercover", etc.), you choose which one applies.
Dodge
The Black Widows, White Tiger, and Falcon are famous for their agility and evasion. To represent this, they use the "Dodge" keyword, which also appeared in Legendary: Villains.
- Dodge means "During your turn, you may discard this card from your hand to draw another card."
- When you Dodge a card from your hand, ignore all the other text on that card (Unless it specifically mentions Dodging). You didn't "play" the Dodged card, so its Hero Class/color don't help you trigger the Superpower abilities of other cards you play that turn.
- Many Dodge cards have effects that can be especially strong or weak in different situations. That way you can play them when they're strong and Dodge them away when they're weak. Dodge also helps you sculpt your hand towards Recruit Points or Attack as you see fit.
Dark Memories
Natasha Romanoff, White Tiger, and the Winter Soldier have each done horrible things in their past, before breaking from their conditioning. Now they are spending the rest of their lives working to redeem themselves, drawing determination from their memories of the past. Meanwhile, their enemies seek to dredge up these past misdeeds and use them against the Heroes. This is represented with the "Dark Memories" keyword, which appeared previously in Legendary: Revelations.
- On a Hero card, "Dark Memories" means "You get +1 Attack for each Hero Class among cards in your discard pile."
- Likewise, on a Villain it means "This gets +1 Attack for each Hero Class among cards in your discard pile."
- The Hero Classes are [green class icon], [gold class icon], [red class icon], [grey class icon], and [blue class icon], so Dark Memories can give anywhere from +0 to +5 Attack. Grey cards like S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents don't have a Hero Class.
- It doesn't matter how many cards of a particular Hero Class you have in your discard pile. So if your discard pile were three [green class icon] cards, four [gold class icon] cards, and five grey S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents, Dark Memories would give +2 Attack.
- Recruiting Heroes and using discard abilities at the right times can help you increase the Dark Memories bonus.
- Likewise, if you draw or reveal enough cards that you have to shuffle your discard pile to make a new deck, then you won't have a discard pile anymore, and the Dark Memories bonus on Villains will go back to +0 Attack. Time your plays and build your deck carefully to turn Dark Memories to your advantage!
- In this set, you can use Dodge abilities at the right times to put additional Hero Classes into your discard pile and power up your Dark Memories, or potentially force a deck reshuffle that will reset Villains' Dark Memories to +0 Attack.
Divided Cards
Falcon & the Winter Soldier work together as grudging partners, but with very different methods. To show this, they are combined into a single hero with "Divided Cards." Each Divided Card has two miniature cards printed on the same card.
- If a Divided Card costs "3" on each side, its cost is 3. Pay 3 Recruit to recruit it from the HQ, not 6 Recruit.
- When you play a Divided Card, you choose which side to play. You generate all the Recruit, Attack, and special abilities of that side as normal. You ignore the other side, as if it didn't exist.
- While a Divided Card is in your hand, deck, the HQ, or anywhere else besides being played, it counts as all of its Hero Classes, Teams, Hero names, card names, icons, etc. So one Divided Card in your discard pile could potentially power up Dark Memories by +2 Attack, since it has two Hero Classes. It still counts as one card though, not two cards, so you can't discard a single Divided Card for an effect that says to "discard two cards."
- When its not being played, a Divided Card's "printed Attack" is the total of both Attack numbers printed on it.
- You can Dodge with a Divided Card if either side has Dodge.
Related Characters in Other Sets
You can find another playable version of Falcon in Legendary: Civil War and Falcon (as Captain America) as well as the Winter Soldier in Legendary: Captain America 75th Anniversary.
Game Contents
Rules insert and 100 cards:
- 5 New Heroes of 14 cards each (Each Hero has 1 rare, 3 uncommons, 5 of one common, and 5 of another common)
- 2 New Villain Groups of 8 cards each
- 2 New Double-Sided Epic Masterminds (Each has 1 Mastermind card and 4 Mastermind Tactic cards)
- 4 New Schemes