RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.5)2023-12-22

132 – I’m playing the Venom Goblin scenario and have a couple allies in play, the justice venom ally and the…

Question

132 – I’m playing the Venom Goblin scenario and have a couple allies in play, the justice venom ally and the deadpool cable ally, both of which have a constant ability referring to the main scheme. How would this situation work with multiple main schemes? I’ve seen where constant abilities in multi villain scenarios always refer to the active villain but couldn’t find anything about multi main scheme scenarios.

Answer

The FAQ for the scenario and the Skies Over New York environment card state that player cards that affect “the main scheme” can apply to any main scheme; we rule that this also is inversely true, where a player card affected by “the main scheme” can refer to any main scheme, even the constant abilities on Venom or Cable.

This means that while Venom and Cable are in play, their controller(s) have the option to choose which main scheme to treat as “the main scheme” at any point in time their abilities have an effect on the game. For instance, when Venom would take consequential damage, his controller chooses which main scheme is “the main scheme” and then determines if Venom takes 1 less consequential damage. Similarly, any time Cable uses his THW or ATK, his controller chooses which main scheme is “the main scheme” for that usage.

— Alex