Marvel Champions Codex

RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.6)2025-05-22

The card Brains Over Brawn says: “After your hero makes a basic thwart, deal damage to an enemy equal to…

⚠ This ruling is from an older rules version (Hall of Heroes (rules 1.6)) and might be outdated.

Question

The card Brains Over Brawn says: “After your hero makes a basic thwart, deal damage to an enemy equal to your hero’s THW”. Does the THW value refer to the one used during the basic thwart (including potential modifiers “for this use” or “for that thwart”)?

Answer

No. Brains Over Brawn can be played as a response to a basic thwart, which occurs after the thwart has finished, and any “for this use/thwart” abilities modifying THW have expired. (Any static abilities increasing THW, such as Heroic Intuition, do count toward Brains Over Brawn though.)

— Alex