Marvel Champions Codex

RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.6)2025-11-21

Hercules has just been revealed for Marvel Champions, but his preview article has brought up a couple of…

⚠ This ruling is from an older rules version (Hall of Heroes (rules 1.6)) and might be outdated.

Question

Hercules has just been revealed for Marvel Champions, but his preview article has brought up a couple of rules questions. First of all, looking into the word Find, the phrasing of Find is different in both the 1.5 and 1.6 rules compared to recent products like Agents of SHIELD and Trickster Takeover. In the 1.6 rules it says a player searches “each game area”. In the new-ish products, it does not have that text and I have heard it argued this means we can search our whole card collection. What version of the Find rules is most up-to-date and can it reach into a player’s collection? Secondly, the Embody Pathos attachment, one of Hercules’ three Labor cards, references an “encounter side scheme”. Is there a specific definition for this you don’t mind sharing and/or does it include nemesis encounter set side schemes while they are set aside? Thirdly, if Embody Pathos does let you choose a nemesis side scheme, what happens if the Hercules player chooses Cable’s Back To The Future nemesis side scheme in multiplayer? That side scheme’s wording means that only Cable can remove threat from it, but Embody Pathos says only Hercules can remove threat from it. What is the result at the end of using Embody Pathos and choosing Back To The Future? Can Hercules, Cable, both, or neither heroes remove threat from it? (Gamora’s nemesis side scheme may have a similar issue.) And finally what happens if we blank Defeat The Hydra, an attachment from Hercules’ Labor deck, and then defeat the minion it’s attached to while it’s still blanked? As I understand it, the Victory keyword is blanked so Defeat The Hydra won’t go to the victory display as intended. And there is no designated discard pile for the Labor deck, etc.

Answer

  • The rules for “find” in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Trickster Takeover are purposefully shortened for space compared to what’s in the Rules Reference, but are otherwise not intended to function differently than the expanded Rules Reference definition. In other words, the rules for “find” are always to search “each game area” where the specified card can be found, and not the player’s collection.
  • Hercules’s Embody Pathos “find” instruction is able to search through set-aside cards, including nemesis sets. Though Hercules could find Back to the Future this way and attach it to Embody Pathos, neither he nor Cable would be able to remove threat from it.
  • We don’t recommend purposefully blanking Defeat the Hydra, but if that did happen, you should return Defeat the Hydra to the Labor Deck.

— Alex