RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.0–1.4)

Expansion card questions: I just finished playing a deck with “Giant Growth” and “Mass Attack” in it, and have always assumed that the…

Question

I just finished playing a deck with “Giant Growth” and “Mass Attack” in it, and have always assumed that the Giant Growth wording, “use a basic power” was equivalent to “perform basic power action.” On closer reading, it seems as if the basic powers are the stat, and not the action they are linked with. 1) If I’m using a card like “Mass Attack” that refers to a Basic Power Stat to do calculation, is that intended to be “Using” the basic power? 2) As you’re considering rules updates, can you pass on to consider an entry for “use” or “use a basic power”? Or potentially some rewording of Basic Power and/or Attack to tease out the difference between a Basic Power (stat) and a basic power action (action)?

Answer

To “use a basic power” has a specific meaning in Marvel Champions, during which you exhaust your identity or an ally and apply its printed stat to a matching action—for example, exhausting a character and making an attack using the character’s printed ATK stat.
This definition of “using a basic power” is how Rapid Growth (“Giant Growth”) should be interpreted: you have exhausted your hero to use a basic power and can add an additional effect to that basic power use.
Mass Attack does not fall into the specifications of “using a basic power.” It is arguably similar, but it is not the same thing, and has different requirements.

-Alex