Marvel Champions Codex

ErrataHall of Heroes (rules 1.0–1.4)

Rogue: Rogue’s recent announcement generated a bunch of excitement and questions. One question was in regard to if…

⚠ This errata is from an older rules version (Hall of Heroes (rules 1.0–1.4)) and might be outdated. Errata from older versions are generally folded into the current Rules Reference 1.7.

Question

Rogue’s recent announcement generated a bunch of excitement and questions. One question was in regard to if she’s able to play cards with costs that involve elements she does not control. My understanding is this is not possible, per the “Costs” entry of page 10 of the RRG 1.4. However, many cards in game like Defender of the nine realms, Remy Lebeau Alter-Ego, Natural Agility (Gambit), and the Brothers Grimm modular set attachments have you pay costs with elements you do not control. Rogue’s own, Superpower Adaptation, also lets you search another player’s deck which you do not control, as a cost.

1. Can Rogue play a card like Shield Toss (while Cap’s Shield is in his play area) to resolve Shield Toss, even if she doesnt control the Shield? 2. Do some cost arrow abilities need errata to preserve the function of only paying costs with game elements you control? 3. Is a “search” free from the “elements you control” restriction? 4. Should there be an exception in the cost entry for costs that involve dealing damage, removing/placing threat, or placing counters etc. for costs that involve those elements? Relevant abilities: Shield Toss — Hero Action (attack): Discard X cards from your hands, then return Captain America’s Shield from play to your hand —> deal 4 damage to X enemies. Superpower Adaptation — Hero Action: If Touched is attached to a friendly character, search it’s owner’s discard pile for an event that belongs to the same classification as that character (identity-specific, aspect, or basic) —> add that event to your hand. Defender of the Nine Realms — Hero Action (thwart): Discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until you discard a minion. Put that minion into play engaged with you —> remove 3 threat from a scheme. Remy Lebeau — Action (thwart): Exhaust Remy LeBeau and look at the top 2 cards of the encounter deck. Discard 1 of those cards —> remove threat from a scheme equal to the number of boost icons on that card. Natural Agility — Hero Interrupt (defense): When you defend against an attack, place 1 charge counter on Gambit —> for each charge counter on Gambit, you get +1 DEF for that attack.

Erratum

  • With Superpower Adaptation, Rogue is permitted to search another player’s discard pile for an event and add it to her hand. However, the event that she chooses must be paid for using elements she controls.
  • For instance, Rogue would not be able to play Shield Toss if she does not have “Captain America’s Shield” under her control, because part of that event’s cost is returning CA Shield (which she does not control) to her hand.
  • The rules entry for cost specifies that the player must pay costs with cards/game elements they control. Costs that involve searching generally permit the player to look at cards in the searched area without issue, such as Angela · MarvelCDB allowing you to search the encounter deck. Rogue must be able to search another player’s discard pile for Superpower Adaptation to function as intended.

-Alex