Marvel Champions Codex

RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.0–1.4)

Sinister Motives, Miles, and Gwen: Can you play the Flash Thompson Venom hero against the Venom villain in Sinister Motives, legally?

⚠ This ruling is from an older rules version (Hall of Heroes (rules 1.0–1.4)) and might be outdated.

Question

Can you play the Flash Thompson Venom hero against the Venom villain in Sinister Motives, legally?

Answer

  • Honestly, we think that if a player wanted to play Venom against Venom, then they should be able to. We recognize the rules reference states that only one copy of each unique card by title can be in play, but there is also no specific ruling in place for when a hero and a villain share the same title (unlike a unique minion and another character with the same title).
  • Just be sure that, if you do this, cards that target a specific “Venom” affect the appropriate one (like Run and Gun should only affect the Venom hero, since it’s one of the cards in his set).

-Alex