RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.0–1.4)

Valkyrie: While in hero form, I revealed “swinging assault” from the symbiotic strength encounter set. The intention…

Question

1.While in hero form, I revealed “swinging assault” from the symbiotic strength encounter set. The intention of this card is clear but when we are trying to resolve abilities one sentence at a time by the rules, technically the villian would attack before gaining an additional boost card. I also don’t see any rules in the alteration effects section to help with this situation. I have also noticed that when cards have an effect that “if” something is true, like for example the Valkyrie card “have at thee” where you would deal 7 damage before checking to see if that minion has the death glow attached. Do you plan to update on how we resolve abilities in general?
2. We need help with the Brunhilde SETUP ability, how is this supposed to work? Does it target the card from anywhere including say if it was a drone or in the collection.by chance from villian setups.
3. Can you tell me exactly what step of setup that the cards with the setup keyword enter the game when setting up a game?
4.And also on setup step 10 where it says to “combine” the encounter sets listed on side 1A of the main scheme, I’m assuming that also means shuffle at that point?
5. The main scheme of the Hela scenario seems to be missing the 1A on it, is this a misprint?

Answer

1. There are some cards in Marvel Champions that aren’t written with alteration effects, but their ability text is still structured in a way where later sentences rely on the resolution of earlier sentences. Swinging Assault is one of these cards, where if you’re in Hero Form when it’s Revealed you must give the villain an additional boost card “for THAT activation.” There is no other way to resolve “for that activation” without referencing the sentence before it, telling the villain to initiate an attack against you. Cards with “that” used in this way, or cards that use “if” in their ability text technically don’t fall into our definition of alteration effects, so we haven’t added them to that entry in the Rules Reference. It’s possible we will make an entry for these in the future, but for now, nothing is planned.

(It’s best practice to always read the entire ability on a card before you start to resolve it, whether or not it has a defined alteration effect present, if just to ensure the card is resolved as intended.)

2. When using Valkyrie/Brunnhilde, since her kit relies heavily on her having access to Death Glow, I recommend setting Death Glow aside before shuffling your player deck during Setup for the optimum playing experience. Valkyrie’s in-game ability wouldn’t target Death-Glow if it were made into a Drone or put in your discard pile.

3. As written, player cards with Setup enter play during Step 15 (“Resolve Character Setup Abilities”) and encounter cards with Setup would enter play during Step 11 (“Resolve Scheme Setup”).

4. Yes, shuffle the encounter sets together.

5. Yes, that is an unfortunate misprint. We will need to fix that if we reprint the product.

-Alex