Wrecking Crew: Hey guys just wanna make sure were doing this right. When playing Wrecking Crew if you reveal “buddy system”…

This situation is more complicated than it seems, but the conclusion is that the additional encounter card from surge can be revealed from any encounter deck. The reason for this is bolded in the next two lines below. In the online Rules Reference, page 10, Keywords, Surge: “After an encounter card with [surge] is revealed, the player resolving the card reveals an additional encounter card. Complete the process of resolving the original card before revealing the additional card.”

In the Wrecking Crew rules insert, page 6, New Rules, The Active Villain, paragraph 2, there are two pertinent lines: (1) “Any card that refers to the ‘encounter deck’ only refers to the active villain’s deck” and (2) “When a player is dealt an encounter deck, it is dealt from the active player’s deck.” Surge neither specifies that the additional encounter card must come from “the encounter deck,” nor does it say that the additional encounter card is first dealt. It’s simply revealed. The implication, of course, is that it is revealed from the encounter deck, which, per the rules of the Wrecking Crew insert, would mean the additional encounter card comes from the active villain’s deck. This is only an implication, however, and is not coded into the rules, as it should be. For the time being, while you can technically choose which deck the additional encounter card comes from, my suggestion is to draw it from the active villain’s deck. In the next rules update, I’ll expand the surge keyword to specify “reveals an additional encounter card from the encounter deck” to solidify this ruling.