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2006
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Description
Marvel Heroes is a game set in the Marvel Universe for 2 to 4 players, with plenty of opportunities for cooperation and competition between the Super Heroes controlled by the players. Players take control of a group of Super Heroes (X-Men, Fantastic Four, Marvel Knights or the Avengers) as well as the Nemesis of one of the other player's group (Magneto, Dr. Doom, Kingpin or Red Skull). During the game, each player finds allies, enemies and power-ups, and face the menacing Super Villains controlled by the other players.
High-quality plastic figures of many of the major Marvel Super Heroes, including Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four and The X-Men, as well as of the Nemesis characters, are included in the game. Each character featured in the game is represented by a detailed 40 mm plastic figure and an accompanying character card describing the character's special abilities. Power-ups can be added with special effects, which are different depending on who is acquiring these bonus items, so that all the different incarnations of the character can be played.
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JestaThaRogue Unboxing at 8:17 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Nice artwork on many cards.
- Thematic storage boxes.
- Valuable cards pulled (Mind Stone, Jennifer Walters).
- Good value overall from the bundle.
Cons
- Reprints in collector's boosters for the price.
- Some packs considered 'terrible' or 'bad'.
Thematic elements
- Superheroes
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Artifact synergy — Cards like Arc Reactor and Ultron are mentioned in the context of potentially building an artifact deck.
- Borderless — The reviewer describes a card type as 'borderless' because it lacks a text box or a box around the text box.
- connive — Mentioned as a mechanic that is made better by a specific card (Leader Super-genius).
- cycling — Mentioned with Mjolnir, Hammer of Thor, as a way to cycle away the board wipe effect.
- Deathtouch — Mentioned in the context of potentially building a Deathtouch commander deck.
- Dexterity/Reach/Trample — Mentioned as abilities on the reverse side of Jennifer Walters.
- exile — Mentioned with Worlds Within Worlds and Daredevil, Man Without Fear.
- Extended Art — The reviewer discusses and shows examples of cards with extended art, explaining how it differs from standard and full art cards.
- flash — Mentioned as an ability on The Wondrous Wasp.
- flying — Mentioned as an ability on several cards, including Century Golden Guardian and Monica Rambeau.
- Full Art — The reviewer discusses and shows examples of full art cards, explaining that the art extends behind the text box.
- Haste — Mentioned for a token created by Alien Invasion.
- Hexproof — Mentioned with Leviathan token and Monica Rambeau.
- indestructible — Mentioned as an ability on Century Golden Guardian and a token created by it.
- Ping Damage — Described as dealing one damage and gaining one life each time a villain is played.
- Poison Counters — Mentioned with Alien Invasion enchantment.
- Prowess — Mentioned as an ability on Monica Rambeau.
- Saga — Mentioned as a card type with Superhero Civil War and Avengers Under Siege being examples.
- Unblockable Attack — Mentioned with Statue Size Shifter, where it can be unblockable when it's a 1/1, and can be powered up to win the game.
- Vigilance — Mentioned as an ability on Century Golden Guardian.
- Ward — Mentioned with the card Serpent Sidekick, stating it gives 5 poison counters and if an opponent targets it twice, they lose.
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Quotes (from this video)
- If you're regular to the channel, don't worry that I've done a Magic the Gathering and a Monopoly video on the same day.
- This is my one Magic the Gathering video a year.
- I don't know how I'd be able to write on those to make that neat, but I'll find a way of doing it.
- So, this is a standard card. It has a border and it has a text box. This is extended art because the art extends to the end of the card. There's no border on the card and there's still a text box. You can see with nothing behind it. This is full art because you can see that it extends all the way around and you can see the art behind the text box. And this, I believe, is called borderless because there is no text box or box around the text box.
- So, that is the one that is in the pre-release. So, not really too fussed about having that cuz I've already I'm going to get the the commander not the pre-release, sorry, the commander deck.
- I really like this card.
- This was probably the best one.
- I'm thinking at the moment any card that I don't have planned for any Commander decks and any card that I've got multiples of I definitely don't need. I think I'm going to try and sell them as soon as possible while the prices are high.
- So, that is my experience with Marvel Heroes. That is my one Magic the Gathering video done for the year.
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The Dice Tower Review at 9:06 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Mixed
Pros
- Was exciting when released due to lack of other Marvel games.
Cons
- Hasn't aged well.
- Not as good as War of the Ring.
Thematic elements
- Superhero
- City
Comparison games
- War of the Ring
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- team play — Players went around the city with their team trying to stop things before other people's teams did things.
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Quotes (from this video)
- So, we're going to jump right into these here. I'm going to take a look at them and tell you what I think about them.
- This game is now 20 years old.
- It's not nearly as good as made by the people who made War of the Ring.
- This is my favorite because all the pieces move like rooks sort of and you're trying to take over other people's pieces and each one has a special power and I like the theming of it.
- Layers expansions bring it up to a nine. Layers is amazing.
- I think the base game is fine, but when you I mean it's it's very it's enjoyable, but when you add the expansion it's fantastic.
- Nothing here I think is amazing.
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