Marvel Champions: Gamora - Discussion

0:10 viewer discretion is advised hey everyone welcome back to board games unlocked and today i'm doing a no run through review for gamora uh which is one of the newest fighters to marvel champions i typically have the little container that they come in but i have thrown it away because i this is actually the second time i'm doing this review because i thought i had already uploaded this but i guess i haven't and if i have here are my thoughts on on gamora again and gamora is fantastic she is easily one of my favorite champions in this game and i mean at this time i've played every single one of the guardians of the galaxy besides i guess nebula she's not out yet but uh prior to that she was at the top and i think that she still is she is my favorite who she might be my favorite um champion to play because she is just so extremely versatile and has a lot of cool like deck customization options uh just with her standard setup so uh her alter ego form as uh you can see she has a skill tactician so you can include up to six attack and or thwart cards uh from different uh whether they call it aspects and in the base game she gets of course aggression uh well she's aggression but she gets justice and protection her main is aggression of course but yeah the

1:41 the other six cards are justice and protection and i believe she has three of each yeah she has three three justice and three protection um but her other action or her other ability on her alter ego form is the fact as an action you can look at the top card and if it's an attack or a thwart you can draw it so she has ways to actually draw cards in her deck and a lot of other cards that let her just look at the top like um plan of attack has lets her draw four and if it's an attack uh card she can or an attack event she can put it into her hand and if it's a if she's an alter ego form then she can draw a seven so she you can actually plan go into alter ego form to plan for your next hero attack but when you flip her over to her hero side she is actually really good in base stats with twos across the board and she's built that way she is probably the most balanced champion that i can you know that i can recall off the top of my head but yeah twos across the board on top of what she's able to do with her cards and the ability but she has finesse as a response after you play an attack event you can remove a threat from a scheme you can only do that once uh per phase but still lets you do a little bit of something when you're doing something else and precision is basically the same thing but in reverse when you play a thwart event you get to deal with damage to an enemy uh also once per per phase so basically there's one card in here that i think is actually really set up

3:12 for and that is hit and run hit and run is an attack and a thwart so playing this one card covers your bases for both of those responses at least the way i've been playing it does cost quite a bit but it is gonna like it says deal two damage to an enemy then remove two threat from a scheme so you can combine that with her ability to deal three damage to an enemy and remove three threat or because this is a separate response you can deal two damage to one enemy one damage to another remove two threat from a scheme and remove one threat from another so this one card and this is even the basic card this isn't even hers it allows you to have some versatility which is fantastic her other uh her actual cards a lot of them are just free and can also they all combine kind of they synergize with her main ability like you have set the pace which is a thor card and it just lets you remove one threat from a scheme but it costs zero and that combines so it could be two threat uh and then also acrobatic move allows you to deal two damage to an enemy or three damage if you want uh sorry it's reversed thwart this lets you remove one threat one threat one threat and then deal a damage and then this one lets you deal two damage and then remove a threat uh but these all cost zero so they're always just gonna be useful then whenever you actually want to what's what's great as a setup is she has keen instincts uh which gives her a wild resource for an attack or thwart

4:42 event which is just fantastic there's actually two of them in the deck so you can have those set up and it can turn a lot of the higher higher cost cards make them either free or incredibly cheap like for example one of her threat removals is forward momentum which says as an action uh remove three threat from a scheme or five threat instead if you've already played an attack event this turn which could be huge considering the fact that hit and run is an attacker thor event so this can make it cheaper uh by tapping the keens the keynes instincts um and it also covers your bases because it also hey that's an attack and a thor because there's not the only card in her deck that allows you to that requires you to have play this certain type of card before so you can either remove three threat or five and then with um decisive blow which is one of her other cards also cost two you can deal four damage to an enemy or seven damage if you've played a thwart event this turn which i mean hit and run does count or you can combine these with these two because these are both free so you hey that sword that's an attack okay great since these were free these are now pumped up to actually uh do some damage and remove a ton of threat now she doesn't like have massive amounts of damage she's not gonna like one shot of villain but she will get really close and she will be able to

6:13 defend and be able to you know deal quite a bit of damage as well as remove quite a bit of threat so she's very balanced in that sense um but you can pump her up like even one of her her cards that isn't one of hers is the godslayer card which is it's restricted so this is the only one you can have when you when your hero makes a basic attack against the unique enemy you exhaust god slayer and you get plus to attack so unique enemies are of course the ones with the star on them even says it on here if i'm not mistaken i think i i think the villains have have that symbol um and if they don't then i mean unique enemies are typically harder to hit so that will kill um but you can also attach her sword to it which is restricted you can have two so you can she can dual wield these two swords and as a response after you make an attack event after you play an attack event you deal one damage to an enemy so she's basically like this picture of her is her surrounded and she's taken out all of them that's kind of what you do you deal one damage here to do a damage there to remove a threat here to remove a threat here to deal a bunch of damage to that guy and it is just fantastic now obviously you're thinking well okay she can attack and deal with but i mean what if she dies good question she does have a card that counts for that which is cross counter costs one um and it is an attack and thwart so keen's instinct would allow you to

7:44 play that but whenever you would uh take an any amount of damage you prevent three of that damage and then deal one damage to an enemy and uh remove a threat from a scheme so they all kind of coincide together like she i mean she does have big heavy hitter cards in like in her deck and she has a few um allies but ultimately yeah like she doesn't have she doesn't have a whole bunch of ways to to like defend herself i mean she does have her alter ego room conditioning room that lets you uh return the bottom most attack like recycle attack and thwart cards from the discard pile back in your hand and heels are one that's not nothing put that on here but she also has multiple ways like i mentioned just to search for these kinds of cards plan of attack literally lets you look for an attack card her uh alter ego ability let you look at the top if it's what an attacker thought you get to draw it so if you're not going to use that card you still get to have some cards to pay for others she has nebula nebula can come in and whenever she enters play you search your deck for an attack or thor and put into your hand which is fantastic uh and then another big one which is pretty standard but still quite um quite a lot of damage is uppercut so it just deals five damage to an enemy smack and then she has i mean that's that's kind of that's pretty much it so i mean

9:16 when looking through her cards the best she that i can think of with with her base deck is let's say so she has her sword and she has god slayer these were the two weapons that were set up you know in a previous few rounds let's see um you can if you had your max hand hit and run probably won't do any cross counter won't do it you could when you're attacking uppercut might be a good one in your hand um let's see so she could potentially have seven cards in her hand so let's give her a set the pace acrobatic move forward momentum and decisive blow so those are what we're gonna give her and then um she could have seven if at the uh if she started her turn at the uh an alter ego so let's say she drew uppercut and we're gonna give her one of her two um one of her we're gonna give her strength because that just seems super cool first hit can deal two damage to the villain that would just be nice to have so how many do i have i know one two three four five six first hit might be able to do it uh what does one of her other cards

10:47 allow the it's not cross counter it's not set the pace we could do forward momentum but if we're going to do it in terms of damage decisive blow might be able to uh do it okay so potentially she has two decisive blows in her hand so one two three four five six seven okay so you start off with uh set the pace let's see let's actually zoom out a little bit just to show some of these okay so that's so yeah you start with acrobatic move and set the pace so right now you are let's do so you're dealing two damage to an enemy um then you can okay yeah so then you can use these two to play decisive blow which would allow you to deal seven damage because you play the thwart that turn so set the pace and that's not limited to once per turn so then you can um do another play strength to do another decisive blow which will be another seven damage and instead of uppercut will probably would have been better

12:17 because i thought i'd just masked it out real quick is if you had energy and then played forward momentum that's going to let you remove thwart or thwart threat then you attack and then then let's say if you are attacking the villain then you would be able to if it is considered a unique um enemy then you can exhaust that also if you also yeah forgot about combat training combat training you can you can play ahead of time which gives you plus one attack so in terms of total attack you would do two four five with these already prepped ahead of time five so then the 14 here because you play the thwart so 14 so 19 um 1920 because you're dealing with damage because you you played an attack event 20 then her ability with the thwart would be 21.

13:10 then acrobatic move deals 23. um so 23 damage just off this quick analysis 23 damage and even if you had of course allies out if you had nebula out you could deal two more but i never count allies and and so this is all card play like if you had if you just played a set of cards so 23 points of damage and then in terms of thwart you are removing one so seven and seven thwart which is uh insanely good and you can build to completely build the opposite way if you wanted to so yeah 23 points of damage and yeah and seventh ward so 23 points would uh almost completely kill any two level monsters or monsters villains maybe even if some of them i i recently just played her against taskmaster i thought that'd be a cool fight to see um and it wouldn't one shot both of them but it would uh the the thwart would be huge as well so yeah she is so much fun to play i absolutely love her card play and yeah so on a scale of 1 to 10 i'm going to give gamora a 10. i she is she's my absolute favorite i love the way she plays she does everything that i enjoy about card games and uh i mean and she's not

14:42 broken like you like you wouldn't like if you're having trouble beating a boss he wouldn't be like oh gonna bring gamora out to ensure i win like a few of the other villains the villains heroes but she is gonna be extremely solid and such a blast to play so that is my thoughts on gamora let me know what you think of her in the comments below other than that like comment share and subscribe and have a wonderful whatever time of day it is for you hey everyone thank you for watching i really hope that you enjoyed the video if you would like to see more of my content go ahead and click that subscribe button and the bell to be notified whenever i upload any new content if you feel like supporting the channel you can go ahead and click that patreon link to be taken to my patreon and any help is truly appreciated other than that stick around for any any other run-throughs or reviews or cool top tens or whatever i feel like putting on other than that like comment share and subscribe and have a wonderful whatever time of day it is for you