Marvel Champions: Scarlet Witch - 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 the newest hero for marvel champions scarlet witch which is perfect timing considering that one division has just now had its season finale and side note that show is amazing i loved every single episode and the ending i cannot wait for more but with all that being said let's go ahead and talk about house what scarlet which brings to the game and she is interesting because she's not bad by any means but she's not she's not as strong as i was expecting but she can be um she's completely chaotic in in the terms of of the game mechanisms and uh and that could be fun so she's like she's pretty balanced i would say actually uh versus like the things that some of the other characters can do i expected her to exceed those but she doesn't but she's still really good and she's still really fun to play but it's like it was it was a weird dynamic the the the times i was playing her but what i can safely say is that she plays completely different from dr strange which is what i was expecting them to do i was expecting them to have like wanda you know scarlett witch have her own uh invocation deck or something or

1:41 her own you know witch deck or her own you know something separate that she also would that worked uh similar to what dr strange does and she doesn't do that which is great so uh i i have obviously uh hand-picked a few cards but like her actual um ability it she has the exact same um alter-ego ability that that quicksilver has and this is another one that was coming out you know how wasp and ant-man had like this dynamic together that was what one division one division that's what just what uh scarlet witch and quicksilver were supposed to have and it's not shown in this deck either that whatever team-up thing whatever idea that they that fantasy fight was spouting of like ooh they they synergize together barely like barely the ability is the same so discard two cards from your hand and then draw up to two or draw two and if quicksilver is in play draw three which is not bad the card draw is always good but like for example it's i believe it's the exact same card that um that was in quicksilvers was the order and chaos which was like i mean this isn't bad you know when the treachery card is revealed uh cancel its revealed effects and then deal two damage to the villain that's not horrible but it's just like okay you can only have that in your deck if quicksilver and scar or yeah you can only do the team up if they're both in play uh she obviously has quicksilver as a ally

3:14 that she can play so i mean that it's just it could have just been done way better and and it wasn't but no one really cares about the alter ego we go into actually in one division uh it's it's amazing that show is so good but uh then we go to the actual hero form the scarlet witch which is this is kind of where there's the central theme of it so to thwart one attack two defense she should not be attacking you know with her but she has some decent amount of thor um as an interrupt when boost icons on an encounter card would be counted discard the top card of the encounter deck and count the number of boost icons on that card instead now this is the central theme a lot of the cards have to deal with boost icons mitigating the boost icons and dealing more damage if you know with boost icons and and milling the encounter deck which is which is pretty good like being able to get rid of i mean not not you know specifically but thin out the encounter deck is is not bad so i mean so for example we're gonna take a look at a lot of her uh her items she really doesn't have that many upgrades she has two uh one of them is her actual crest the the little headband that she wears and this one is when boost icons on the counter card revealed you exhausted and you can raise or lower the boost amount by one raising it doesn't sound like it would be a whole lot or it would make any sense but it does whenever it comes to her particular cards and of course being able to lower a boost icon on the the the

4:46 effects you know that that the villain does is is going to be pretty good her other upgrade is the magic shield when a friendly uh a hero or ally friendly character would take any amount of damage you just prevent three of that and you discard the the magic shield not bad but it is an upgrade and she has a few of those in the actual deck so then she has uh one support besides uh besides other you know allies is of course agatha harkness which was in uh number one uh so the alter ego action for this is you can exhaust or look at the top three cards of your deck and add one of those to your hand and place the rest on the bottom not bad considering the support is just one like having just one of those it's an alter ego form which is still really good um because not a lot of characters have a whole bunch of alter ego stuff to do besides go over use their main ability and recover and the fact that she costs one and allows you to draw so pretty interesting and i think that that's a worthwhile support now let's get into what makes scarlet witch what she is so chaos magic which is pretty badass play a card from your hand ignoring its resource costs discard cards from the top of the encounter deck equal to the card's printed resource cost there's only one of those in the actual deck but you almost always want to use it for molecular decay which is a badass

6:16 card so deal five damage to an enemy and discard the top two cards of the encounter deck for each boost icon discarded this way deal one additional damage to that enemy so that is a card that does already five damage which is not nothing you mill the encounter deck and then you could potentially get 11 damage total if both the cards you happen to draw have a printed boost cost of three now this is what makes her an interesting character because of the randomness of the encounter deck that could just be five damage or it could go up to 11 any any range in between so once again not bad because you can end up getting rid of a card that's like someone's nemesis or it could be some horrible side scheme that could be coming in and you're just like oh thank god that got used and hey it was a three boost so now it's eight damage um but you do have to pick pick one enemy to do it too so you almost want to always want to save this for the the because villain a lot of actual minions that are coming up against you have high health so you don't want to waste the the boost icons but when it comes to actual like other other spells the hex bolt i think is the the most fun because what you do is you discard the top three cards of the encounter deck and for each card you check the boost icon and and then something happens so for example the if it has zero you deal two damage to an enemy if it's a one you remove two threat from a scheme if it's a two you draw a card and if it's a three you place a status card on

7:48 a character um so this is actually my favorite spell in the actual in her entire deck because one it's chaotic so you don't know quite what's gonna happen but even if like the worst comes to worst it's still gonna be pretty good molecular decay is still five damage which will drop almost any minion and five damage to a uh a villain that has you know in solo play 12 health that's not bad at all um so but then this one where you're drawing three it could be the same thing over and over so this could be a potential six it could be a potential uh three card draw it could be three tough statuses or it could be oh i'm gonna be put tough on me i'm gonna put stunned on you and confuse on this thing um uh or it could be a sixth threat removal if all the the results are the same but all of those are good to have and you almost want to use hex bolt whenever uh each one of those will be good of course card draws can be good no matter what but like oh hey getting me a tough status card and dealing two damage and put removing through threat great all right now i don't have to do it so and then one of the last cards that i think is relatively useful is warp reality when an encounter card is revealed from the encounter deck cancel all of its effects and discard it and then you discard cards from the top of the encounter deck equal to the number of boost icons so once again milling that encounter deck and is is good the problem that i kind of have with that is you don't know what the encounter deck is going to bring so it's like you getting rid of some good ones it's

9:19 like oh that's awesome however that's just getting me closer to you know still some bad encounter cards you have no way to kind of thin out and decide okay well i'm gonna look at the encounter cards and oh okay this one's really bad i'll put that on top and play a card that's gonna discard it so she's she's fun to play she is she is useful because of the milling and and useful because she could still she still packs a pretty solid punch but at the same time she only has 10 health and it's interesting because her and dr strange have the exact same stats the the two thor one attack and two um into uh defense 10 health five card uh hand size in hero form six in alter ego but i feel like in i and i have no idea how this pertains to comics i have no idea if marvel champions or if fantasy flight is is taking stuff from comic books or if they're taking stuff from from the mcu i'm probably gonna guess the comic books um although i will say they uh like the mcu did a fantastic job at casting elizabeth olsen as a freaking scarlet witch she looks almost identical and like it was it was wild but with with i mean in the in i'm in the comics i believe the scholar which is supposed to be more powerful than doctor strange but here it it does not show that the invocation deck for doctor strange is

10:50 so good in so many different ways and the fact that you get to mill your own invocation deck to try and find the um like the the right spell that you need to cast it's just he's i uh we we the last game i did of this actually was with scarlet witch and doctor strange against kang and granted the encounter cards that were coming out for scarlet witch was pretty debilitating um but i still felt like doctor strange was carrying in between the two uh but that doesn't that doesn't mean that she is not you know powerful or useful but she's gonna be random so that's kind of the things that you have to keep in mind i mean she has other ways to deal damage because she's uh she's justice instead of something else i would have thought she would have been um so i mean she has injustice you have multiple ways of getting rid of thor you have multiple ways of dealing damage you have multiple ways i mean in in the justice she has her her sons you know wiccan after wicked thorns you discard the top card of the encounter deck and deal one damage to an enemy uh then there is oh where is it it is speed speed is in here he is right at the very back so then there's speed after speed thwarts ready him and that's similar to uh quicksilver so you can get quick so if you can get quicksilver and speed even though they both cost four uh like i mean if you have the um like the the where was it it was

12:21 this one the chaos magic you can just play quicksilver for free and if you happen to have the uh where is it the the justice card that lets you the the power of justice well that makes speed only cost two so it's interesting so i always like to try and kind of go over the the max the max play um that you can do and so let's just say that you have the perfect you have the perfect storm uh wiccan it doesn't really come into this uh the the best uh best combo that i can think of is at a certain point you had quicksilver out all right so quicksilver is out and then uh you had you know wanda so she had her hand of six cards okay six cards and then she uh discards two and then draws three because of quicksilver so right now she would have a total of seven cards one two three four five six seven all right and granny you wouldn't even really want all of these so let's say you had the power the power of justice um you have chaos magic you have her crest already out you know so that's pretty good and then you just are are pretty are looking are looking pretty so this is the best case scenario that i can think of for for her she goes into the uh the hero form let me zoom out a little bit just so i can try and show all the cards that i'm thinking

13:52 okay in terms of damage output of course because that's always how you win anyway you win by dealing damage so you have chaos magic yeah so you you power of justice chaos matt and then you play chaos magic to uh to play molecular decay you draw you know you discard two and counter chords hey it's two threes so you have 11 damage right there um and then you play you discard two and then you play hex bolt you draw three this is once again perfect storm so each all three cards that you draw have zero boost icons so that's six damage there you're at 17 damage total you exhaust your witch's crest um to uh oh well to do the molecular decay so you're at 18 damage and then you have you attack with speed and you know okay uh he can thwart but you attack with him for one so then you're at 19 damage you actually have quicksilver so you're at 21 damage and then you ready him you attack again so you're at 23 damage and then you attack with scarlet witch just to do uh an extra extra little bit of damage just to be like haha suck it um so that's 24 damage total in a perfect scenario uh for this so that is still not bad at all that will drop i mean any that would that would even potentially drop a few villains

15:23 in uh in like the in a two-player game doing 24 damage but of course you'd have to have the best you know these guys these guys which is not horrible they have decent health so they could already be out at a certain point in time and then you could easily have the hand to play those and you might even have the hand to play a second molecular decay if you do the chaos magic um to play you do chaos magic to play the heck the molecular decay for three and then you have like a you have the the strength and then um like and pay another card to play another molecular decay so you could have a potential 22 damage already from that obviously that's probably never going to happen but then you do hex bolts so 22 all three of those are zero so then you have 28 total damage so 28 29 30 31 32 33 30. so 34 damage total if you if you already had these guys out so once again not useless in any way but you have to finish a little bit more which is fine because i like i i prefer decks that actually make you think and strategize with cards instead of just being like oh this is the like it's just very one note so she is still awesome and potentially incredibly powerful or useful in any way damage isn't always the end all be all it is because that's how you win but sometimes you really need to get rid of thor and she has ways to do that as well extremely versatile but not op because 10 health goes away pretty quick so that

16:55 is uh that's that's the the the best power play that i can think of with with scarlet witch um so on a scale of 1 to ten what would i give her it's interesting because i i i i i'm gonna give her a name i'm a giver nate i think i think that the chaotic it's a little fun and i'm and i applaud them for making a character that was completely different that still had a similar feel to doctor strange but like uh in in thought like i expected oh okay yeah they're both kind of sorcerers or both wizards um or i guess well she's not a wizard wizard but like they're magic users i expected them to be the same but it is not and i i like the kind of randomness of it gives it gives an old challenge so and it doesn't help that one division was amazing once again all nine episodes was awesome the finale i thought was was great so that's go check out one division and then check out one uh the scarlet witch in this game but that's it everyone let me know what you think of scarlet witch in the comments below other than that like comment share and subscribe and have a wonderful with every 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

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