Marvel Champions: Star Lord - Discussion

0:10 viewer discretion is advised hey everyone welcome back to board games unlocked and i'm doing a no run through review for star lord who is one of the newest heroes into marvel champions and uh like gamora uh i thought i had uploaded my uh review over star-lord but i guess i never did hence why i don't have the little pack because i usually throw those away once i am done anyway star-lord like pretty much everyone on the guardians of the galaxy is absolutely fantastic and completely different from everyone else in that group and that's a complete that's that's very impressive because with a game like this you would expect to start to see some oh this character plays like this character and while marvel champions does still have that hint of familiar familia familia familiarity wow never thought that word would be hard to say for me um they still have the the feel of the character which is uh which i super appreciate and star-lord is amazing i have so much fun playing with him and he if the way he plays fits his character so well so if you look at his alter ego he does have a setup to where he if you don't the way i've been playing it is if you don't start with the elemental gun upgrade in your hand you get to

1:41 search for it now you could take that as oh you'll start with two so like if you happen to have your opening hand of six and one of those is the elemental gun setup says you can search your deck for another one uh but i haven't done that like i just got done playing with him and i happen to have one in my opening hand so i was like okay i guess i don't get to search for mine whichever way you want to play technically he actually has two so you should be able to have two if you uh so choose but he does have the ability smooth talker as well which is an action where you can choose a card from your hand and swap it with the top of your deck now that comes in handy in two ways one i think it's like oh i really don't like this card in my hand i'll just swap it and just top deck and hope i get something better uh but there are cards that do require you specifically in his deck it is uh cosmo i think it's cosmo the dog yep cosmo the dog which is this one right here uh that says when he attacks her thwarts if you name a card and it's on the top of your deck he doesn't take consequential damage for doing that action so you can do smooth talker attack with cosmo and kind of keep them around really at least for a couple rounds so which isn't bad but i've never personally done that because i would rather use cards for something else but that is an ability the ability that he has but his hero form is where it really pays off and you do start to feel like um

3:11 um like like peter quill or star-lord in general so stats are decent two two and one uh two thor and two attacker pretty good defense is something that he does not do but if you play him right you might not even need it even though the way he plays you might feel like you should but he has a static ability that is each ally you control gains the guardian trait this is good for um a variety of reasons one peter quill has the leadership aspect in his deck that gives him a pretty good amount of allies and even the allies that do come in this deck no for prime uh high cost but he basically when he comes in he auto defeats a non-elite minion um and has three attack and three health but he doesn't have the air or he doesn't have the guardian trait well uh peter quill gives him that adam warlock um is fantastic but he's in the leadership aspect he has the aerial mystic trait not the guardian trait so he gives every ally that you want to play by the way bill is asgard not guardian but once again is given that title is given to him from um from star-lord and then yondu does have the guardian traits this is important for a couple of reasons one is for one card in the leadership aspect called blaze of glory glory and uh you can only play this once brown but each guardian character that you play

4:41 or that that is in play for this round gets plus two fourth and plus two attack uh and that's huge grenade deals one damage to each guardian character so that'd be every ally you have and um i mean so and and peter quill himself but still like giving them plus two so that would mean let me just pull pull these out because normally i talk about just their cards alone but peter quill or star-lord works so well with this aspect so nova prime now would be dealing five damage uh adam warlock uh potentially at least would be dealing three damage but depending on which one uh that you randomly discard from your hand so you could potentially deal up to six damage cosmo is dealing three damage you have whereas a betta ray bill dealing six damage and then you have yondu dealing three damage and uh granted they all have their special abilities around them but these are all the allies that i mean granny you have an ally limit but you could obviously build around that to where you have cards that increase your ally limit which are i think also in the leadership aspect but still like if you get at least some of these heavy hitters out at some point throughout the game then that's that's five damage from each of those from this one card including star-lord so this is huge to go along with his guardian trait which i

6:11 very much enjoy now let's go into why uh star-lord is so much fun he has the ability what could go wrong which is an interrupt when you play a card from your hand you can do deal yourself one face down encounter card to reduce the resource cost to play that card by three this is limited once per round otherwise he would be just way too busted you'd be able to basically one shot anyone and hope that you don't die but that's what's risky about him is you don't know what you're going to get because it's face down so it's a risk reward kind of thing but what's amazing about that is you have his element gun and you have two of these in your deck and so they're restricted so you can only have two restricted cards but as an action you can exhaust it and spend one resource to deal three damage to an enemy and that attack gains piercings so it's gonna deal three damage regardless if someone that's tough or whatever his ability allows you to just play that for free or if you do pay the cost to get your element gun then you can do a sliding shot which could is three but it could also be free and you can only play that if you have the element gun and that allows you to deal five damage plus two additional damage for each face down encounter card that is in front of you so this card by itself does seven damage and there are uh ways for you to actually get um to have this do a bunch of damage and

7:43 that would be daring escape now this is huge because it's free and you deal yourself with face down damage you ready star-lord and then you draw a card so this is essentially a free ready at the risk of an encounter card which i absolutely love because you basically you basically do awesome on your turn and then you hope you don't die if the you know coming up on the the villains turn because you you just have no idea what's going to be coming off in front of you now he has about i think three of those daring escapes in his deck so there's one yeah two yeah there are two there are three total so essentially if you had both of these like or all three of these you could play essentially ready him you know multiple times you could attack or whatever do any combination of stuff writing and drawing cards the entire time so it's not like you're gonna have nothing in your hand and then for free so with these three alone you would have three in front of you do his ability to play sliding shot for free having four encounter cards in front of you face down to do a bunch of damage um i mean granted this alone is gonna do like an insane amount of damage but if they make it to the villager then it's like okay now they're going to attack me now i'm going to draw my encounter card and i'm going to deal with these four

9:14 encounter cards as well which you might get lucky you never know they could all be villains they could or minions they could all be quick strikes they could be um you know oh hey the villain attacks or the villain schemes just stuff like that you just have no clue and that's what makes him kind of so much fun to play and then uh on top of that i mean so he doesn't really have a whole lot of ways to avoid damage hence why he's with the leadership aspect because that they kind of take the brunt of the force um but so he has a few cards that uh i mean he's extremely versatile like like i just mentioned just with daring escape you're drawing a card each time you're writing him but he does have a leader of the guardian so each guardian character you control gets some thought so it's not like he's only good for attack he's good for thwarting as well he's also really good for aiding allies making allies just stronger than they are and because of the two nova prime and battery bill costing five well with his ability you can make one of these costs two and with better ray bill you can actually make him free if you have the uh that that power of leadership you you combo this with his ability to make better a bill free which is huge because whenever he attacks you know and whenever he attacks and defeats minion he removes threat from the main scheme but he also does three damage which is not nothing

10:44 plus the blaze of glory allowing him to do potential five damage and protecting peter from the repercussions that the villain's gonna do on him also giving him giving him more thor so there's another upgrade for star-lord which is his helmet that is when you're in hero form you get an extra hand size for each face down and counter card in front of you uh that can be huge if you pair this with more ways to draw cards because the daring escape you're it's a trade you're playing it to draw one uh so you're not losing any uh hand advantage but you're not gaining any either so this one isn't inherently amazing but paired with the right deck building it could be really good and his um his other one is gutsy move which is a thwart remover or a threat remove two threats from a scheme remove two additional threat for each face down and counter card in front of you once again daring escape with gutsy move could allow you to just completely nullify all threat that has been building up because i mean he's two he could be four and then that could go up to two four six two four six so a total of 10 10 threat that's getting removed individually as well so that that could be that could be huge and i mean he does have his jet boots as well this uh gives him the aerial trait which is good for uh which card was it there was one that was

12:15 good for each um each person with the aerial trait or if you had the aerial trait oh it was air supremacy that's what it was uh choose up to x enemies uh a where x is equal to the number of uh characters that have the area uh trait and you deal three damage to those enemies so um if you one that gives him ariel so now he's just him and adam warlock uh has ariel and i think and nova prime has ariel so you can just kind of do a little bit with with that card alone just dealing three damage so he's extremely versatile in doing a decent amount of damage to quite a few people or being able to hone in on one and dealing a bunch of damage as well as also doing you know threat removal so at the once again at the risk of waiting till it's not his turn anymore because eventually you will steam out and it's like oh okay now i just have to hope i don't die on this turn so let's go ahead and let's see because i always like to do the the best possible outcome you know off the top of my head so let's say you have better ray bill and nova prime out you have um we will um yeah we will we'll use these as a potential uh as the as the potential um

13:45 face down encounter cards you have your element gun let's say you got both of them out let's say you were you were doing pretty good uh with with setting up um and yeah we'll just give him that so you get out of six cards you would get your three uh yeah your three daring escapes that's gonna be your three you have a sliding shot uh you have um blaze of glory yeah blaze of glory uh let's do air supremacy air supremacy and let's go ahead and do uh i think oh uh sure actually you could you could even do do something way better like you can give better ray bill a laser blaster and nova prime a laser blaster as well those only cost one one two three four okay so here's here's the six cards so on your turn you have this setup which i thought i had there we go you have this setup uh so you have your two elemental guns you have better ray bill and nova prime with a laser blaster that gives them plus one attack um so yeah let's see if this this does anything so on uh you're going to want to do you're

15:15 going to want to attack with star-lord which is going to do two damage you play daring escape which deals a face down and counter card i'll put that right there there's one uh to ready him and then you draw a card then you uh attack again for four damage play daring escape again to deal yourself another face down and counter carcases doesn't say once per round so you're ready again you play daring escape to do a third attack or you attack so for six dealing yourself another face down encounter card writing him so you've done six damage already with that then uh oh and then you draw a card each time so you're back to your hand of uh six then you do star-lord uh's ability face down to play sliding shot dealing five damage an additional two damage for each face down so this would be two four six eight thirteen on top of the six so you're at 19 damage uh with that and then uh let's see you do you could discard two to play pulse grenade that's kind of a random one because you just discard the top two but instead what you would do is you would do blaze of glory and that would each guardian character gets plus two thwart and plus two um attack so now star-lord can attack he now has four uh

16:46 plus two so that'd be four so he is at 23. beta ray bill uh will attack dealing six total damage because the laser blaster gives him plus one uh so that'd be 29 and then nova prime does another six so 35 35 points of damage and then they each would take two damage and star-lord would take the one and in fact with the two cards you didn't use so that'd be 35 you use the element gun and then you discard a card to deal another three damage so 35 so 38 use both element guns discard your last card to do 41 points of damage with that with that kind of prep and setup and this is always of course with the uh pre-built deck like this isn't even if you're trying to deck build and and make the leadership aspect or whatever aspect way better for star-lord granted once again you are going to be taking five total encounters plus whatever uh has already been out so but i mean i think 41 points of damage of 45 or whatever it was would probably do it for anyone um so yeah that is kind of star-lord's uh deck and i mean plugging him in with uh the rest of them they are just so much fun to play uh i love all the guardians they're just so good and

18:16 on a scale of one to ten i think i initially gave him an eight but because of his risk reward which has i have not seen in any of the other decks i think i'm gonna give him a nine he is really really fun to play they they're all just so good in their own way i still want to play and i've only ever played marvel champions at a two player game at max i really want to try it at four against ronin with the guardians so uh that would just be such such a blast i think but but yeah uh star-lord nine out of ten let me know what you think of him 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