Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game

About this board game

Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game is a cooperative deck-building game for 1–5 players, with play typically taking about 60 minutes. Set in the Marvel Comics universe, it challenges players to recruit heroes, defeat villains, and stop a mastermind before a dangerous scheme is completed.

Each game begins with players choosing a mastermind villain, such as Magneto, Loki, Dr. Doom, or Red Skull, then preparing that villain’s attack cards and scheme. Players also select a number of hero decks from the 15 included in the base game, creating a different shared hero deck from combinations featuring characters such as Spider-Man, Hulk, Wolverine, Captain America, and Deadpool.

On each turn, a new villain may enter the city, joining a row with limited space. If the row fills, the earliest villain escapes and may punish the heroes. Some villains trigger an effect when they appear, while master strike cards give the mastermind a bonus action, keeping pressure on the players.

• Recruit heroes: Build a stronger deck by gaining cards from an array of five available heroes.
• Balance your abilities: Develop both recruitment power and fighting ability to handle the threats ahead.
• Fight for victory: Defeated villains become scoring cards, while mastermind attack cards provide powerful objectives and effects.

Players can challenge the mastermind whenever they have enough fighting power, claiming one of the attack cards beneath it. The heroes win the game when all of these cards have been claimed, then compare points from defeated villains to determine the individual winner.

If too many villains escape, too many wounds are imposed, or another condition completes the mastermind’s scheme, everyone loses. With its changing mix of Marvel hero decks and shifting villain threats, Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game combines shared strategy with competitive scoring.