Thinking Outside the Box

Superman, Man of Steel Frequently Asked Questions Created by Chad Daniel, Dave DeLaney and Mitchell Waldbauer General mechanics questions Removing an attacker or defender from an attack. Some cards, like Orion, Dog of War, remove attackers or defenders from attacks. Removing an attacker (or defender) from an attack makes that character lose its attacker and team attacker (or defender) characteristic(s). When an attack concludes, if an attacker is no longer part of combat, that character does not ready. Becoming a defender Some cards, like Superman, Clark Kent, make a character become the defender this attack. That character gains the defender characteristic. The game does not recheck the legality of the attack at this time. Remove from the game Some cards, like Eradicator, Soul of Krypton, place cards into the removed from game zone. The following is the official rule that explains the removed from game zone: 212.7 Removed-from-Game Zone 212.7a The removed-from-game zone represents th...

Marvel Knights Frequently Asked Questions Created by Chad Daniel, David DeLaney, and Paul Ross. Hidden Area The Marvel Knights expansion introduces the Hidden Area to the Vs. System. Here are comprehensive rules entries that are relevant to the hidden area. 212.5a The in-play zone represents the part of the game where players may place objects. Each player has his or her own visible area and hidden area in the in-play zone. Moving objects between areas in this zone does not cause those objects to change zones, leave play, or come into play. 212.5c Each player controls two areas in the in-play zone: visible and hidden. These two areas are separated by an empty column, the visible area on the right of this empty column, the hidden area on the left of this empty column. Objects can’t occupy this column. A character in the visible area is “visible.” (See rule 701.18.) A character in the hidden area is “hidden.” (See rule 701.17.) Note: This means each player should leave a clearly identif...

Green Lantern Frequently Asked Questions by Paul Ross, Dave DeLaney, Chad Daniel, and Mitchell Waldbauer GENERAL MECHANICS 1. Willpower The Green Lantern expansion introduces willpower, a numerical quality that all character cards have. If a card has the new willpower keyword, the number following the keyword is that card’s willpower. Character cards without the willpower keyword default to willpower 0. Like ATK or DEF, willpower can be increased, decreased, and so on. Example: Grayven reads, “Willpower 3.” Yellow Impurity reads, “Target character gets -2 willpower this turn.” If Grayven is targeted by Yellow Impurity, his willpower will decrease to 1 this turn. However, a stunned character always has willpower 0. Example: Later the same turn, Grayven becomes stunned. While Grayven is stunned, he has willpower 0. Korugar reads, “Target Emerald Enemies character you control gets +3 willpower this turn.” Grayven has the Emerald Enemies affiliation. If he is targeted by Korugar while stu...

Green Lantern Frequently Asked Questions by Paul Ross, Dave DeLaney, Chad Daniel, and Mitchell Waldbauer GENERAL MECHANICS 1. Willpower The Green Lantern expansion introduces willpower, a numerical quality that all character cards have. If a card has the new willpower keyword, the number following the keyword is that card’s willpower. Character cards without the willpower keyword default to willpower 0. Like ATK or DEF, willpower can be increased, decreased, and so on. Example: Grayven reads, “Willpower 3.” Yellow Impurity reads, “Target character gets -2 willpower this turn.” If Grayven is targeted by Yellow Impurity, his willpower will decrease to 1 this turn. However, a stunned character always has willpower 0. Example: Later the same turn, Grayven becomes stunned. While Grayven is stunned, he has willpower 0. Korugar reads, “Target Emerald Enemies character you control gets +3 willpower this turn.” Grayven has the Emerald Enemies affiliation. If he is targeted by Korugar while stu...