Critical Hits, however, require more than one card to activate (such as two Tech, or one Strength and one Instinct). In the base game, superpowers were activated by playing a hero of a certain class or team prior to the card with the superpower. In addition to the new keywords, Dark City also marks the first appearance of “Critical Hit” (or “Combo”) superpowers. Bribe – This keyword appears on villain cards, and signifies that you can use any combination of Attack and Recruit Points to defeat that villain.

It’s an all-or-nothing kind of thing you won’t get to split the number between Attack and Recruit. You get to choose whether you want that number as Attack Points or Recruit Points.

Versatile – Whenever this keyword appears, it is followed by a number ( Versatile 3, for example).Some villain effect may allow or force you to teleport cards This allows you to set yourself up for some massive future hands, and prevents the waste of good cards that may not benefit your current hand. When you draw a new hand of cards at the end of your turn, you add any teleported cards to your new hand as extra cards.

Teleport – If you have a card with Teleport in your hand, you can choose to set the card aside instead of playing it.New Keywords/Superpowers – The base game had its share of keywords (Ambush, Escape, Fight, etc.), and Dark City expands on that list, including two beneficial keywords, which apply to and appear on hero cards. Radiation Scientist – You may KO one of your heroes or a hero from your discard pile.Paramedic – You may KO a Wound from your hand or from any player’s discard pile.Each of these new Bystanders has a special effect that takes place when they are rescued: This means that form this point on, the Bystander stack must be shuffled before games, and kept face down during games. New Bystanders – Dark City brings three new types of Bystanders to add to the Bystander stack. What’s in this set – 17 heroes with two new teams, 5 Masterminds, 8 Schemes, 6 Villain Groups and 2 Henchmen Villain Groups, and 3 new types of Bystanders. Sinister, making this a very X-Men heavy expansion. But Dark City goes beyond its theme, adding six X-Men heroes and five heroes for a brand new X-Force team, as well as major villains like Apocalypse and Mr. It introduces the Marvel Knights team, featuring clandestine or crime-fighting heroes such as Daredevil and Blade, as well as their traditional foes, such as Kingpin and vampires. The first expansion to Legendary, Dark City is themed around the underworld (literally) and street-level threats and heroes. (If you’re unfamiliar with the game, my previous post covers all the mechanics and terminology from the base game.) Those upgrades have come in six expansions since Legendary’s creation in 2012, the most recent one hitting stores only four days ago ( Secret Wars – Volume 2) Including even one of these expansions in your set significantly increases the flavor and replayability of the game, adding new heroes, villains, schemes, masterminds, mechanics and keywords, and even brand new elements. As fun as the base game of Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game is, from the start there was always room for additions and improvements.

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