Y2Jant Reviews: Marvel Legendary

Let me start off by saying this: I'm not a huge fan of comics in general. Granted, my favorite superhero would be Batman and after that, you have your DC Heroes and your Marvel Heroes. There's a game that released last year that takes board gaming to a new level and that is Marvel Legendary.

Marvel Legendary is a deckbuilding game where you have your superheroes from the Marvel World battling against some of the most well known villains. Before I continue, a deckbuilding game is a game that uses cards. You first start off with your standard deck of cards and you use them to buy better, more stronger cards. With Legendary, you have to buy the superheroes you want to use to battle against the henchmen, villains and finally, the mastermind to beat the game. If you take a look at the card themselves, you will see what you have to deal with.

Deadpool is one of the many heroes you can choose from in the game to build the Hero deck, where you draw five heroes and place them on the board to see if you have enough to buy him to add him to your deck. You look at the number at the bottom right hand corner and see if you have enough recruit points to buy him. You continue to do this while taking out the villains. Take a look at the board for example:

As you can see, there's a lot going on. You have the city, where the villains will appear and move to the left to try to escape the city. Schemes are a way to add a bit of a story for what you have to prevent. The big one has to be the Mastermind and that depends on who you will go for. Red Skull, Magneto, Dr. Doom and Loki will try to defeat you and the superheroes by causing damage and you guessed it, taking over the world. Your job is to have enough attack to defeat the Mastermind five times and that's how you win the game.

For $60.00, there's a lot in the box. You get at least 500 cards and boy, there's just a lot of cards. You get to pick from 15 different heroes and from there, you get your pick from different villains, henchmen and everything else in the box. Granted, when you have a 5 person game, you pick how many of the heroes will be in this game. Each hero comes with 14 cards, so that's about 210 cards for just the heroes alone!

Marvel Legendary is a deckbuilding game that offers a lot right out of the box and it already has two expansions that adds even more cards: Dark City and the Fantastic Four Expansions, nearing the total amount of cards to over 950 cards! Now that's a lot of cards! That only means that you have a wider selection of heroes to choose from and a bigger range of villains to face. At first it might be a learning experience, Legendary is just that: a superhero game filled with epic proportions.