Y2Jant Reviews: DC Comics Deck Building Game

The other week I decided to make my return to review the other side of gaming. That would be board games. With Legendary, A Marvel Deck Building Game, it showed that with friends, you can be able to team up with your favorite Marvel superheroes to take down the evil Masterminds. On the DC side of things, we have a much more simple deck building game but proves to be a good game overall as I look at DC Comics Deck-Building Game.

Much like Marvel, DC decided that a deck-building game was in order and we have this wonderful game. Retail, this game costs about $20 less then what you will get for Marvel so there's a lot to look forward to when it comes to the inside of the game. First, you get 7 oversize Hero cards. These cards have your main DC Hero that you will have in play for the game. You get to choose from Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Cyborg, The Flash and Aquaman and they have their own special power to make your session that much more interesting.

Every player will have 7 Punch cards and 3 Invulnerability cards. Each Punch card is worth one Power, which is the currency of the game. From a huge deck of cards, you flip five over and with your punch cards, you get to purchase other heroes, villains, equipment, superpowers and locations cards that will help give you more power to spend. The real goal of the game is not only get the most power but you have to take down a seperate small deck of Super-Villain cards, worth more victory points but will cost a lot of power to do so. Ra's Al Ghul always starts of the Super-Villain deck, then with however many Super-Villains you want to face in the game, are randomly shuffled and placed under Ghul and the game will begin.

 
Ah yes, The Joker. You can't have a DC game without the Clown Prince of Crime. The bottom right hand corner is how much Power you need to defeat Joker (and every other Super-Villain) to add them into your deck. The gold star tells you how many Victory Points the card is worth at the end of the game.

Remember when I said that whatever your starting hero is, they will have a special power to use for the game. Well, some of them will be unique to your hero. For example, if you are Batman, focus on the equipment cards because you will gain +1 Power. Same goes with Superman but with Superpower cards. The Flash, well, he is the fastest man alive so you get to go first to start the game. Each hero will give you a chance to gain more cards or more Power. But be warned, there are some cards that will give you a Weakness card, which is -1 Victory Point at the end of the game.

The one drawback I do have with the game is that, well, it's a simple deck-building game and maybe not a lot of people will like it. But it is a good way to introduce your friends to the world of board gaming. The artwork is that of the comics of the DC Universe and it's filled with many heroes and villains that you know and love, from The Riddler to Supergirl, to Robin to Doomsday, it is all beautiful to look at.

Compared to Marvel Legendary, the DC Comics Deck-Building Game is just that but will make your wallet a little less painful and you can find it at a good price. The game is great if you either want to introduce someone to deck-building games in general or if your a DC fan, it's a great game to play and what won me over is the artwork.

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.