USAOpoly Smash Up: Marvel

• Get ready to smash together two of your favorite things – Smash Up from AEG and Marvel! Players work to build out their card hands in this shufflebuilding game where distinct abilities and roles take on a whole new meaning!
• Mix and match different decks of heroes and villains – choose from 8 different factions (4 hero and 4 villain) including The Ultimates, HYDRA, The Avengers, Masters of Evil, S.H.I.E.L.D., The Kree, Spider-Verse, and the Sinister Six
• Find familiar Marvel characters to build out your drafting deck in this first ever licensed Smash Up game featuring Marvel
• Includes 160 Faction Cards, 16 Base Cards, 8 Faction Dividers, Victory Point Tokens, and Rules
• 2-4 Players - Ages 12+ - 60 Min Play Time
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  Smash Up: Marvel will allow seasoned players and newcomers of all ages to join the limitless clashing with comic mainstays, such as the vigilant members of The Ultimates and criminal masterminds HYDRA as two of eight factions leading the charge! In the ultimate shuffling building card game, players smash up two groups of Marvel characters to take over bases and score the most victory points. Mix and match the different decks of heroes and villains to see which combinations can best defeat the others! This game allows for fans to create stories that have never existed in the Marvel universe. What combo will you choose?

Unlikely allies, unheard of enemies! All trying to take on the universe by teaming up like you’ve never seen them before.

Each new combination brings a different experience in this version of the fast-paced shufflebuilding game. Take two twenty-card decks and smash them together, then rock your opponents’ world!

Every pairing creates a different scenario with unique game play, each with its own awesomeness!

The "shufflebuilding" game Smash Up begins with a simple premise: take the 20-card decks of two factions, shuffle them into a deck of forty cards, then compete to crush more bases than your opponents! Each faction involves a different gaming mechanism, and each combination of factions brings a different gaming experience.

In Smash Up: Marvel, players smash up two groups of Marvel characters, such as the vigilant members of The Ultimates or the criminal masterminds HYDRA, to take over bases and score the most victory points. Mix and match the different decks of heroes and villains to see which combinations can best defeat the others! This game allows for fans to create stories that have never existed in the Marvel universe. What combo will you choose?

1. The character type and minion type are the same. One of the two free plays of your turn can indifferently be a character or a minion (the other free play having to be an action), and cards that refer to characters also refer to minions and vice versa.
2. "X modifiers" actions and "Play on X" actions are the same. Attachable actions are introduced as "Base/Character modifier" in this set, while they are introduced as "Play on a base/minion" in AEG's Smash Up, but they work exactly the same way. And among other things, cards that refer to modifiers also refer to "Play on X" actions, cards that refer to "actions that can be played on an X" also refer to X modifiers, and cards that trigger on actions being played on them also trigger on modifiers being played on them.
3. The keyword for relocating modifiers is "transfer" or "move". In this set "move" is used to relocate minions and actions, while AEG's Smash Up has the dedicated "transfer" keyword for relocating actions. It doesn't make any difference in terms of gameplay since effects will tell you the type of the card you can relocate.
4. The base backs are oriented differently. When flipping over the bases the same way, the bases won't show up with the same orientation depending on whether they are from this set or from AEG's Smash Up sets. So if you are attentive to the orientation of the card backs in the decks, you will have to rotate some bases 180° when playing them, and if you are shuffling discarded bases back into the deck, be sure that their backs are all oriented the same way to not give away information on upcoming bases.
   • This is a production issue and The Op will correct this in future printings of this set.
5. The aesthetic of the cards are slightly different. The most notable difference is the black bar on the bottom of the cards.

If Smash Up: Marvel is your first set ever and you wish to try AEG's Smash Up sets, here are a few extra points to consider:

1. Smash Up: Marvel has a more exhaustive wording than most AEG's Smash Up sets. A few extra words were added in this set that don't appear in AEG's Smash Up, or stopped appearing in more recent AEG's Smash Up sets, mainly because they are part of the general rules, or have become part of it over time. For example, more recent AEG's Smash Up cards don't tell you to shuffle your deck after searching it because that intruction has eventually been removed from card texts and put in the general rules, while this set put it back in the card texts.
2. The rules and the dividers of AEG's Smash Up factions don't tell you what the faction does, nor its complexity. The factions do have a flavor text in the rulebook of the sets they come from, but that flavor text mainly give a thematic illustration of the faction, while this set's flavor texts give more straightforward indications on the factions. Also, you won't find any indication of complexity about those factions.
3. Several AEG's Smash Up sets come with particular mechanics, usually exclusive to that set. If you are familiar with the rules of this set, it is usually enough to play with any AEG's Smash Up sets, but do keep in mind that some sets come with an extra set of rules for mechanics that appear in it. As such, you'll probably find sets that have monsters, Titans, +1 Power Counters, etc. or involve Duels.