Phoenix

Her response is handy for retrieving your Ruby Quartz Visor, if you had to discard it for some reason. It's also a great feeling when you are trying to close out a game, and can use her fetch your single copy of Full Blast. I had a game once end by me exhausting Cyclops to attack, playing Phoenix, fetching Full Blast, then re-readying Cyclops because I had Utopia in play, then playing Full Blast to end the game.

erikw1984 · 8
Juggernaut

Is he a nemesis minion?

i mean usually they have this in text "(Thor's nemesis minion.)"

and if he is not - how it work with new FACE THE PAST and shadow of the past?

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wiglaff · 2
Yes, he is Juggernaut's nemesis minions. In some cases where there are multiple minions in a Nemesis encounter set, we will see the parenthetical text telling us which minion is THE nemesis minion for purposes of Shadow of the Past, etc — Stretch22 · 746
*Colossus's nemesis — Stretch22 · 746
Spider-Woman

In a deck with reliable Confuse, like Spider-Man (Miles) or Gambit, you'll probably be able to play Spider-Woman for 2 with a confused villain a lot of the time. To get beyond that you'll have to confuse minions, which means leaving minions in play in order to confuse them, and confusing the villain is a lot more valuable than confusing minions, so you might be able to play her for 1 on a lucky day but 0 is highly unlikely. Outside of a deck like that, Spider-Woman is definitely not worth it, as there are a lot of better 3-cost allies in both Justice and Basic.

But the thing is, even if you do get to play her for 2, she doesn't do anything special besides thwarting twice (or attacking once) and then defending, so even then I don't really think Spider-Woman is worth considering. Even in Web-Warrior decks where you care about Web-Warriors leaving play, almost all of the other Web-Warrior allies cost 3 or less, and most of them do something when they enter or leave play beyond simply attacking/thwarting and defending. Happy to be proven wrong though.

Could be a good pairing with Eros in a minion heavy scenario — erikw1984 · 8
Magic Barrier

During my first couple of times playing Magik I missed that her unique ability is 'once per phase' rather than 'once per round'. This means that she can use her ability to play Magic Barrier (for free) off the top of her deck during the Villain phase, and then play another card with that ability during the Hero phase.

With Limbo, Stepping Discs, and her alter-ego ability, it is very easy to have a Magic Barrier available to play for free during ~most~ villain phases. Great card!

jamman39 · 12
Moxie

TLDR: This card is bad even when built around. If you want a generic 0-Cost card to enable played out hands go with Assess the Situation.

This card is somewhat niche due to its dependence on form changing and more importantly its just all around bad. Most heroes don't spend much time in alter-ego which means really the only heroes that can consistently use this card are: Vision, Ant-Man, Wasp, Spectrum, and Shadow-Cat. All of these heroes can change between multiple hero forms. In addition to being dependent on hero-form changing this card also wants to be utilized alongside readying.

From a value perspective as a stand-alone card this will remove 1 threat or deal 1 damage and then also prevent 1 damage (assuming you defend on villain's turn). This isn't an effect you would ever go out of your way to trigger, but since this is a 0-cost card it can enable you to cleanly play out your hand without anything left over. When paired with a single ready the value increases to 2 threat removal or 2 damage and 2 prevented damage for closer to 3 effective cost (still not great). Which basically just leaves Push Ahead and Go All Out as viable strategies for this card. When used in conjunction with those cards the value becomes 0-cost for 2 ATK or 2 THW (When calculating the value of Push Ahead/ Go All Out you have to consider the opportunity cost of your basic activation. If you have stats of 3-3-3 and use Push ahead you will remove a total of 9 threat from a scheme but only 6 of that threat removal is value generated by Push Ahead, the remaining 3 you could have accessed anyways via a basic thwart).

One thing you appear to be missing is that you can play multiple copies of this in response to the same change form event. — erikw1984 · 8
Aspect card, so goes +2/+2/+2 when Jessica Drew turns into Spiderwoman — Rejusama · 1