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Instructions 2 to 4 Players • Ages 12 and Up • 20 Minutes per Player INSTRUCTIONS Dominate the Marvel Universe as an iconic Marvel Villain. Wield sinister abilities to pursue your objectives and follow your unique path to victory. Use your Villain guides to master the game with Thanos, Hela, Killmonger, Ultron, and Taskmaster! To learn how to play, watch the video: Ravensburger.com/HowToPlayMarvelVillainous COMPONENTS SETUP HELA SPECIALTY Each player chooses a Villain Place your Domain in front of you. Shuffle together the Common Fate 2 1 1 and takes the corresponding 2 Each Domain depicts (from left to 3 deck and the Fate decks from all Villain Domain, mover, guide, right) your portrait and objective, Villains playing this game to create HELA’S 3 Villain deck, and Fate deck, four locations, and an area for a single Fate deck. Place this deck OBJECTIVE Have a combination of eight Allies and Soul Marks and no opposing characters NIFLHEIM HEL GJOLL ODIN’S VAULT at Odin’s Vault. as well as a reference card. Specialty cards. Place your Villain within reach of all players. Leave Return remaining Villains and mover on the Villain portrait. room for a discard pile next to the Thanos Hela Taskmaster Killmonger Ultron KILLMONGER SPECIALTY their components to the box. Fate deck. 5 Villain Movers 1 KILLMONGERS’S OBJECTIVE 3 2 Some Villains have unique setups Take control of the mines and relocate two Explosives to any WARRIOR FALLS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY THE GREAT MOUND THE GOLDEN CITY Fate Domain other than your own as explained in their Villain guides. Discard Pile TASKMASTER SPECIALTY PLAYER SETUP 2 FATE 1 © MARVEL USe01 Villain Mover THANOS HELA TASKMASTER KILLMONGER ULTRON © MARVEL USe01 © MARVEL USe01 © MARVEL USe01 © MARVEL USe01 © MARVEL USe01 Fate Deck TASKMASTER’S OBJECTIVE 3 Have four Allies, each with 5 Villain Decks 5 or more Strength, at four SOLOMON INSTITUTE TRAINING ROOM ARMORY CAMP HAMMOND HELA SPECIALTY (30 cards in each deck) different locations. 2 1 THANOS SPECIALTY 2 HELA’S THANOS’ 1 3 OBJECTIVE OBJECTIVE 3 Collect the six Have a combination of eight Infinity Stones. SANCTUARY II TITAN THE INFINITY WELL KNOWHERE HELA © MARVEL USe01 Allies and Soul Marks and no opposing characters NIFLHEIM HEL GJOLL ODIN’S VAULT at Odin’s Vault. FATE FATE FATE FATE FATE FATE © MARVEL USe01 © MARVEL USe01 © MARVEL USe01 © MARVEL USe01 © MARVEL USe01 © MARVEL USe01 Villain Deck ULTRON SPECIALTY Domain 6 Fate Decks 1 2 GODDESS OF DEATH, UNIQUE FATE CARDS HELA CONTINUED VILLAIN GUIDE (1 Common Fate deck with 15 cards and 5 Villain Fate decks with 11 cards each) REFERENCE CARD 1 Draugr Swordsman Angela Draugr Swordsmen receive This Hero removes a Soul Mark +1 Strength for each Draugr from Odin’s Vault when played. DRAUGR SWORDSMAN Swordsman card in your discard pile. ANGELA She has one of the highest Gain Power Relocate Draugr Swordsman gains 1 Strength for each Draugr Swordsman in your discard pile. Soul Marks may not be attached ULTRON’S Keep these cards off to the side of to Angela. When played, remove Strengths in the game and a Soul Mark from Odin’s Vault. 2 1 3 Ally OBJECTIVE 6 your discard pile to help keep track Hero makes a dangerous opponent if Upgrade to Ultron of their Strength. If you must reshuffle your placed in Odin’s Vault. Play a Card Vanquish discard pile to replenish your Villain deck, your Ultimate and play the RESEARCH LAB MANUFACTURING ARRAY RECONFIGURATION BASE STARK INDUSTRIES Villain Age of Ultron. INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX previously discarded Draugr Swordsmen are no longer in your discard pile and do not grant a Conquer Valhalla Strength bonus. When this event is played, Hela Activate Discard Cards CONQUER VALHALLA may no longer play or find cards Hela may not find or play any cards in her discard pile. Discard Pile Reward: Hela may immediately attach Soul Marks on 2 all Heroes in all Domains who don’t already have one. in her Villain discard pile. This 0 12 Dísir 7 Event Dísir may be played from your means she may not play Dísir Fate Protector discard pile. directly from her discard pile, nor may she add DÍSIR Dísir may be played from your the Strength of discarded Draugr Swordsman to discard pile. 3 Ally a Swordsman in play. 5 Domains Hela Killmonger Taskmaster Thanos Ultron HELA © MARVELHELA USe01 © MARVELHELA USe01 © MARVELHELA USe01 © MARVEL USe01 MIND STONEREALITY STONETIME STONESOUL STONESPACE STONEPOWER STONE TRANSFORMATIONULTIMATEOPTIMIZATIONAGE OF ULTRON KLAWCONTROL THE MINES You may treat Klaw starts the game at The Golden City.Pay 2 Power. When you play a Sentry, you may REFERENCE CARD Before moving your Villain to a When Age of Ultron is revealed, When Klaw is defeated, flip this tile Starting Hand Villain Guide Reference Card Perform a vanquish action. Your choose a card from your discard over to reveal Challenge for the Throne, REFERENCE CARD Gain 1 Power andPlay draw an Ally for freeYou from may relocatePlace two any +1 Strength Tokens on new location, gain 1 Power. as you win the game. then move the tiles inRelocate this pile to Explosives the to another Find any card inAllies your aredeck, not discarded as a pile and add it to your hand. one Villain card.your discard pile.number of yourup Alliesto two. Allies you control. Specialty area ofplayer’s your Domain. Domain. If Black Panther is Gain Power REFERENCERelocate CARD then add it to resultyour hand. of the vanquish action. in your Domain, flip this tile over. Gain Power REFERENCERelocate CARD 5 Rival Specialty Play a Card Vanquish Item Item Item Item Item Item Specialty Specialty Specialty Specialty Gain Power REFERENCERelocate CARD Play a Card Gain PowerVanquish Relocate Activate Discard Cards Play a Card Gain PowerVanquish Relocate Activate Play a CardDiscard Cards Vanquish Fate Protector Activate Play a CardDiscard Cards Vanquish Shuffle your Villain deck and place Place the Power/Strength Draw a starting hand of four cards 12 Specialty Tiles Fate Activate Protector Discard Cards Fate Protector Hela Killmonger Taskmaster ThanosActivate Ultron Discard Cards Fate Protector Hela Killmonger Taskmaster Thanos Ultron 4 5 6 (6 Infinity Stone Tiles, 4 Ultron Objective Tiles, 2 Killmonger Objective Tiles) Fate Protector it face down to the left of your tokens in the Vault within from your Villain deck. You may look Hela Killmonger Taskmaster Thanos Ultron Hela Killmonger Taskmaster Thanos Ultron Hela Killmonger Taskmaster Thanos Ultron Domain. Leave room for a discard reach of all players. at your cards, but keep them secret pile below the Villain deck. from other players. GODDESS OF DEATH, UNIQUE FATE CARDS UNIQUETHE FATEWARRIOR’S CARDS WAY UNIQUECOLLECTING FATE INFINITY CARDS STONES UNIQUEBUILDING FATE CARDS AN ARMY UNIQUE FATE CARDS 2 Photographic KillmongerHELA has few Allies, and needs to rely on TASKMASTER KILLMONGER THANOS ULTRON CONTINUED Thanos may relocate his Allies to any location 5 Reference Cards 1 Vault Reflexes VILLAINother means GUIDE to get rid of Heroes in his way. VILLAINWakanda GUIDE Forever VILLAINUsingA Your StoneGUIDE Sentries Is Found VILLAINWonder GUIDE Man VILLAIN GUIDE Photographic Reflexes Butterball in any DomainWakanda containing Forever isa Stone.an Effect If you have SentriesThe are targeted unique Allies Villain and takes appear a only in When Wonder Man is defeated, allows Taskmaster to Butterball cannot be defeated WAKANDA FOREVERrelocatedcard Allies that to brings a location Black with Panther an Infinity Ultron’s randomdeck. Alkhema Infinity and Stone Jocasta from are not find Vision and place him in the 1 Draugr Swordsman Angela Killmonger’s Fury A STONE IS FOUND 2 Find Black Panther and WONDER MAN Draugr Swordsmen receive PHOTOGRAPHICThis REFLEXES Hero removescopy any a Soul Effect Mark played by via aThis vanquish is the easiestaction. Youway must to defeat either play or relocateStone, him to youback may into use play, a vanquish even if he action has to defeat consideredthe Sentries.unclaimed pile. The Villain location Wonder Man was in. BUTTERBALL Killmonger’s Domain. If Black Panther is already in play, place Choose a Villain other than Thanos. After another player plays an Effect card from a +1 Strength token to him. That Villain receives an unclaimed When Wonder Man is defeated, find their hand, you may immediately pay 1 Power Butterball cannot be defeated. Infinity Stone. Once played, they Vision, then play or relocate him to +1 Strength for each Draugr from Odin’s Vaultan opponent when played. from their Before moving your Villain, pay characters3 Power and who discard slow youone down, but the Ally beenwith theremoved attached or defeated. Stone. You do not may immediately activate it for free. receiving the Stone attaches it Wonder Man’s previous location. This double hit of Heroes can to attach that Effect to Photographic Reflexes. you may pay 3 Power and Effect DRAUGR SWORDSMAN On your turn, you may use an discard one card from your 1 2 hand to remove Butterball. Effect ANGELA activate action to play the Effect 4 Hero Swordsman card in your discard pile. attachedShe to Photographic has Reflexes, one Villain of the deck. highest After another KILLMONGER’S FURYcardit in is play not tostrong remove enough him fromto defeat need to Ifdefeat Wakanda all Allies Forever at the is played location to collect to an Ally and may activate it put a real dent in Ultron’s plans. Draugr Swordsman gains 0 1 Strength for each Draugr then discard the Effect to its Hero Swordsman in your discard pile. Soul Marks may not be attached original Villain’s discard pile. Keep these cards off to the side of to Angela. When played, remove Strengths in Villainthe game plays and an Effect, pay Defeat a character with a Strengthyour Klaw Domain.
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