Legendary Rules — New Mutants
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® The New Mutants emerged as a brand- • If there are a tied number of odd and even- new class of superpowered teenagers numbered Heroes in the HQ (because some attending Professor X’s academy. They HQ spaces have been added or destroyed), followed in the footsteps of the fabled X-Men then neither Moonlight nor Sunlight is before them. Over time, they grew into a in effect. formidable super-team in their own right, • Only the printed costs matter. Abilities that fighting demons both real and metaphorical. change the costs of Heroes in the HQ won’t Now Emma Frost’s rival mutant students “the affect Moonlight and Sunlight. Hellions” compete with the X-Academy at • “Divided Cards” from Civil War and other sets every turn. Meanwhile, Demon Lord Belasco hunts the New Mutants’ very souls. count as just one card for Moonlight/Sunlight. The earlier Legendary ® : X-Men set included the New Mutants characters as special Manipulating Moonlight bystanders that turn into Heroes when you and Sunlight: rescue them. This represented their younger • Clever players can recruit cards out of the versions, starting to come off the sidelines to HQ at crucial times to manipulate whether it join the fight. Now in this set, the New Mutants is Moonlight or Sunlight. have grown into full-fledged Heroes. • When Villains escape, KO’ing Heroes from The classic core of the New Mutants from the HQ, you can also use this opportunity to the comics are Sunspot, Wolfsbane, Mirage, shift towards Moonlight or Sunlight. Warlock, and Karma (in this set) along with • In a game with many Moonlight and two that appeared in previous sets: Magik Sunlight effects, some players like to shift (in Legendary ® : Secret Wars Volume 1) and the odd-numbered cost cards in the HQ Cannonball (in Legendary ® : X-Men). down a little bit, as shown below. This makes it easier to tell at a glance whether Moonlight and Sunlight: Moonlight or Sunlight is in effect. As a werewolf, Wolfsbane gets extra powerful at night or under a full moon. By contrast, ABSORB RADIATION KARMIC BALANCE SUNSPOT KARMA Sunspot absorbs solar energy to fuel his Card Number: NMU- Card Number: NMU- 001 019 Card Name: Absorb Card Name: Karmic Radiation Balance powers, gaining strength from the force of Character Name / Sub- Character Name / Sub- title: Sunspot HOWL AT THE MOONtitle: Karma SOW RIVALRY WOLF OUT WOLFSBANE KARMA WOLFSBANE Card Number: NMU- Card Number: NMU- Card Number: NMU- 007 017 005 full sunlight. To fight at their best, they must Card Name: Howl at Card Name: Sow Ri- Card Name: Night Vi- the Moon valry sion Character Name / Sub- Character Name / Sub- Character Name / Sub- title: Wolfsbane title: Karma title: Wolfsbane 1 Moonlight: You may put a Hero from the 4 Reveal the top card of the Hero Deck. HQ on the bottom of the Hero Deck. You may recruit it this turn. If you carefully consider when to engage the enemy, Sunlight: Draw a card. do, you may KO one of your cards or a card from your 2 discard pile. 6 by moonlight or sunlight. This is represented © MARVEL. ©2020 UDC. NEW MUTANTS. © MARVEL. ©2020 UDC. NEW MUTANTS. Moonlight: Look at the top card of your : Choose a Villain. You get +1 2 Sunlight: You may put a Hero from the deck. KO it or put it back. for each Villain adjacent to it. HQ on the bottom of the Hero Deck. Moonlight: Draw a card. 3 2+ Sometimes Karma controls an enemy’s Her howls getting closer end with the every motion. Other times she is howls of her victim. 5 more subtle. 3 3 by this new matched pair of keywords. © MARVEL. ©2020 UDC. NEW MUTANTS. © MARVEL. ©2020 UDC. NEW MUTANTS. © MARVEL. ©2020 UDC. NEW MUTANTS. • Some Hero cards say things like “Moonlight: You get +2 .” Others say things like Moonlight and Sunlight Timing “Sunlight: Draw a card.” As always, do a card’s abilities in the order • Moonlight abilities work only when most they are listed. You check Moonlight or of the Heroes in the HQ have odd-numbered Sunlight at the moment when you would use costs. Likewise, Sunlight abilities work only that ability. when most of the Heroes in the HQ have • For example, Sunspot has a card that says even-numbered costs. “Moonlight: You may put a Hero from the • Besides Heroes, some Villains and HQ on the bottom of the Hero Deck. Masterminds also say they get extra or Sunlight: Draw a card.” Sunspot’s cards abilities during Moonlight or Sunlight. primarily benefit from Sunlight, so the Moonlight ability here mostly helps him Conflicting Card Abilities push the HQ towards Sunlight. When two card effects tell you to do different • You do these abilities in the order they are things with a card at the same time, you can listed. So if there are three odd-numbered choose which to do. So when you discard cards in the HQ, and you play this card, Empathic Link to Belasco or the Demon Bear, you you might be able to use the Moonlight can use the Empathic Link ability to set itself ability to change the HQ to have only two aside instead of letting Belasco KO it or odd-numbered cards, and then you could the Demon Bear capture it. The Demon Bear immediately use the Sunlight ability. will capture another player’s discarded Hero • Once you are completely done playing a instead. When you discard Empathic Link to Hero card or fighting a Villain with a a Waking Nightmare and set it aside, you still Moonlight or Sunlight ability, move on. draw a card for the Waking Nightmare. If later in the turn you change Moonlight or Sunlight, you don’t go back in time to “Your Cards” and “Cards You Have” change the past. Remember that the phrases “your cards” and “cards you have” include both cards in your Remembering Odd and Even hand and cards you played this turn. (They • To help you remember that Moonlight uses don’t count cards in your deck or discard pile.) odd-numbered cards, all the Moonlight-loving So when Emma Frost and Empath say they Hero cards have odd-numbered costs. “get +1 for each grey Hero you have,” Likewise, all the Sunlight-loving Hero cards that includes both grey Heroes in your hand have even-numbered costs. and grey Heroes you played this turn. • Similarly, Moonlight-loving Villains all have odd-numbered while Sunlight-loving Game Contents Villains all have even-numbered . Of Rules insert and 100 cards: course, some cards use both Sunlight and • 5 New Heroes of 14 cards each Moonlight, so they don’t follow this guideline. (Each Hero has 1 rare, 3 uncommons, 5 of • You can also remember with the phrase one common, and 5 of another common) “The odd ones come out at night…” • 2 New Villain Groups of 8 cards each • 2 New Double-Sided Epic Masterminds Waking Nightmare (Each has 1 Mastermind card and 4 The New Mutants often confront demons, Mastermind Tactic cards) monsters, sadists, trauma, and psychological • 4 New Schemes horror. This keyword represents these attacks on their very sanity. It’s also used to represent Credits how the Hero Mirage uses her powers to bring Game Design & Card Set Design: Devin Low dream and nightmare constructs to life. Brand Manager: Travis Rhea • Some cards tell you to “have a Waking Assoc. Brand Manager: Corrine Deng Nightmare.” This means “Discard a non- Director of Game Development: Bubby Johanson grey Hero from your hand. If you discard a Assoc. Product Manager: Rob Ford Hero this way, draw a card.” Graphic Design: Krista Timberlake • Getting pummeled by Waking Nightmares Copy Editor/Writer: Anders Mattson can downgrade your hand from powerful Art Acquisition Lead: Samantha Padilla superheroes to mere S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents. Art Direction: Julio Elizondo However, you can sometimes find new Box Art: Dave DeVries courage in a nightmare: you may be able to Card Art: Diego Greco, Vincenzo Cucca, discard a non-grey Hero you don’t need very Jeremy Colwell much and have a chance to draw something Project Managers: Louise Bateman, more helpful. Tonya Lashley • Some Mirage Hero cards also let you have Director of Creative Services: Mike Eggleston a Waking Nightmare and give you specific VP of Production and Logistics: benefits for it. Suzanne Lombardi President, Upper Deck Company: Jason Masherah Playtesters: JR Bontrager, Lisa Eschenbach, Ryan Garcia, Rob Heinsoo, Mark Shaunessy, Carrie Stockwell, M. 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