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X-Gene • Berserk gives no benefit from discarding This keyword represents X-Men combining printed or values. unique mutant powers with their signature teamwork. Soaring Flight • Some Heroes say things like “X-Gene : This ability represents X-Men flying into action You get +2 .” This means “If you have a as rapid reinforcements. card in your discard pile, you get +2 .” You • “Soaring Flight” means “When you recruit can use a card’s X-Gene ability only if you this Hero, set it aside. At the end of this turn, have the specified kind of card in your add it to your new hand as an extra card.” discard pile. Lightshow • You can only use a card’s X-Gene ability This keyword represents X-Men using fireworks once, no matter how many matching cards and blinding bursts in spectacular combinations. you have in your discard pile. • Some Heroes say things like “Lightshow: • Remember: when you play a card during You get +3 .” Once per turn, if you played your turn, it stays in front of you until the at least two Lightshow cards this turn, you end of turn. Then all the cards you played can use a single Lightshow ability from any that turn go to the discard pile. So if you of those cards. have an empty discard pile, you can’t play a • If you play three, four, or more Lightshow cards card from your hand, then immediately you still use only a single Lightshow ability. play a card with “X-Gene ” and use that X-Gene ability. Dominate • One cool combo is to recruit a Hero into This keyword represents Villains using your discard pile, then play your “X-Gene ” telepathy, sorcery, or illusions to twist Heroes’ card, and you’ll get to use its X-Gene ability. minds to evil. • Some Villains and Masterminds say they Piercing Energy “Dominate” Hero cards from various places. This keyword represents X-Men using This means “Put those Heroes under this psychic knives & sonic screams to pierce enemy. This enemy gets +1 for each Hero enemy defenses. it’s Dominating.” • Some Heroes give you a new kind of points • When you fight that enemy, put one of those called “Piercing Energy,” using the icon. Dominated Heroes into each player’s discard You can fight a Villain or Mastermind by pile. You choose which player gets which spending points equal to that enemy’s Hero, including yourself. There might not printed Victory Points value ( ). You ignore be enough for every player to get one. KO that enemy’s and any modifiers. any excess Dominated Heroes. • You can also ignore any special conditions • If a Villain escapes, any Heroes Dominated for fighting that enemy, automatically by that Villain go to the Escape Pile too. rescuing any Human Shields. • You can’t use Piercing Energy against Human Shields cards that have no printed VP value, like This keyword represents enemies hiding behind Shadow-X Villains, or Master Strikes that innocent people to prevent Heroes’ attacks. become Villains. • “Ambush: This Villain captures 2 Human Shields” means the Villain captures the top Berserk 2 cards of the Bystander Stack face-down. This keyword represents some X-Men going You can’t fight a Villain while it has any into a berserker rage of unpredictable violence. Human Shields. During your turn, any • “Berserk” means “Discard the top card number of times, you can pay equal of your deck. You get + equal to the to that Villain’s value to rescue one of its discarded card’s printed .” (So if the Human Shields at random and put it in your discarded card gives “2+ ”, you just count 2.) Victory Pile. (The on their is a reminder.) • Some cards say “Berserk, Berserk, Berserk” • A Villain can have* face-up Bystanders and so you discard three cards in a row. face-down Human Shields at the same time. • Some cards say things like “Berserk. X-Gene : You’ll need to pay to rescue the face-down You get +1 .” You do the card abilities in Human Shields. Then you can fight the order, so Berserk might discard a card from Villain, which will rescue the face-up your deck, letting you use your X-Gene ability. Bystanders automatically. • Human Shields still count as Bystanders. • If a Divided Card costs “3” on each side, you Villains escaping with Human Shields still just pay 3 to recruit it from the HQ, not 6. make players discard as normal. • When you play a Divided Card, you choose which side to play. You generate all the , , Traps and special abilities of that side as normal. The Legendary® X-Men set adds a completely You ignore the other side, as if it didn’t exist. new card type to Legendary®: Traps. Every Villain Group in the set contains at least one Trap. Villains Ascending into Masterminds • When a Trap is played from the Villain Like Legendary® Secret Wars Vol. 1 & 2, Deck, it gives you a challenge to complete some powerful Villains ascend to become this turn to avoid the Trap. If you complete new Masterminds, so there are multiple the challenge, put the Trap in your Victory Masterminds in the game! Players must defeat Pile and get its VP. A Trap is not a Villain them all to win. When a Master Strike occurs, and doesn’t enter the city. each Mastermind does its Master Strike ability. • If you fail to complete the challenge, then The player whose turn it is picks the order. at the end of the turn you must KO the trap and suffer the listed consequences! Game Contents (Do this after you draw a new hand). Rules insert and 394 cards: • 15 New Heroes of 14 cards each Double-Sided Epic Masterminds (Each Hero has 1 rare, 3 uncommons, 5 of As an extra-hard challenge, Legendary® one common, and 5 of another common) X-Men introduces 6 new “Double-Sided • 7 New Villain Groups of 8 cards each Epic Masterminds.” Each has a normal • 5 New Henchman Groups of 10 cards each side, or can be flipped over to use its extra- • 6 New Double-Sided Masterminds nasty Epic Mastermind side, using the same (Each has 1 Mastermind card and Mastermind Tactics. 4 Mastermind Tactic cards) • “Regular” Onslaught and Dark Phoenix • 8 New Schemes are already devastating. Their “Epic • 9 New Token Cards Mastermind” versions are insanely hard, • 1 Master Strike with god-like powers! • 1 Scheme Twist • 9 New Special Bystander types (1 card each) Horrors • 20 New Horrors Legendary® X-Men also adds a second, completely new card type to Legendary®: Credits Horrors. These make the game harder in a Game Design & Card Set Design: Devin Low variety of ways. All the Epic Masterminds explicitly say they add Horrors to the game. Brand Manager: Jason Brenner Players who want to play in “hard mode” Product Manager: Bubby Johanson can also choose to add any number of Additional Development: Rob Ford Horrors (random or hand-picked) at the start of a game against any Mastermind. How Graphic Design: Krista Timberlake many can you beat at once? Art Direction: Samantha Padilla, Jennifer Wu Project Manager: Louise Bateman Heroic Bystanders The New Mutants are Professor X’s students, President, Upper Deck Company: dreaming of becoming full-fledged X-Men. Jason Masherah For them, the Legendary® X-Men set Director of Creative Services: Mike Eggleston introduces New Mutant Bystanders that Playtesters: Jason Brenner, David Chen, become Heroes when you rescue them. Alison Farrell, Rob Ford, Phil Hughes, Bubby Johanson, Tim Kukes, Xin Liu, Token Cards Aidan Low, Beth Mantey, Derek Mantey, Sometimes game play will cause additional Raymond Rimorin, Mike Robles, Tifa Robles, Villains or Masterminds to be added during Matt Rogers, David Satnik, Lisa Steward, play. For example, a Master Strike may cause Shane Steward, Carrie Stockwell, a special Villain to enter the city. Token cards M. Craig Stockwell and Lu Sien Tan represent these special characters that would otherwise be represented by the card that Box Art: Ivan Nunes, Cliff Richards drew them out. Tokens are all identified by a Card Art: Adriano Augusto, Diego Bernard, in the upper right of the card. These new Caio Cacau, Jeremy Colwell, Vincenzo Cucca, cards are optional so have fun with them! Ceci de la Cruz, Maria Cristina Federico, Tom Nguyen, Aikau Oliveira, Jay David Divided Cards Ramos, Dinei Ribeiro, Cliff Richards, Alisson To match Legion’s split personalities, “Divided Rodrigues, Jimbo Salgado, Alejandro Sicat, ® Cards” return from the Legendary Civil War set, Anthony Spay, Eduardo Vienna with two miniature cards printed on the same card.