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Planet is one of the most admired, iconic • You still count as having played the transforming Hulk stories of all time. The smartest Heroes in card you played and removed from the game, the universe, the , fear Hulk’s raw including effects like “You get +1 for each strength and furious rampages. They conspire to card you played this turn.” But if an effect trick Hulk into exile on a distant world. Thrown asks you to reveal one of your cards, you can off course and drained of strength, Hulk crash- only reveal the new, transformed card, not the lands on the savage planet Sakaar. There, Hulk is old card that you removed from the game. chained and forced into gladiatorial servitude. • Some transforming cards tell you to put the new card on top of your deck or in your discard pile instead. Fighting for his life as his strength slowly • You can look through the Transformation Pile grows, Hulk forms a blood pact with an unlikely at any time. band of powerful gladiators: the Warbound. • At of the game, store a Hero’s Together they rise through the ranks, pursue a Transformed cards with the rest of that Hero’s -defying series of journeys, and eventually cards. To start a game, you only need to bring rally the people of Sakaar to overthrow the out the Transformed cards for the Heroes tyrannical Red King. you’re using. Don’t bring out all the Transformed cards in the entire game. For a moment, the newly-crowned King Hulk • If you sleeve your cards, you can put the knows peace. But when an explosion from the Transformed version of the card in the same Illuminati’s ship kills King Hulk’s new wife Caiera, sleeve, behind the Transforming card. When Hulk is filled with a greater than ever before. it’s time to transform, you just pull the back He returns to Earth with his Warbound to punish card to the front of the sleeve. It’s a little the Illuminati for their crimes against him, even if thicker in the sleeve, but it still shuffles well. he has to tear apart all of Earth’s super-teams to do it, and perhaps Earth itself. This is World Hulk. Transforming Masterminds You can play as Gladiator Hulk and the Each Mastermind in this set is a double-sided Warbound or as other Marvel Heroes trying to “Transforming Mastermind” that transforms back hold them back. This set also features many of and forth between two forms during the game. Hulk’s greatest moments, evoking all the key • The side with the “Always Leads” ability starts themes that go across Bruce Banner’s history: face up. Transformation, Brains, Brawn, and Rage. • When a Master Strike or Mastermind Tactic ability occurs, it will tell you to “Transform” the Transforming Heroes Mastermind, meaning flip it over to its other Duality and transformation are key themes side. (Don’t also do the Master Strike ability of of Hulk stories: the puny, brilliant scientist the new side.) transforming into a raging monster. The • A Mastermind only uses the abilities and of “Transform” keyword highlights this theme. its currently face up side. Ignore the special • Each Hero in this set has some special abilities and values on the currently face down side. “Transformed” cards that go along with it. When you use these Heroes, don’t shuffle Outwit their “Transformed” cards into the Hero In the duality of Bruce Banner’s brains and Hulk’s Deck. Instead, set them aside in a special brawn, the Outwit keyword is the brains. It Transformation Pile. You can’t recruit cards represents how Bruce Banner, Amadeus Cho, the from this pile. Instead, you transform other Illuminati, and the Intelligencia are among the cards into them. smartest characters in the . • Some Hero cards like “Bruce Banner: • Some Heroes say things like “Outwit: Draw a card.” Gamma Ray Experiments” say things like • You can use this Outwit ability only if you reveal “...Transform this into Savage Hulk Unleashed.” Heroes with 3 different costs. • When you play a Hero card that says it • You can count the Outwit card itself. So you can transforms into another card, you complete reveal a 2-cost Hero in your hand, plus a 6-cost all effects on the card you played and get its Outwit card and 0-cost S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Hero normal and . you already played. • Then remove the transforming card from the • Some Villains and Masterminds also say they get game (putting it in the Transformation Pile) stronger or harm you in special ways if you fail and put the newly transformed card into to Outwit them. For example: “Ambush: If you your hand instead (from the Transformation can’t Outwit the , play the top card of the Pile). You can play the new Transformed card Villain Deck.” immediately that same turn. • You can choose not to Outwit, even if you are able. Smash • If a card from a previous set says “Feast”, it This keyword covers the brawn. It represents how means “Fight: Feast.” when get angry, they SMASH hard, no matter what they have to toss aside. Traps • Some Heroes say things like “Smash 3.” This Enemies that can’t beat Hulks with raw strength means “You may discard another card from your often try to trap them instead. World War Hulk hand. If you do, you get +3 .” features an additional card type that debuted in the Legendary® X-Men set: Traps. Each Villain Wounded Fury Group in this set has a Trap. This keyword represents how wounding a Hulk • When a Trap is played from the Villain Deck, often just makes it ANGRIER and STRONGER! It it gives you a challenge to complete this turn also includes Villains attacking with more furious to avoid the Trap. If you complete the bloodlust as they wound you. challenge, put the Trap in your Victory Pile • When a Hero card says “Wounded Fury”, it and get its VP. means “You get +1 for each Wound in your • If you fail to complete the challenge, then discard pile.” at the end of the turn you must suffer the • Likewise, when a Villain or Mastermind says listed consequences! (after you draw your “Wounded Fury”, it means “It gets +1 for new hand) each Wound in your discard pile.” • Traps don’t push forward Villains in the city. Cross-Dimensional Grey Heroes As different Hulks rampage across planets and • When a card refers to “grey Heroes,” it dimensions, only another Hulk can stop them! means grey-colored cards with no Hero Class, like S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents, Troopers, Officers, etc. This keyword debuted in Legendary ®: Secret Wars. • “Cross-Dimensional Hulk Rampage” means • Grey Hulk and are not “grey Heroes.” “Each player reveals one of their Hulk Heroes or a Hulk card in their Victory Pile or gains a Wound.” Game Contents • You can reveal any card that includes the word Rules insert and 400 cards: “Hulk” in its card name, Hero name, Villain • 15 New Heroes of 14 cards each Group name, or Tactics for Hulk Masterminds. (Each Hero has 1 rare, 3 uncommons, 5 of one This includes any Red Hulk, She-Hulk, common, and 5 of another common) Red She-Hulk, , Son of Hulk, Joe Fixit • 62 “Transformed” Hero cards for those Heroes Grey Hulk, Hulkling, Hulk Gang, Cosmic Hulk • 7 New Villain Groups of 8 cards each Robot, Hulkbuster, Enchain the Hulk, and so on. (including Traps) • You don’t need to know the whole history of • 3 New Henchman Groups of 10 cards each to judge who counts as a Hulk – • 6 New Transforming Masterminds (Each has just rely on whether the card says Hulk in its name 1 double-sided Transforming Mastermind card or not. There are only a few, very specific exceptions and 4 Mastermind Tactic cards) we have to make to stay true to the characters: • 8 New Schemes • “Nul, Breaker of Worlds” from Fear Itself and • 4 New Special Bystander types (1 copy each) “” (core set) count as Hulks for this. • “” and “Old Man Logan” count Credits as Wolverines for “Cross-Dimensional Game Design & Card Set Design: Devin Low Rampage” in other sets. Brand Manager: Travis Rhea • Some Heroes in this set can transform into Product Manager: Bubby Johanson Hulks, like Bruce Banner and Amadeus Cho. A puny “Bruce Banner” card doesn’t say “Hulk” on Additional Development: Rob Ford it, so it can’t stop a Hulk Rampage. But revealing Graphic Design: Krista Timberlake the transformed Bruce Banner card named Art Direction: Samantha Padilla, Jennifer Wu “Savage Hulk Unleashed” works. Art: Jay David Ramos, Cliff Richards • When a Cross-Dimensional Hulk Rampage happens, you can choose to gain the Wound, Card Art: Cam Adams, Caio Cacau, even if you have a Hulk that you already played Leonardo Paciarotti, Cliff Richards, Anthony Spay or could otherwise reveal. You might want the Project Managers: Louise Bateman, Tonya Lashley Wound if you have Wounded Fury cards. Director of Creative Services: Mike Eggleston • There are also Cross-Dimensional Void V.P. of Operations: Suzanne Lombardi Rampages, etc. President, Upper Deck Company: Jason Masherah Feast Playtesters: Lisa Eschenbach, Alison Farrell, Some alien monsters from the Planet Sakaar and Rob Ford, Rob Heinsoo, Nate Heiss, beyond use the gruesome Feast keyword, which Bubby Johansson, Tim Kukes, Megan Lantz, debuted in Legendary®: Paint the Town Red. Scott Lantz, Walker Lindley, Samantha Padilla, • “Feast” means “KO the top card of your deck.” Paul Peterson, Matt Rogers, David Satnik, • Likewise, “Feast on each player” means “KO Mark Shaunessy, William Sobel, Shane Steward, the top card of each player’s deck.” Lisa Steward, Matthew Yeager

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