® • To fight a Combined Villain, you must spend the Venomverse- Dark, dripping, violent, and scary, Venom is one of the most iconic characters in the total of both Villain cards combined. Rescue all Marvel Universe. The “Venom” symbiote is originally the Bystanders that Combined Villain had. Then an alien life form. On Earth, it bonded to a series of put either one of the Villain cards from that human hosts, coating each in a deadly shell with razor Combined Villain into your Victory Pile and do that claws and alien goo. card’s Fight effect. The other card from that Peter Parker unknowingly wore the Venom symbiote Combined Villain stays in that city space, and you first as his “black costume.” But the most infamous don’t do its Fight effect. Venom host is disgraced journalist Eddie Brock. Over • If a Combined Villain escapes, it’s only a single time, Venom has gone back and forth from Spider-Man’s escape, so it only KOs one Hero that costs 6 or most vicious enemy to grudging anti-hero. The less from the HQ. (If it’s carrying any number of “Carnage” symbiote is an even more violent variant, Bystanders, it makes all players discard a single bonded to serial killer Cletus Kasady. This set draws card as normal.) Do the Escape abilities of both from famous Venom and Carnage stories across Marvel those Villain cards in any order. Once in the Escape history including Maximum Carnage, the Pile, they are two unattached Villains again. Life Foundation, and Venomverse. • Keep one card of the Combined Villain tucked under The Life Foundation is a sinister genetic research the other, so you can see both cards’ and text. corporation run by Dr. Carlton Drake. It derives five • Since a Combined Villain has the text of both its dangerous new symbiotes from the original Venom: Villain cards, it can get extra or restrictions from Agony, Lasher, Phage, Riot, and Scream. Ultimately, various special abilities on either of its cards. It also several of them bond together to create the terrifying counts as both cards’ Villain Groups. super-symbiote known as Hybrid. • Symbiote Bonds never combine more than two In “Venomverse,” a new race of alien symbiotes called Villains in the same city space. Ignore any effect Poisons are fusing with Venom symbiotes, Heroes, and that would combine a third Villain in that space. Villains to create powerful, hyper-advanced life forms. • Once two Villains are bonded, only fighting can A Venomized Dr. Strange fights back, using sorcery break them up. Other Symbiote Bonds abilities can’t to summon Venom-Symbiote-bonded Heroes from break up a Combined Villain to attach one of the dozens of parallel realities, including Rocket Raccoon cards to something else. and Deadpool. But this just gives the Poisons more • If a Symbiote Bonds ability puts a new Villain card Venom symbiotes to infect. Eddie Brock leads the last into the city from the Villain Deck, Escape Pile, band of Venom-bonded Heroes and Villains in a final, Victory Pile, etc., do any Ambush ability on the desperate plan. They race to stop a Poison-bonded newly entering card. However, that Ambush ability Thanos from infecting every planet in every dimension with Poison parasites. won’t be able to break up a Combined Villain or add a third card to it. • If a special ability automatically “defeats” a Symbiote Bonds Combined Villain, you still put just one of its cards This keyword represents how symbiotes like Hybrid, into your Victory Pile and do that card’s Fight effect. Riot, and Lasher bond with other characters, • A combined Villain has the VP of both its cards enhancing them with a dark shell. You must fight the combined. So you can spend Piercing Energy (from combined strength of the host and symbiote to split Legendary ®: X-Men) equal to both cards’ total them apart, then finish what remains in a second fight. combined VP to fight the Combined Villain, putting • Some Villains say things like “Ambush: A one of its cards into your Victory Pile as normal. Henchman Villain from your Victory Pile Symbiote Bonds with Lasher.” • This means stack this card onto the specified Villain, combining them into a single Villain with both cards’ and text added together. Poison Villains Excessive Violence • Poison Villains use Symbiote Bonds in a special This keyword represents how Venom and Carnage way. For example, Poison Dr. Octopus says “Fight: often go out of their way to be insanely more violent This Symbiote Bonds with a Villain in the Bank. If than necessary to get a job done. It first debuted in already bonded or unable to bond, gain this as a Legendary ®: Deadpool. Hero instead.” • Some Heroes say things like “Excessive Violence: • So Dr. Octopus enters the city as a normal Villain. Draw a card.” When you fight him, if there’s a Villain in the Bank, • Once per turn, you can spend 1 more than you then Poison Dr. Octopus will bond with that Villain. need to fight a Villain or Mastermind “using Excessive If there’s no Villain in the Bank, then you gain Violence.” If you do, you get to use all the “Excessive Poison Dr. Octopus as a Hero instead, putting him Violence” abilities on cards you played this turn. in your discard pile. • Say you’ve played three Heroes with Excessive • Once Poison Dr. Octopus becomes bonded, if you Violence abilities this turn. If you spend 8 to fight fight that Combined Villain, you choose one of the a Villain or Mastermind that has 7 , then you’ll get two Villains and do its Fight effect. If you choose to use all three Excessive Violence abilities! Poison Dr. Octopus, then since he is currently • If you don’t fight anything this turn, or if you don’t bonded, you gain him as a Hero. spend an extra 1 on someone, then you won’t be • When facing Poison Villains, be careful about when able to use Excessive Violence. you fight them, so you can turn them into Heroes as • Since you can only fight “using Excessive Violence” soon as possible! once per turn, you can only use a card’s Excessive Violence ability once per turn. Digest • (It’s OK to play two cards with the same card name, This grisly keyword represents how the Venom and fight an enemy “using Excessive Violence” and use Carnage symbiotes get stronger as they devour people both of those cards’ Excessive Violence abilities.) and absorb their energy. • If you fight using Excessive Violence and then draw • Some Heroes say things like “Digest 2: Draw a card.” or play more cards with Excessive Violence abilities • Use this Digest ability only if you have at least that later in the turn, it will be too late to use those abilities. many cards in your Victory Pile. • All kinds of cards in your Victory Pile count for Game Contents Digest. This includes Henchman Villains, regular Rules insert and 100 cards: Villains, Bystanders, Mastermind Tactics, Traps from • 5 New Heroes of 14 cards each other sets, etc. (Each Hero has 1 rare, 3 uncommons, 5 of • You don’t have to remove any cards from your one common, and 5 of another common) Victory Pile to use Digest. • 2 New Villain Groups of 8 cards each • Even if you have 10 cards in your Victory Pile, you can’t • 2 New Double-Sided Epic Masterminds use a card’s “Digest 2” ability five times – just once. (Each has 1 Mastermind card and 4 Mastermind Tactic cards) Indigestion • 4 New Schemes Venompool shares a twisted sense of humor with the original Venom and Carnage. It wasn’t enough Credits for them to have Digest abilities while eating people – Game Design & Card Set Design: Devin Low they had to have Indigestion abilities too! Let’s just say Brand Manager: Travis Rhea you don’t want to see what happens when Carnage is Director of Game Development: Bubby Johanson eating somebody and gets Indigestion… Assoc. Brand Manager: Corrine Deng • If you don’t have enough cards in your Victory Pile Assoc. Product Manager: Rob Ford to use a card’s Digest ability, use its Indigestion Graphic Design: Krista Timberlake ability instead. Art Direction: Samantha Padilla • For example, some Heroes say things like: “Digest 4: Draw two cards. Box Art: Iban Coello, Matt Yackey Indigestion: You get +2 .” Card Art: Iban Coello, Matt Yackey, Cam Adams • When you play this card, if you have at least 4 cards Project Managers: Louise Bateman, Tonya Lashley in your Victory Pile, then you use the Digest ability Director of Creative Services: Mike Eggleston and draw two cards. VP of Operations: Suzanne Lombardi • If you have zero to three cards in your Victory Pile, President, Upper Deck Company: Jason Masherah then you use the Indigestion ability instead, getting Playtesters: Godfre Alas, David Chen, Sarah Como, +2 . Corrine Deng, Lisa Eschenbach, Rob Ford, • If you have enough cards in your Victory Pile to Breeze Grigas, Emily Hancock, Rob Heinsoo, use the Digest ability, you cannot choose to use the Bubby Johanson, Case Kiyonaga, Phil Lacefield, Indigestion ability instead. Michelle Li, Xin Liu, Aidan Low, Samantha Padilla, Ryan Richford, Raymond Rimorin, Mike Robles, ©2019 UDC. 5830 El Camino Real, Tifa Robles, Mark Shaunessy, Carrie Stockwell and Carlsbad, CA 92008. M. Craig Stockwell. © MARVEL All rights reserved. Printed in the USA..