™ TM & ©2012 Marvel & Subs. A Deck Building Game Overview How to Win Your First Game Welcome to Legendary, the Marvel Deck- Players must work together to successfully For your first game, follow the setup Building Game! Evil Masterminds like attack the evil Mastermind four times. If they rules on the following page, using the Magneto and Dr. Doom lead a horde of do, then the Mastermind is beaten once and specific card stacks listed there instead powerful Super Villains, planning dark for all, and all the players win the game for of choosing card stacks at random. Schemes to destroy the Marvel Universe! the forces of good! In addition, defeating After your first game, every game of Only you can stop them, leading awesome Villains and rescuing Bystanders earns each Legendary uses different Heroes, Villains, Marvel Super Heroes like Spider-Man, Iron player Victory Points. If the players defeat Masterminds, and Schemes, so there are Man, and Wolverine! the Mastermind, then the player with the always new challenges to master and new most Victory Points is the most legendary combinations to explore. In this game for 1-5 players, each player hero of all and the individual winner. starts with their own deck of basic Hero cards. At the start of your turn, you play the How the Evil Mastermind Wins top card of the Villain Deck, showing how Unlike other games, in Legendary, the Villains invade the city, capture Bystanders, game itself fights back against the players! and create special events. Then you play The evil Mastermind, like Magneto or Dr. Hero cards from your hand to generate Doom, isn’t played by a player. Instead, Attack, Recruit Points, and special abilities. the game itself plays the part of the You attack with your Heroes to defeat Mastermind. Villains. You use Recruit Points to recruit better Heroes to add to your deck. The evil Mastermind works to accomplish an evil Scheme throughout the game. Whenever your deck runs out of cards, you Every Scheme card has a part that says shuffle your discard pile to make a new deck, “Evil Wins”, which tells you how the including all the new Heroes you recruited. Mastermind completes their Scheme. If This way your deck gets stronger and the evil Scheme is completed, then the stronger over time. Build up enough Power Mastermind wins the game for evil and all and you can defeat the evil Mastermind! the players lose! But be careful: if the players don’t defeat the Mastermind quickly enough, then the Mastermind will complete their dark Scheme and win the game for evil! Online How-to-Play Videos In addition to this rulebook, you can also learn to play by watching online how- to-play videos at www.upperdeck.com. “Like” us on Facebook to check out the Legendary site. 1 2 Your First Game - Cards to Use Mastermind: Red Skull Scheme: Unleash the Power of the Cosmic Cube Heroes: Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wolverine, Cyclops, Hawkeye Villain Groups for the Villain Deck: For 2 players: HYDRA, Spider-Foes, Sentinels For 3 players: HYDRA, Spider-Foes, Sentinels, Skrulls For 4 players: HYDRA, Spider-Foes, Sentinels, Skrulls, Hand Ninjas For 5 players: HYDRA, Spider-Foes, Sentinels, Skrulls, Hand Ninjas, Masters of Evil 3 4 Card Number: LM78 Card Number: LM79 Card Name: Supreme HYDRA Card Name: Viper Character Name: Villain - HYDRA E n dl Character Name: Villain - HYDRA Level: RARE Mastermind and Scheme Villain Deck Ess Armi E Game Setup E n dl RsEss ArmiRsVillainEs dofr - HYDR AHYs ofd r HYA d r A pVillain pE es Level:of RARE - HYHYDRa a Card Number: LM76 Essp pArmiDnAa e a a • Pick 1 Mastermind at random. 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