MARVEL LEGENDARY - DECK BUILDER GAME

 

This is my favorite deck builder game. I know a lot of people like Dominion. Leaves me cold, frankly. Of course, as anyone can see, I'm a Marvel fan in general. Always have been. So there's that. 

But what I like about it is the theme, but also the fact that it is semi-cooperative, that it has a pretty cool "AI", and that there is a built-in use for building your deck so that you can beat down the baddies. As simple as that. I like that it can easily scale down to Solo play without much change and similarly upward.

Of course, this is a game that really depends on the expansions to really make it go. Which, apart from the cost of it, I'm OK with it. At least, you know exactly what you are getting when buy an expansion. Unlike buying into a CCG, where luck plays a pretty large part in what you get when you buy expansion packs. Like Magic: The Gathering, where IMO "he who wins is he who spends the most." I do think the game is eternally on the verge of becoming "out of print." Which can be a problem when looking for it and buying into it. Still . . .

Grade: I give it an A+, because as I said, it's my favorite deck building game -- and makes me want to play it despite my general antipathy to the genre. 'Nuff Said!