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[@VillainTheory]

Good video! Some great points here. Something I wanted to mention was that, even if you aggressively mulligan all six cards and don't find any of your key upgrades/supports, you are now closer to finding them on future turns. This is even more important on heroes with smaller handsizes, because it takes so much longer to get through your deck. I also saw a comment talking about the dangers of getting an encounter card from running out of cards in your deck faster due to the mulligan, and wanted to say that your mulligan has very little chance to affect the total amount of extra encounter cards you draw across a game - unless you run out of cards in your deck on the penultimate turn, it doesn't matter. Yes, you are likely to get an extra encounter card a turn early, but you are getting one at some point anyway. Something else I wanted to mention is that this very much strikes me as a solo players guide. There is nothing wrong with that but, in multiplayer, it's my experience that it's not so easy to just decide to all pivot to damage. In solo, you can see a good hand with nice damage options and decide to really push the villain, maybe halfway defeat them in one turn even~ But in multiplayer, it's very unlikely for a multiple players to have all their hands line up with high damage options. Especially with pairings like Justice and Protection in 2-player. Sometimes it's better to maintain absolute control for longer. The point about being on the first villain stage for 75-80% of the total duration is great. As is focusing on setting up early. So often, I see players lament not being able to deal a single point of damage to the villain after 3-4 turns, but sometimes - especially with unlucky encounter cards - it has to be that way. It doesn't matter if you get the villain down to 1 hp if you still lose, but it's fine if a game takes a couple of extra turns but you power up and win rather than having to restart. Not putting damage on the villain is fine, expanding your board is another way to measure your progress. Some heroes and villains force/encourage different amounts of setup, but most of the time control is king when it comes to your chances of winning. A way I like to look at it is: I start off controlling the board and building up upgrades. Soon, I will have enough extra value from my upgrades that I can control the board, play an upgrade, and start to slowly chip the villain down on almost every turn. And then, when I have a lot of upgrades (normally after one deck pass), I can control the board and do a LOT of damage. Rather than the mid-game being a pivot point, I almost go from an extended early game to the late game in one fell swoop. It's not always this clean, sometimes you get a bad encounter card and need to sink more resources into dealing with it, but generally I think this strategy works well - particularly on Expert, where villains have more hp and there are generally more threats such as Under Fire or expert-specific villain shenanigans.

[@GetUpandGame]

Thanks VT! Yeah I think I said something at the beginning to the effect of my solo bias is always there lol. Thanks for the expanded advice, it’s always so helpful to have that in the comments!

[@vizhyn8578]

Another stellar instructional video! Concise yet jam-packed with awesome information. Well done as always!

[@vizhyn8578]

On another thought -I was always nervous about burning through my hero deck quickly because of the extra encounter card. Star-Lord Justice with One way or another x3 against Escape the museum cured me of that! I played 2 handed as Star lord Justice and Gamora Protection. I came so close to winning many times but just couldn’t beat it. Now I’m not afraid of one puny encounter card when I play any other hero! Then I finally switched to Rocket Justice and Drax Protection and crushed it in 1 attempt. So fun!

[@GetUpandGame]

Thank you so much!! That’s a great point and I’m really glad you said that about getting an extra encounter card every now and then. I didn’t stress it very hard in the video but I definitely think it’s worth doing whatever you need to do for yourself, whether it’s a deep mulligan or drawing a ton of extra cards during the game, and let the extra encounter cards come when they will. Ultimately it’s a balancing mechanism to try let the villain keep up with everything extra you’re doing, and the more you do it the more you realize that (most of the time) that extra orange card isn’t so bad. And even if it is, everything you did to get to that extra card should give you the power to deal with it!

[@GetUpandGame]

Also, those combos sound amazingly fun! 🤩

[@scydrex7828]

Thank you for another wonderful vid, man! I particularly liked the advice regarding trying to not deck out while in AE. I'll keep this in mind on all my future games.

[@GetUpandGame]

Thank you! Yep as much as I recommend doing it there’s no denying it’s risky so best to be careful!

[@dhdoc_h8839]

Totally agree-this is the most important thing I learned.

[@dhdoc_h8839]

Excellent work-I want to echo Scydrex’ comment: I never have thought about the extra encounter card when going to alter-ego. That’s a valid point with all the extra surge opportunities and how much Advance hates me. Also, my wife overheard this one and says you said like a sweetheart.

[@GetUpandGame]

Hahaha Advance is the absolute WORST Aww haha that’s nice! I look forward to meeting her sometime and our families getting together! 😊

[@mikehall9240]

Great advice and strategies, especially for a new player like me! Thank you for this video!

[@GetUpandGame]

@@mikehall9240 oh thanks for the kind words and I hope it’s helpful! 😀

[@OresteGamba]

Congratulations and thanks! Very useful and clear!

[@GetUpandGame]

Thank you! Glad to hear it! 😊

[@bn5055]

Nice video! I'd love to see a series on strategies for dealing with each villain. Particular gimmicks to look out for, what decks work best against them etc.

[@GetUpandGame]

Thanks! Ya know, I would enjoy talking about that sort of thing, but over on Steve Kimmel’s channel PlayDGame he’s doing exactly that with his Villains Beyond series. It’s absolutely fantastic! He talks about all their cards, good strategies and cards to use against them, and he even gives great advice for changing out the Modular’s to get different experiences. So he’s already got that whole topic on lockdown lol and I just point people to him! Here’s the playlist if you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it! kzbin.info/aero/PLggRViGeFsuPnS0_rgDmR-byQPMNYd7lr

[@bn5055]

@@GetUpandGame Well, TIL. Thanks!

[@GetUpandGame]

@@bn5055 no problem! 😀

[@ms_zilia]

It's great Josh! 😁 We definitely need more videos about strategy! I personally often keep bad cards while I mulligan to pay for my best card that I have in hand. And really often what happens is that when I mulligan I get lot of great cards and don't know what to play first. 😅 It's sad when you need to pay with best cards from your deck. When I started with this game I definitely focused too much on dealing damage early, but board control is usually everything that matters, I quickly realized that from other games haha.

[@GetUpandGame]

Thank you kindly! I do that sometimes too. Just make the best of the hand I drew. I think it depends on the hero. Some heroes I’m desperately looking for a certain card (ant-man, Drax) but others it’s not as important (spider-man, she-hulk). Ha yep that’s what we all do! And then you start to find your play style of how much management you like vs how aggressive you want to be and you go from there! 😀

[@Bensbarking]

This video was very helpful for me thank you!

[@GetUpandGame]

@@Bensbarking oh so glad to hear it! 😀

[@njh113]

Excellent description of early/mid/end game! It's fun to try to burn down the villain, bit your point about setting up board state is really good. Why do you suggest going to alter-ego as much as possible? Great video!

[@GetUpandGame]

Thanks Nick! Haha that’s definitely true, but I’m a pretty conservative player most of the time so I prefer the slow and steady approach 😆 I just think the benefits of drawing the extra card, making use of your alter ego power as well as support (assuming you’ve played it of course) are so good. That’s one less chump block or chunk of damage you have to take as well. Now this is all hugely dependent on your hero’s ability to recover from the extra threat of course. So it’s not an all the time thing. But I think a lot of people are missing out on their cool alter ego powers. That’s basically an extra action you can take every time you flip down, and then again on the way up! Every time you do another thing on your turn that’s one more advantage over the villain. I get the impression from hearing others talk about the game that alter ego isn’t even a consideration for a lot of players, and I’m hoping to show that it’s a great and useful part of the game 😊

[@DescryGamingMC]

I know one that never wants to flip to alter… Drax

[@GetUpandGame]

@@DescryGamingMC very true! It’s such a pain building up those counters again

[@njh113]

@GetUpandGame that makes sense. The extra card gives much better chances for getting better resources and putting our your character's tools. I think a lot of us are just overly concerned about threat from facing Rhino 😅

[@GetUpandGame]

@@njh113 ha 100%. I’ve said many times that I really dislike Rhino being everyone’s first experience with the game specifically because he scared us all away from alter ego lol

[@Nazzers]

I usually find the flip-villain-and-push phase to be right after going through the hero deck one time. By then you have most of the key upgrades and usually the villain is a hit or two from the next stage. Then all the hero damage cards get shuffled back in and you either deal with the double encounter card or you have enough damage to beat the villain in a turn or two.

[@GetUpandGame]

Nice! That’s a good way of looking at it I tend to be pretty slow/conservative with my building and pushing and I think that is really reflected here in this video the way I described the mid and late games. I suspect you’re timing there is similar to many others 👍👍

[@journeyman2746]

In that second hand, you could play everything. Meditation for Helicarrier, Alter-Ego Resource for Web-Shooter, Energy for Ingenuity. Then flip and use Ingenuity, Helicarrier, Web-Shooter to play Swinging Web Kick, or even have mulliganed the SWK for another shot at a playable card

[@GetUpandGame]

Haha yeah that second hand was nuts! I was literally trying to draw a bad hand for the sake of an example and it just kept being awesome 😆

[@GetUpandGame]

Watching it again I see what you’re saying now. Hopefully if I’d been playing that game I wouldn’t have been foolish enough to use the SWK when there was a much better way 😅

[@Alien1Peter2-9-12]

Love the practical advice! Thank you.

[@GetUpandGame]

I hope it’s helpful! Thanks for watching! 😀

[@supremephoen1x]

Unrelated to the video but I just bought drax and I now understand why you forced yourself to retire him to play new heros, he is so fun!!!

[@GetUpandGame]

Haha hey I’m always glad to hear that!! He really is something special, but I think I he flies under the radar for a lot of people. It’s really a shame that the Hulk didn’t get to keep his original mechanisms that ultimately became how we now know Drax. Imagine how beloved the Hulk would be!

[@sologamingspotlight]

Yep, love me some Drax

[@jonathanpickles2946]

I certainly play the same way that is build while managing the board then crush with the ideal being to take out the last stage in a turn. I'm terrible at rushing and do not enjoy it (are they by any chance related?). I do think you need to "do Maths" when you are planning your hand. Well arithmetic. eg Your second Spiderman hand can play Helicarrier of Meditation, Web shooter off Scientist and Innovation off the double. That gives you 3 to play Swinging Web Kick or if you mulligan it you will be able to play pretty much anything you redraw. The next hand with Avengers Mansion has Backflip - not a builder but one of PPs best cards. You can play Avengers Mansion and hold Under Surveillance and one Backflip, almost just restarting the game with +1 hand size. If twere done when tis done twere well it were done quickly. (or as Shakespeare would not have put it mansion turn one is best mansion) I completely agree about getting rid of Breakin' & Takin' being the top priority (I do NOT play heroic :)). Your initial hand lets you do this as you can play Beatcop plus Ironheart spending all the resources you have - 4 cards plus scientist. Ironheart, Beatcop & Spidey all thwart. You even get a card back which means you can also play Skilled Investigator or Web Shooter. Ironheart can chump block and Beatcop deals with the ticking threat for the rest of the game. This is not quite such a good start as the previous one but is very similar, and you're on expert. I love alter ego but I think the times that I lose due to a clear mistake as opposed to the game hating me or an accumulation of poor plays is when I greedily flip to AE when I did not need to. And Advance is not so bad, if you can deal with a trip to AE you can deal with Advance. The combination can be killer....

[@GetUpandGame]

As always very well said! I tend to only play Mansion if I have a double to help pay for it, so I’m pretty sure my eyes just glazed right over it lol. It’s not normally my style to hold a defense card from the opening hand, but I can definitely see it being a good way to go. It’s definitely a shame to see a Backflip go to the discard pile without doing it’s job! And you’re totally right about planning out your hand and factoring in the resources generated by the cards you’ll be playing. I think I was really looking for certain cards to make points with rather than truly planning out the start of a game so I missed some great opportunities to just teach it in a different way 😅 Thanks for always leaving such great comments! I always appreciate the bonus content people get to find down here ☺️

[@Grognard-Solo-Gaming]

Solid advice! Great video! 👍💪👏😁

[@GetUpandGame]

Thank you kindly! How’s LotR going?

[@ragnotgreymane]

Great idea for a video Josh. When will we see some more content from your Multiverse versions of yourself?

[@GetUpandGame]

Thank you thank you! Thank you for asking! Hopefully very soon. I never meant for it to get so postponed. Pretty much ever since the announcement one or more of us has been sick in my house, and that has really cut into my recording time. I can make videos like this pretty easily but playthroughs take way longer, and either I haven’t been feeling up to it or the downtime I usually use to record is too short because my boy isn’t sleeping well or my wife needs taken care of a little more. But we seem to be on the other side of it now! Haha sorry if that was way too much of an explanation lol but I really hate that I made that big announcement and then haven’t been able to follow it up. Everyone has been very patient with me and I so appreciate it!

[@hugocruz2439]

I feel like the biggest enemy of true solo is Advance. Like 40% of games i have lose is for those surge + Advance that appear when i flip to AE when main scheme was 0 at the end of my phase. Is the only mechanic i don't like about the game, because you can't mitigate scheme as in the atk-def mechanic.

[@GetUpandGame]

Yep you’re 100% right. I love solo but there’s no denying that Advance can be a killer and there’s not much you can do about it That’s a good point I’ve never thought of! That would’ve been cool if there were a mechanism to ‘block’ threat beyond just a few player cards and Jennifer Walters ability

[@robertwood6635]

Great advice and great video as always. I need to ask you if you're up to date with the latest teaser?

[@GetUpandGame]

Thanks Robert! Indeed I am!! ❤️❤️ One of my top 5 from the 50th! I can’t WAIT to see what they do with her 🤩🤩

[@robertwood6635]

@@GetUpandGame Well, mild spoilers for anyone who isn't... Cable, played by Josh Brolin, and Thanos, played by Josh Brolin. You are Josh. So Josh (you) could play Josh (Cable) Vs Josh (Thanos). Does that make sense?

[@GetUpandGame]

@@robertwood6635 ohhh haha I though we were talking about Domino (probably) who just got dropped! She was one of my top 5 hoping to see characters because I’m so curious to see how they handle her powers! I didn’t realize Josh Brolin played Cable! Lol that’s hilarious. Well that is a game that will definitely be happening when he comes out then 🤣

[@robertwood6635]

@@GetUpandGame Yeah, I think Deadpool even calls him Thanos during the movie. I'm also very intrigued by how they handle Domino's powers.

[@GetUpandGame]

@@robertwood6635 🤣🤣 I’m gonna her to get around to watching those now that they’re going to ‘matter’ lol

[@brandtsanderson4665]

Awesome tips. My only disagreement is that rush is absolutely a strategy. Every hero in the game can defeat a villain in 3 turns by focusing on dealing damage.

[@brandtsanderson4665]

The alter ego tip is absolutely true and a compete game changer. Alter ego is a huge boost to your ability to both control and build!

[@GetUpandGame]

That’s fair. I’m not a fan of it so I tend to think of it more as something you CAN do rather than how you play the game lol. But that’s just my bias showing and I shouldn’t so readily dismiss it!

[@tatertot1534]

What brand of card sleeve do you use?

[@GetUpandGame]

I use the KMC Perfect Fit sleeves. They’re a lot cheaper than some of the more popular brands like Dragon Shield, and they aren’t as nice, but they last forever and they don’t feel cheap!

[@tatertot1534]

@@GetUpandGame thanks! That’s exactly what I’m looking for. Penny sleeves had too much overhang and didn’t shuffle well. I like how those sleeves are snug to the cards. How do they shuffle?

[@GetUpandGame]

@@tatertot1534 very well! As long as you do the mash shuffle like with most sleeves it works no problem!

[@DescryGamingMC]

Those opening hand draws, were so good.

[@GetUpandGame]

Haha seriously! Never that good when you’re actually playing 😅

[@brandtsanderson4665]

Nah he tossed avengers mansion!

[@GetUpandGame]

@@brandtsanderson4665haha, I usually only play it if I have a double

[@brandtsanderson4665]

@@GetUpandGame agreed but free resource on Peter Parker is same thing!

[@idjester]

lies... not possible to win in certain situations... HA HA.. just kidding... great stuff....

[@GetUpandGame]

Lol, I made sure not to say Win ALL Games 😂

[@idjester]

seriously... we can talk about this when we do our live stream together but Mulligan is a trap... not needed and a way for the game to make you "think" you are making your hand stronger... discard your cards and draw new cards just to use those drawn cards to pay for the cards you kept anyways... not a good move to mulligan in my opinion...

[@captaintoad89]

getting your setup cards in play earlier is absolutely worth going through your deck a turn earlier. You will almost never lose from acceleration tokens.

[@GetUpandGame]

Haha yep we’ll talk about it for sure! I’m of the opinion that getting that extra encounter card isn’t that big of a deal compared to the benefits of setting up faster, but I totally see where you’re coming from 👍

[@idjester]

@@captaintoad89 two points.. 1- your not guaranteed to get any better cards then you originally drew... so its NOT worth the risk, and 2- getting a setup card 1 turn early does not compensate for getting a shadows of the past because you went through your deck.. so easily not worth it at all..

[@captaintoad89]

@@idjester so maybe hitting the one shadows of the past in the villain deck is justification for slowing your deck down to the point you will die the much more common ways you lose at this game? Lol no

[@idjester]

@@captaintoad89 and throwing your hand away in hopes for some magic beans might appear is a good idea??? No..

[@Utenlok]

Point number 2 on your mulligans: Thank You! Too many videos out there they over mulligan and have to waste good cards to play good cards.

[@GetUpandGame]

Ha yep, there’s nothing worse than drawing ALL of your best cards and having to give half of them up 😫

[@GetUpandGame]

Ha yep, there’s nothing worse than drawing ALL of your best cards and having to give half of them up 😫