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Orphaned as a child, Natasha Romanoff has now been raised and trained to become a lethal spy!

Play through the Civil War storyline within Legendary!

There is a darkness rising in the Marvel Universe! Legendary: Dark City, the first expansion to "Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game," brings an entirely new level of play to the critically-acclaimed card game. In Dark City, players use new heroes like Cable, Daredevil, Professor X, and Blade to face off against deadly, all-new Masterminds like Apocalypse, Mr. Sinister, and Kingpin!

Dice Throne Adventures (DTA) is a cooperative expansion that allows up to 4 players to use the heroes you already own in a brand new way. Work together over a series of game nights to travel from the Crimson Sands all the way to the Mad King's throne room. Your heroes will gain permanent deck upgrades with each session, but don't become overconfident. The King hasn't lost a single battle in a thousand years and he's eager for a real challenge.

Thunderstone: Heart of Doom brings the struggle introduced in Thunderstone to an epic climax. This expansion adds seven heroes, thirteen village cards, five monster groups, one treasure set, three settings, three guardians and one thunderstone.

Wielding incredible powers, Asgardians like Thor and Sif were worshipped as gods by early Norse tribes. Now they storm back to Earth to defend it from ancient, awakening threats. The inscription on Mjolnir says “Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.” But Thor has often struggled with arrogance and self-doubt. At the crucial moment, will he prove worthy? Malekith and Hela now send their followers to bring them new villainous weapons that are equal to Mjolnir’s power. These conquerors storm over the lands of Midgard,trampling the weak in their wake. Thor struggles to prove worthy against the frost giants and on Earth. The dark world of Svartalfheim rises to smother the Nine Realms in darkness. Finally, Ragnarok threatens the final epic destruction of Asgard.

It has been many years since the Dwarves last heard from Balin. Now the heroes of Middle-earth must search for signs of him and his fledgling Dwarven colony. Khazad-dûm is the first deluxe expansion for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, expanding your game with 165 new cards. Two Dwarf heroes offer their services, and players gain the benefit of new player cards (three copies of each) while facing new scenarios filled with perilous locations and a menacing host of enemies.

Nightweave has made Plots and Plans for taking over Everdell with the aid of her spiderlings! Pit your wits against Nightweave's in solo or two-player games, and recruit heroes of yore like Corrin Evertail himself.

Phoenix Five is a Kickstarter Exclusive expansion that brings a momentous saga to Marvel United. The mysterious Phoenix Force has taken over 5 powerful heroes, turning them into a group of Villains whose unbridled power few can withstand. It will be up to the X-Men, with the aid of Hope Summers, to face a daunting campaign against the Phoenix Five. The outcome of each battle affects the next, and each subsequent foe accumulates more of the Phoenix Force, posing a greater challenge.

Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and War Machine have finally emerged from the shadows. But the Avengers are tested as never before when dark Revelations force them to question everything they know. The Mandarin manipulates secrets to turn Avenger against Avenger and transforming schemes of deception and corruption make it hard to tell good and evil apart. Scarlet Witch’s fragile sanity cracks, warping the world into the House of M. Soon the Heroes are haunted by dark memories of tragedy that even Quicksilver’s speed can’t escape. Daring to hope, the Avengers prepare their incredible powers for a desperate last stand.

Turn the tables on your enemies with disruptive new mechanics that let you attack and defend the base of your Staks! 16 new Bots across 60 cards bring a new wave of controlled chaos as you strive to manipulate and destroy all of your opponent's cards. This is an expansion, but it does not require the original game to play (by using the online rules for the original).

Like each set before it, the Red box brings 60 game cards with 16 brand new Bots, each with a different function: some manoeuvre cards when they enter play, some destroy extra cards when they do damage, some have passive enhancements, etc etc. Used in combination, these different effects and abilities allow you to create weaknesses in your opponent's card arrangement and then take advantage of it to destroy them! This new Red set has a strong focus on the number of face-up cards in a Stak and the arrangement of them, and it mixes in perfectly with both of the existing card sets.