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It’s Christmas, how can we not play #Marvel #Legendary. As is tradition we had a new expansion for our most played game ever and as is tradition, the mastermind handily dispatched us several times on the trot. Upon opening the new set my little brother plumped straight for the Mandarin, potentially the hardest Mastermind in the set. The Mandarin always leads his 10 Rings, a henchmen set that comes with ten different fight effects. However each ring the players defeat lowers t

Nick Fury sighed and looked at his roster of heroes, "b-listers at best" and he had a Loki sized problem brewing on the horizon.

It wouldn’t be Christmas without the obligatory #MarvelLegendary expansion. As some of you might know, Legendary is my little brother’s favourite game of all time and we are fast approaching 500 plays, so his Christmas present this year was the X-Men expansion 15 new heroes, 6 new masterminds plus plenty of other cool additions make this a great value set but not one for the faint hearted. So far we have played against 3 of the new Masterminds, Arcade, Dark Phoenix and Deathb

Legendary is my most played game ever. With a whopping 320 plays under our belts this game is a firm favourite at the table. That being said, I need new content every now and then to keep things fresh and interesting. Civil War delivers that in spades! The Civil War Expansion adds 370 new cards, 16 new heroes, 7 new villain groups and 2 new henchmen groups along with 5 new masterminds to give us a whole bunch of new big bads to face. Along with all of this there are 8 new sch

In this series I am going to be providing a series of mini reviews of 12 games that we played over the festive period. The marvel deckbuilding game, Legendary from Upper Deck has become a quick favourite in our house. Being set in the Marvel universe it draws on familiarity and nostalgia for the theme and enjoyment, but those two things would not be enough without a solid, if somewhat simple game underneath. Legendary is a co-op game, with a victory point mechanic that allows