Marvel Superstars

Marvel Superstars

Marvel Superstars card back
Designer(s)	Dave Humpherys, John Fiorillo, Jeff Liu, Justin Reilly, Dan Scheidegger, Ben Seck
Publisher(s)	Upper Deck
Players	2+
Age range	12+
Playing time	~ 15 minutes
Random chance	Some
Skill(s) required	Card playing Simple math Deck optimization Planning

Marvel Superstars is a collectible card game published by Upper Deck that will be released in North America in March 2010. The cards and game play are inspired by films based on Marvel Comics characters. It is the first collectible card game to use characters from Marvel films produced by different studios. The card art features scenes from the films.

Game play

Marvel Superstars emulates battles between superhero and supervillain characters from the films. Each player selects a leader, which has 50 health. When a player's leader has accumulated damage greater than its health, that player loses the game.

In addition to the leader, each player uses three bases and his or her own deck of 50 or more cards.

Card types and teams

There are four card types: Leader Characters, Supporter Characters, Actions, and Resources

All cards except resources belong to a team. The teams are:

• Avengers
• Fantastic Four
• Marvel Knights
• X-Men
• Villains

Featured films

• Iron Man
• Iron Man 2
• The Incredible Hulk
• Blade
• Blade II
• Blade: Trinity
• Ghost Rider
• Daredevil
• Elektra
• Punisher: War Zone
• Fantastic Four
• Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
• X-Men
• X2: X-Men United
• X-Men: The Last Stand
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Product releases

Marvel Superstars booster packs contain 20 cards each. Cards have four possible rarities: common, uncommon, rare, or super rare. Super rare cards are foil. Each booster has 15 commons, including one leader and one resource, 4 uncommons and 1 rare or super rare.

Set Code	Set Name	Date	Featured Leaders
PE	Premier Edition	March 2010	Iron Man Hulk Mr. Fantastic Invisible Woman Thing Human Torch Blade Elektra Ghost Rider Doom Magneto Abomination Professor X Storm Wolverine
PS	Premier Starter	March 2010	Iron Man Wolverine

Organized play

Upper Deck will run an organized play program for Marvel Superstars. This will include weekly local tournaments called Marvel Fight Nights, and an annual World Championship event.

External links

• Upper Deck Play Marvel Site

• Legendary Cardboard: The Premiere Marvel Superstars blog.