We hope you enjoyed your first look at Legendary®: Into the Cosmos. In that post we took some time to go over Shards, Danger Sense, and Cosmic Threat.  It’s always great when we can bring back some fan favorite keywords! Now let’s take a look at what’s new!

Celestial Boons

The Celestials are millions of years old and immeasurably powerful. They cannot be truly defeated by mere mortals. However, if you manage to fight a Celestial, it is impressed with your efforts and grants you a Celestial Boon. This is a permanent bonus that helps you for the rest of the game. But beware! If fail to prove your worth to The Celestials by allowing them to escape there will be a heavy price to pay indeed!

Contest of Champions 

The Grandmaster and the Elders of the Universe are literally immortal. To them, mortal lifespans are merely playthings. This is shown with the new Contest of Champions keyword. Some Villains and Masterminds say things like “Ambush: Contest of Champions .” When this happens:

• Each player in turn reveals a single card, either from their hand, or that they played this turn, or the top card of their deck. The player announces their “Contest Score,” which is that card’s printed cost, doubled if it’s a card. You must choose carefully whether to use the best score you have from your hand, or to take a risk by trying the top card of your deck instead.
• After all players have announced their Contest Score, then Evil tries to win the contest. Reveal the top two cards of the Hero Deck, and Evil uses whichever card gives the highest Contest Score (taking account of any doubling.) Again, this is the card’s printed cost, doubled if it’s a card.  Then put both those cards on the bottom of the Hero Deck.
• Whichever score is highest (or tied for highest) “wins” the contest. Everyone else “loses.”
• The card will list consequences for winning & losing.
• Some contests say that Evil reveals 4 or 6 cards from the Hero Deck. Evil’s Contest Score is still the highest-scoring single card.

New Schemes

What would a preview be without a glimpse at a couple of the new schemes.

The Contest of Champions scheme is truly an epic battle! To win you must plan ahead and ally with the other players in a joint effort to recruit the proper colors as they appear in the Contest Row. Without careful planning you will surely go down in defeat!

Turn the Soul of Adam Warlock is a race to save for the very soul of Adam Warlock! When a twist is played, you will be forced to choose whether to use your precious attack to purify Adam Warlock or will the need to fight evil be more pressing? The stakes are high, the corruption of his soul!

Finally, a peek at one of the Special Bystanders. Or should we call it an EXTRA Special Bystander!

That’s the previews of Legendary®: Into the Cosmos. Excited? We certainly are. This amazing expansion hits stores this summer!