I think many of you are looking at this card from a different angle - for me this card says "put a mildly annoying encounter card into the set of Ronan, Nebula, Venom Goblin, Thanos etc." the thing about minions is even if they hit you with quickstrike or ability they are usually easy to clear the turn they show up and compared to some very annoying encounter cards are not doing much. it was funny when I first got hit by shadow of the past in the first turn on Ronan and I realised that cards that i put into villain deck are much weaker than his own cards.

TLDR - put easy card into villain deck - good!

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You got 2 healing per round. In the second round you got 4 heal for 4 ER (this is 2 First Aids), and on the start of the third round after you play this card you exceed this. The more you stay in the game, the more Healing Factor is useful. Only downside is cost 3, which is pretty high... but you can calculate this.

Overall rating (A-C) A One of the few Pool cards, that you can always consider and have not really downsides

Unless I am mistaken (and I really hope I am on this, or that it receives an FAQ/errata), but isn't the only effect of this card to put you in the way of an attack, like any "Hero Interrupt (defense)", while doing literally nothing else?

The text of the event specifies timing, so you can use it for any enemy attack (as opposed to some Defenses), but for all other intents and purposes, it only puts you in front of an attack, and nothing else. It doesn't say to make a basic defend without Exhausting, which I believe is the true intent of this card.

Take for example, the simulatenously released Cuts Both Ways, which for 1ER does exactly the same effect (defending), on the same trigger, with the upside of getting a point of Retaliate. And it's cheaper.

Someone sanity check me, please.

based on Hall of Heroes, this card is probably going to receive an errata:

Is it intended that S.H.I.E.L.D. Deputy does not have a Max 1 per character limit?

Yes, that was a mistake. S.H.I.E.L.D. Deputy should have “max 1 per character.”

-Alex – October 10, 2025