I am a tremendous fan of the nuanced benefits of the Sense deck. This hero card is an exceptional way to abuse it.

It already costs 2ER to play something from the Sense Deck. This card takes that valuation and shatters it.

Not only do you get to play a Sense Deck card for the same cost, you also get to pick ANY available Sense Deck card. And AFTER that, you can remove 2 threat from ANY scheme!

The Sense Deck was already powerful to a surprising level, but this card absolutely breaks its potential.

The power of this Side Scheme for Daredevil cannot be overstated.

Before getting into the benefits, let's just deal with the mechanics.

First, it is 0 cost, so you can throw it out there no questions asked. Second, it has a set amount to thwart that is independent of player count. (though that is largely due to the fact that only the Daredevil player can THW it.) Third, there's no victory reward, so you can use it repeatedly.

As for the benefit...I just don't know where to start.

The five cards in the sense deck are interesting and beneficial in and of themselves, but when you start to deal with combinations, the possibilities spiral wildly.

This is the fun, but very precarious implementation of Daredevil's Sense deck. It can truly turn the tide, so long as you are perpetually aware of it and take advantage of every opportunity to abuse it.

If it wasn't obvious, I loved Daredevil long before Fantasy Flight finally decided to add him to the game.

How could you NOT use this card?

All day long with Cage you are going to be pinging Toughs off of him...why not get a card draw out of it? It's cheap and pays dividends nearly every turn.

I love to run Cage in Protection, which means this card can easily compound with Change Of Fortune to allow for tremendous extra card draw in the mid-to-late game, particularly if you lean into Retaliation.

But even by itself, this is a great upgrade.

Honestly, I thought this card was going to be a 'wish and a dream' for Cage. But after 10 or so games in Protection, I found myself relying on this card in some clinch moments.

Obviously it works best (or maybe only) when you already have a few Tough status cards, but that's literally Cage's job description. Sure, it maxes at 5 THW which isn't the most efficient for a 3ER card, but the added Tough (that -also- gets counted for the THW) is the chef's kiss for this card.

How awesome is this card? You get to add it to your beginning hand after the fact, meaning it's one of the few examples of a 2 cost card actually being a 2ER.

More importantly, it works whenever you are in Alter-Ego, with no other stipulations. So a free Tough whenever you dip down.

The best part is that the first time you use it, you are almost guaranteed to take advantage of the final amazing aspect of the card, which gives you a SECOND Tough...for no reason. I LOVE this so much. (Okay, yes, the reason is that you have no Toughs, but on Turn 1, that's just a free extra Tough)

You will probably spend some time trying to work out the puzzle of how and when to let a Tough ping off in order to maximize the benefits of this card, but that's literally the best part of playing Marvel Champions.