We do not bleed hit points; we change the rules of the game via the total mechanical deconstruction of the permanent SUIT FORM. You camp in STEALTH SUIT form, which causes the suit's forced interrupt to instantly convert every enemy attack attempt into a scheme activation. The mathematical yield is absolute: you take exactly zero combat damage, NICK FURY never has to cowardly exhaust to defend, and permanently draws a gigantic hand of six cards while in STEALTH SUIT form! Because the DIRECTOR lurks in the shadows, your ten unique allies never die as cheap block fodder. They remain on the board for their entire health bar, using brutal stats to immediately drop the threat of the forced scheming back to zero every single round, while you accumulate the resources for total destruction in the background.
If your hand size feels too small, we simply turn the play area into our hand. You pay the three costs for your three copies of TAC TEAM exactly once through your massive generators. Since this damage action is not a HERO ATTACK, it does not trigger your interrupt to BREAK COVER. You remain safely seated in STEALTH SUIT form, completely untouchable, ignoring the GUARD keyword, and pinging the boss for two damage every round – completely hand-free. This network is perfected by LEGION, who discards a card from your deck after using a basic power. Since this construct is radically dominated by physical resources, LEGION statistically hits a fist almost every time, automatically blasting the boss for two additional damage without costing you a single card.
As soon as the KILL WINDOW is open, the final mathematical execution follows. You declare your first attack via the event FULL FORCE CHARGE, which forces the suit into ASSAULT SUIT form prior to damage calculation. Since the suit legally scales with every attack, you unload up to three counters from the suit for three additional damage with every single strike! Eight base damage plus three suit modifiers equal eleven damage per perfectly prepared blow, shredding the boss step-by-step with up to 33 total damage in a single hero phase! Should you fail to draw events, your kit upgrade CONCENTRATED FIRE still stacks with your permanent COMBAT TRAINING, your loaded HAND CANNON, and the suit to unleash an outrageous 11-damage Overkill basic attack!
A deck forgives no mistakes in the sequencing. When you have used your ASSAULT SUIT form for your attacks and the Villain Phase begins, you are never defenseless because you dictate the terms. You either use the unbreakable ally shield, stay in ASSAULT SUIT form, and sacrifice an exhausted ally (like ANGELA, THROG, or VALKYRIE) at the very last moment as a cinematic meatshield. Or you choose the infiltration pendulum: if your field is empty, you flip to ALTER-EGO (BRUCE BANNER) at the end of your turn and use the printed INFILTRATE action to turn the suit back to STEALTH SUIT form for free. When the Villain Phase begins, you are instantly invisible again, the boss is forced to scheme, and you take zero damage. This manifest is the absolute, mechanical truth. Print it, upload it to MARVELCDB, play it flawlessly – or crawl back into your holes. CASE CLOSED.