Huge change since 1.8 rulebook. The "surge" effect is now a "When Revelaed : deal yourself a facedown encounter card"

It has been confirmed by FFG that you can now cancel "Surge" with this card !!! Extremely strong, especially in Expert mode now.

I'm starting to come around on this card (for Martial Artist's and Spies only).

The Response is a (thwart) so you can play this card and any other card during your turn to clear a Confuse without losing much tempo, then continue playing any other cards you can to get extra value

It's very easy for Daredevil to get tremendous value from it by playing a card from his Sense deck.

Infiltration pairs really well with Stealth Training. Not only do I love the thematics of this combo but being given the choice of how much threat you remove means you can trigger this response with a lot more ease. I’ll be building this combo into a spy deck for sure.

I think this has good synergy with come get me bub to activate the ready on the player's phase as indomitable and other similar effect already cover readying in the villain phase. In a similar vein, it can be used this way as well by hero's that have minion-fisher effects such as valkyrie, winter solider, etc. readying during the player phase as well as the villain phase would be great for heroes whose basic powers have extra effects euch as iceman, shuri, etc.

This is one of the things that makes Bucky a great hero. Giving you 4 attack is good, but piercing and ranged is excellent, and better than they might even normally be since one of the things about bucky is you want to be searching up minions pretty often with Spoiling for a Fight and Looking for Trouble but the problem is a lot of minions have troublesome keywords like toughness or retaliation.

The winter rifle basically trivializes a massive chunk of minions, since anything with 4 or less hp is D.O.A regardless of what keywords they have; which is a large chunk of minions out there. Add on Bambino and you can one shot most enemies in the game, including his nemesis Crossbones if you want to Face the Past (which can be a good shout since divorcing Crossbones from his scheme Hydra Hit Squad makes them both much easier to handle).

Can definitely recommend running it alongside Lock and Load & Bambino since his power makes it trivial to clear the side scheme and pull out some amazing weapons.