This card really highlights why Aggression continues to be the worst aspect in the game. This card seems hit hard by the Aggression tax.

Compare for a moment to Skilled Investigator.

Skilled Investigator triggers when any side scheme is defeated regardless of who defeated it. It costs 0. It can be played on any player so you can put additional copies in multiplayer decks, and let every player draw when a side scheme is defeated. There is no additional restriction on it aside from being in hero form.

Then we have Blood Rage. You can only use it on yourself, it costs more than Skilled Investigator. It only triggers when you kill the minion, and only if you use a basic attack. And then it deals 1 damage to you for some reason.

In fairness, when Skilled Investigator was released, player side schemes didn't exist so you wouldn't be guaranteed to have as many side schemes available to thwart. Skilled Investigator has always been really good, but player side schemes has made it much more powerful and reliable.

Protection actually has a couple cards that are similar to this. Unflappable costs the same as Blood Rage and lets you draw a card if you perform a defense without taking damage. It doesn't damage you for using it. Change of Fortune costs the same amount as Blood Rage, and rewards you for defeating enemies during the villain turn instead of rewarding you for defeating them with a basic attack. It lets you draw 2 cards for this, and doesn't damage you.

Leadership doesn't have a direct equivalent of a "draw cards when you complete a certain task" upgrade. But it does have a comparable card in Clarity of Purpose. Same cost as Blood Rage. Deals 1 damage to you. The reward is a wild resource instead of a card, which is generally worth less. But there's no restriction on when to use it. And like Skilled Investigator, copies can be given to teammates.

Technically, Unflappable and Change of Fortune can be given to teammates too. I'm not sure how often you'd want to give them to non-protection players, but it's cool that option exists for people who do, and it's weird Blood Rage can't.

Blood Rage is a "good card" in that it's the best an Aggression player has access to if they happen to be building a deck that involves a lot of minion killing with basic attacks. But it's also easily the worst of the comparable cards in other aspects.

This card is terrible. First, because of the amount of threat that needs to be removed (4 per player). Second, because you can only have one side scheme in play, and there are plenty of better ones than this. Third, you must have your ally on the table. It requires a specific set of circumstances: the side scheme must be in play, your ally must be on the table, and it must actually be advantageous for you to remove the threat from that card. And all of this just so the equipment card can be any good... And for multiplayer, it’s even worse. If it’s already difficult for it to happen to you, just imagine it happening to 2, 3, or 4 players. Simply adding a note that it doesn’t count toward the player’s limit for side missions would be a huge improvement. In fact, I’m going to implement this house rule.

This card actually is very useful in a specific deck where you can get it out at the same time as Live Dangerously. You actually all get a benefit of one extra card draw each turn even accounting for the other card would have to be spent keeping Mitigated Threat on the board. This is surprisingly, a positive trade with no drawbacks. This is especially good with Cable who can choose which side scheme he wants to start the game with. The only problem with this is then Cable also cannot put another player side scheme out. Potentially if you play 2-player and both run Symbiote Suit, and then someone runs a pool deck you can bring all 3 copies of Mitigated Threat with something for each of them to be attached to. Overall, this card at least has some hope of seeing play in a few very niche decks. Outside of this I do not see it ever being worth playing outside of incredibly niche situations. I believe It was intended for villain related schemes/minions but this use is so niche. Technically could also again be used with some pool minions but I once again don't see it providing enough value here maybe Pandapool with Adam Warlock could find value???? I am waiting for someone to do that!

This is such an interesting card to compare to Heroic Intuition and Combat Training.

All are 3-ER. All provide a +1 buff for a power.

So the difference is a matter of reusability versus versatility.

Heroic Intuition and Combat Training both increase one stat and can increase that stat as many times as you can ready in the turn. Soaring Acrobatics can increase any stat, but only once per round. In decks with a bunch of readies where you're mainly using the one stat, Heroic Intuition and Combat Training are better.

But otherwise, you might get more use out of this. You can use it to increase your ATK one turn, your THW another, or your DEF in a turn where you have to block. If you have aerial allies, you can buff their ATK or THW in a turn where you're stunned, confused or exhausted.

You can't use it multiple times in a turn, but you can use it practically every turn for whatever it is you're doing.

I wouldn't say it's better than Heroic Intuition or Combat Training. But I also wouldn't say it's worse. It just has a different sort of utility.

For three ER, I can't figure this. It seems more about efficiency and balancing than boosting. Like maybe you need to do 3 damage, but I only need 1 Thw? Might could help in Protection when you sometimes need a little more defense, but sometimes you don't? I dunno. Seems like a dead card.