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Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game – Villains

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2014 · 1-5 players · 45min · weight 2.72 · 2,798 ratings

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BGG raw

ID
156689
Name
Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game – Villains
Year
2014
Rank
536
Min players
1
Max players
5
Playing time
45
Min playtime
45
Max playtime
45
Avg weight
2.7195
Num weights
82
Bayes avg
6.54399
Average
7.5255
Users rated
2798
Num owned
6396
Wanting
193
Wishing
785
Num comments
422
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:16:01 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (3)
Cooperative GameDeck, Bag, and Pool BuildingSemi-Cooperative Game
Categories (2)
Card GameComic Book / Strip
Description (698 chars)

The Legendary universe gets flipped upside down in Legendary: Villains – Marvel Deck Building Game, and you can now play as villains trying to take out the heroes protecting the city! The goal of the game remains roughly the same as in the first Legendary game as players can work both with and against other players to overcome obstacles that the game throws at them. In this case, however, players use the super villains of the Marvel Universe — including Venom, Magneto and Loki — to battle superheroes such as the X-Men, the Avengers and Spider-Friends. Legendary: Villains – Marvel Deck Building Game is a standalone game that includes all the cards needed to play.

LLM v2 (wide)

Core verb
buy card, attack hero
Decision shape
combinatorial
Reward schedule
engine_compounding
Aesthetics
["Challenge", "Fantasy", "Narrative"]
Core loop pitch
Inverted Legendary: villains buy from a 5-card lineup, attack heroes flooding the city, defeat the Mastermind first.
Translation difficulty
Medium
Difficulty reason
Cooperative deckbuilder ports well, but Marvel licensing has kept Upper Deck off official apps; only Legendary DXP (no Marvel art) exists.
Direct digital port
Port kind
Closest loop translation
Marvel Snap
Primitive tags
["five_slot_market_river", "attack_value_to_kill", "mastermind_phase_progression", "scheme_loss_clock", "wound_card_pollution"]
Confidence
0.6
Extracted at
Mon Apr 27 2026 11:40:03 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Raw v2 JSON (946 chars)
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  "name": "Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game – Villains",
  "core_verb": "buy card, attack hero",
  "decision_shape": "combinatorial",
  "reward_schedule": "engine_compounding",
  "aesthetics": [
    "Challenge",
    "Fantasy",
    "Narrative"
  ],
  "core_loop_pitch": "Inverted Legendary: villains buy from a 5-card lineup, attack heroes flooding the city, defeat the Mastermind first.",
  "mobile_translation_difficulty": "Medium",
  "translation_difficulty_reason": "Cooperative deckbuilder ports well, but Marvel licensing has kept Upper Deck off official apps; only Legendary DXP (no Marvel art) exists.",
  "direct_digital_port": null,
  "direct_digital_port_kind": null,
  "closest_loop_translation": "Marvel Snap",
  "primitive_tags": [
    "five_slot_market_river",
    "attack_value_to_kill",
    "mastermind_phase_progression",
    "scheme_loss_clock",
    "wound_card_pollution"
  ],
  "confidence": 0.6
}

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).