Summary
After last year’s excellent Challenger series decks,UniVersusis gearing up for its first full booster set based in the world of Critical Role. Heroes of Exandria sees the popular actual play series return to the crossover-em-up TCG, with both the Mighty Nein and the Vox Machina, and their allies and enemies, all featuring in one, big expansion.
Of course, the heroes and villains of Critical Role deserve their own alt-art cards, too. All of these Character cards can be used as the face of your next deck when Heroes of Exandria launches on March 7.
The Alt-Art Cards Of Critical Role: Heroes Of Exandria
The cards we’re revealing today include some of Critical Role’s best-known names. Alongside Vax’ildan and Vex’ahlia, who we last saw inthe Vox Machina Challenger series deck, we’ve got major party members like Scanlon and Beauregard, as well as plenty of supporting characters like the firbolg merchant Pumat Sol.
There are also some really interesting build-arounds here. Beauregard Lionett can turn your deck into attack cards, behooving you to run plenty of Punch, Kick, and Slam cards to buff them up as you go.
Meanwhile, Caduceus Clay feels purpose-built for thenew cooperative elementbeing introduced in Heroes of Exandria, with an ability that can heal any player - perfect for when you’re working with a friend to take down a boss card.
A big component of the set is giving cards character classes, with various cards spread across Brutes, Champions, Entertainers, Inventors, Mages, Pactbound, Thieves, Wardens, and, of course, Healers like Caduceus. We can likely expect more ways to recover your own health, or prop up an ally’s, from similar Healer cards as we see more of the set.
I particularly like how Pumat Sol’s abilities feeling like you’re picking them out from a shop. It fits his profession as a trader very nicely.
Description
Beauregard Lionett, Expositor
Brawler - Mighty Nein - Spy - 6 Hand Size - 29 Life
Enhance[Once per turn, your turn] Discard 1 attack, check 6: Add the top 2 cards of your deck to your card pool face down as mid attacks with 3 speed, 3 damage, and the Kick, Punch, and Slam keywords. Add them to the attack stack.
EnhanceCommit 1 foundation: Your face up Kick, Punch, or Slam attack gets +1 damage for each attack in your card pool.
Caduceus Clay, Insightful Caretaker
Healer - Mighty Nein - 5 Hand Size - 34 Life - Death/Earth/Life
EnhanceCommit: Choose a player. That player gains 4 health. Each backup in their stage gains 2 stamina.
Enhance[Once per turn, Tenacious]: This attack gets +X damage or -X speed. X equals the number of backups in your stage plus 2. If X is 4 or greater, draw 1 card.
Essek Thelyss, Expert Dunamancer
Mage - 7 Hand Size - 19 Life - Chaos/Void/Water
Response[Once per turn, Tenacious] Remove 1 action from your discard pile: After a player makes a check to play a card, they re-check.
EnhanceCommit: Your Spell attack gainsEcho.
(Echo-ResponseSpend 1 momentum: After this attack resolves, you may attempt to play it as your next Form this turn. If you do, flip it after it resolves.)
Lady Kima of Vord
Champion - 5 Hand Size - 36 Life - Fire/Life/Order
First Form: Add 1 attack from your discard pile to your card pool. Your checks to play cards get +1 this turn.
Enhance: Your non-Throw attacks get +X damage. X equals half the printed difficulty of the preceding attack in your card pool rounded up.
Mollymauk Tealeaf, Carnival Hooligan
Entertainer - Mighty Nein - Occultist - 6 Hand Size - 28 Health - Death/Order/Void
Enhance[Tenacious] Lose 1 health: Your Weapon attack gets +1 damage and gainsStun: 1.
Response[Once per turn] Reveal up to 2 cards from your hand: After an attack is played, seal 1 rival foundation for each card revealed this way. Your rival may sacrifice 1 face up foundation to cancel this effect.
Pumat Sol, Magical Proprietor
Inventor - Mage - 6 Hand Size - 28 Life - Air/Chaos/Order
Enhance[Once per turn] Remove 1 foundation from your stage: Build 1 asset or backup from your hand.
Response[Once per turn] Discard 1 card: After you play an attack card, choose 1 -
- Draw 2 cards.
Scanland Shorthalt, Devious Troubadour
Entertainer - Mage - Vox Machina - 5 Hand Size - 33 Life - Chaos/Earth/Order
Response[Once per turn, Tenacious]: After you play an action card, build the top card of your deck face down.
EnhanceCommit: Reveal the top card of your deck. This attack gets +2 or -2 speed. If you revealed a non-foundation card, it gets +4 or -4 speed instead and you may add 1 non-attack card from your discard pile to your hand.
Taryon Darrington, Naive Creator
Inventor - Mox Machina - 6 Hand Size - 31 Health - Air/Life/Order
Enhance[Once per turn] Remove X momentum: Build 1 asset from your discard pile with difficulty equal to or less than X plus 1. X may equal 0.
EnhanceCommit 1 asset: This attack gets +X or -X speed. X equals the printed difficulty of the asset committed ot pay for this ability.
Vax’ildan, Dagger Master
Thief - Vox Machina - 6 Hand Size - 29 Health - Air/Death/Void
Enhance: This attack gets +X damage or -X speed. X equals the number of cards in your card pool.
Response: After you play your third Weapon attack this turn, your rival discards 1 card. Draw 1 card.
Vex’ahlia, Protector of the Wilds
Hunter - Vox Machina - Warden - 6 Hand Size - 29 Health - Air/Earth/Life
Enhance[Once per turn]: Build 1 Ally asset or Ally backup from your card pool. If you did and it is your turn, draw 1 card.
ResponseFlip 1 foundation: After your Ranged or Weapon attack is not blocked, unflip 1 foundation.
Yasha Nydoorin, Orphanmaker
Brute - Mighty Nein - Warrior - 6 Hand Size - 29 Health - Fire/Death/Void
If you take 3 or more damage from an attack, add 1 Rage counter to this card.
Enhance: Your attack gets +X damage, X equals half the number of Rage counters on this card (rounded up) plus 1.
Enhance[Once per game] Remove 6 Rage counters from this card: Your rival removes 2 cards from their hand.
UniVersus’Critical Role: Heroes of Exandriabegins its prerelease events on February 28, ahead of its full-scale release on March 7.
UniVersus
Formerly known as the Universal Fighting System (UVS) UniVersus is a collectible card game in which you build decks of cards, with an additional Character Card that represents you and can access powerful Enhance abilities.
