🦸 Mighty Avengers Have Arrived!

The Mighty Avengers affiliation has officially landed, and with it comes a brand-new leader: Spectrum 🌈. Today, we’re taking a deep dive into the Mighty Avengers leadership, how it actually works on the table, and—most importantly—how to squeeze every last drop of value out of it.

🤝 Stronger Together Than Apart

The Mighty Avengers leadership can be used once per turn when an affiliated character would gain power.

Instead of gaining all of that power, you may:

Gain 1 less power, and
Give 1 power to another allied character

A few key clarifications:

❌ This does not work during the Power Phase
❌ It also does not work during Cleanup
✅ It does trigger when attacking, taking damage, or using abilities that generate power

At first glance, this leadership doesn’t generate power—it displaces it. But displacement can be just as powerful as raw generation… sometimes more so.

Let’s compare it to some familiar leaderships to see why.

⚖️ Comparing Leaderships

🧬 Inhumans

Inhumans are the gold standard for power displacement. They can pass power once per turn, regardless of triggers, even when passing activations.

Mighty Avengers trade that flexibility for:

No range restriction
The ability to trigger during the opponent’s turn

Once engaged, Mighty Avengers can realistically pass twice as much power per round, anywhere on the board. That’s a real upside.

🔵 X-Men Blue (Cyclops)

Cyclops generates 1 power when an attack deals damage, but:

Requires damage
Limited to Range 5

Mighty Avengers:

Don’t require damage
Have no range restriction
Can trigger off any power-gaining effect

Different tools, different strengths—but subtly, Mighty Avengers are more flexible.

⭐Avengers (Steve Rogers, Cap1)

Steve’s leadership is famously excellent: the first superpower per character each turn costs 1 less.

In many cases, this is simply better than Mighty Avengers.

However… Mighty Avengers can funnel power into things Steve can’t discount:

⚔️ Attacks
📦 Interacts

And let’s be honest—most of the time, it’s about attacks.

💥 Stunned & Dazed – Sneaky Interactions

This leadership has some extremely interesting interactions with core rules.

😵 Stun

Because Stun reduces power after the Leadership trigger:

A stunned character gaining 5 power can
Reduce it to 4 via leadership
Then Stun reduces it to 1

That passed power is effectively free.

☠️ Dazing & KO

When a character is dazed or KO’d, they still gain power from damage before being removed.

That means:

You can use the leadership
Pass power
Then lose the character

Value until the very end. 💀➡️🔋

🧠 So What Does This Actually Mean?

From the above, we can extract the leadership’s true strengths:

🔁 Can move power every turn if a trigger occurs
⚡ Can trigger off any power-gaining ability
📡 Ignores range entirely
💣 Feeds superpowers and spenders

This leadership wants you to attack, take hits, and stay engaged.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Affiliated All-Stars

Let’s look at the affiliated characters and how they shine under Spectrum.

🌈 Spectrum

The engine herself.

Two gainers, one of which is a beam!
Defensive “reverse Pierce” that generates power on a wild
Energy Boost adds +2 dice to attacks

She’s designed to generate power consistently and convert it directly into damage.

🐈 Black Panther, Chosen of Bast

With extra power:

Extremely consistent Pay-to-Flip
At 6+ power, can Pounce into spender
Capable of up to four attacks in a round

Absolutely terrifying when fueled.

🕷️ Black Widow

She doesn’t use power well—but that’s the point.

Cheap
Disruptive
Happy to take hits
Can pass power while annoying extract holders

Disposable… but profitable.

🌌 Blue Marvel

Huge upside.

Long-range, high-dice attacks
Counts skulls
Enormous damage ceiling

Everything else on his card is expensive, so he wants power badly. Feed him early, let him self-sustain once rolling skulls.

🦅 Sam Wilson

Gains power efficiently
Spends in neat multiples of two
Mobile, disruptive, and flexible

A perfect middleman for power flow.

💫 Captain Marvel, Cosmic Avenger

Often overlooked, but:

Wants 6 power
Wants Binary Form online ASAP

The leadership enables her—but at the cost of feeding her over the rest of the team. High risk, high reward.

🤖 Iron Man

Tough
Great push
Very power-efficient

If the dice cooperate, he can act as a static power battery.

💪 Luke Cage

Taunt
Damage reduction
Spends power defensively

When he takes hits, he can often pass power right back to the team. Excellent bodyguard.

🏋️ She-Hulk

Similar to Luke Cage, but:

Hits much harder
Costs 6 threat

Good in theory, but that’s a big investment.

🛡️ Steve Rogers, Captain America (Cap2)

Power for mobility
Power for rerolls
Power for defence

His offensive rerolls combo beautifully with The Ultimates TTC!

🐜 Ant-Man

Barely spends power.
Anything he gains is effectively communal property.

🌟 Strong Splashes

Who else loves this leadership?

🔥 Ghost Rider / King T’Challa

Both gain power when allies take damage.
That power can then be passed.

Functionally adds an A-Force–style leadership.

🧘 Wong

Double Meditate Turn 1
Triggers leadership
Fuels Faithful Assistant

Can pass 2 power Turn 1, but activation economy is the tax.

🧠 Meditators

Any character with Action: Gain 2 Power spreads the wealth nicely.

🐶 Lockjaw

Marvel’s Best Boy 🐾

Gains 3 power at activation near allies
Passes one via leadership
Then plays normally

More efficient than Meditate—and excellent for teleporting turrets like Blue Marvel early.

🔮 Clea

Generates power
Boosts dice
Moves allies

A support piece with absurd utility.

🤖 Sentinel Prime

Generates 2 power at end of activation
Has R4 rerolls

Pairs beautifully with Spectrum’s dice boosts.

⚡ Chargers

Many characters are 1 power short of charging Round 1.
This leadership flips that switch early—and that tempo swing matters.

🐂 Gorgon

Amazing spender
Charge
Taunt

An incredible 3-threat who converts excess power into dazed enemies.

🐈‍⬛ Black Cat

With just one extra power per turn, her spender is consistently online.

The real strength is timing—she can threaten steals even when she shouldn’t have the power to do so. The Mighty Avengers leadership turns “almost enough” into just enough.

🕸️ Spider-Man, Miles Morales

Miles is an absolute menace when powered early.

Web Swing Round 1 lets him contest or disrupt the midline immediately
Getting his spender online early can completely derail an opponent’s extract plan
High mobility plus control makes him incredibly frustrating to pin down

⚔️ Lady Sif / Baron Zemo

Not standout with the leadership—but phenomenal with Spectrum.
“Reroll any” + extra dice = chef’s kiss.

🛡️ Ronin / Valkyrie

Like above, more dice = more crits/wilds = more value.
They turn on earlier and hit harder.

🧾 In Summary

The Mighty Avengers leadership is:

🔥 Aggressive
⚡ Power-efficient
🎯 Attack-focused

It rewards staying engaged, leveraging damage, and converting power into meaningful spenders—especially on a leader who adds even more dice.

At a high level it will reward planning when power is gained, now how much.

With the ability to splice in support and spread benefits across the board, this affiliation feels like it’s only going to get stronger as new characters arrive.

Bring on Sentry. 💥