Knowing my Dad, I figured he’d want to play the new Captain America hero deck. I pulled out the basic Justice Aspect Iron Man deck (was curious how Justice & Iron Man worked together) and we took on Rhino. The scenario didn’t give us much problems at all, as Dad was able to deal punches to him repeatedly with his “I can do this all day” ability, while I was able to keep little to no threat on the scheme. When we beat the first version of Rhino and moved to the second version, Dad was a little let down that we had to do the same thing again, but he went with it.

By the time we finished the game, I really wasn’t sure what his take on it was for a couple of reasons.

A) I had done a lot of “alpha gaming” (when someone is more or less explaining what everyone should be doing with their cards) on purpose to help him see how the cards worked together, as this type of deck customizing game isn’t typically his type of game.

B) It was “later” at night (cough 8pm) when we started, which in the past has never gone well for me teaching games. At that point, I’m usually better off bringing out a smaller game that everyone already knows the rules for.

C) There was a hockey game on. So this meant every few seconds he’d crane his neck out to see how the game was going (He’s a huge hockey fan). Honestly, was kinda surprised he was willing to play a game in the first place.

I came out of our gameplay totally expecting him to be like “Meh, that was okay”, and for us to never play the game again, and honestly it would have been my fault for the reasons listed above. But, I was super excited to break out the game since I got the new hero decks that my proper brain didn’t kick in to say that it probably wasn’t the best environment. Clearly I’m not the only one who has ever done this right?

The next day, however, he was asking me more questions about what else was in the Marvel Champions box. “So, are there other villains to fight?” (Yep, Klaw and Ultron) “If someone else were to play with us, would they pick up a different hero?” (Yeah, it can play up to 4 people, each person with a different hero). “What other heroes are there?” (Spider-Man, She-Hulk, Black Panther, Captain Marvel in the base box, but I have Ms. Marvel as well). He even made a comment to my brother, who was a big Spider-Man fan, that he should grab the Spider-Man deck and play with us next time. Whoa, he wants to play again! Cool!