I was getting very frustrated with Magneto until I found this gem of an ally. Venom punishes the villain for surging!

Imagine you’re fighting someone like Magneto. You’ve just been attacked and this resulted in that 3rd magnetic token having to be placed, thus triggering a “magnetic” encounter card. Oh no! Whatever shall I do?

Deal one damage to Venom and hit Magneto right back.

Now resolve your encounter card as usual per the villain phase—oh no wait, Venom forced you to draw an EXTRA encounter card, how awful! Oh no, wait. Now We’ll just go rinse and repeat punishing Magneto TWO MORE TIMES. Venom has 6 health, we likely used up 1 due to consequential damage upon initially playing him and using one of his basic powers…then dealt a total of 3 damage just resolving his card effect during the Villain Phase…then we began the Player Phase and still have 2 health left! That’s bonkers!!!

It’s a good thing there isn’t a way to recur such a powerful ally(cough Make the Call cough) so as to rinse and repeat. Oh and it sure is good we don’t have any heroes who’s whole deal is forcing you to draw more encounter cards then usual(cough Starlord cough).

Just an excellent card to have out for the right villain! Lovin’ it!!!