This is such a silly card allowing the player to skip part of the game. Evidence counters are collected from performing basic activations, so by playing the game in a regular manner (even just defending and thwarting, if you wish) you collect 'good detective points' that eventually can be exchanged for a win. What's more, nothing is stopping you from keeping the villain at stage one until you have hoarded enough counters to defeat both stages back to back - you'll just have to survive a single villain phase because the card exhausts. Jessica having her own recyclable player side scheme to trigger the effect is just cherry on top.
In a solo game I can see this happening that you collect the amount of evidence counter needed to beat stage II/III right away but the more player are playing the less likely it will be to one shot the villain. I rather think there it will be that you will use the counters for their effects and then bear the villain when it's maybe at 10-15 life or less.
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Chris2002
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That's still being handed a win early for playing the game as you would normally. Would you like to see Captain Marvel's Energy Channel as a setup card with no damage limit?
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Preposterous
· 157