Legendary: Marvel Deck Building Game - Annihilation Expansion

With this and the Fantastic Four expansion, which you should get together in my opinion, you could have Galactus in 3 different spots of the game! Pretty funny.

If you own every other expansion then this is a must.

This expansion adds back the focus keyword and the villains are also great fun!

I have a tendency to like the not quite so famous characters, especially when it comes to Marvel. This expansion offers just that. Legendary Marvel is still one of my favorite LCG's, so I love when they give me more underrated characters to choose from. Sometimes you have to color outside of the lines.

Not the best, but great expansion. Especially if you're Marvel Cosmic fan. A must-have if you already have 'Guardians of the Galaxy' and 'Into the Cosmos' expansions.

Annihilation feels like an essential Marvel Legendary expansion, bringing back the fun and deep Focus mechanic and adding several beloved characters to the game, including Franklin and Valeria Richards, Super Skrull, Kang the Conqueror, and Annihilus. I've enjoyed the characters in tandem and isolation and have replayed several of the schemes back to back, something I rarely do.

Long time Legendary players aren't likely to forget the great Legendary drought that happened during the shipping crisis about a year into the pandemic. This expansion was scheduled for an end of February 2020 release and didn't actuallty get released until the end of September 2020. Glad to see the long hiatus had no effect on the quality. The two Masterminds are Annihilus and Kang, both longtime fan favorotes of comic readers. Annihilus has been a favorite of mine for many years, long before the Annihilation Wave storyline which put him more into the public eye. And Kang.... he has just been introduced into the MCU, likely as the next new ultimate baddie after Thanos, so he's getting plenty of buzz not too. I found Annihilus to be a bit disappointing, likely because I had already set the bar too high in my head. He's mechanically sound with his Momentum keyword and the Annihilation Wave villain group, but I just wasn't feeling ANNIHILUS. Players will probably really enjoy one card in that Annihilation Wave villain group, Weaponized Galactus. It's essentially a gigantic bomb that wants to race through the city so that when it escapes, it destroys a city space and then re-enters the villain deck. THAT'S going to be a problem over time! Speaking of which, there's Kang. Again, not feeling KANG, but mechanically sound. All four of the schemes are just fine, but nothing I found outstanding. That's actually praise though, because I have found a few schemes in the sets over time to be complete duds and that matters more to me than getting a scheme that's totally fascinating and new. Brainstorm has worked fine as a hero so far, with little to comment on from me. Psi-Lord is neat to play and he provides a useful utility function, but he's not all that great for dishing out damage. That's okay though and he's a welcome addition to the team. Heralds of Galactus really isn't a set I wanted, but it plays fine. It includes a Galactus card which functions similar to the Sentry and Phoenix rares of the past where you get a monumentally large effect but risk paying a terrible cost. Fantastic Four United is the stinker of the set. Mechanically, it's fine, but I just hate having a little hero set with four charcters that I already have FULL hero sets of. Why? Why did they bother even creating this when they could have come up with some other Fantastic Four character to use? Super-Skrull is more fun that I had thought he would be. I like the character and it was cute the way they made his cards somewhat of an opposite to the Fantastic Four cards since those are the powers he stole.

A great addition to the Marvel Legendary game. Great new berries and villains.

The fantastic four are back in this great expansion

Marvel Legendary is the best board game I have ever played. It is the perfect mix of simple gameplay and deep strategy. As for this expansion, it is alright. Overall the expansion as a whole is nothing special. Anything that adds more cards to Legendary however is also good, so I'd still recommend this expansion. Note however this is an expansion and requires one of the base games to play.