Summary
- UniVersus’ first full Critical Role booster set, Heroes of Exandria, features characters from the Mighty Nein and Vox Machina.
- Alt-art cards of popular characters like Beauregard and Caduceus come with unique abilities for strategic gameplay.
- Expect character classes like Healers and Brutes to play a critical role in the set.
After last year’s excellent Challenger series decks, UniVersus is gearing up for its first full booster set based in the world of Critical Role. Heroes of Exandria sees the popular actual play series return to the crossover-em-up TCG, with both the Mighty Nein and the Vox Machina, and their allies and enemies, all featuring in one, big expansion.
Of course, the heroes and villains of Critical Role deserve their own alt-art cards, too. All of these Character cards can be used as the face of your next deck when Heroes of Exandria launches on March 7.
The Alt-Art Cards Of Critical Role: Heroes Of Exandria
The cards we’re revealing today include some of Critical Role’s best-known names. Alongside Vax’ildan and Vex’ahlia, who we last saw in the Vox Machina Challenger series deck, we’ve got major party members like Scanlon and Beauregard, as well as plenty of supporting characters like the firbolg merchant Pumat Sol.
There are also some really interesting build-arounds here. Beauregard Lionett can turn your deck into attack cards, behooving you to run plenty of Punch, Kick, and Slam cards to buff them up as you go.
Meanwhile, Caduceus Clay feels purpose-built for the new cooperative element being introduced in Heroes of Exandria, with an ability that can heal any player – perfect for when you’re working with a friend to take down a boss card.
A big component of the set is giving cards character classes, with various cards spread across Brutes, Champions, Entertainers, Inventors, Mages, Pactbound, Thieves, Wardens, and, of course, Healers like Caduceus. We can likely expect more ways to recover your own health, or prop up an ally’s, from similar Healer cards as we see more of the set.
I particularly like how Pumat Sol’s abilities feeling like you’re picking them out from a shop. It fits his profession as a trader very nicely.
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Beauregard Lionett, Expositor Brawler – Mighty Nein – Spy – 6 Hand Size – 29 Life Enhance [Once per turn, your turn] Discard 1 attack, check 6: Add the top 2 cards of your deck to your card pool face down as mid attacks with 3 speed, 3 damage, and the Kick, Punch, and Slam keywords. Add them to the attack stack. Enhance Commit 1 foundation: Your face up Kick, Punch, or Slam attack gets +1 damage for each attack in your card pool. |
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Caduceus Clay, Insightful Caretaker Healer – Mighty Nein – 5 Hand Size – 34 Life – Death/Earth/Life Enhance Commit: Choose a player. That player gains 4 health. Each backup in their stage gains 2 stamina. Enhance [Once per turn, Tenacious]: This attack gets +X damage or -X speed. X equals the number of backups in your stage plus 2. If X is 4 or greater, draw 1 card. |
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Essek Thelyss, Expert Dunamancer Mage – 7 Hand Size – 19 Life – Chaos/Void/Water Response [Once per turn, Tenacious] Remove 1 action from your discard pile: After a player makes a check to play a card, they re-check. Enhance Commit: Your Spell attack gains Echo. (Echo – Response Spend 1 momentum: After this attack resolves, you may try to play it as your next Form this turn. If you do, flip it after it resolves.) |
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Lady Kima of Vord Champion – 5 Hand Size – 36 Life – Fire/Life/Order First Form: Add 1 attack from your discard pile to your card pool. Your checks to play cards get +1 this turn. Enhance: Your non-Throw attacks get +X damage. X equals half the printed difficulty of the preceding attack in your card pool rounded up. |
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Mollymauk Tealeaf, Carnival Hooligan Entertainer – Mighty Nein – Occultist – 6 Hand Size – 28 Health – Death/Order/Void Enhance [Tenacious] Lose 1 health: Your Weapon attack gets +1 damage and gains Stun: 1. Response [Once per turn] Reveal up to 2 cards from your hand: After an attack is played, seal 1 rival foundation for each card revealed this way. Your rival may sacrifice 1 face up foundation to cancel this effect. |
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Pumat Sol, Magical Proprietor Inventor – Mage – 6 Hand Size – 28 Life – Air/Chaos/Order Enhance [Once per turn] Remove 1 foundation from your stage: Build 1 asset or backup from your hand. Response [Once per turn] Discard 1 card: After you play an attack card, choose 1 – – It gains EX: 3. – Your rival commits 2 foundations. – Draw 2 cards. |
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Scanland Shorthalt, Devious Troubadour Entertainer – Mage – Vox Machina – 5 Hand Size – 33 Life – Chaos/Earth/Order Response [Once per turn, Tenacious]: After you play an action card, build the top card of your deck face down. Enhance Commit: Reveal the top card of your deck. This attack gets +2 or -2 speed. If you revealed a non-foundation card, it gets +4 or -4 speed instead and you may add 1 non-attack card from your discard pile to your hand. |
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Taryon Darrington, Naive Creator Inventor – Mox Machina – 6 Hand Size – 31 Health – Air/Life/Order Enhance [Once per turn] Remove X momentum: Build 1 asset from your discard pile with difficulty equal to or less than X plus 1. X may equal 0. Enhance Commit 1 asset: This attack gets +X or -X speed. X equals the printed difficulty of the asset committed ot pay for this ability. |
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Vax’ildan, Dagger Master Thief – Vox Machina – 6 Hand Size – 29 Health – Air/Death/Void Enhance: This attack gets +X damage or -X speed. X equals the number of cards in your card pool. Response: After you play your third Weapon attack this turn, your rival discards 1 card. Draw 1 card. |
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Vex’ahlia, Protector of the Wilds Hunter – Vox Machina – Warden – 6 Hand Size – 29 Health – Air/Earth/Life Enhance [Once per turn]: Build 1 Ally asset or Ally backup from your card pool. If you did and it is your turn, draw 1 card. Response Flip 1 foundation: After your Ranged or Weapon attack is not blocked, unflip 1 foundation. |
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Yasha Nydoorin, Orphanmaker Brute – Mighty Nein – Warrior – 6 Hand Size – 29 Health – Fire/Death/Void If you take 3 or more damage from an attack, add 1 Rage counter to this card. Enhance: Your attack gets +X damage, X equals half the number of Rage counters on this card (rounded up) plus 1. Enhance [Once per game] Remove 6 Rage counters from this card: Your rival removes 2 cards from their hand. |
UniVersus’ Critical Role: Heroes of Exandria begins its prerelease events on February 28, ahead of its full-scale release on March 7.
UniVersus
Formerly known as the Universal Fighting System (UVS) UniVersus is a collectible card game in which you build decks of cards, with an additional Character Card that represents you and can access powerful Enhance abilities.
- Original Release Date
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2008
- Designer
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Ryan Miller
- Player Count
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2
- Age Recommendation
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13 years and up
- Length per Game
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10-30 minutes
- Publishing Co
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UVS Games
- Number Of Cards
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1000+
- Includes Promo Cards?
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Yes
- Includes Accessories?
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Yes
- Set/Randomised Packs?
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Yes