Marvel Dice Throne: Rules, Heroes and Missions

Setup

1. Each player takes a hero board, hero leaflet, hero deck, five dice, health dial and CP dial, plus any extra items listed in the leaflet’s setup.

2. In a 1v1 game, set your health to 50 and your CP to 2.

3. Shuffle your deck and draw 4 cards.

4. Everyone rolls one die. High roll goes first.

5. Leave status effect and companion tokens on your leaflet until they’re needed.

Turn by turn

• The five dice

  Each hero rolls their own five custom dice. Check the Dice Key on the hero leaflet to see what each face means. Combos include a small straight (four in sequence), a large straight (five), or two to five of a kind by number. An effect that says “on a symbol” triggers once, no matter how many of that symbol appear.

• Offensive roll

  Roll all five dice, then reroll any of them up to two more times, for three attempts total. Announce one offensive ability that matches your final dice, or choose none. Your opponent can ask you to change dice before you commit. You can activate only one offensive ability per turn.

• Defensive roll

  After an attack, you may choose one defensive ability before rolling its dice once. Resolve non-damage effects, then give everyone a chance to spend status effects or play cards. Defensive abilities cannot stop undefendable, pure, collateral or ultimate damage.

• Passive and ultimate abilities

  Passive abilities are always available. Your ultimate is your strongest attack. Once it activates, opponents cannot respond to it, reduce it or interrupt it. They can stop it only by changing a die before it activates. It can be enhanced, but not reduced.

• Hero board and upgrades

  Your hero board shows spaces for offensive and defensive abilities, passive abilities and your ultimate. Play hero upgrade cards in a main phase to level up the matching space. You can jump straight to level III by paying only the difference. Once played, upgrades cannot be sold.

• Combat points and cards

  Gain 1 CP in each income phase. Any CP over 15 is lost. Pay a card’s CP cost, resolve it, then discard it. At the end of your turn, sell cards down to 6. Each card sold is worth 1 CP.

End of the game and scoring

Key rules

• Card colors

  Play blue main phase actions on your turn. Orange roll phase actions can be played during offensive, targeting or defensive rolls on any turn. Red instant actions can be played anytime and interrupt most things.

• Status effects

  Tokens on a hero’s board can be spendable, persistent or unique. Each token has a stack limit. Companions are separate from status effects, and normal effects cannot remove them.

• Damage types

  Normal damage can be defended. Undefendable damage skips defense but can still be modified. Pure damage cannot be defended or modified. Collateral damage is not an attack. Ultimate damage cannot be defended or avoided, and can only be increased.

• Two against two

  Teammates share one 50-health dial but keep their own CP. Teams take turns. A targeting roll picks the target: 1 or 2 means the left opponent, 3 or 4 the right, 5 lets the opponents choose, and 6 lets you choose.

• Three players

  Each player starts with 35 health. Turns go clockwise, and you can attack anyone. Attack the leader, meaning the player with the most health, including ties, and draw 1 bonus card. If there’s a sole leader, there’s no bonus.

• Bigger games

  The publisher lists 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 2v2v2 and free-for-all formats for up to 6 players. The rulebook covers 1v1, three-player and 2v2 games; for other formats, it points players to variants.dicethrone.com.