Any expected dates shown are a guideline only. Backorder items will typically arrive within the next 2 months, however, in some instances they may take longer. If your basket contains both in-stock and backorder items please select "Split Shipping" at checkout to receive your in-stock items sooner.
Marvel Champions: Fear No Evil is the latest standalone campaign for this long-running classic. We've had varied sets recently that have really mixed up the gameplay; can Matt Murdock and the gang prevail against Fisk?
THE MAN WITHOUT FEAR
In this set, you are playing (out of the box) Daredevil (Justice precon) and Echo (Protection precon), as you battle against Kingpin's attempts to control the city. Daredevil is a pretty straightforward Justice precon, albeit with a "sense" sidedeck. His senses are pretty straightforward to use: the top one is always visible, and they are a range of cheap triggered debuffs. Whilst it's marginally more complex than, say, starter heroes, it's not particularly tricky. The addition of Temporary Upgrades (they stick around for for one turn) is welcome, and his provide massive card draw. He also has a support which gives him +3 REC and given you'll be playing Matt as much as DD - many of his cards are free for "Attorney" - this is really strong (and as a side note, good alt build for She-Hulk).
Marvel Champions: Fear No Evil is the latest standalone campaign for this long-running classic. We've had varied sets recently that have really mixed up the gameplay; can Matt Murdock and the gang prevail against Fisk?
THE MAN WITHOUT FEAR
In this set, you are playing (out of the box) Daredevil (Justice precon) and Echo (Protection precon), as you battle against Kingpin's attempts to control the city. Daredevil is a pretty straightforward Justice precon, albeit with a "sense" sidedeck. His senses are pretty straightforward to use: the top one is always visible, and they are a range of cheap triggered debuffs. Whilst it's marginally more complex than, say, starter heroes, it's not particularly tricky. The addition of Temporary Upgrades (they stick around for for one turn) is welcome, and his provide massive card draw. He also has a support which gives him +3 REC and given you'll be playing Matt as much as DD - many of his cards are free for "Attorney" - this is really strong (and as a side note, good alt build for She-Hulk).
Echo is much more complicated but really enjoyable once you get the hang of her. She has the ability to tuck events under her - from any player - and replay them. Also, her cards are VERY reactive - generally you'll find yourself playing a lot of cards in the Villain phase. Once again, Protection precons are the most interesting bit of the design space. It's nice to see some older cards from the likes of Drax here; Protection deck done right. Also, Kingpin's her nemesis- of course - but is really fascinating as, effectively, you cannot defeat him.
CITY UNDER SIEGE
Again, we have a bit of innovation in the design, in that it is a non linear campaign, not unlike The Scarlet Keys for Arkham Horror LCG. Each round, Kingpin's plans advance on ALL of the campaign missions, and you have to decide which to deal with: do you deal with the less advanced ones, or stop the others spiralling out of control? It's a good idea, adding a bit of downtime planning that feels very on theme. Without spoiling anything, you are both punished and rewarded for how successfully you have dealt with these, both as the campaign progresses and at the finale. There are a couple of very clever handicap mechanics (again, no spoilersbut...) which actually reduces the difficulty of the finale if you've been struggling - or ramps it up if you've walked it. This means that it's a hugely accessible campaign with genuine challenge for the veterans, albeit that a couple of the scenarios are pretty straightforward.
THOUGH I WALK THE THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH
Marvel Champions: Fear No Evil is a solid addition to the Champions line with a lot in its favour, and I love that it's non-linear. It's the perfect pick for newcomers because of its scalable difficulty, though veteran players will find a couple of the scenarios quite straightforward; equally, the challenge of two will REALLY push you, and could put off some - but will be SUPER satisfying if you like the game hard. It also has some deliberate in built replay, and I'm looking forward to tackling it with some of the other heroes in this wave (Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Elektra).
About the author:
Sam blogs @big_geekingout and as part of bigcomicpage.com with an emphasis on dad-gaming and IP content. Recovering competitive card gamer, infrequent skirmish wargamer, and average boardgamer. Decent Modeller with a fondness for terrain. Enthusiastic if not especially capable miniature Painter. Media and English Teacher, which is a cover for being a movie nerd. Reasonable cook. Occasional Parent.
There is something wonderfully appropriate about Daredevil finally arriving in Marvel Champions. While the Avengers are busy preventing the destruction of the universe for the seventeenth time, Matt Murdock is dealing with the sort of problems that make a neighbourhood feel unsafe: organised crime, corrupt power brokers and people who really should know better than to work for Wilson Fisk.
Fear No Evil, Fantasy Flight Games’ ninth campaign expansion for Marvel Champions: The Card Game, brings the fight back to the streets of New York. Alongside Daredevil, Echo joins the playable roster, while Kingpin and five of his criminal associates provide the opposition. The box contains six scenarios, one more than the usual five in a campaign expansion, and introduces a more flexible campaign structure that lets players choose how they tackle Fisk’s growing criminal empire.
It is an excellent setting for a game that has spent years sending heroes against world-ending threats. There is a different satisfaction in dismantling a criminal organisation, especially when the people running it are as personal, nasty and thoroughly human as Marvel’s street-level villains. More importantly, Fear No Evil has enough interesting ideas to make this feel like a substantial addition to the game rather than another box of villains waiting patiently in a collection.
Hell’s Kitchen Has Never Been This Busy
There is something wonderfully appropriate about Daredevil finally arriving in Marvel Champions. While the Avengers are busy preventing the destruction of the universe for the seventeenth time, Matt Murdock is dealing with the sort of problems that make a neighbourhood feel unsafe: organised crime, corrupt power brokers and people who really should know better than to work for Wilson Fisk.
Fear No Evil, Fantasy Flight Games’ ninth campaign expansion for Marvel Champions: The Card Game, brings the fight back to the streets of New York. Alongside Daredevil, Echo joins the playable roster, while Kingpin and five of his criminal associates provide the opposition. The box contains six scenarios, one more than the usual five in a campaign expansion, and introduces a more flexible campaign structure that lets players choose how they tackle Fisk’s growing criminal empire.
It is an excellent setting for a game that has spent years sending heroes against world-ending threats. There is a different satisfaction in dismantling a criminal organisation, especially when the people running it are as personal, nasty and thoroughly human as Marvel’s street-level villains. More importantly, Fear No Evil has enough interesting ideas to make this feel like a substantial addition to the game rather than another box of villains waiting patiently in a collection.
Welcome to Fisk’s New York
The expansion’s campaign revolves around Kingpin’s attempt to tighten his grip on New York through five underlings: Bullseye, Electro, Hammerhead, Purple Man and Typhoid Mary. Each brings a different flavour of trouble, and the campaign gradually builds towards a confrontation with Fisk himself.
The headline feature is the scenario structure. Five of the six scenarios allow different villains to be paired with the relevant main-scheme sets, giving players more freedom over the order in which they tackle the criminal network. Instead of following one fixed sequence from beginning to end, the campaign asks you to consider which problems deserve attention first.
That is a surprisingly effective fit for the theme. Kingpin’s influence spreads across the city, and every crisis left unattended threatens to become a bigger problem. You must decide where to intervene, knowing that time spent dealing with one criminal operation allows the wider situation to develop elsewhere. It gives the campaign a sense of a city gradually slipping out of control rather than a series of unrelated villains waiting for their turn in the spotlight.
The decisions are more interesting because the order of scenarios can influence how the campaign unfolds. You are weighing immediate difficulty against the consequences of allowing another part of Fisk’s operation to grow. A straightforward villain may be worth clearing early, while a more troublesome encounter might be better tackled once your team is prepared.
The structure also gives repeat campaigns a reason to exist. You can change the order, bring different heroes and decks, and see how the experience changes when you prioritise different threats. It is not unlimited variability, but it is meaningful replay value built into the campaign rather than an expectation that you will simply play the same encounters again with a different superhero.
There is a caveat. Players who prefer a tightly scripted story may find the looser structure less dramatic than a campaign that builds towards a single, carefully paced climax. And although the choice of scenario order is welcome, it cannot make every encounter equally compelling. The individual villains still have to do the heavy lifting.
The Man Without Fear, at Last
Daredevil is the obvious headline attraction. His inclusion feels long overdue, and the design has a clever way of representing Matt Murdock’s heightened senses without making him a walking collection of generic combat bonuses.
His signature Sense deck provides a separate set of cards that can be inspected and used to influence the fight. The top card is available to him, with effects that can provide useful interventions at the right moment. It gives Daredevil a slightly different rhythm from heroes whose entire toolkit sits in one deck: you have another small set of options to consider while planning your turn.
The character also moves between his identities as Daredevil and Matt Murdock, with his attorney cards helping make the alter-ego side relevant to the overall engine. Temporary Upgrades provide another interesting wrinkle, offering benefits that last for a turn and encouraging you to time their use carefully. The result is a hero who feels versatile without requiring an entirely new rulebook to understand.
Daredevil is not the most demanding character in the box, which makes him a good entry point for players who want to explore a fresh hero without spending their first few games untangling a complicated engine. There is still room to learn the timing of his abilities and make better use of his cards, but the central idea is easy to grasp.
His pre-built Justice deck also makes the expansion easier to get to the table. You can open the box, shuffle up and start playing rather than immediately reaching for a deck-building guide. Dedicated deck builders will want to experiment, of course, but the starting point is perfectly serviceable.
More than anything, Daredevil benefits from having a distinctive identity. His mechanics are connected to how he operates in the comics, and the Sense deck gives that connection a presence at the table. For a character fans have wanted for years, that matters.
Echo Is the Pleasant Surprise
Echo has a harder job. She arrives alongside one of Marvel’s most recognisable street-level heroes, and her Protection deck asks more of the player than Daredevil’s starting setup.
Her signature ability lets her tuck events beneath her and replay them, including events played by other heroes. That creates opportunities to reuse useful effects and makes the team’s card choices relevant beyond the turn in which they were originally played. Her deck also leans into reactive play, with many of her most interesting decisions occurring during the villain phase.
This is where Echo begins to stand out. Protection can sometimes feel like an aspect that spends its time cleaning up after the villain, but her design gives that defensive posture a more active purpose. You are watching what happens, anticipating where help will be needed and looking for opportunities to turn an opponent’s actions into something useful for your team.
The learning curve is steeper than Daredevil’s, particularly for players unfamiliar with timing windows and reactive effects. You need to understand what can be played when, and the value of an event can change depending on the situation. That extra mental load is worthwhile because it gives Echo a distinct place in the roster rather than making her another hero who simply deals damage and removes threat.
She is also the sort of character whose potential grows as your collection grows. A wider pool of events gives you more possibilities to explore, and her ability to interact with cards from other players adds an interesting cooperative dimension. The pre-built deck is a useful introduction, although experienced players will likely have fun finding combinations that make her ability shine.
I would not call Echo the easier hero to recommend to everyone. I would call her one of the more intriguing reasons to buy this box.
A campaign expansion ultimately lives or dies by its villains. A clever hero design can keep players experimenting for months, but if the scenarios are forgettable, the box becomes an expensive source of deck cards.
Fear No Evil has a strong cast to work with. Bullseye is an obvious match for Daredevil’s world, while Electro brings a different kind of threat. Hammerhead, Purple Man and Typhoid Mary widen the range of criminal personalities, with Kingpin serving as the centre of the whole operation. They are recognisable characters, but the real test is whether they create encounters that feel different from one another.
The scenarios generally benefit from the expansion’s street-level focus. The conflict is rooted in crime, control and the people caught in the middle, rather than yet another cosmic device that must be stopped before the planet explodes. That makes the campaign feel coherent even as the villains change.
The modular approach is the most useful addition here. Being able to mix different villains and main-scheme sets means you are not locked into one exact arrangement every time you play. It gives the encounters more room to surprise you and makes the campaign feel like a web of connected threats.
However, the difficulty is not perfectly even. Some scenarios are comparatively straightforward, while others can push experienced players hard. That variation is part of the appeal for a group that enjoys adjusting decks and learning difficult match-ups, but it can make the campaign feel uneven if one encounter barely slows you down and the next turns into a desperate fight for survival.
The campaign's ability to accommodate different levels of experience is a welcome feature, though. The consequences of your progress can help soften the finale if the earlier encounters have been difficult, or make the final challenge tougher if you have handled the campaign comfortably. That is a thoughtful way of keeping the story challenging without forcing every group into the same level of punishment.
I would still prefer a campaign where every scenario earns its place, rather than relying on a few especially memorable encounters to carry the experience. But six scenarios, flexible ordering and a selection of modular combinations give this box more longevity than a straightforward five-villain sequence.
The Cards Beyond the Headliners
The hero and villain designs will attract most of the attention, but the additional cards are important to the expansion's long-term value. New aspect and basic cards provide
fresh tools for existing heroes, and they help make the box relevant even after you have finished the campaign.
The Protection cards are particularly interesting in the context of Echo's playstyle, while Daredevil's Justice deck provides new ideas around threat control, temporary upgrades and the Matt Murdock identity. The best additions are those that open up new deck-building choices without being so narrowly tailored that they become useful only to the hero they were designed for.
That is an important distinction in a living card game. A new hero gives you one character to play; a good selection of player cards can influence dozens of decks across your collection. If you enjoy building and refining heroes, that wider utility makes the expansion much easier to justify.
The box also comes with ready-to-play decks for both new heroes. These are useful starting points, particularly if you are buying the expansion primarily for Daredevil or Echo, but they should be treated as introductions rather than the final word on either character. Players who enjoy deck construction will find more to explore once they start combining the new cards with the rest of their collection.
Is Fear No Evil Worth the Investment?
For Marvel Champions players, Fear No Evil is a strong campaign expansion with several reasons to return to it. Daredevil is a satisfying addition to the hero roster, Echo has a distinctive reactive playstyle, and the six-scenario campaign structure gives players more control over how they tackle the story. The modular encounters and variable campaign order help the box avoid feeling like a one-and-done experience.
Its weaknesses are real but fairly contained. The scenario difficulty can swing, some encounters are less demanding than others, and Echo takes more effort to master than Daredevil. The campaign's flexibility is a strength, although it does not guarantee that every playthrough will feel equally dramatic.
For newcomers, this is an inviting way into the street-level side of Marvel Champions, provided they already own the core set. For veterans, it offers two worthwhile heroes, a generous batch of scenarios and additional cards that can feed into existing decks. The people who will get the most from it are those who enjoy both sides of the game: fighting villains and spending an unreasonable amount of time tuning decks to fight them slightly more efficiently.
I would not automatically crown it the best campaign expansion in the entire line. That depends on what you value in Marvel Champions, and expansions with a particularly strong roster of heroes or a consistently excellent run of scenarios remain serious competition. But Fear No Evil makes a compelling case for a different kind of Marvel adventure, where the stakes are personal, the villains are familiar and saving the city means dealing with the mess one criminal at a time.
Kingpin has built a criminal empire. You have six scenarios, two new heroes and a stack of cards. It feels like a fair fight. Almost.
Final ratings
Overall rating: 86/100
Artwork: 4.5/5
Complexity: 4/5
Replayability: 5/5
Player interaction: 4.5/5
Component quality: 4/5
What I liked
Daredevil finally joins the game with a thematic, distinctive design.
Echo offers a more reactive Protection playstyle with room for deck-building experimentation.
Six scenarios provide generous content for a campaign expansion.
Flexible scenario combinations and campaign ordering improve replayability.
What I didn't like
Scenario difficulty varies noticeably.
Echo takes more effort to learn than Daredevil.
The campaign's flexibility does not guarantee equally strong scenarios throughout.
When a surge in crime erupts across New York City, it's the citizens who are threatened the most. Backed by a powerful ringleader, this new organized crime wave needs practiced hands and familiarity with the streets of New York in order to truly stand against it. The people need more than just heroes; they need a team of fearless Defenders.
It's the beginning of a brand-new wave for Marvel Champions: The Card Game! As the game's ninth campaign expansion, Fear No Evil brings a plethora of classic Defenders characters to the table, including two new playable heroes, Echo and the long-awaited Daredevil. Each of these heroes comes with a pre-built deck that is ready to play from the get-go. Standing opposed to the Defenders are Kingpin and five of his greatest underlings, all of whom are wreaking havoc in their latest crime spree. This expansion includes six brand-new scenarios, five of which can mix and match which villain is paired with them. Each scenario can be played individually or sequentially as part of a larger, evolving campaign.
Whether you're a longtime fan of the game or are just starting to build your collection, you won't want to miss out on Fear No Evil!
Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.
Translation missing: en.accessibility.new_window
PayPal Pay Later Messaging
Step 1: Choose message placement
Click the button below and then hover over your page to select a placement.
Step 2: Paste and save
You have copied the placement for the Product Page.
Go back to the App Embeds section, and in the Paypal Advanced Settings, paste the copied value into the
Product Page field and click the 'Save' button in the top right corner.
