Fantasy Flight Games has confirmed the Elektra Hero Pack for Marvel Champions: The Card Game, giving the cooperative deck-building game its newest playable hero. The pack introduces Elektra Natchios as a stealth-and-sabotage fighter built around turning the villain's own encounter deck against them.
It lands as the latest release in the Fear No Evil cycle, following July's Fear No Evil expansion, August's Jessica Jones and Luke Cage Hero Packs, and October's Shadowland Scenario Pack. Elektra arrives alongside a companion Iron Fist Hero Pack, which gets its own dedicated coverage elsewhere.
The pack ships as a 60-card box built around a pre-built Aggression deck, so new and returning players can open it and start thwarting villains the same day. It also introduces a genuinely new wrinkle for the game: Elektra is the first hero to carry the villainous keyword.
Below is what is actually confirmed about the contents, where this release sits in the broader cycle, and what is still an open question about timing as of publication.
The Fear No Evil cycle kicked off with the Fear No Evil expansion box in July 2026, which introduced Echo and Daredevil as playable heroes alongside a new campaign. Jessica Jones and Luke Cage followed as standalone Hero Packs in August, deepening the Defenders-adjacent roster before the cycle's villain content arrived.
October's Shadowland Scenario Pack supplied the villain side of the equation, built around Kingpin's criminal empire. Elektra and Iron Fist close out the cycle as its final two Hero Packs, both scheduled for the same November window.
Fantasy Flight Games' own preview confirms a 60-card Hero Pack containing Elektra, her fifteen signature cards, a full assortment of Aggression cards, and her unique Ninja side deck. That is a denser signature-card count than many earlier single-hero packs, giving Elektra a fuller toolkit straight out of the box.
The pack is designed to be playable immediately: shuffle the pre-built deck, slot in the alter-ego and hero cards, and the Ninja side deck sits ready to shuffle into the encounter deck once Elektra flips to hero form.
Elektra's starter deck leans into the Aggression aspect, pairing her with allies like Black Cat and Shang-Chi to apply steady pressure on minions and the main villain alike. Shang-Chi in particular is built to chip away one to four damage per round, softening targets for Elektra to finish.
Supporting events like Combo Move and Killer Blow are built around exactly defeating enemies, a mechanic that rewards precise damage over simply overkilling a target. Keeping that stack of cards organized in an EVORETRO Plastic Deck Box makes it easy to carry straight to game night.
Elektra becomes the first hero in Marvel Champions to carry the villainous keyword, a mechanic that has her draw a facedown boost card from the encounter deck every time she uses a basic power. A dedicated breakdown of exactly how that resolves is worth reading before building a deck around it.
The short version: it is a built-in risk-reward loop, since boost cards can carry negative encounter effects, but Elektra's own Killer Instinct ability lets her cancel a printed boost ability in exchange for extra value.
Unlike previous hero side decks, which are stocked with player cards, Elektra's Ninja side deck is made entirely of encounter cards. Each time she flips to hero form, one Ninja card shuffles into the encounter deck, where it will eventually surface as a boost for her rather than a threat for the table.
Cards like Ninja Stars and Ninja Strike pay off that setup directly, handing Elektra extra cards or raw power when they resolve. It is a genuinely new structural idea for the game, not just a reskin of an existing side-deck pattern.
Fantasy Flight Games' official preview states the Elektra Hero Pack arrives this November, without naming a specific calendar day. Some retailer preorder listings have attached a more specific date, but that appears to be a retailer-assigned placeholder rather than an FFG-confirmed release day.
Treat November 2026 as the reliable window and hold off on locking any shipping or event plans to a specific date until a retailer or Fantasy Flight Games confirms it directly.
No, it is a separate standalone Hero Pack released later in the same cycle.
It is a 60-card pack built around Elektra, her fifteen signature cards, and her Ninja side deck.
A pre-built Aggression deck designed for immediate play.
Not as of publication; Fantasy Flight Games has only confirmed a November 2026 window.
Standard Marvel Champions LCG cards use the same 63.5x88mm size as most TCG cards, so a box of EVORETRO Matte Card Sleeves Standard Size fits this release without hunting for a specialty size. Grabbing a pack now means the Ninja side deck and signature cards are protected from the first shuffle.
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