X-Ray Vision

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Each foe reveals the top card of his deck. Choose a non-Location card revealed this way, play it, then return it to the top of its owners' deck.

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Super Speed is a Super Power from the Original Set. When played, it allows you to play a card of your choice from the top of an opponent's deck.

## Strategy

X-Ray Vision gives you the choice of playing a non-Location of your choice from the top of an opponent's deck. This effect is highly dependent both on the composition of your opponents' decks, as well as the number of other players in the game. In a 2-player game, X-Ray Vision would simply play a random card from your opponent's deck, while in a 5-player game you have as many as four different options of cards to play.

Player count aside, X-Ray Vision is at its weakest when your opponents have a lot of junk in their deck, such as in the beginning of the game, where it is likely you will only be able to play a Punch at best. Players that have [Destroy|destroyed]] most of their junk are much more likely to have a good card available to play with X-Ray Vision.

X-Ray Vision is also weaker with cards that require you to own them in order to get the full benefit of the card, such as variable VP, Defense, Ongoing, and Ninjutsu cards.

The biggest advantage of X-Ray Vision is that it can occasionally play cards that cost more than it, thus providing a stronger effect than a normal cost 3 card would. It is still better to buy these powerful cards yourself, as then you will be guaranteed to play them, rather than needing to rely on X-Ray Vision to play them.

Due to having so many more options of cards to play with more players, these downsides of X-Ray Vision are almost entirely negated with 4 or more players, where it is much more likely that you will have at least a decent card available to play.

X-Ray Vision can have strong interactions with other effects involving the top card of opponents' decks. If an opponent has a way to put a powerful card on top of their deck outside of their turn, such as with Flight or Deadshot, X-Ray Vision will then be able to play that card. X-Ray Vision also reveals the top card of each opponent's deck, which will show you which one is the best to Teamwork or play with Rorschach. Other cards like Chlorokinesis can even allow you to discard junk from the top of an opponent's deck, if you want more options available for when you play X-Ray Vision. Revealing the top card of each opponents' deck will also make these options available for any of your opponents to take advantage of as well.

Conversely, deck order Attacks sucha as Harley Quinn are worse for X-Ray Vision, as they remove good cards from the top of your opponents' decks. While you can simply play your deck order Attacks after you play X-Ray Vision, it's possible for the player before you to have played one, or for there to be a First Appearance Attack that affected deck order. Ozymandias offers a complete counter to X-Ray Vision.

If your opponent has X-Ray Vision, then you should continue to improve your deck regardless. X-Ray Vision will play your best cards less frequently than you will, especially if they choose to play a different player's card. Be wary of the effects mentioned above that could allow you to put a card on top of your deck outside of your turn, and consider just how strong of a card you actually need to put on top of your deck.