Ebony Maw

**Ebony Maw** is a Villain from the Kickstarter-exclusive expansion The Infinity Gauntlet.

## Official biography

> As a prominent member of the Black Order, Ebony Maw can be found in the devoted service of Thanos, his adoptive father. Rather than physical strength, Maw is gifted with a genius-level intellect and the abilities of telepathy, telekinesis, mind control and flight. He often uses his intellect and persuasive voice to masterfully manipulate and control even the strongest minds, leading to being described as "a black tongue that spreads mischief and evil wherever he goes." But his allegiances prove fickle, as the turns on Thanos in favor of Thanos' offspring, Thane... ultimately turning on him too.
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## Strategy

Ebony Maw is a very different kind of opponent, using his abilities to cloud the minds of the Heroes. His influence may force Heroes to play their cards randomly, which makes their turns much less efficient and slows down their progress. This is all he needs to gain time and collect all the Infinity Stones he can. Furthermore, his genius intellect sometimes may allow him to play several Masterplan cards in a row.

His Threats allow him to use telekinesis to strike at all adjacent Locations, or to use persuasion to either confuse a Hero or advance his Masterplan. He may even use torture to keep the heroes from helping each other.

Ebony Maw is the most devout Child of Thanos, and it will be a challenge to keep him from handing too many Infinity Stones to his master.

### Villain Dashboard

* **Health Tokens:** 4 (2 Heroes), 7 (3 Heroes), 10 (4 Heroes)
* **Special Rules:** Heroes with any Crisis tokens must play their Hero card randomly on their turn. Then, they discard 1 Crisis token.
* **BAM!:** Deal 1 damage and give 1 Crisis token to each Hero in Ebony Maw's Location.
* **Overflow:** If 1 or more Civilian/Thug tokens can't be added to a Location, each Hero in that Location gets 1 Crisis token.
* **Super Villain - Heroes' Starting Tokens:** Wild Wild Wild Wild

### List of cards

#### Threat cards

1. **Debilitating Torture:** Heroes starting their turn in this Location do not get actions from the previous Hero card in the Storyline. // Heroic Heroic Heroic
2. **Debilitating Torture:** Heroes starting their turn in this Location do not get actions from the previous Hero card in the Storyline. // Heroic Heroic Heroic
3. **Persuasion:** (Villain ends their move here) Each Hero in this Location takes 1 Crisis token. If there are no Heroes here, play another Master Plan card after resolving the current one. // Heroic Heroic Heroic
4. **Persuasion:** (Villain ends their move here) Each Hero in this Location takes 1 Crisis token. If there are no Heroes here, play another Master Plan card after resolving the current one. // Heroic Heroic Heroic
5. **Telekinesis:** Deal 1 damage to each Hero in this and adjacent Locations. // Heroic Heroic Heroic
6. **Telekinesis:** Deal 1 damage to each Hero in this and adjacent Locations. // Heroic Heroic Heroic

#### Master Plan cards

1. Movement 0. **Genius Intellect**: Immediately play a number of additonal Master Plan cards equal to the total number of Crisis tokens the Heroes have.
2. Movement 0. **Genius Intellect**: Immediately play a number of additonal Master Plan cards equal to the total number of Crisis tokens the Heroes have.
3. Movement 0. BAM! [Civilian][Civilian Civilian][Civilian]
4. Movement 1. BAM! [Civilian Civilian][Civilian][Civilian Civilian]
5. Movement 1. BAM! [Thug][Thug Thug][Thug]
6. Movement 2. BAM! [Civilian Civilian][Civilian][Civilian Civilian]
7. Movement 2. BAM! [Thug][Thug Thug][Thug]
8. Movement 3. BAM! [Thug][Thug Thug][Thug]
9. Movement 4. BAM! [Thug][Thug Thug][Thug]
10. Movement 5. [Thug Civilian Civilian][Thug Thug Civilian][Thug Civilian Civilian]
11. Movement Move clockwise to the next Location with the most Heroes. **Manipulation**: Each Hero in Ebony Maw's Location takes 1 Crisis token.
12. Movement Move clockwise to the next Location with the most Heroes. **Manipulation**: Each Hero in Ebony Maw's Location takes 1 Crisis token.

## External links

* Ebony Maw on Wikipedia
* Ebony Maw on Marvel Database